It’s coming up on a month since Big Red started laying eggs at our Red-tailed Hawk cam on the Cornell University campus. With an incubation time of 28-35 days, that means the first egg could hatch anytime starting this weekend—so we’re having a contest to see who can guess the time that the first chick [...]
A new nest camera high above a Cornell University athletic field is streaming up-close views of a Red-tailed Hawk nest via the Cornell Lab’s All About Birds website. The new camera stream puts viewers 80 feet off the ground and right beside the nest, where they can watch the hawks arrive, see them taking turns [...]
How much of the world we see around us is the result of competition between species? The answer is one of the enduring debates in the field of ecology. Evolution and natural selection are founded on the idea that individuals compete to get the resources they need to survive. It happens within species all the [...]
One of our most popular Facebook posts each week is our bird quiz—and our new sponsor, Bob’s Red Mill, is about to make it even better. Watch the video above to hear Bob himself explain what the Bob’s Red Mill BirdSmarts Challenge is all about. Each week we post a photo (or sometimes something trickier, [...]
We’re almost ready to start our second season of March Migration Madness—but we need your help to pick the last four competitors. We’re holding a tournament on our Facebook page, in which 16 of North America’s favorite birds take turns going head to head, throughout March. You can vote for your favorite, and the bird [...]
Sarah MacLean didn’t know a lot about falcons when she entered an art contest sponsored by the Third International Festival of Falconry last year. All that changed when she was selected as a finalist and won a 10-day trip to the United Arab Emirates to attend the festival in December. During the trip she met [...]
The only bird species unique to the state of Florida is the endangered Florida Scrub-Jay—and this week, new research took a step forward in devising ways to protect the 5,000 or so birds that remain. The work was published in the scientific journal Biology Letters on Wednesday and appeared in online news today and in a press [...]
We’re steadily working to improve the offerings in our All About Birds online species guide. It’s our goal to eventually feature detailed ID information, photos, natural history, cool facts, sound recordings, and videos for all 700+ birds that live in North America. Right now we have basic information for some 580 species, and we’re [...]
Well, now you can! Click here to download the songs of the top 5 species in last year’s Great Backyard Bird Count! The 15th annual Great Backyard Bird Count starts this Friday and lasts through Monday, February 20. It’s a great opportunity to have some fun, enjoy a winter day, and put your bird watching [...]
