Sparrows on the Move—Maybe to Your Backyard!
It’s that time of year when this Simon & Garfunkel lyric pops into my head, and my eyes start combing […]
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Dinner at 6 or 7? A Time-change Tale
One of the few good things to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic was the renewed activity in simple, less commercial
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Bruce’s Top 10 Scary Birds
For Halloween, I thought it would be fun to make a list of my top 10 scary birds. Remember the
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True Nature: What Kills the Killer?
This story originally appeared in the September/October 2016 issue of Bird Watcher’s Digest. If wristband fitness trackers do anything, it’s
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The Federal Duck Stamp Makes Waves
What you likely know: The recent contest to select artwork for the 2022–2023 Federal Duck Stamp stirred late night laughs
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Go Ahead and Feed the Birds!
Last summer, wildlife organizations in several Midwestern and mid-Atlantic states issued advisories for backyard birding enthusiasts to remove feeders and
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Staying Safe While Birding
Whether you live in a rural area, in the suburbs, or in a major metropolitan city, most of us have
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Celebrating Hummingbirds
Pardon the grammar borrowed from an old advertising jingle: Nobody doesn’t like hummingbirds! Two small towns on the Gulf Coast
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Autumn is Here! Should I Take Down My Hummingbird Feeder?
This question is at least partially motivated by the concern that leaving a feeder up will prevent hummingbirds from migrating
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Colombia in the Time of COVID*
What a pleasure and thrill it was last month to resume my long break in international birding travel. This was
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The Small Miracle of Nesting Piping Plovers
What mighty force could possibly bring a myriad of agencies (US Fish and WIldlife Service, Ohio State Parks, Ohio Department
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Discovering 51 New Species
During a recent field trip to a nearby national wildlife refuge, I picked up a newly published checklist of birds
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