Category: Birdwatching

Protect Birds from Glass Collisions: Dim Lights at Nights, Treat Glass By Day:

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This YouTube video was produced by The Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Learn more about bird-friendly solutions: https://www.stopbirdcollisions.org/

Every year, up to 1 billion birds die in North America after colliding with glass and becoming disoriented by artificial lights at night. But together, we can change that.

This video advocates two simple steps to protect birds where you live, work, and play:

Dim or switch off nonessential lights at night — especially during migration seasons.

Treat glass by day with bird-friendly solutions like decals, patterns, or films to make windows visible to birds.

Bird collisions are preventable — and your

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Saving Ranching to Save Wildlife

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This YouTube video was produced by The Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Most of the grasslands in the Great Plains exist as rangelands – managed and stewarded by private landowners. Yet rising costs and the fact that ranching earns less than any other land use have cut rancher numbers in half since the 1980s. As we lose these ranchers, we lose the valuable grassland ecosystems that support their livelihoods, rural communities, water and wildlife.

The Lesser Prairie-Chicken – an iconic grassland bird famous for its spring dances – has lost 97% of its population since the 1800s. With 95% of

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Blue-gray Gnatcatcher: Springtime Sprite

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This YouTube video was produced by the American Bird Conservancy.

The lively little Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (Polioptila caerulea) is a welcome sign of early spring, bouncing through the burgeoning trees with a quick-flicking tail and wheezy, high-pitched calls. A glimpse of this bird reveals a slender, blue-gray sprite with white eyerings and a long black tail edged in white.

Most members of its genus, Polioptila (the name combines the Ancient Greek words for gray and plumage), are resident in Central and South America. These small, active birds are related to wrens, such as the Carolina Wren and Northern House Wren.

The

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