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Sonoran Desert Birding

In the United States we have four major deserts, and I got a chance to do some birding in the Sonoran Desert near Tucson, Arizona earlier...

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Baby Great Gray Owls are Adorable

I'm an avid birder, and generally try not to look at birds in human terms. They are fabulous enough without attaching adjectives usually...

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Peregrine Falcon: Fastest Bird in the World

Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus In washington State, U.S. we have 5 species of regularly occurring falcons. The most common large fal...

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Butterflies Can Make a Birding Trip Extra Special

Ochre Ringlet Coecnonympha tullia ochracea Ken and I saw lots of butterflies on our recent trip to Eastern Washington, and I could reall...

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Spotty Marching by the River

Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularius Spotted Sandpipers are one of our common breeding sandpipers here in Western Washington, U.S. They...

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Yellow-headed Blackbirds

https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/birdbanter/RGynO4nw-YHBL_9000202020-15-1820Dunes20Peninsula20Park.JPG A likely first spring male ...

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Fast Growth by Baby Great-horned Owls

The photo from April 20, 2020, 17 days prior to the following photos. I posted a couple of weeks ago about a family of Great-horned Owls...

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Fast Growth by Baby Great-horned Owls

The photo from April 20, 2020, 17 days prior to the following photos. I posted a couple of weeks ago about a family of Great-horned Owls...

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Killdeer Faking a Broken Wing

Killdeer Charadrius vociferus The Killdeer is one of the most common and widespread members of the plover family of shorebirds in North ...

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Who Doesn't Love Baby Owls

Great-horned Owl Bubo virginianus nest with one adult and two young. On my hike this weekend at Chamber's Creek Trail in University Plac...

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The Shorebirds are Coming

Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla today in Fife. I live in Pierce County, WA, USA and finding shorebirds in the spring is not easy here...

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The Easy Spizella Sparrow

CHipping Sparrow Spizella passerina The Spizella genus of sparrows in North America are among the challenging identification issues for ...

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Consolation Prize

American Pipit Anthus rubescens Today a top local birder, Will Brooks, found a Swamp Sparrow at a local birding hotspot called the Gog-l...

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FOY Yesterday, Easy Today

Savannah Sparrow on a lawn at the Mountain View Cemetary. As a birder, every year brings a thrill with the first-of-the-year (FOY) sight...

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Ospreys Return to Washington

This Osprey Pandion haliaetus was eating a fish shortly after the observed copulation shown below. We have good numbers of Osprey that b...

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Our Default Buteo: Red-tailed Hawk

This is a classic view of a soaring adult Red-tailed Hawk. Note the bulging inner posterior wing (secondaries), the dark head, pale brea...

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Loving Spring: Pelagic Cormorants

A small flock of Pelagic Cormorants Phalacrocorax pelagicus at the Dunes Peninsula Park in Tacoma, WA today. On a bright, sunny, fairly ...

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How Tiny BIrds Stay Warm

Bushtit Psaltriparus minimus weights just 5.5 grams, yet winters in areas with freezing nights. The ratio of body mass to surface area ...

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Cardinalis Genus in TX

Northern Cardinal Cardinalis Cardinalis This winter, before the Covid-19 outbreak hit the U.S. in force, I got to spend a month in the L...
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