Home Contact About Bird Guides Birder's Lists Birding Birds Reviews Trips From the Archives Privacy Policy Home Contact About Bird Guides Birder’s Lists Birding Birds Reviews Trips From the Archives Privacy Policy Birding Twitching and Mocking November 30, 2024 by Luca No Comments The topic of twitching crops up here more frequently than I feel comfortable admitting given my statements in an earlier post that I’m not the biggest twitcher . On a Thursday evening after work , I received the message from a friend that a Northern Mockingbird turned up near Bonn . This is an absolute mega rarity , being the first record for Germany and only the fifth for the West Palearctic . So obviously , it would be important to get there as soon as possible for the best chance of seeing this beast A short
NEW YORK — For the 125th year, the National Audubon Society is organizing the annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count (CBC). Between December 14 and January 5, tens of thousands of bird-loving...In towns across the United States, Wild Turkeys regularly make the news for their intimidating ways: chasing down postal workers, delivery people, and children; launching all-out attacks on parked...On a cloudy September morning in Prospect Park, a massive swath of greenery amid Brooklyn’s concrete sprawl, the fall migrants are flying fast and furious. A group of birders spin excitedly in a...A sapphire-eyed cormorant surfaces with a bill full of seaweed. A jay strikes hard on an acorn, sending up a spray of shell. And wherever they can find them, birds gulp down all manner of juicy...
The following is the oral testimony of Jennifer Pitt, Audubon's Colorado River Program Director before a House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries:
Chair Bentz, Ranking...The Water Report—a monthly publication covering key water issues throughout the West—published an article co-written by Audubon's Abby Burk and Jacquelyn Corday of Corday Natural Resources...WASHINGTON (November 20, 2024) – Today Congress passed the Bolstering Ecosystems Against Coastal Harm (BEACH) Act, which adds roughly 280,000 acres to a system of protected coastal lands on the...Replicating a historic survey from 30 years ago, the Intermountain West Shorebird Survey is a five-year effort to count shorebirds at more than 200 wetland sites across 11 states in the Intermountain...We left around 7:30 in the morning. Yes, we were running late, but this was an unusual group of birdwatchers that included environmental leaders, local and international journalists, businesspeople...On a family vacation this summer, Kevin Cronin happily shared his many gripes about the beach with his TikTok followers: the drag of lugging the gear back and forth, those ludicrously short beach...
From the Autumn 2024 issue of Living Bird magazine. Subscribe now. It may look like this bird is giving the camera the stare-down, but look closely … it’s actually looking down. Spanish photographer Rafael Armada... Read more »Home Contact About Bird Guides Birder's Lists Birding Birds Reviews Trips From the Archives Privacy Policy Home Contact About Bird Guides Birder’s Lists Birding Birds Reviews Trips From the Archives Privacy Policy Birding Birds Reviews Trips The Joy of Birdwatching” a book review November 5, 2024 by Mark No Comments Most readers , the peripapatic ones , may know the Lonely Planet house as a publisher of travel guides segregated by country , city , or other geographic area , as many travel guides are. A variation on this practice and , perhaps , a natural outgrowth of it , is The Joy of Birdwatching by multiple authors , with a Foreword by Tenijah Hamilton , previously interviewed here  The focus of this book is not on a geographic area as such , but on birds â specifically , onThis season, Missouri hosted 33 active counts circles—the highest number yet. Two circles saw their debut: Cass County and Grand Pass. Thanks, in-part, to these two new circles, a record-high of...Fifty-four counts were conducted in Virginia-Washington DC for the 2023-2024 Christmas Bird Count (CBC) season. This includes the new Dragon Run CBC compiled by Jeffrey Wright and the restarted... The 124th CBC in North Carolina consisted of 53 counts, with three (Alamance County, Holly Shelter and Portsmouth) not being run. The weather this season averaged slightly...Total Counts Run, Total Species Found, and Number of Participants
Christmas Bird Counts (CBCs) were completed on 31 of Montana’s 36 potential count circles this year (#124), which was similar to...The winter of 2023–2024 was mild and considered warmer and wetter than normal. Minimum low temperature was 25 º F at Oakland (26 for Allegany County, Catoctin Mountain, and Washington County). The...The 124th Christmas Bird Count in Indiana featured record counts for a long list of species as well as some remarkable rarities. Like many surrounding states, Indiana birders enjoyed an...Fifty-one Christmas Bird Counts were held this winter in Colorado. A total of 217 (way up from last winter’s total of 197 species) countable species of birds were found, plus two others for count...The 124th Christmas Bird Count (CBC) season in South Carolina consisted of 29 individual counts that took place between December 14th, 2023 and January, 5th, 2024. These 29 counts included 12 counts...The 2023-2024 CBC included 36 Iowa counts reporting to Audubon. Although the entire state experienced drought in 2023, precipitation in December averaged above normal. But this was also Iowa’s...(WASHINGTON, D.C.--November 8, 2024) – Leading conservation and sportsmen’s organizations today reacted with cautious optimism to a newly released final draft of a plan by the Bureau of Land...For the 125th Christmas Bird Count period, 129 counts were completed and reported in California with a total of 377 species recorded (including documented rare species) along with a plethora of...