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La vida oscura del guácharo

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2025/02/25

La naturaleza produce algunos animales extraordinariamente extraños. Una de estas criaturas es el guácharo del norte de Sudamérica. El guácharo tiene una dieta basada en bayas silvestres y frutas, especialmente de las que son ricas en grasas, como nueces de palmas de aceite y aguacates (lo que

Upland Sandpipers Whistling from Fences

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2025/02/24

Upland Sandpipers are an emblematic bird of grassland habitats in many regions of the Americas. These shorebirds live far from sea with the largest breeding populations in the north central U.S. But Upland Sandpipers are losing breeding ground to row-crop agriculture, pushing some birds to nest at

Identifying a Bird in Flight

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2025/02/23

One of the most difficult skills to pick up as a birder is how to identify birds in flight. You have to sort through a series of visual clues all at once, at high speed: silhouette, wing shape, how fast it flaps, and patterning. An experienced birder will take in all these and other clues that are

Meadowlark and the Monster

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2025/02/22

In this story from Nimiipuu culture, Meadowlark is likened to the ‘reporter’ of Western grasslands, singing its song from the tops of fenceposts and trees. This story takes place before the time of people. Meadowlark warned Coyote about a Monster that was eating all the animals in the Kamiah Valley

BirdNote Celebrates 20 Years

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2025/02/21

Twenty years ago today, the first BirdNote Daily episode aired on the public radio station now known as KNKX - 88.5 FM Tacoma/Seattle. Since then, through thousands of sound-rich stories about the lives of birds, BirdNote has inspired people to care about the natural world and take steps to protect

Spark Bird - Glenn Albrecht and the Gray Fantail

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2025/02/20

Glenn Albrecht grew up in western Australia, where he became enamored with birds. As he grew up, Glenn witnessed how coal mining devastated the Australian countryside — and the birds that lived there. He’s since become an environmental philosopher. He’s developed a new vocabulary to describe human

Great Egrets Are Lovely and Lethal

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2025/02/19

Standing over three-feet tall, Great Egrets have elegant white feathers and long slender necks. During the breeding season, both males and females grow long frilly feathers called aigrettes. Great Egrets were nearly hunted to extinction for their luxurious plumes in the late 1800s, until

Luz y canto - chispas en invierno

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2025/02/18

Incluso en invierno, algunas aves, como el carbonero de gorra negra, los pinzones comunes y los zorzales americanos, saludan el amanecer con su canto. Normalmente escuchamos el coro del amanecer en primavera, cuando las aves cantan para marcar territorio y atraer parejas. Pero las aves no se

Northern Shovelers — Dabbling Ducks with Big Bills

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2025/02/17

Male and female Northern Shovelers both have that unmistakable trowel-shaped bill, but they differ in plumage. Females and non-breeding males are a mottled beige color. But during the breeding season, male shovelers sport a bright white breast, reddish-brown flanks, and an emerald green head that

Rough-legged Hawk

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2025/02/16

After breeding on Arctic cliffs and tundra hillsides in summer, Rough-legged Hawks winter throughout the Northern Hemisphere. Open country is their ideal territory, where the small rodents they depend on are usually so plentiful that the hawks have enough to eat. But the rodents are cyclic, with

Winter Birds of Southern Florida

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2025/02/15

It’s winter in North America — a good time to head for the subtropical realms of South Florida and listen to the region’s birds, such as the secretive Mangrove Cuckoo pictured here. Rarely seen, it sings sporadically in winter. When it does, you’re sure to take notice. A sweeter voice belongs to the

For White-throated Swifts, Love Is in the Air

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2025/02/14

For some birds, love is in the air. When a pair of White-throated Swifts wants to get to know each other, they meet up — on the wing — high above the ground. The birds grasp one another and, clinging together, tumble downward, for over 500 feet. Just before striking the earth, they separate, flying

Why the Black Skimmer Skims

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2025/02/13

That’s not a distant dog barking. It’s a Black Skimmer in flight, at the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge in Virginia. This striking, black-and-white bird with a red bill and red feet has a most unusual way of feeding. It flies low along the surface of the water with its beak open. Closely

Starlings Evolving in New Habitats

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2025/02/12

Invasive European Starlings are one of the most common birds in North American cities. Recent genetic research into European Starlings shows that populations in North America may have become better adapted to thrive in arid environments and colder temperatures compared to the milder climate of their

El cuervo y su música romántica

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2025/02/11

En muchas tradiciones, los cuervos son considerados como embusteros. Pero el cuervo común tiene un lado más tierno. Durante el cortejo, la pareja suele sentarse una junto a la otra, a veces acicalándose mutuamente las plumas. Y durante ese ritual, uno o ambos pueden emitir suaves gorjeos. Los

Eastern Bluebirds Brighten Our Days

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2025/02/10

From their cheerful melodies to their vibrant color and skillful acrobatics, there’s a lot to love about Eastern Bluebirds. Look for them along country roads, city parks, and other open woodlands with plenty of grassy patches where they can hunt for snacks. Today’s show is in memory of Bud Oehler

Ptarmigan Toes

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2025/02/09

With its rubbery-sounding rattles and clownish red eyebrows, the ptarmigan is quite the stand-out northern bird. As winter approaches, the ptarmigan’s feet grow feathers, and its claws grow longer. All that added surface area means the ptarmigan practically has its own set of snowshoes.

Swan Song

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2025/02/08

The idea of the "swan song" recurs from Aesop to Ovid to Plato to Tennyson. Ovid described it, "There, she poured out her words of grief, tearfully, in faint tones, in harmony with sadness, just as the swan sings once, in dying, its own funeral song." But it's based on a sweet fallacy – that a swan

Cuba’s Giant Eagles

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2025/02/07

Thousands of years ago, giant raptors lived on what is now Cuba. Gigantohierax is an extinct genus of eagles whose fossils have been found in local cave deposits and tar seeps. With an estimated weight of nearly 30 pounds, Gigantohierax suarezi, the larger of the two named species, would’ve been the

Bohemian Waxwings Wander South

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2025/02/06

In winter, when snow blankets the northern states, nearly all of the songbirds that graced the days of summer are gone. But there’s one special winter visitor that fills the absence: the Bohemian Waxwing. In autumn, waxwings wander south from the boreal forest into the northern states and along the

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