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Owls are steeped in myth and legend. According to Virgil, the appearance of an owl foretold the death of Dido. Both the Sumerian goddess Lilith and Greek goddess Athena have […]
Owls are steeped in myth and legend. According to Virgil, the appearance of an owl foretold the death of Dido. Both the Sumerian goddess Lilith and Greek goddess Athena have […]
Broad-wing Hawks (Buteo platypterus) are recognizable while soaring by their full wing span and white tail bands. Like hawks generally, they are intelligent and highly adaptive. Their visual acuity, sharpness […]
This large sparrow, the Eastern Towhee (Pipilo erythrophthalmus), looks more like an American Robin than, say, a House Sparrow, but a member of the sparrow family it is. There are […]
The beauty of the Rose-Breasted Grosbeak (Pheucticus ludovicianus) amazes with every close-in sighting. The female is elegantly attired in an ermine breast vest with prominent white eyebrows and a […]
Bird sounds have appeared in classical compositions by Beethoven, Handel, Haydn, Respighi, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Strauss, among others. This jewel of the forest, the Goldfinch, inspired Vivaldi to compose a soaring […]
The phrase “the merry month of May” has appeared in the title of a contemporary novel, a 17th-century poem, a film from the 1950s, the title of a regimental march, […]
This bird is a sign of spring, the iconic image being its red breast blazing in the sun and its yellow beak tugging on a fat, juicy earthworm in the […]
This beautiful bird – the Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis) – is celebrated in a Belgium fairy tale as the “Bluebird of Happiness” and located by Hollywood and Dorothy as being […]
Every winter since 1900, the National Audubon Society has sponsored a winter bird count called the Christmas Bird Count or CBC. Today, CBCs take place across the U.S., Canada, Latin […]
Although our spring and summer migrants have left for warmer climes and our woods contain fewer birds and fewer species of birds, our winter avian population remains large and diverse. […]
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