When not in the radio studio, Dwight Davis likes to go afield with his binoculars and watch birds. "Birdnotes" is a result of his long-time interest in birds, a short feature that can be about almost any aspect of bird life, from migration to coloration to birds in art to song.
Cedar Waxwing
The berry bird
21/10/2024 • 0
October Waterthrush
Some thoughts on a late leaver.
14/10/2024 • 0
The Piping Plover
Rhymes with Clover
1/10/2024 • 0
John Gould
English ornithologist
23/9/2024 • 0
Lady Birds
Distaff Onomastics
9/9/2024 • 0
The Chimney Swift
"A Cigar with Wings"
2/9/2024 • 0
Sparrow Nomenclature
Small, brown and confounding
26/8/2024 • 0
The Goldfinch
Sunlight on the wing
19/8/2024 • 0
The Kingfishers
Colors Abounding
12/8/2024 • 0
Staying Cool
Birds Beating the Heat
5/8/2024 • 0
The Phoebe
Singing its name
29/7/2024 • 0
The Warbling Vireo
What I Heard on my Summer Vacation
22/7/2024 • 0
Bastille Day Bird
Le Coq Gallois
15/7/2024 • 0
Birds for the Fourth
Colonial Nortes
8/7/2024 • 0
The Magic of Birdsong
John Burroughs' musing
1/7/2024 • 0
Summer Tanager
summer visitor
28/6/2024 • 0
The Phalarope
Fine Feathered Father
17/6/2024 • 0
The Black Swift
Mystery Solved
10/6/2024 • 0
Red-headed Woodpecker
Bold and Bright
4/6/2024 • 0
Isaak Walton's Birds
The fisherman birder
31/5/2024 • 0
Isaak Walton's Birds
A fisherman goes birding
24/5/2024 • 0
Isaak Walton's Birds
A fisherman goes birding
24/5/2024 • 0
Prairie Warbler
Another Spring Song
20/5/2024 • 0
The White-eyed Vireo
Heard bu no Seen
13/5/2024 • 0
Upland Sandpiper
Midwest May
7/5/2024 • 0
The Yellow of Warblers
Spring Palette
26/4/2024 • 0
Audubon
Buckskin Birder
22/4/2024 • 0
The Mimids
Overflowing with song
15/4/2024 • 0
The Yellow-breasted Chat
Relatively speaking
8/4/2024 • 0
The Voice of the Turtle
A Sound to Welcome Spring
29/3/2024 • 0
The Canary
A bird from the dog islands
25/3/2024 • 0
An Irish Bird?
for St. Paddy's Day
15/3/2024 • 0
Buzzard's Day
Not all "buzzards" are buzzards
12/3/2024 • 0
Buzzard's Day
Not all "buzzards" are buzzards.
11/3/2024 • 0
The Red Kite
St, David's Day Bird
4/3/2024 • 0
The Downy Woodpecker
Diminutive and Demure
26/2/2024 • 0
Tail Waggers
Why Wag?
19/2/2024 • 0
The Broad-Winged Hawk
Sotto Voce Raptor
5/2/2024 • 0
Mozart's Starling
A Musical Pet
29/1/2024 • 0
The Chickadee
Cheerful in the Cold
19/1/2024 • 0
Scoters
Look, but don't eat
15/1/2024 • 0
Feathered Winter Mites
Birds Small and Busy
5/1/2024 • 0
Swans a' Swimming
on the 7th day of Christmas
29/12/2023 • 0
A Christmas Bird
The European Goldfinch
22/12/2023 • 0
Beethoven's Birds
Ludwig the Birder
19/12/2023 • 0
Halcyon Days
Kingfishers calm the waters
8/12/2023 • 0
December Ducks
A Day at the Beach
1/12/2023 • 0
Loud Songster
The Wren
24/11/2023 • 0
Migration and Mortality
It's not easy being a bird
17/11/2023 • 0
Migration and Mortality
It's not easy being a bird
17/11/2023 • 0
Migration and Mortality
It's not easy being a bird
17/11/2023 • 0
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
A John Burrow's observation
10/11/2023 • 0
The Pitohui
A poisonous bird
3/11/2023 • 0
As thin as...
An avian simile
27/10/2023 • 0
Baltimore Oriole
A Bird Named After a Lord
20/10/2023 • 0
Teal
What's in a Word?
6/10/2023 • 0
Avian Onomastics
The Red-bellied Woodpecker
29/9/2023 • 0
Feathered Males and Females
Sexual Dimorphism
22/9/2023 • 0
Clever Corvids
Sorting the Crows
15/9/2023 • 0
Bird Thoughts in a Vermont Forest
What I did on my Summer Vacation
8/9/2023 • 0
Molting
Feathers Old and New
1/9/2023 • 0
Which White Waders?
Distinguishing herons et al.
