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The American tree sparrows absence is quite simple and in no way alarming at all.

Some members of the sparrow family live in the region throughout the year – house sparrows, field sparrows, song sparrows and Eurasian tree sparrows.

The Sonoran Conservancy of Foutain Hills (SCFH) is offering more hiking events through the end of November. There is a birding hike scheduled for the Fountain Hills Botanical Garden, 11300 N. …

Tony and Cathy Teil are Winter Texans taking it to the next level. They moved all the way to Port Aransas to volunteer as nature preserve hosts at the Port Aransas Nature Preserve until March 2024.

To the Left, EVERYTHING is racist ... including bird names, apparently. Glenn and Stu review an announcement from the American Ornithological Society that it's changing the names of around 80 bird species that are either named after people or have somehow been deemed offensive.

In the next few weeks it will appear as if woodpecker numbers will magically multiply. They actually wont, it’s just that as foliage falls from the trees the various species

The days keep moving along, ever closer to the weekend and huge helpings of Christmas holiday activities.

Out with the Bachman's Sparrow and the Couch's Kingbird -- the top authority in North American birding is ditching human names in a move to cut ties between the feathered creatures and the  misdeeds of those whose names they carry. Likely on offer are birds like the Bachman's Sparrow, named after a slave owner, the Couch's Kingbird, whose eponym took part in US military action against Native Americans in Florida.

The 18th annual Moss Rock Festival is taking a cue from the state’s tourism department, which designated 2023 as the “year of Alabama birding.”

Outdoors article, RMNP