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West Seattle Blog… | Crosstown baseball and more on the list for your West Seattle Monday afternoon/evening

West Seattle news, 24/7

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Nature Notes: Sounds of spring migration

What bird will you hear or see this spring?

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The 122nd Christmas Bird Count in Alabama-Mississippi

by Lawrence Gardella and Jason Hoeksema All counts for the region were conducted except for the Corinth circle, which has been retired, and the Tupelo, Eagle Creek, and Cullman CBCs. The highest...

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The 122nd Christmas Bird Count in Colorado

The 122nd Christmas Bird Count in Colorado
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An Ode to Weird Duck Time

Cartoonist Rosemary Mosco reflects on a season that’s special to her—and not only because she invented it.

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West Seattle Blog… | WEST SEATTLE WEATHER: Snow sightings still possible this week

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Bad weather birding

This past weekend I led a field school on one of my favorite topics, fall birding on Cape Cod. Field Schools are weekend-long courses based out of Mass Audubon sanctuaries, designed to explore some aspect of nature in great detail.

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Deadly Algal Bloom Could Cause Food Shortage for Bay Area Migrating Waterbirds

A massive fish die-off this August at San Francisco Bay's Lake Merritt, a vital avian stopover site, has experts concerned for fall migrants.

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Western Great Lakes: Spring 2021 - American Birding Association

Western Great Lakes: Spring 2021 - American Birding Association
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Strange Bird Names

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Yellow-bellied sapsucker
Have you seen any Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers recently? This is a good question for separating birders from non-birders. Non-birders would laugh, certain that this absurd name is made up - it sounds like a name invented by a tv writer to make fun of birdwatchers, as they do. Birders would quickly answer yes or no, because they know this is a real bird, an attractive but uncommon woodpecker. Why am I telling you this? Because it’s time to talk about silly, fun, and just plain annoying bird names.
Maybe the most frustrating category of bird names, especially for beginners, is “birds named for invisible anatomical features”. A classic local example is the Ring-necked Duck – I don’t think I’ve ever seen the alleged “ring”- and most people who’ve seen one would prefer to ring the neck of whoever named them. Another is the Red-bellied woodpecker, with it’s flaming red crown and nape but barely visible, sometimes there in good light, vague reddish wash on the belly. And when is the last time you noted the partial webbing between the toes of a Semipalmated Plover as you walked down the beach? These names arose because the old ornithologists used to shoot everything, then name them in the hand.

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