A banner year for crossbills
'Best year of the century so far' for white-winged and red crossbills in the Adirondacks
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Listening for a nasal call that brings a smile
For reasons I have never understood, the call of nuthatches always makes me smile.
A classical bird song
Extremely common and widespread, song sparrows breed all across North America, and they vary significantly in coloration
Silent spring (and summer)?
Longtime bird enthusiast takes stock of sobering population declines at his home in the Adirondacks and beyond
Record-breaking bird: Oldest black-capped chickadee in U.S. recorded in Adirondacks
The chickadee has been caught more than 18 times by bird bander Gary Lee in Inlet since he originally banded it in 2009.
Evening grosbeaks, all day long
The first time I saw an evening grosbeak I experienced a neck-snapping déjà vu as I visualized a brilliantly yellow 1956 Ford Thunderbird with a black convertible top that a neighbor used to park immediately outside my bedroom window.
Turkeys on parade
BIRDWATCH By John Thaxton On the way down to Elizabethtown for a Christmas Bird Count, I suddenly found myself slamming on my brakes really hard in order to avoid running over 15 or so wild turkeys wandering around aimlessly on Route 9N—they looked like a group of overly serious philosophers contemplating a profound existential enigma,…
Birding on Fishing Brook
By Mike Lynch
Fishing Brook has the feel of a brook deep in the backcountry. The air is often thick with bugs and the sounds of birds. Beaver dams clog the waterway, creating meadows. Yellow wildflowers—swamp candles—light up the shorelines. Brook trout swim in the shadows.
Breeding bird atlas kicks off its third statewide survey since 1980
New York is undergoing its third Breeding Bird Atlas, a five-year citizen science project that helps track our avian neighbors across the state.
Surplus of “middle-aged” forests afflicts Northeastern songbirds
Started in Vermont in partnership with the Tree Farm forestry certification program and other agencies, the warbler effort aims to knock some of the Northeast’s dense forests back into an earlier succession that favors certain birds and the insects they eat.