Monthly Archives: May 2009

Decorate Your Blog With New Buttons!

The new version of All About Birds has been up for about a month now, and it’s about time we offered you some new blog buttons to go along with it. Perhaps you have one of our original warbler buttons on your site already, or you’ve seen them on other blogs. These new buttons work [...]

Learn a Flight Call: White-throated Sparrow

I hope everyone’s enjoying the visible glories of spring migration – but don’t let your ears miss out! Here’s staff researcher Lewis Grove with another installment on listening to migration: Whether you already know their call or not, right now is a great time to get out and listen for White-throated Sparrows. They’re one of [...]

2009 World Series of Birding Results

The 26th Annual World Series of Birding happened on Saturday, May 9th, with outstanding results. Overall, birders tallied 269 species in a single 22-hour period from midnight Friday to 10 p.m. Saturday. The Lagerhead Shrikes of the Delaware Valley Ornithological Club had the highest team score, with 229 species. In second place, with 223 species [...]

World Series of Birding: Sneak Preview from New Jersey

The countdown to the World Series of Birding has begun: the nation’s best birding teams have only 1.5 days left to figure out where all of New Jersey’s bird species are and—even harder—to figure out a winning route to find them all again on May 9. Starting at midnight on Friday, the Cornell Lab of [...]

Inside Birding: A How-To Series for Bird Watchers

It’s the start of May, perhaps bird watching’s biggest month, when pretty much the entire Northern Hemisphere brims once again with summer’s full array of birds. It’s a great time to go bird watching, and we’re inviting you to come out with us – in our new, free series of Web videos, Inside Birding. Your [...]