Category: Birdwatching

Conservation of Vultures in Asia with Chris Bowden, MBE, RSPB

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Conservation of Vultures in Asia with Chris Bowden, MBE, RSPB https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/news/asian-vulture-conservation

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Mountain Chickadee: Winter Socialite

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This YouTube video was produced by the American Bird Conservancy.

Any season of the year, the Mountain Chickadee (Poecile gambeli) is a delight to encounter. In their breeding season, they form neighborhoods of adjacent territories in the conifer forests of western Canada and the U.S., which ring in the early spring dawn with dozens of cheerful whistled songs. In winter, groups of Mountain Chickadees are joined by other birds — nuthatches, woodpeckers, creepers, kinglets — to form large dispersed flocks that move together through the forest, following the chickadees’ namesake rallying call.

Mountain Chickadees are social birds, living in groups

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Brown Pelican: Painted Diver

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“A wonderful bird is the pelican; his bill can hold more than his belly can,” begins the limerick by Dixon Lanier Merritt. And it’s true — a pelican’s pouch can hold up to three times more than its stomach. This multi-purpose structure serves as a scoop, a cooling mechanism in hot weather, and as a trough for young pelicans, which retrieve food from their parents’ pouches.

Although the Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) is the smallest of the world’s eight pelican species, it’s still a big bird at about four feet

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