What is this bird flying over the top of this sentence? Why, it’s a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, recently arrived on our website and soon to become a familiar presence. To tell you a bit more about it, here’s Mary Guthrie, our director of marketing: “This past week was big for us for a couple of reasons. [...]
Today we launched a new version of our All About Birds website. We’ve put a huge amount of work into updating the site, expanding information, adding sound and video from our Macaulay Library archives, inventing new tools, and incorporating photos and ID tips. The new site is bigger and more informative. To help you get [...]
[viddler id=61f4db30&w=545&h=424] We’ve been hearing reports from all over lately about newly returning migrants: a Pine Warbler heard over New York City late one night; Louisiana Waterthrushes in Philadelphia, a Prothonotary Warbler seen over a North Florida beach. Here’s another post about listening to migration, from Lab researchers Mike Powers and Lewis Grove. Here’s Mike: [...]
One of the reasons we started All About Birds was to make learning birds a little easier for people who were just starting out. We adapted materials from the relevant chapter of our Home Study Course in Bird Biology to teach the basics of looking at silhouettes, thinking about habitat, and learning the parts of [...]
As spring ramps up and we each eagerly await the return of our favorite summer birds, researchers at the Lab’s Conservation Science department are studying migrating warblers, thrushes, sparrows, and cuckoos, using only the tiny chip notes these birds make as they fly through the night. It’s fascinating – and it’s something you can do [...]
