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Ask a Birder: What are the smallest and the biggest bird species?

June 11, 2025 by Kai Pflug 1 Comment
By weight, the Bee Hummingbird of Cuba is the lightest, weighing around 1.6 to 2.0 grams. It has a...
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Ask a Birder: Which Bird Species Do Well in Cities?

June 4, 2025 by Kai Pflug 1 Comment
Given that urbanization continues, this is certainly a highly relevant question – but how to find the answer? Researchers...
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Ask a Birder: Why are there more bird species now than 25 years ago?

May 28, 2025 by Kai Pflug 5 Comments
As you can see from the chart, the number of recognized bird species has increased from about 9,750 in...
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Ask a Birder: Do Wind Turbines Kill Birds?

May 21, 2025 by Kai Pflug 3 Comments
A leading US ecologist certainly thinks so, and expresses his opinion very clearly: “They kill the birds, and they’re...
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Ask a Birder: Why Did The Population of Dutch Geese Explode Over The Last 40 Years?

May 14, 2025 by Peter 2 Comments
When I set my first steps towards becoming a birder, Greylag Geese were no longer a breeding species in...
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Ask a Birder: Do Birds Take Baths? And Why?

May 7, 2025 by Kai Pflug No Comments
Probably most readers of these posts know that birds take baths. They may not know why they do that,...
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Ask a birder: Is it true old birders can no longer hear high pitched bird songs?

April 30, 2025 by Kai Pflug 6 Comments
Note: The question originally posed to 10,000 Birds was “Is it true old birders can no longer hear the...
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Ask a Birder: Why Do Birds Form Mixed-Species Flocks?

April 23, 2025 by a Guest 1 Comment
By Wenyi Zhou Wenyi is a graduate student at the University of Florida, studying how plantation forestry affects bird...
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