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When birds band together, their associations can take many forms. Some, like penguins and albatrosses, form bonds that can last decades. Other species only stay together for one or more seasons. And there are also groups (like grouse, hummingbirds and the amazing birds of paradise) where there is often no...
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Against a Backdrop of Bird Declines, Complex Problems
This Perspective essay will towards in the Autumn 2023 issue of Living Bird magazine. Subscribe now.
Over the past century, declines in populations of iconic birds—beautifully feathered waders in Florida, California Condors, Bald Eagles—have occasionally made headlines and spurred conservation actions. In September 2019, the perils faced by birds once then...
June 09, 2023
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A bird keeps flying into my window or
A California Towhee attacks its reflection in a car mirror. Photo by hawk person via Birdshare.
The policies you mention often occurs in spring and early summer. This is the time of year when most birds establish their territories, find a mate, lay eggs, and raise young. To...
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Team Sapsucker Finds 279 Species in Chile and
Morning birding in inside California with Team Sapsucker members Brian Sullivan and Brooke Keeney. Photo by Lizzy Chouinard.
For Big Day 2023, Team Sapsucker split into two groups and headed to far-flung parts of the Pacific Flyway: Monterey County, California, and inside Chile. Together the teams found an phenomenal 279 species....
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