My nestling Red-shafted Northern Flickers (Colaptes auratus) are around two weeks old now and the adults are still entering the nestbox to feed them....
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Tom Brown grew up in the high desert area of Central Oregon. His love for birds and photography started at a young age. Thru...
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According to Wikipedia, birds (class Aves) are feathered, winged, two-legged, warm-blooded, egg-laying vertebrates. The fossil record indicates that birds emerged within the theropod dinosaurs...
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Normally wildlife rehabilitators try not to give these kinds of directions. We say things like, “Just pick him up and put him back in...
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Sure it is a Plain Titmouse, or at least it used to be. The Plain Titmouse (Parus inornatus) was split and reclassified in 1997...
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This story comes from Lia Pignatelli, a rehabber with AKUSA Wildlife Rescue in Brewster, NY, who specializes in songbirds. It was six o’clock one...
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This past weekend, in addition to seeing a cooperative Orange-crowned Warbler, I made a quick stop at the raven’s nest in Kew Gardens after...
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In Queens, which is, as I may have mentioned before, the best borough in New York City, there is a park that has hosted...
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