Category: Birdwatching

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Happy Spring Migration, North America! Warblers, orioles, grosbeaks, buntings, and more beloved migratory species are all on their way right now to begin preparing for the breeding season across the United States and Canada. Billions of birds are on the move, passing through your cities and communities, and they face a gauntlet of threats along the way.

We can all do our part to help birds as they travel and raise their chicks. In this webinar, you’ll learn more about the dangers facing migratory birds in the breeding season, as

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The elusive Bicknell’s Thrush (Catharus bicknelli) was once considered an isolated population of the Gray-cheeked Thrush. Then, in 1995, ornithologists decided that differences in plumage, size, song, and range warranted splitting the two into distinct species. Distinguishing the two is no easy task — they’re best identified by their songs, but the shy and furtive Bicknell’s Thrush is not always very vocal. Unlike other, more colorful and common thrushes such as the Mountain Bluebird and American Robin, the Bicknell’s Thrush is seldom seen. It’s most often glimpsed on its remote

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Each spring heralds a unique spectacle on the brushy western plains of North America. Year after year, male Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) congregate on ancestral display grounds known as leks. There, the males strut about, fanning spiky tail feathers and raising feathered white collars while inflating bright yellow throat sacs — all the while making a weird assortment of booming, swishing, and popping noises. Choosy female sage-grouse, the object of all this parading, look on with a critical eye.

Although male birds of other species, from the Greater Prairie-Chicken down