The Great Blue Herons in the nest outside our office have been sitting on five eggs for the last month. Over the weekend, the first pips appeared in two eggs, soon followed by the wavering heads of two fuzzy chicks. Thousands of people watched live on our Great Blue Heron cam, and by this morning [...]
March 20, 2012 – 11:14 am
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 [...]
November 28, 2011 – 10:37 pm
The Great Backyard Bird Count is a continent-spanning attempt to count birds over a single weekend in February that draws nearly 100,000 checklists from bird watchers all over the U.S. and Canada. People also send us thousands of pictures for our annual photo contest, which is sponsored by Wild Birds Unlimited and Droll Yankees. Once [...]
October 13, 2011 – 11:39 pm
Yesterday we suggested a few good books about birding (and got many more from commenters and Facebook fans—thanks!). But you can’t read all the time—so here are a few moments of video to immerse you in the color, sound, behavior, and diversity of birds. These first five are our own multimedia productions (see more at [...]
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Tagged BBC, Big Day, big year, birding, Birds, birdwatching, Common Loon, David Attenborough, duck, eider, falcon, hawk, Inside Birding, kingfisher, Mourning Dove, photos, Red-winged Blackbird, shorebirds, travel, video
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February 19, 2011 – 10:17 am
You could argue a case for the Ivory Gull, but as far as immaculate whiteness goes, I adore the Snow Petrel. Made all the whiter by its big black eye, black bill, and black feet, this is a bird that belongs in front of icebergs, coursing on the cold black waves of gales. In big [...]
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Tagged Antarctica, birding, Birds, birdwatching, sightings, travel
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January 4, 2011 – 12:44 pm
Over the holidays I went to Belize, Central America, for a week. I didn’t take a camera, but I brought my phone. And though I’m not an expert iPhoniscoper by any stretch, the tropics offer enough large, colorful birds that even I was able to nab a few pics through my Nikon Monarchs. It was [...]
December 3, 2010 – 5:12 pm
When is a Tree Swallow not a Tree Swallow? When your latitude is reading 54 degrees south, not north, that familiar-looking, blue-and-white bird is a Chilean Swallow (pictured above). South is where Daisy Yuhas is right now, interning in Argentina as a field worker for Cornell professor David Winkler’s Golondrinas de las Americas project. The [...]
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Tagged Argentina, birding, Birds, birdwatching, Daisy Yuhas, fieldwork, Golondrinas, photos, swallows
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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 [...]
