Category: Birdwatching

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The Motus Wildlife Tracking Network has revolutionized scientific knowledge about animal migration since 2014, using automated radio telemetry to track movements across more than 2,270 receiving stations around the globe. One such station is located in Virginia, where the fast-declining Rusty Blackbird is known to spend the nonbreeding season. Watch this video to learn more about the species and the role that Motus plays in its conservation.

Birds Canada oversees the global Motus network, while American Bird Conservancy (ABC) is guiding the expansion of Motus efforts in the U.S. Since

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The Antioquia Brushfinch was first described in 2007, but only on the basis of three museum specimens. A live bird was not found in the field until 2018, when an unfamiliar brushfinch was spotted by a keen-eyed agronomist on his way to weekly Mass on the outskirts of Medellín, Colombia.

The Antioquia Brushfinch belongs to a group of large sparrows found in humid mountain forests from Mexico south to Argentina. Its species name, blancae, refers to the bird’s pale underparts. It also refers to the Colombian lepidopterologist Blanca Huertas, the

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Tiny, nimble, and sporting a bold black mask and “bib” under its bill, the Golden-winged Warbler (Vermivora chrysoptera) might be mistaken for a Black-capped Chickadee at first glance. But it’s the long, thin bill and the splashes of vivid golden-yellow on its crown and wings that distinguish this long-distance migratory warbler.

Though they are denizens of shrubby, early successional habitats (areas that are in the early stages of regenerating following a disturbance, such as a fire or a clearcut) in the nesting season, Golden-winged Warblers and their recently fledged young