Friday, March 8, 2013

Setting Free the Evening Grosbeak

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Adult male Evening Grosbeak (photo from August 2011) On January 14, someone brought an adult male Evening Grosbeak to the Wildw...
Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Boreal Owl Update

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Boreal Owl During the three decades I’ve lived in Duluth, several winters have been marked by irruptions of northern owls. Whe...
Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Chickadee Day!

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Black-capped Chickadee Every year since 1975, I’ve celebrated March 2 as “Chickadee Day,” marking the anniversary of my seeing the first...
Thursday, February 28, 2013

Birding Alone vs. Birding in Groups and on Tours

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This Black-capped Chickadee peeks into my window to see where I am. I've always enjoyed traveling to new places, and that enjoyment ...

Why I love living in Duluth

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Boreal Owl When Russ finished his Ph.D. and was considering potential jobs, I strongly lobbied for the job offer he got in Duluth. Yes, ...
Friday, February 15, 2013

Boreal Owl update

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Boreal Owl seen on Superb Owl Sunday I recently wrote about a Boreal Owl Russ and I watched on Super Bowl Sunday —or what I ca...

No, birds do not give birth to chicks

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Last time I talked about the oldest known wild bird, a Laysan Albatross nicknamed “Wisdom” who is still, at 62 years of age, ...
Monday, February 11, 2013

Oldest Known Wild Bird

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(My birding adventures this year are being posted at my Conservation Big Year blog .) Now that I turned 60 over a yea...
Friday, January 4, 2013

A tragically ironic way of proving birds share humanlike traits

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In late November 2012, two researchers in the psychology department at Emory University in Atlanta published a study in Fron...
Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Conservation Big Year: So far, so good!

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I'm posting reports about my Conservation Big Year here:  My Conservation Big Year Blog Fun birds so far!