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Grab your binoculars and field guide May 8 for a morning spent tallying towhees and counting cardinals as a participant in the annual Global Big Day bird count. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Arizona Field Ornithologists coordinate the event. If you are a skilled birder confident that you can ID resident birds along with recently-returned warblers and other tropical migrants — solo birder and teams are needed to cover the Sierra Anchas, Roosevelt Lake, Timber Camp and Jones Water — ...

DNR Spring Birding Spring is a great time for birding in Michigan. Our early migrants are back and settling in to woo a mate and raise a family; our late migrants are flooding through in great colorful waves as they race to be the first back to claim their own nesting spot. Some of those early signs of things warming up again are the return of species like red-winged blackbirds, turkey vultures, sandhill cranes, and Canada geese. These may not be rare and exciting birds at first glance, but the...

/ A new study of migratory birds found some species that journey long distances to northern breeding grounds, including the summer tanager, may struggle to keep up with the earlier arrival of spring driven by climate change. As climate change speeds up the arrival of spring across North America, migratory birds that travel thousands of miles to northern breeding grounds across Florida and other coastal states are having trouble keeping pace. In a study of more than 7 million observations compi...

Chloe Thompson is a SAIL High School student interning with WFSU as part of the Age of Nature project. She spent a semester getting to know Lake Elberta, and helped organize a cleanup there in March of 2021. Chloe closes out her internship with a look at fixing Lake Elberta’s garbage issue- in the long term. In February of 2021, I had visited Lake Elberta for the very first time. Before then, to be honest, I probably had driven by it countless times, but never seemed to notice it until inte...

Welcome to the height of migratory bird season, a fleeting time when, if you’re observant, you may spy a bright golden warbler in a tree or bush. Mid-May is the heavy traveling season for such songbirds. Several species wear an array of yellow, brown, gray and black feathers — among other palettes — with equally colorful names, including Cape May warbler, Nashville warbler, chestnut-sided warbler and magnolia warbler. Not to forget songs and calls as varied as an orchestra’s...

Photos: Owl injured after wing tangled in S.F. tree branch FacebookTwitterEmail 1of5 Firefighters rescue a trapped owl near Geneva Avenue and Moscow Street in San Francisco on Tuesday, May 5, 2021.Courtesy of San Francisco Fire DepartmentShow MoreShow Less 2of5 Firefighters rescue a trapped owl near Geneva Avenue and Moscow Street in San Francisco on Tuesday, May 5, 2021.Courtesy of San Francisco Fire DepartmentShow MoreShow Less 3of5 Firefighters rescue a trapped owl near Geneva Avenue and Mos...

The Outside Story: Brown Creepers – denizens of the bark On certain afternoons, if I time it just right, I may spot a brown creeper ( Certhia americana) on the trunk of a tree in my front yard. Moving stealthily, almost imperceptibly up the tree, the brown creeper hunts for food amongst the bark. I watch this avian mission with a sense of appreciation, as the bird flies to other trees to repeat the process. These inconspicuous birds are denizens of the bark, creeping their way through the w...

On May 9, 2001, Steven M. Greer took the lectern at the National Press Club, in Washington, D.C., in pursuit of the truth about unidentified flying objects. Greer, an emergency-room physician in Virginia and an outspoken ufologist, believed that...

Whats True Birds do, apparently, have some capacity to grieve, and numerous anecdotes portray them as mourning, or at least recognizing when one among them has died, in what some have described as “funerals.” Whats False However, not all instances of birds gathering around a dead bird’s corpse necessarily indicate that they are carrying out a "funeral" in the sense that humans define them. Crows and jaybirds, for example, are likely trying to assess any potential threats aroun...

Warming Trends: A Global Warming Beer Really Needs a Frosty Mug, Ghost Trees in New York and a Cooking Site Gives Up Beef A column highlighting climate-related studies, innovations, books, cultural events and other developments from the global warming frontier. May 1, 2021 A New Belgium brewer Andrew checks the water level of sparge bath at the brewery Credit: Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post via Getty Images Related A Taste of Climate-Changed Beer It’s the year 2050, and you’re sipping warm be...