Gideon B. Smith of Baltimore, Maryland, was not really a birder. Nor was he an ornithologist. He was into silkworms, and made much of...
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We birders birders on the eastern half of the continent are quite familiar with the ubiquitous Northern Parula, whose buzzy song is often one...
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We birders north of Mexico used to have a parrot to call our own, a sun-faced, spike tailed jewel called the Carolina Parakeet that...
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I think most of us in North America have come to the somewhat disappointing conclusion that fall migration is pretty much finished for the...
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When I was a kid, my dad called them “flying stoagies”, something he picked up from an old ornithology professor. I always thought it...
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There was a time, a few years back, when I had some really good luck getting on a run of first state records for...
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I’ve been birding for nearly 2/3 of my life and, until this past weekend, I’d never even sniffed a Yellow-bellied Flycatcher. For a long...
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The verdant Appalachian Mountains, North America’s concerned forehead, stretch from the northern parts of Georgia all the way to the fir covered forests of...
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