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.
December Ducks
A Day at the Beach
01/12/2023 • 0
Loud Songster
The Wren
24/11/2023 • 0
Migration and Mortality
It's not easy being a bird
17/11/2023 • 0
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
A John Burrow's observation
10/11/2023 • 0
The Pitohui
A poisonous bird
03/11/2023 • 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?
06/10/2023 • 0
Avian Onomastics
The Red-bellied Woodpecker
29/09/2023 • 0
Feathered Males and Females
Sexual Dimorphism
22/09/2023 • 0
Clever Corvids
Sorting the Crows
15/09/2023 • 0
Bird Thoughts in a Vermont Forest
What I did on my Summer Vacation
08/09/2023 • 0
Molting
Feathers Old and New
01/09/2023 • 0
Which White Waders?
Distinguishing herons et al.
25/08/2023 • 0
The Pewee
Lazy summer sounds
18/08/2023 • 0
The Tailorbird
Feathered sewer
11/08/2023 • 0
"Timberdoodle"
The Woodcock
04/08/2023 • 0
Birds Beat the Heat
Staying cool
28/07/2023 • 0
Grackles
Avian Dissonance
21/07/2023 • 3 minutes 18 seconds
Le Coq Gaulois
Vive la France
12/07/2023 • 0
A Sound of Summer
The Red-winged Blackbird
07/07/2023 • 0
Birds for the Fourth
Avifauna from Colonial Times
30/06/2023 • 0
Summer Tanager
Bright welcome to the season
22/06/2023 • 0
Feathered Father
The Phalaropes
12/06/2023 • 0
June Magic
Song of the Wood Thrush
09/06/2023 • 0
The Song Sparrow
Another spring song
01/06/2023 • 0
The Seaside Sparrow
a surfeit of sparrow names
26/05/2023 • 0
The Chipping Sparrow
Garden Friend
18/05/2023 • 0
The Great Crested Flycathcer
Another sound of spring
12/05/2023 • 0
The Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Bright spring visitor
04/05/2023 • 0
May Birds
Misnamed warblers
04/05/2023 • 0
The Blur-Gray Gnatcatcher
An early spring arrival
21/04/2023 • 0
Happy Birthday, Leonardo
All that and a birdwatcher too
14/04/2023 • 0
The Broad-winged hawk
Sotto voce raptor
08/04/2022 • 0
The Prothonotary Warbler
Golden Swamp Warbler
29/06/2020 • 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
02/10/2019 • 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!
03/02/2023 • 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
27/05/2022 • 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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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
19/01/2022 • 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
12/08/2022 • 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
07/04/2023 • 0
The Dunlin
"..smaller than a breadbox"
13/01/2023 • 0
Mimids Three
Accomplished Songsters
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Audubon
Rustic genius
18/04/2022 • 0
The Fox Sparrow
Rufus Winter Visitor
11/02/2022 • 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
26/08/2022 • 0
The Osprey
The One and Only
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The Redstart
Feathered Perpetual Motion
02/05/2022 • 0
The Kakapo
New Zealand's Bird of the Year
19/11/2020 • 0
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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Aldo Leopold
November Sketches
17/11/2019 • 0
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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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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Eider Down
Feathers Against the Cold
28/01/2022 • 0
The Robin
Spring Singer
16/04/2020 • 0
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
Song for the Journey
The Swainson's Thrush
01/06/2021 • 0
Elusive Birds
Checklist Challengers
20/10/2019 • 0
Valentine Birds
Valentine Birds
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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
05/02/2020 • 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
01/03/2021 • 0
The Glossy Ibis
Primative and Sacred
05/11/2020 • 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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Avian Laughter
The Kookaburra
31/03/2023 • 0
The Magic of Birdsong
Listen to the Mockingbird
30/05/2022 • 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.
20/01/2019 • 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
29/07/2022 • 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
14/01/2022 • 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
07/02/2020 • 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.
