Originally posted on Our Fine Feathered Friends:
Photo by Bryan Stevens • A great crested flycatcher perches in the branches of a pine in South Carolina. Knoxville resident Rebecca Boyd shared on Facebook on May 27 that she enjoyed seeing a new bird at her home. “Although the guide books say this is a common bird, this morning was the first time I’ve ever seen… Continue reading Great crested flycatcher is a small bird with a very big name

Originally posted on Our Fine Feathered Friends:
Photo by Pattie Rowland • A Great Blue Heron explores a paved driveway at a home in Erwin, Tennessee. Rookeries, or nesting colonies, in Erwin have expanded the population of this large wading bird locally. Members of the Elizabethton Bird Club and birding organizations in Kingsport and Bristol fanned out across Northeast Tennessee on Saturday, May 5, for… Continue reading Regional bird count detects population trends

Originally posted on wadertales:
If Norwegian Oystercatchers migrate south and west for the winter, how is it that thousands of Oystercatchers can adopt a stay-at-home strategy in Iceland, which lies at a higher latitude than most of Norway? Braving the cold As part of a project to try to understand why some Oystercatchers spend the winter in Iceland, when most fly south across the Atlantic,… Continue reading Mission Impossible? Counting Iceland’s wintering Oystercatchers

Originally posted on wadertales:
Shorebirds are generally philopatric (site-faithful to breeding areas) – youngsters settle to breed in areas near where they were raised and adults don’t move far in subsequent years. What happens to this process when a species is expanding its range or if chicks are reared away from their parents? Successful head-starting In a recent trial, to see if head-starting might help… Continue reading Site-fidelity in Black-tailed Godwits

Originally posted on wadertales:
In deference to the scientific papers that underpin them, stories in previous WaderTales blogs are expressed in facts and correlations, not emotions. This blog, which is in part a review of Curlew Moon by Mary Colwell, is a little more personal. Curlew Moon – a special book Curlew Moon, is based upon Mary Colwell’s walk from the West of Ireland to… Continue reading Curlew Moon

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