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Todays letters: Readers comment on declining bird populations, George Floyds murder and more Ocala Star-Banner The edge of extinction May 8 is the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Global Big Day. Its a great opportunity to contribute to the ongoing study of the health and welfare of birds globally. Here in North America, we’ve lost one third of our bird population in the last 50 years. More than 3 billion birds — gone. And now 389 species of birds are on the edge of extinction...

bbloom@ironmountaindailynews.com A male yellow-rumped warbler watches for insects after coming back to the region. Betsy Bloom/Daily News photos The yellow-rumped warbler is striking, with black and white markings, along with bright yellow patches. The Wilson’s snipe is larger than a woodcock and has a longer bill. A male yellow-rumped warbler watches for insects after coming back to the region. Betsy Bloom/Daily News photos As May arrives, so, too, should a new wave of migra...

Article content By Carol Patterson The bluebird of happiness may be more than a fanciful phrase. The more birds that are found in a neighbourhood, the happier people in that community are, according to the European Quality of Life Survey released a few years back. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or A new generation finds the bluebird of happiness Back to video And there’s more happy news: A new generation of birdwatchers is taking notice of loca...

Scientific American Machine-learning algorithms can quickly process thousands of hours of natural soundscapes Advertisement We can learn a lot from nature if we listen to it more—and scientists around the world are trying to do just that. From mountain peaks to ocean depths, biologists are increasingly planting audio recorders to unobtrusively eavesdrop on the groans, shrieks, whistles and songs of whales, elephants, bats and especially birds. This summer, for example, more than 2,000 electro...

Already have an account? Merlin Maybe you think that birding is for old people, an activity for retired, khaki-clad nerds. I don’t entirely blame you, because that’s what I used to think, too. But hear me out: Learning to identify the birds you see on your hikes or at your backyard bird feeder is an easy and rewarding way to start engaging with the natural world on a level that’s more than cosmetic, and a blow against the nature-blindness that’s epidemic in America today. The easiest wa...

Kevin Friel stood on the side of Thomas Landers Road in Falmouth looking skyward.  It was a soggy April afternoon, and cement truck after cement truck rumbled past en route to construction companies further down the road, drowning out the calls of a pair of ospreys circling a nest atop a utility pole beside the Route 28 overpass. Every few minutes, the birds soared over the nest to drop the sticks they carried in their hooked talons. They were preparing the nest — balanced on two parallel...

Courtesy of Annie Lindsay | Powdermill Nature Reserve A ruby-throated hummingbird caught at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s Powdermill Nature Reserve on Wednesday, April 28, 2021.   TribLIVEs Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. An estimated 250 million birds are expected to pass through Southwestern Pennsylvania this spring, according to Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s Powdermill Nature Reserve in Cook T...

Saffron finches are native to South America and were introduced to the islands around 1965. Special thanks to the Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of

April 30, 2021 Julia Rubin AP – The new season of spring shows has begun, and viewership is way up by all accounts. We’re not talking about screens, which we’ve all been glued to during the pandemic. Less noticed is another trend: people tuning in to nature for quieter, real-life, high-stakes drama. From new Audubon field guides, updated for the first time in decades, to a book of poetry about insects, publishers are trying to meet this moment: Not only is public engagement with nature hi...

An American Robin watches over one its babies in its nest. (Ron Edmonds/AP) Depending on where you live, you may be waking up to a chorus of bird songs. Springs the season when migrating birds arrive at their summer destinations and also when male birds sing to attract their mates. But how do you know which birds youre hearing? Host Robin Young talks to Jessie Barry, program manager at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, about the birds to listen for in various regions and what makes them unique. ...