What’s the big deal:Starlings are the most prolific invasive bird species in the US, and they sure like to throw their weight around. They push native birds, such as bluebirds, owls, and woodpeckers, out of their favored nesting sites; they compete aggressively for food, and swarms of ...
I had Blue Tits nesting in my garden this year in a bird box I had attached to the wall. You can learn how and when the Blue Tits prepare their nest boxes and when the eggs are laid and hatch. There are photos of my own wild birds as they rear their fami
A pair of Eastern Bluebirds make their home in a backyard nesting box. Photos of bluebirds, bluebird nests, and baby bluebirds are included, along with tips on attracting bluebirds to your backyard.
I’d heard the term crowd-surge before, of course, but I’d never experienced it – the feeling of complete and utter helplessness, the knowledge that one trip, one fall, and I would be immediately trampled by fifty people who had no more power to stop it than I did. I realized that...
This re-framing also led us to changing our food system programme to sustainable nutrition and articulating our purpose here. In the Oneless project, one of the first thing we did was ask what is the purpose of the system we were trying to work with, what function is it trying to serve...
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There was a small group of 4 Canada Geese on the other side of the swinging bridge, along with the only 2 Mallards I saw this morning, but I didn’t bother to get much of a photo. Just as I crossed the swinging bridge, I encountered a small flock of European Starlings. ...
So, you know, people are always worried about whether or not, like, starlings are just going to turn the sky into this grid of little dots. And that is not. Pamela Gay [00:18:24] Depends on if you’re using a telescope or. ...
Starlings are known for theirmurmurations: synchronized movements perform in groups of thousands of flying birds. In this photo, a murmuration of starlings perform their traditional dance before landing to sleep near the southern Israeli city of Rahat, in the Negev desert. The dance creates what ap...
I love watching birds, even in New York where you mainly run across grayer species likes sparrows and pigeons. The park across the street is home to doves, starlings and the occasional woodpecker but the most exciting are the red-tailed hawks who nest on the top floor of the NYU library....