Wednesday, March 13, 2019

A New Glass Tower in Duluth

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The Boreal Owl was one of the splendid birds that drew me to Duluth in the first place. Boreal Owls are frequently killed by windows when...
Sunday, March 10, 2019

Cathy Zimmerman's Bobwhite in Cornucopia, Wisconsin

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Cathy Zimmerman's Bobbi the Bobwhite. Copyright 2019 by Cathy Zimmerman. All rights reserved. On Saturday, I got a wonderful email ...
Thursday, March 7, 2019

Birds in the News

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My treasured friend Mick Fiocchi sent me a link to a story this week from the Wisconsin DNR, from their Snapshot Wisconsin newsletter , r...
Wednesday, March 6, 2019

Abnormal Plumage, Part II: Leucistic Birds

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Leucistic Black-capped Chickadee; photo Copyright 2019 by Gayle Friday On February 26, I received an email from Gayle Friday, who lives ...
Tuesday, March 5, 2019

Abnormal Plumage, Part I: Bilateral Gynandromorphs

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Bilateral Gynandromorph in the Bell Museum collection, between a normal male and female.   A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away—we...
Sunday, March 3, 2019

Laura's Best Bird EVER: House Sparrow Lullabies

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The first birds I was ever aware of were little sparrows who gathered in bushes all around our two-flat apartment building in Chicago. I...
Saturday, March 2, 2019

Kitty (circa 1997 — 2019)

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We got Kitty in the summer of 1998. When she was spayed, the vet said she'd already had kittens at least once, and was somewhere betw...

Chickadee Day!

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I’m writing this on March 2, 2019, 44 years to the day after I set out on my very first birding adventure and saw the #1 bird on my lifel...
Thursday, February 28, 2019

Laura's Best Bird Ever! Chicago Loop Snowy Owl

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In 1975, my first year of birding, I spent every free moment watching birds outside or studying them inside. When Russ and I headed home...
Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Last Robin of Winter vs First Robin of Spring

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Back in the 1990s, a woman named Elizabeth Howard got a brilliant idea for an unprecedented educational service, developing a website ...