Complement your national park trip with a stop at a nearby wildlife refuge Contributed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Visiting a national park this summer? Pair it with a side trip to a less discovered cousin – a national wildlife refuge. The National Wildlife Refuge System, part of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife… Read more »
Attention birders! Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center are seeking birders to help collect vital information about the rare and endangered Kirtland’s warblers as they head north this spring. The first Kirtland’s Warbler Migration Blitz will take place in Florida, Georgia, and Ohio from mid-April through early June. Studies suggest 40 percent of mortality for this… Read more »
Cynthia Charles emailed Bird Watcher’s Digest recently to alert us to this situation. We thought OTWTB readers would share her concern. Here’s her letter: I have lived on Monhegan Island for 30 years. Monhegan is a small island (1 mile x .75 mile) located 13 miles off of the coast of Maine, and is a stop-off for many… Read more »
Blue Sky Wildlife, a unique wildlife tours and ecotourism holidays listing website, launched in collaboration with Tim Appleton MBE, co-founder of Birdfair, is celebrating its first anniversary since being launched on February 1, 2016. This evolving website offers something for all lovers of nature and wildlife. It has 60 established and award-winning wildlife tour operators… Read more »
Karen Forcum My first impulse when I received word that I had won the Birder of the Year contest, sponsored by Bird Watcher’s Digest and Swarovski Optik, was to accept the new Swarovski EL 8×42 binocular and forego the trip to Costa Rica. I had never birded out of North America and I was scared… Read more »
In this episode, Bill and Ben discuss their usual potpourri of subjects, ranging from scientific to scatological, and from musical to memorable. Ben has been scouring the scientific literature for edifying topics while Bill has been trying to recover from a recent journey. Join the fellows for a relaxed conversation about birds, birding, and the… Read more »
By Erma Mae Perkins “He was here while you were having breakfast, “ Barry informed us. We often watched the female tufted coquette—easily identified by the distinct light-colored bar across her rump. The bar separated her green back from the rust feathers distal to the bar. However, the male, with his rusty tuft was elusive…. Read more »
This opinion piece was written by Peter Marra, George Fenwick, John W. Fitzpatrick, and Scott Lanyon, and posted to the American Bird Conservancy’s abcbirds-action distribution list. For more information, visit https://npogroups.org/lists/info/abcbirds-action. One hundred years ago, on August 16, 1916, the United States and Canada reached a landmark agreement to protect migratory birds, many of which were being hunted… Read more »
By Martha Mcleod Great migrants, beautiful sunshine, and extraordinarily brilliant students; it was another great youth competition in the Great Texas Birding Classic for our three teams of kids this past school year. I am a birding program sponsor at an elementary public school campus in southeastern Texas. Each year for the past seven years I have… Read more »
A recent land gift to Little Traverse Conservancy, a land trust in northern Michigan, was given in honor of an extraordinary woman. The new Sally Stebbins Nature Preserve includes 30 acres of land nestled between the two ski resorts northeast of Harbor Springs. The rolling hardwood forest along Highland Pike Drive preserves the scenic views… Read more »
