Tag: birding
Balancing birds and biofuels: Grasslands support more species than cornfields
Researchers from University of Wisconsin-Madison and Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources examined whether corn and perennial grassland fields in southern Wisconsin could provide both biomass for bioenergy production and bountiful bird habitat.
Oil and gas development homogenizing core-forest bird communities
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Conventional oil and gas development in northern Pennsylvania altered bird communities, and the current massive build-out of shale-gas infrastructure may...
Tired of snow? Think spring and start building a birdhouse
I know it seems like this winter will never end, but days are getting longer, and just a few days ago, I finally saw...
Readers wonder, ‘Where are my birds this winter?’
Every winter I get letters and emails from readers asking why they are seeing fewer birds at their feeders. For example, Sheryll Jameson, from...
Christmas tradition: The Morning of Christmas
Every December I get requests to reprint my take-off of ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas, first published in 1988. Read it aloud to the...
It’s time to hang spring nest boxes, and here’s how
Last week, a day after the morning low temperature plunged to nine degrees, the sky cleared and the thermometer rebounded to 45 degrees.
That balmy...
Christmas Bird Count and Project FeederWatch
Cold winter weather means it's time for two important citizen science projects -- the annual Christmas Bird Count and Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Project...
Migratory birds could bring disease with them
SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Backyard bird watchers need to be extra vigilant this year in maintaining their feeders, according to ornithologist Richard Bailey of...
Winter’s fury is no match for Kinglets
As days get shorter, and nights grow longer, the cast of characters on my bird feeders changes. A mixed flock of pine siskins, purple...
Ohio is the new home of rare boreal songbirds
Everyone knows what an eruption is. When a volcano blows its top and spews ash and lava from the cone, that's an eruption on...
