Friday, June 16, 2017

The Evocative Power of Sound

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Ever since I was a small child, I’ve been aware of the evocative power of sounds. The only specific bird sound I knew before I took up bi...
Thursday, June 15, 2017

Review: National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America, Seventh Edition

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[Thanks to Ian Paulsen for a few corrections.] At the start of 1983, birders had four choices for field guides. The best two were the P...
Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Rescuing Baby Birds: Why it's illegal to do without training and a license

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This is a transcript of two "For the Birds" programs from 2014, with some edits. You can listen to the first program, about the Re...
Friday, June 2, 2017

Fun walk at the College of St. Scholastica

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Brad's Blackburnian Warbler This morning I provided color commentary on a little walk around campus at Duluth's College of St....
Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Spring Warbler Walk summary: Just the (Numerical) Facts

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Photo by Christine Dean We had a total of 15 Duluth Audubon Spring Warbler Walks this spring; it would have been 17 but two were rain...
Tuesday, May 30, 2017

The End of Spring...Maybe

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It all seemed so hopeful when we arrived for our final warbler walk and the temperature was already at 50—four degrees warmer than the t...
Thursday, May 25, 2017

Cold, dreary end to our Park Point warbler walks

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I was expecting today's temperatures to reach the 60s by the end of our walk, and our species count up in the 60s, too. As I write th...
Wednesday, May 24, 2017

The World I Choose to Live In

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I woke up this morning to the sound of my backyard robin, House Wren, Song Sparrows, and Baltimore Orioles singing away. My yard was hopp...