Tag: birding
Winter is for the birds
Cold weather can be rough on our feathered friends. Providing birds with food and shelter throughout the winter helps keep them happy and healthy, and lights up my otherwise dismal looking yard with color and song.
Hey, birders: It’s time for Project Feeder Watch
Project FeederWatch, Cornell University’s citizen science program sponsored by the Lab of Ornithology, has begun a new season, and new volunteers are always welcome.
How to ID common feeder birds
Identifying common backyard birds is relatively simple by using a step-by-step procedure.
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...
