Bird

Male fall box cricket (picture from Wikimedia Commons) 22 August 2024 At this time fall box crickets (Gryllus pennsylvanicus) are in the middle of their breeding season. Like songbirds the men sing to draw a … Read more

Two weeks in the past, I wrote right here about what might finally end up being my Chicken of the Yr for 2024: a Lesser Floor-Cuckoo which gave us improbable perspectives in my cherished the … Read more

Biennial gaura, Hays Woods, 20 August 2024 (picture via Kate St. John) 21 August 2024 Once I took this picture at Hays Woods the previous day, I knew the plant’s title — biennial gaura — … Read more

We had been travelling to historical Cape Race, once we encountered a site visitors jam. 4 Forest Caribou had been trotting alongside in the course of the street. That isn’t what we anticipated to peer, … Read more

This yr’s Black Birder’s Week highlighted the corvid circle of relatives each for his or her boisterous intelligence and for his or her historical past of use in anti-Black symbology. American Crow via Eva Bottelli … Read more

As many birders, nature fanatics, and avid vacationers know, Costa Rica has a lot to provide. It has one thing for everybody. Tasty meals, fantastic birding, sizzling springs, seashores, ancient websites – Costa Rica does … Read more

Feminine black swallowtail butterfly in Betty Rowland’s lawn, 18 August 2024 (photograph by way of Betty Rowland) 20 August 2024 You might be mindful in early August after I wrote that two pals had black … Read more

What’s your favourite fowl species? A tricky query! As you get started birding, you additionally begin to shape a transparent listing of your favourite birds for your thoughts, such because the Black-backed Grosbeak. That fowl … Read more

Ironweed in bloom, 18 August 2024 (photograph via Kate St. John) 19 August 2024 Overdue summer season vegetation are blooming, insects are humming, and the primary migrating birds are at the transfer. Sign up for … Read more

Hongbenghe, a small village proper on the border of China’s Yunnan province and Myanmar, has numerous woodpeckers. And maximum birders (despite the fact that now not all – see right here for an exception) slightly … Read more