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Get a FREE cavity-nesting birds poster. Range Map--Orchard Oriole. Orchard Oriole, Identification, All About Birds - Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Orioles have a very distinctive shape: longer and lankier than warblers and finches, with a narrow, sharply pointed bill. Orchard Orioles are smaller than Baltimore Orioles and Bullock’s Orioles, with a slightly downcurved bill. Adult male Orchard Orioles are hard to mistake with their rich chestnut-red color. Female Baltimore and Bullock’s Orioles are more orange on the breast and tail, and less greenish-yellow than female Orchard Orioles.

Immature male Baltimore Orioles do not have black on the face. Immature Bullock’s Orioles, which have little range overlap with Orchard Orioles, are more orange and usually show a black line through the eye. In south Texas, female and immature male Hooded Orioles are best distinguished by shape: they are slightly larger, with a longer tail and a longer, distinctly downcurved bill. For other similar-colored birds, pay attention to shape. Orchard Orioles can be inconspicuous despite being fairly common.

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Field guides. Bird houses. Feeders. Cornell lab of ornithology. Birding apps. Decorah Eagles, Ustream.TV: The Raptor Resource Project brings you the Decorah Eagles from atop their tree at the fish hatchery in Decorah, Iowa. Please vi. Watch the Decorah Eagles! We have a stream here, but check out **our NEW ADS-FREE STREAM ** at our website: We will be chatting there as well, so be sure to follow the link to see an ads-free stream and to chat with us! This is the Decorah Eagles nest, which is located just south of the city of Decorah near the trout hatchery. For more information about the eagles and their nest, please follow this link: We hope you enjoy watching in 2017 and 2018!

We also welcome you to chat on our forum: and check our Facebook page ( for news and updates. Thank you! The Weather Forecast Thanks to A2Z Security Cameras for their help and support with our new HD cameras and to the City of Decorah MetroNet for their help bringing the Decorah N2B nest to the world! Raptor Resource Project P. Respect the landowners. Birding News and Features — New Jersey. January Field Trips with All Things Birds January Field Trips with All Things Birds Kick off your year list, get out to see snazzy Harlequin Ducks and eiders, and perhaps even a Snowy Owl, or attend an indoor workshop to brush up on your bird ID skills on a variety of winter field trips with NJ Audubon’s All Things Birds! Below is [...] November & December Field Trips with NJ Audubon’s All Things Birds Late fall and early winter are great times to see large numbers of birds: some still migrating south and some settling in for the winter. Join staff and associate naturalists with NJ Audubon for some excellent birding at inland and coastal sites.

See below for details and registration information. TAYLOR’S REFUGE & AMICO ISLAND Led [...] Birding Glenhurst Meadows (Warren, Somerset County) by Jonathan Klizas Glenhurst Meadows is one of the most productive birding locations in northern SomersetCounty. Confirmed Breeding of Common Nighthawk (Chordeiles minor) in Bayonne, NJ by Mike Britt. Trends in Ecology & Evolution - Data-intensive science applied to broad-scale citizen science. Birds flock online. GENDER PATTERNS IN BIRD-RELATED RECREATION IN THE USA AND UK. eBird: Engaging Birders in Science and Conservation. Figures Citation: Wood C, Sullivan B, Iliff M, Fink D, Kelling S (2011) eBird: Engaging Birders in Science and Conservation.

PLoS Biol 9(12): e1001220. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001220 Published: December 20, 2011 Copyright: © 2011 Wood et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Funding: Development of eBird was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant ESI-0087760. Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. Identifying a species is a complex task that relies upon a combination of factors. For more than two hundred years the public has contributed significantly to our understanding of bird identification, distribution, and abundance [1]. Know Your Community eBird uses data collection protocols that match the way birders go birding.

Gmap-pedometer.com. Map your running routes. Plan routes before, or create route maps in real-time using iPhone and GPS. | Running Map. Channel Islands Odyssey - Summer 2009 Living Bird, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Page 1 of 4 by Chuck Graham Photographs by Chuck Graham Stranded on Santa Barbara Island, more than 40 miles off the Southern California coast, I lost count of how many times I kayaked around the tiny, one-square-mile islet. Howling northwest winds thwarted my scheduled boat transportation to the mainland, extending my four-day trip into a wind-whipped ten. But I was grateful to be here and made the most of the pelagic birding opportunities in this remote, lonely place.

During one of my laps, I found myself on the south side of the island again at Cat Canyon—a craggy gulch with thousands of raucous California sea lions. Santa Barbara and Anacapa islands hold the largest rookeries of these hardy little seabirds in the United States. As a chain, the Channel Islands support a wide variety of wildlife, including about 60 landbird and 11 seabird species that nest in the national park. Santa Barbara and Anacapa Islands Santa Cruz Island Santa Rosa Island Bald Eagles inhabit Santa Rosa Island, too. British Garden Birds. Fatbirder's Top 1000 Birding Websites - Rankings - All Sites.

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