This nondescript bird steps off a small boulder right into the torrent, and begins to peer under water.
Cedar Waxwings display a wealth of eye-catching plumage. Phalaropes are sandpipers that make their living from the sea. Bird bands are important tools in understanding birds, from their age to their patterns of migration. A second theory asserts that dipping helps the bird spot prey beneath the surface of the water.
A robin will swallow half a dozen berries, at least, in rapid succession. The calls of resident Black-billed Magpies resound on an early September morning. How did this lovely jewel get its name?
Natural disasters sometimes take a terrible toll on birds and other wildlife.
Also, study the tail as the bird flies overhead. Hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods, and forest fires all can kill birds in great numbers.
Natural adaptations have given a bird a strong yet lightweight body.
And how can you help stranded birds? Remember when you were a young Saturday morning birdwatcher, learning the intricate lessons of predator-prey relationships?
Birds usually fly relatively low.
But by October, the skies seem empty. And how can you help stranded birds?
He will fly after dark to avoid the threat posed by hawks and falcons.
These are American Crows with a purpose.
Dashing headlong toward an unyielding wall, the birds disappear at the last second into a slender crevice.
Where can you see this?
Fifty years ago, on the shores of Puget Sound, you would have been much more likely than today to hear the calls of the Black Brant, a small, elegant, black, brown, and white tidewater goose. Where can you see this?
A pair of White-throated Swifts careens by at high speed. Why does the American Dipper dip?
Tous les bureaux en Israel ont fermes. You are at a HawkWatch site, one of fourteen North American fall raptor migration sites monitored by HawkWatch International.
The calls of resident Black-billed Magpies resound on an early September morning.
Also, study the tail as the bird flies overhead.
Others only winter here, having nested farther north.
Through all of spring and summer, swallows dart and sail overhead, their airborne grace a wonder to behold.