(GBBC participant kam75 gets up close to watch a Pine Siskin demolish a few thistle seeds) The four days of the Great Backyard Bird Count are over, but we’re still collecting records from people who haven’t had a chance to enter their sightings online yet. Audubon senior scientist Rob Fergus is doing a great job [...]
It’s the weekend of the Great Backyard Bird Count – four days dedicated to counting as many birds as you can in your backyard. Enter your counts on our simple, free online forms, and you’ll be helping Audubon and Lab scientists see an up-to-the-minute picture of wintering bird ranges. And collecting this kind of data [...]
Perhaps you’ve already heard news of a National Audubon Society report about climate change’s effects on North American birds. Audubon announced on Tuesday that some 177 species of North American birds have shifted their range northward over the last 40 years, during the same period that average January temperatures rose by 5 degrees Fahrenheit across [...]
Bird watchers across the country are concerned about the recent outbreak of Salmonella from contaminated peanut products, and we’re getting several calls and e-mails per day asking us what it means for the birds at your backyard suet and peanut feeders. Birdchick has already begun an investigation of her own by asking suet manufacturers how [...]
