Birding Column: "Blind" Views of Quail and Jays
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Birder Mathew Tekulsky reveals the effectiveness of a concealed location for viewing birds, as he describes the behavior of quail and jays in his yard.
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Birder Mathew Tekulsky recalls how American robins and other species visited his California yard for a few weeks in January, when a pyracantha bush produced its ripe berries.
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Here&#8217;s the Windows Live Local blog on the upgrades to Bird&#8217;s Eye.   Gary Price summarizes the upgrades:  What&#8217;s New? +  Improved Tools to Navigate  &#8220;Birds Eye&#8221; Imagery Using an &#8220;inset map.&#8221; (Much easier!) Also, kudos on the next new feature that also makes Birds Eye imagery more user friendly.  You can now drag to the end of [...]
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Bird sleep is so mysterious that scientists are considering several answers, all intriguing.
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By Tim Johnson  It might have been the primeval forest noises. Or perhaps it was the tree-climbing kangaroos. It also could have been the cassowary, a flightless bird as tall as a grown man.
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There&#39;s a reason why Arkansans haven&#39;t seen as many meadowlarks in recent years. The National Audubon Society says there aren&#39;t as many of the birds around as there once were.
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Like the famed ivory-billed woodpecker, my perfect running shoe is hiding. I have been as methodical and patient as those champion bird-watchers in my search. All I have to show for it is the orthopedic version of a fuzzy photograph. Flashes of greatness have flown from my feet in some shoes. But only for brief moments, and maybe they weren't even real....
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By Natalie P. Mcneal, The Miami Herald  Jun. 24--Picture a South Florida rarely seen except on postcards.   Blue herons daintily picking their way through lush foliage. A water lily pond with its own pavilion. An unspoiled dirt path leading to an enchanted forest.
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J-Bird: listing software for birders, written in Java. New to this release: import of checklists from CSV files, Excel spreadsheets, tables in HTML documents, dBase .dbf files, and relational databases; preferred checklists can be assigned to trips and to regions for use when ticking species that have been observed; a search dialog for text in displayed tables; a search dialog for species names in collapsable tables; instructions for accessing the underlying database remotely or from Perl.   Existing features: basic ticking, trip reports, ability to count species ticks, and to generate composite lists of species such as life-lists or region lists, ability to query sightings and display results as tables, web pages, or CSV. Checklists can be created, used to tick species that have been observed on trips, and included in trip reports.  You can download it here: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=19835&package_id=50797
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Birdwatchers are descending on a rural area near this southern Wisconsin community following the sighting of what is believed to be a green-breasted mango, a type of hummingbird commonly seen in parts of Mexico and Central America.
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A mourning dove silhouetted against the Saturday morning sunrise perched on a tree outside the window of the observatory room at the Lowe-Volk Nature Center as a flock of 10 ring-billed gulls passed overhead.
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DIY We've had a great summer of backyard bird-watching. Hummers and yellow warblers have circled our flowerbeds and our neighbor's window feeder throughout August.
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While "serious" birders in the U.S. disdain non-native ducks and geese, one birding columnist enjoys observing the many species that have made California their home.
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By Steve Pollick, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio  Feb. 14--You could tell from the way the birds were reacting at the backyard feeders yesterday morning that something big was on the way.   The feeders at my rural western Sandusky County creekbottom home were gleaned all but clean.
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By Sophia Maines, Journal-World, Lawrence, Kan.  Dec. 12--Grab your binoculars.   The majestic bald eagles are in town, and more are on the way to this favorite winter-feeding destination.
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Scientists believe they could be a step closer to solving the mystery of how the first birds took to the air.
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By Anne Danahy, The Centre Daily Times, State College, Pa.  Jun. 19--PATTON TOWNSHIP -- Spend a few hours on Karl H. Striedieck's picturesque property on the Bald Eagle Ridge and you start to lose track of the number of unusual birds you hear.