25/8/2023 • 0
The Pewee
Lazy summer sounds
18/8/2023 • 0
The Tailorbird
Feathered sewer
11/8/2023 • 0
"Timberdoodle"
The Woodcock
4/8/2023 • 0
Birds Beat the Heat
Staying cool
28/7/2023 • 0
Grackles
Avian Dissonance
21/7/2023 • 0 minutos, 0 segundos
Le Coq Gaulois
Vive la France
12/7/2023 • 0
A Sound of Summer
The Red-winged Blackbird
7/7/2023 • 0
Birds for the Fourth
Avifauna from Colonial Times
30/6/2023 • 0
Summer Tanager
Bright welcome to the season
22/6/2023 • 0
Feathered Father
The Phalaropes
12/6/2023 • 0
June Magic
Song of the Wood Thrush
9/6/2023 • 0
The Song Sparrow
Another spring song
1/6/2023 • 0
The Seaside Sparrow
a surfeit of sparrow names
26/5/2023 • 0
The Chipping Sparrow
Garden Friend
18/5/2023 • 0
The Great Crested Flycathcer
Another sound of spring
12/5/2023 • 0
The Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Bright spring visitor
4/5/2023 • 0
May Birds
Misnamed warblers
4/5/2023 • 0
The Blur-Gray Gnatcatcher
An early spring arrival
21/4/2023 • 0
Happy Birthday, Leonardo
All that and a birdwatcher too
14/4/2023 • 0
Avian Laughter
The Kookaburra
31/3/2023 • 0
The Broad-winged hawk
Sotto voce raptor
8/4/2022 • 0
The Prothonotary Warbler
Golden Swamp Warbler
29/6/2020 • 0
The Tufted Titmouse
A small bundle of winter cheer.
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White-Eyed Vireo
The hidden mimic
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Chimney Swift
The original twitterer
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Bird Anting
An enigma still
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Loons
Winter visitors
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Hooded Merganser
Hooded Merganser
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The Shearwaters
A Life on the Ocean Wave
2/10/2019 • 0
Bright Feathers for the Journey
Bright Feathers for the Journey
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Buzzards Day
Ungainly harbingers of spring.
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Elusive Birds
I Know You're in There!
3/2/2023 • 0
Cormorant
The shaggy-topped fisherman
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Evening Grosbeak
A robust winter visitor
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The Scary Cassowary
Definitely not Big Bird
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Isaak Walton's Birds
Isaak Waltons Birds
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Song Sparrow
Brown suite, bright song.
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The Mimids
Thoughtful mimics
27/5/2022 • 0
A New Bird
The Sezhuan bush warbler
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The Chipping Sparrow
A true feathered friend.
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The Cordillera Azul Antbird
In honor of E.O. Wilson
31/12/2021 • 0
Hummingbird Migration
The ruby-throat flies the Gulf
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Fantastic Fliers
Endurance Champion
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What is a Timberdoodle?
The American Woodcock
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The Willett
An easy ID
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Elusive Birds
Checklist Challengers
20/10/2019 • 0
Irrupting Raptors
Waiting for a visit from the imposing hunters from the north.
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The Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Foraging in suburbia.
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The Snow Bunting
The real snowbird
19/1/2022 • 0
Golden-Winged Firebird
Jules Verne was not an ornithologist
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The harlequin and the turnstone
Birds from the Picasso Field Guide
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The Hermit Thrush
Ethereal Songster
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The Gannett
The Gannett
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The Swallow-tailed Kite
Elegance on the wing.
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The Ovenbird
Mysterious song at eventide.
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Teal Green
The duck came first.
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The Towhee
Towhee, chewink or drink-your-tea
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The Fox Sparrow
Robust, foxy visitor
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The Voice of the Turtle
The Voice of the Turtle
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The Tailorbird
Sewing a nest.
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The Saw Whet Owl
Strange sounding and cute
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The Brown-headed Cowbird
Why build a nest?
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Downey Woodpecker
Little Drummer Bird
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The Broad-winged Hawk
Demure Raptore
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The Bluebird
Gentle harbinger of spring
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The Java Sparrow
Bach Bird
12/8/2022 • 0
Red-Headed Woodpecker
Remembrance of birds past.
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Which White Waders
Sorting out the herons.
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Yellow-rumped Warbler
small and drab, but everywhere
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The Chickadee
Winter Cheer
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Happy Birthday, Roger T.
Peterson’s Poetry
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Orange-crowned Warbler
Defining non- descript
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Hong Kong birds
big city birds
7/4/2023 • 0
The Dunlin
"..smaller than a breadbox"
13/1/2023 • 0
Mimids Three
Accomplished Songsters
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Audubon
Rustic genius
18/4/2022 • 0
The Fox Sparrow
Rufus Winter Visitor
11/2/2022 • 0
The Kakapo
New Zealand's Bird of the Year
19/11/2020 • 0
Teale's boblinks
skylark they never wert
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American Pipet
Walking Winter Visitor
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Birds in the Twelve Days of Christmas
Just what is a colly bird?
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Housewren
Housewren
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Bobolinks on the Move
Edwin Way Teale's observations
26/8/2022 • 0
The Osprey
The One and Only
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The Rails
As thin as...
