Discoveries about birds, behaviors, migration, and more. Plus, Eldon Greij’s popular column, “Amazing Birds.”
For more than 50 years, scientists had tantalizing clues suggesting that Blackpoll Warbler departs each fall from New England and eastern Canada and migrates nonstop … Read More “Confirmed: Blackpoll Warblers fly nonstop in fall over the Atlantic”
Osprey experts writing in the Journal of Raptor Research have revealed details of the bird’s winter habitat, described new winter grounds in Argentina, and shed … Read More “Studies reveal winter habitat choices, migration routes of Osprey”
Birds’ abilities to sense approaching storms and imminent earthquakes are not understood well, but it’s clear they’re better than our own. Banders in southern Israel, … Read More “Golden-winged Warblers abandoned breeding grounds before severe storm blew in”
We’ve learned that more than 2,000 articles from the journals The Auk and The Condor have just been added to the journals’ combined website (aoucospubs.org). … Read More “Auk and Condor articles for the last 15 years now available online”
The Bahama Woodstar is a hummingbird found in the Bahamas that comprises two subspecies. One of these, Calliphlox evelynae evelynae, is found throughout the islands, … Read More “New hummingbird species proposed for the Bahamas”
A gap of about 340 miles divides the two breeding populations of Painted Bunting: one in the southern Great Plains and the other along the … Read More “Two Painted Buntings?”
Whether a bird spends the winter in high latitudes or migrates to more southerly climes in fall has less to do with temperature than with … Read More “Eldon Greij explains the clever way birds keep legs and feet warm”
Researchers using a novel combination of weather-radar data, flight-call recordings, and wind measurements have provided new insights into the magnitude and direction of the puzzling … Read More “Study: Migrating birds make morning flights after drifting off course at night”
It was March, just before evening, and Sandhill Cranes were rising high above the Platte River in Nebraska, soaring in tight circles, and then dropping … Read More “The amazing way birds land”
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