The pectoral sandpiper may be the best aptly named bird on this list. “Pectoral” means chest, and this sandpiper has quite a remarkable chest. Like frigatebirds and cormorants, pectoral sandpipers have gular sacs on their chest, which they puff up while they’re in flight to attract femal...
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Harris’s Hawk American (formerly Northern) Goshawk Evening Grosbeak Bewick’s Wren Black-billed Magpie Pectoral Sandpiper Aplomado Falcon American Three-toed Woodpecker Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse Prothonotary Warbler Crested Auklet Nutting’s Flycatcher Veery Barn Swallow Marsh Wren Canvasback Northern Cardi...
We’re learning more about what they endure as they fly thousands of miles—and how humans and climate change are making it tougher for them.
How’s this for a colourful gang to be joining: scarlet tanager, summer tanager, rose-breasted grosbeak, indigo bunting, painted bunting – these are our new cousins. It’s like being related to an avian rainbow that can fly. BFGs “dull” and “drab”? I don’t think so. ...
Birds, visitors flock to Homer: shorebird festival features boat tours, beach walks: Dunlins and Western Sandpipers gather every spring to eat small invertebrates in the rich mud on the shores of Kachemak Bay. Since 1993, the Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival celebrates the return of the migration...
With an abundance of birdlife and public lands, the Outer Banks is a bird-watching hotspot. Sandpipers in the surf scurrying from approaching waves, cormorants
29 species of sandpipers migrate through Costa Rica on their way to and from their South American wintering grounds. The Whimbrel is one of the largest shorebirds. It has a long, curved bill whose curvature nicely matches the bend of a fiddler crab burrow. It also feeds on other crab ...
Among other birds that day, we saw a Pied-bllled Grebe. We can nearly always count on a Great Blue Heron. An Eastern Phoebe, that earliest of the flycatchers, had returned. Here it doesn’t look particularly like anything at all, but we likely heard it vocalize. Lighting, posture, eve...