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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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Diet, California Condors, collisions, Turkey Vultures Subscriber Only Access

Answers to readers' questions about birds' ever-changing diets, the status of the California Condor, bird-building collisions, and the eating habits of vultures

By Julie Craves

Published: June 22, 2012

Insecticides, Blue Jays, eggshells Subscriber Only Access

Answers to readers' questions about pesticides and hummingbirds, paint-eating jays, and offering eggshells

By Julie Craves

Published: April 20, 2012

Cowbirds, Sharp-shinned Hawks, and Northern Cardinals Subscriber Only Access

Answers to readers' questions about cowbird identities, roosting places, and cardinal territories

By Julie Craves

Published: February 24, 2012

Cardinals, herons, and water Subscriber Only Access

Answers to readers' questions about Northern Cardinals at feeders, Great Blue Herons in the cold, and water sources in winter