By Martin Garwood Martin has been interested in birds from an early age and has traveled extensively in pursuit of different species. He has...
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It’s hard to believe that here in the northeastern United States, we’re only two or three weeks away from the peak of spring migration....
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This Kestrel may have been carrying bugs, but an X-ray showed they were not of the surveillance type. (Image from DHA/Dogan News Agency) ...
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Baby birds are on the brain this week. I recently helped out with an American Kestrel nest box program and got some close encounters...
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It’s a beautiful day, you’re out birding, and you come across a bird who, instead of perching 20 feet over your head or winging...
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Kestrels may be the coolest raptors nobody knows of. In North America, everyone recognizes hawks on the wing, even the ones that aren’t Red-tailed...
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Gerald Manley Hopkins, Englishman, Catholic convert, priest, and poet, was born in 1844 and died of typhoid fever in 1889. In between he wrote,...
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So, how was your Great Backyard Bird Count? If you live in North America and pay any attention at all to avifauna, you probably...
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