Since You Asked
August 2010
Julie Craves
Contributing Editor Julie Craves is a tireless researcher and bird bander with a keen interest in the stopover ecology of migrant birds. She is also a personable writer with a gift for making everything she writes readable and entertaining. Her first article in Birder's World (now BirdWatching), "Forest Fire-tail," a profile of the American Redstart, appeared in June 1994. She answers readers' questions about birds in her column "Since You Asked" in every issue of the magazine.

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Since You Asked: Hummingbirds, Mallards, and tails

Answers to readers' questions about incubating, brood parasitism, and tail pumping

By Julie Craves
Published: June 25, 2010
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