Fly Babies Aviary – NURTURING OUR BIRDS TO BECOME YOURS. Fly Babies Aviary – NURTURING OUR BIRDS TO BECOME YOURS. Fly Babies Aviary – NURTURING OUR BIRDS TO BECOME YOURS. Fly Babies Aviary – NURTURING OUR BIRDS TO BECOME YOURS. The Meaning of Feathers – Ornithology. What do feathers mean?
In many cultures, feathers represent a connection to spiritual realms. Coming from birds, feathers symbolize freedom, both mental and physical, from the bounds of the earth. Sound Escapes 2 - Inviting You to Listen. BirdNote® Sound Escapes 2 - Inviting You to Listen Written by Mark Bramhill, Featuring Gordon Hempton MB: This is BirdNote.
All of us on the BirdNote team know the restorative power of nature, and, during this pandemic, when we’re minimizing our time outside our homes, we all miss it. Life on the Beach with Wilson's Plovers. BirdNote® Life on the Beach with Wilson’s Plovers.
Grassland Meander. In summer, the grasslands of southern Saskatchewan resound with bird song.
This Bobolink is among the birds that combine their voices in a rich, ringing chorus. Through these grasslands flows the Frenchman River, twisting and looping — the epitome of a meandering river. The southern reaches of the river lie within Grasslands National Park, Canada’s premier park devoted to preserving this unique ecosystem. The Crow and the Gull. BirdNote® The Crow and the Gull –A Listener’s Story Adapted by Ellen Blackstone This is BirdNote!
[Sounds of Glaucous-winged Gulls and crows] Listener Nick Woodiwiss of Vancouver Island, British Columbia tells this amusing story: [waves at the edge of the beach] “I walk nearly every day, along the beach and on the forest trails. Shorebirds Watch Their Feet. Greater Yellowlegs — not surprisingly — have bright yellow legs and feet.
And why? While foraging through shallow water, a yellowlegs (like this one) can keep track of its legs by the color, which contrasts with the sometimes dark and irregular bottom. A Sanderling, on the other hand, has black legs and feet. Its black toes really stand out against the pale sand. Night Voices of Summer. BirdNote® Night Voices of Summer Written by Bob Sundstrom.
Male Mallards Disappear. BirdNote®
Message About the CNC - Birds Calgary. Matthew Wallace, who has done such a great job of organizing the Calgary City Nature Challenge for the past two years, would like to encourage everyone with an interest in nature to participate.
Matthew says that this is “a great opportunity to get people focused on nature, science, conservation, and stewardship.” He continues: In early March when the scope of COVID-19 became a reality, it was difficult for me to grasp that months of work might be reduced to an event cancellation notice. Bird Savers – Ornithology. Ornithology.com is a fairly popular website and ranks high on Google, so I receive regular emails from people who want to write articles for me.
What they really want to do is pitch a product or service via a link in their article. Free advertising, so to speak. 18 Owl Species That Live in the United States! (2020) - Bird Watching HQ. “What types of owls can you see in the United States?” The above question is common, so I thought I’d help by making a list of all the individual owl species that live in the United States. 18 Owl Species That Live in the United States! (2020) - Bird Watching HQ. Birding and the City Nature Challenge - Birds Calgary. I mentioned before that a smartphone is the best tool for taking photos of insects and getting close-ups of plants, but not great for birds since they are usually too far away.
But many of you birders carry cameras these days, and you can submit your bird photos for the City Nature Challenge. They can easily be uploaded to the iNaturalist website on your desktop computer. So if you are out this weekend (anytime until Monday at midnight), take lots of bird photos to upload later. Sounds like….. – Ornithology. OK, what bird makes this call: honk, honk, tweeeeet, twitter twitter, buzzzzzz. Don’t know? That’s OK, neither do I. But I get questions like this on a regular basis from folks who want to know what bird is singing or calling in their backyard.
Bird songs and calls may sound the same to different people and the descriptions might come out quite differently. Try it. When I get only written descriptions of a bird sound, I am often stumped; just describing the song in writing is usually not sufficient. Some birds have classic sounds like Carolina Wrens and Yellowthroats. Stay-At-Home Birding: Some Backyard Birds - Birds Calgary. Janet Turner, Bird Artist – Ornithology. The following is from my latest book, The Art of the Bird: The History of Ornithological Art through Forty Artists.
Janet Turner was one of the artists I discussed and special to me because I knew her personally. She borrowed bird specimens from the natural history museum I supervised, allowed me to visit her in her art studio, and even gifted me with one of her prints. She was a very special person and a wonderful artist. Calgary City Nature Challenge Results - Birds Calgary. Posted by Bob Lefebvre Back in April, Calgarians participated for the second time in the City Nature Challenge. This year, with better weather and the addition of participants in Cochrane, Airdie, Okotoks, and Chestermere, we exceeded all of the 2019 results. This was despite the inability, due to Covid-19, of having organized field trips with many observers. Rehabilitation – Ornithology. About once a week I get contacted through my website Ornithology.com regarding a baby bird. Green-tailed Towhee - Birds Calgary.
Bird Blogs – Ornithology. There’s a new, to me at least, podcast about birds called Bird Banter. Dr. BirdYYC2020 Challenge - Back In Business - Birds Calgary. Eponymous and Other Bird Names – Ornithology. Online Film - Avian Summer - Birds Calgary. The First Bird Guides – Ornithology. It wasn’t until my junior year in college when I took ornithology and started watching birds. My first bird guide was a Peterson. Small Birds Mob Big Ones. When smaller birds join forces to ward off larger birds, it's called mobbing. This behavior — like calling your family for help — is used by many bird species. The best time to observe mobbing is spring and early summer, when breeding birds are trying to protect their nests and young. Soaring with Redtails. A Trip to the Field Museum. Flammulated Owl. Shifts in Habitat = Shifts in Species. Working Turnstones Turn Stones.
Woodpeckers as Keystone Species. A Drive Along on a Bar Ditch. A Plover's Journey. Poorwills at Night. Birds Have No External Ears. Wilson's Phalarope. Peregrine-Shorebird Interaction. Indigo Bunting - Bird of the Ecotone. The Ultimate Guide to Cleaning Hummingbird Feeders! (2020) - Bird Watching HQ. Great Horned Owl Family in Summer. Kestrels Love Nest Boxes. A Little Bird Told Me. An Evening in Sapsucker Woods - With A.A. Allen. Two Phoebes Share the West. Tony Angell on the Raven. Birds as Pollinators. Quakers For Sale.