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Tail Wagging
Who wags and why
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Cooling
Birds beating the summer heat
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Audubon
Audubon
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Mis-named Warblers
Mis-named Warblers
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Football Birds
Feathered mascots
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Nestling Mortality
facts of life and death
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The Chestnut-sided Warbler
Now common, colorful migrant
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Edible Birds
Edible Birds
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The Robin
Spring Singer
16/4/2020 • 0
Aldo Leopold
November Sketches
17/11/2019 • 0
Bird-named Planes
Feathered and other Harriers
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Yellow-rumped Warbler
Magical spring transformation
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The Darkling Thrush
Thomas Hardy’s songster.
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The Cuckoo
Harbinger of Spring
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Bird of Washington
Bird of Washington
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Father Knows Best
the phalarope
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Autumn and Spring Colors
Feather and leaves in fall and spring
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Rose-breasted Grosbeak
A spring warbler.
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The Wakatobi Sunbird
A new bird for the new year
30/12/2022 • 0
Eider Down
Feathers Against the Cold
28/1/2022 • 0
Song for the Journey
The Swainson's Thrush
1/6/2021 • 0
Valentine Birds
Valentine Birds
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The Glossy Ibis
Primative and Sacred
5/11/2020 • 0
The Mimids
Assertive master mimics
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A New Bird for a New year
...but where is it?
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The Cedar Waxwing
Lovely and Unusual
5/2/2020 • 0
The Wood Thrush
Der Meistersinger
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Tupi Terms
Exotic Bird Names
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Spring Symphony
Songs of an April Morning
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An Irish Bird
Emerald Isle Birds
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The Yellow-Rumped Warbler
Winter to Spring in Miniature
1/3/2021 • 0
Ruddy Duck
Ruddy Duck
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The Genus Euphonia
skylark they never wert
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Red-Eyed Vireo
Persistant summer songster
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Kites
Kites
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The Magic of Birdsong
Listen to the Mockingbird
30/5/2022 • 0
The Redstart
Feathered Perpetual Motion
2/5/2022 • 0
The House Finch
Hollywood at your feeder.
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The Phoebe
Avian name calling.
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The Red-bellied Woodpecker
Toward a better name
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Beethoven's Birds
Beethoven's Birds
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Cardinal
Favorite state bird.
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Crows
Distinguishing the Corvids
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Hong Kong Birds
Some avian observations from the other side of the world.
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Woody’s inspiration
The pileated woodpecker
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Migration and Mortality
Migration and Mortality
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The Ouzel
The Little Dipper.
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Storm Petrels
Oceanic water walkers
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Java Sparrow
A handsome Bach bird
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Window Watching
Window Watching
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Le Coq Gallois
A bird for Bastille Day
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Dunlin
A red-backed sandpiper by any other name.
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Mulberry Birds
Mulberry Birds
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The Black Swift
Avian Secrets
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Feather Wear
New feathers fly better.
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Red Winged Blackbird
Memorable summer sound
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The Piping Plover
Rhymes with "lover".
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The Red Kite
The unofficial bird of Wales
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Lesser Black-backed Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
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Shifting Sparrow Species
Nomenclature updates
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An Amazing Journey
The Flight of AX 6587
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Summer Singers
Summer Singers
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A New Old Bird
A Perplexing Fossil
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Kinglets
Active feathered mites.
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Ouzel
What is an ouzel? The answer involves both etymology and ornithology.
20/1/2019 • 0
Colonial Birds
Birds of the Founding Fathers
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A New Year Bird
Wilson’s antbird
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Kookaburra
The Laughing Jackass doesn’t live in the jungle.
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The Bullbats are About
Sounds of Summer
29/7/2022 • 0
The Bluejay
Mr. Clemons as ornithologist
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Teddy Roosevelt, Birdwatcher
Teddy Roosevelt, Birdwatcher
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The Skylark
Blythe Spirit
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Accipiter Confusion
Sexual Dimorphism
30/12/2020 • 0
The Curious Colies
“On the Fourth Day of Christmas...”
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The Sanderling
On a winter beach
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The Cattle Egret
Population Fluctuation
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The Nighthawk
The bullbats are about.
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Grackles
Glossy and discordant.
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Bird Colors
An Avian Palette
13/11/2020 • 0
The Hoatzin
One strange bird.
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Blue Gray Gnatcatcher
Blue Gray Gnatcatcher
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Pewee
The languid sound of summer
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The Fire-Hangbird
Lord Baltimores feathered namesake
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Where does a Bird Live?
Is a nest a home?
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Happy Birthday,Roger Tory Peterson
Father of the Field Guide
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The Warbling Vireo
A Drab Songster
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Siskin Saturation
Finch Irruption, 2012
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The Northern Lapwing
An Unexpected Visitor
14/1/2022 • 0
The Shoveler
The Shoveler
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The Goldfinch
Bright feathered sunshine
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Carrier Pigeon
Feathered war heroes
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St. Francis and the Birds
St. Francis and the Birds
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Lincoln’s Sparrow
Not named for Abe.
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Laughing Gull
Laughing Gull
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The Canary
From the Canine Islands
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Terms of Venery
delightful collective nouns
7/2/2020 • 0
The Year of the Bird
Bird news for the new year
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The Eagle and the Child
Despite the tall tales, eagles do not fly off with children.
