Many bird watchers have a special love for hummingbirds—there’s just so much power and personality packed in that tiny bundle of feathers. Each summer, we get inquiries from people who notice these little dynamos have gone missing from their feeders. But rest assured (barring extreme natural events such as the Arizona fires we wrote about [...]
In a year that started with six of southeastern Arizona’s driest months on record, wildfires have burned nearly a million acres of mountain forests in the state. Though fire is an integral part of this western ecosystem, the burned areas are so large this year that the region’s incredible diversity of hummingbirds may be short [...]
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Our All About Birds website lets you listen to the songs and calls of more than 500 bird species, for free. And starting this week you can even listen to them on mobile devices such as iPhone, Android, iPad, and iPod Touch. The new feature is not an app—you access the songs through your phone’s [...]
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Tagged All About Birds, Android, birding, Birds, birdwatching, improvements, iPad, iPhone, mobile devices, sounds
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It may not feel like the end of summer where you are, but in arctic Russia, where Gerrit Vyn has been watching endangered Spoon-billed Sandpipers, birds are already headed south. Here’s Gerrit’s description of the closing of the season, complete with a late, surprise encounter with a Spoon-billed Sandpiper and its newly hatched chicks: From [...]
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Tagged arctic, birding, Birds, birdwatching, endangered species, fieldwork, Gerrit Vyn, photos, Russia, shorebirds, sightings, Spoon-billed Sandpiper, travel, tundra
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The emergency effort led by Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust to save Spoon-billed Sandpipers got off to a rousing start with a flurry of hatching in the last few days. In all, 17 tiny sandpiper chicks have hatched, right on schedule as the team were transporting eggs from the field site where they have been [...]
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Tagged birdwatching, conservation, endangered species, fieldwork, photos, shorebirds, Spoon-billed Sandpiper, Wildfowl Wetlands Trust
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Gerrit Vyn, a producer in our Multimedia program, has been spending the summer in remote eastern Russia filming one of the world’s most endangered birds, the Spoon-billed Sandpiper. In the last post he sent us, he described the plight of this species as well as his first sighting of a Spoon-billed Sandpiper. Here’s his next [...]
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Tagged birding, Birds, birdwatching, conservation, endangered species, fieldwork, Gerrit Vyn, photos, shorebirds, sightings, Spoon-billed Sandpiper, travel, Wildfowl Wetlands Trust
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