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24. jun. 2026 kl. 15:26
Peerrnt! The nasal cry is sharp enough to penetrate traffic noise on the streets below. Looking up from the sidewalk, we see the source: a pigeon-sized bird with long, angular wings, brown with a...
24. jun. 2026 kl. 15:17
Birds aren’t the only migrators: Dozens of North American insect species also undertake long-distance journeys seasonally, including beetles, moths, and grasshoppers. Best known, and...
In a world that is becoming increasingly more digitalized, where people find joy in other people's experiences through a screen and connect to nature using the next trend that appears on our social...
24. jun. 2026 kl. 15:10
Conservation researchers will go to great lengths to survey birds—getting up before dawn, driving hours on back roads, undertaking grueling hikes—all for only a brief snapshot of which species or...
24. jun. 2026 kl. 14:37
The chase starts when the rice field still looks like a kaleidoscope of molten-silver puddles under a pitch-dark sky. Here in Jamundí, sugarcane fields and rice crops stretch to the horizon...
Good news: If you’re familiar with bird photography, then you already have many of the skills and equipment required to photograph bugs. While often overlooked, insects and other arthropods can...
Birding connects us to the world around us as we search for and observe Earth’s stunning biodiversity. But why stop at birds? Insects and other arthropods may have a creepy-crawly reputation, but...
23. jun. 2026 kl. 22:26
The chill of the February morning air nipped at Aiyana Uter’s face, bringing tears to her eyes as she lifted binoculars to examine the trees for flecks of blue. Alongside other members of Claflin...
Every year, summer officially arrives at Rowe Sanctuary with the arrival of our Platte River Safari campers. A cornerstone of Rowe Sanctuary’s education programs for decades, this beloved camp...
When my family and I visited my sister Annie in California last summer, I was excited to see her new house—but more excited to meet a neighbor she’d told me a lot about. Despite being a frequent...
One morning in April 2024, a tractor trailer holding 5,500 books parked beside a low stucco building in California. Waiting inside among empty shelves and used furniture, Lyzy Lusterman found herself...
23. jun. 2026 kl. 16:41
22734Goldfinches, by Mary Oliver, illustrated by Melissa Sweet, 40 pages, $19. Available here from Penguin Random House (ages 4-8).Few writers have captured birds—and what it feels like to love the...
Any book can be a beach read with the right attitude. Why not spend your summer diving deep into avian intelligence, taking parenting lessons from other species, or picturing yourself in the time of...
School, and university, summer holidays have begun and we are once again privileged to be allowed to use the wonderful cabin at Hulvik. A week of sun, the odd butterfly and maybe some Nightjars awaits plus late nights watching football - Norway vs Senegal at 2am tonight anyone? Yesterday, I guided Ian from Perth (the one in Australia) in the morning and Maridalen provided a number of lifers during a very fun morning. We discovered a new (and second) Wryneck nest as well as watching feeding time at the very late Black Woodpecker nest, Red-backed Shrikes, Hawfinch, Marsh Warbler and lots more. Here is a video from the Wrynecks which I took early this morning. Make sure to listen until the end to hear the strange noises the young make. More successful breeding stories are the Ringed Plovers at Fornebu where both young are now so good as fully grown and still being well cared for by both parents who run distraction displays. This video from Saturday was taken with my phone from the car and may, or may not, show the youngsters. And in Maridalen today I saw 7 basically fledged young Lapwings - they look fully grown and can fly - but still had adults watching over them. They seemed to be broods of 4,2 and 1 which tallies well with earlier observations. The fate of the two late nests and any young that hatched remains unknown with the crop so high that I cannot see any birds that may be there and I am not sure the adults would bother to fly up to chase off a passing crow either. A minimum of 7 fledged young from 5 nests is probably enough to maintain the population as long as they don’t fly to France for the winter and get shot… 5 Lapwing (vipe) an adult and 4 young
A decade of consistent white wing stripes in Icelandic Common Eiders The post Same stripes, different season appeared first on British Ornithologists' Union.
Did you know that different species of marsh birds need different water levels within a wetland to thrive? Marsh Wrens, for instance, need plants that cluster together in shallow marshes to...
Some pleasant surprises in Oslo and Maridalen regarding breeding birds means I am not completely over into the butterfly world just yet. On the lake there was suddenly a single adult Mute Swan with 5 small young! This is just like last year in that they suddenly appeared but this year I was better prepared and had discovered the nest on 26 May. After that discovery of the nest though I had been unable on subsequent attempts to see any birds on it (although it was very difficult to see) and had only a record of single adult on 1 June and then a pair flying over the lake (not near the nest) on 9 June. I therefore assumed that the nesting attempt had failed and the birds had moved off. To suddenly see an adult with young was therefore a shock and it was equally surprising that I could not find the other adult anywhere on the lake. Has the male died or moved off? And if so how did the female managed to incubate and feed without me ever seeing her? And the pair I saw on x June – were they visitors? Perhaps the other pair that started nesting and then gave up? An answer to the first question is that P578 who I saw on Maridalsvannet on 29 April, and his ring was again read on 24 May, who is the male of the pair that bred last year and I assume the father of this years young was seen on 16 June at Fornebu where he and his mate had spent the winter – so it looks like he has left his mate to fend for herself! Did this happen before the eggs hatched? Mute Swan (knoppsvane) - presumably female PC79 who bred here last year - with 5 small young but not with her mate (P578) who has flown down to Fornebu! The Black-throated Diver pair (one of perhaps two on the lake) still have a single youngster and have moved quite a way from the nest with it. Black-throated Diver (storlom) family The ever growing cereal crop on the Lapwing field makes seeing the birds very difficult but yesterday I could see 3 (2 + 1) almost fully grown young which is a great relief but the fate of the two last nests remains unknown. a nearly fully grown Lapwing (vipe) young And finally, I had Red-backed Shrike in the Dale this year and it seems to be a nesting pair so fingers crossed for their success. pair of Red-backed Shrikes (tornskate) in Maridalen and the male on his own A visit to Østensjøvannet today also revealed lots of young birds. Best of all were the Black-headed Gulls which have had their first successful breeding season (at least as a colony) for a few years with many large young on two islands. Great Crested Grebes, Coot and Mute Swans also had young (the later no larger than the ones I saw on Maridalsvannet) and surprisingly a female Goldeneye had 11 quite large young with her. This raises two questions – are they all hers? Perhaps unlikely. And how have so many survived so long? Normally the vast majority get eaten either by gulls or pike. Black-headed Gulls (hettemåke) have had a successful breeding season at Østensjøvannet and a male Gadwall (snadderand) which once again seems to have chosen Østensjøvannet to moult although this year there were no records earlier in the spring
18. jun. 2026 kl. 21:54
The Swainson’s Warbler is prized by birdwatchers and difficult for scientists to study because of the dense habitat it occupies across South Carolina and the southern U.S. Think lowland swamps...
(Washington, D.C.—June 18,2026) The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee yesterday advanced the bipartisan America the Beautiful Act, legislation that would reauthorize the National...
18. jun. 2026 kl. 14:41
This spring, birds wasted no time in returning to their breeding grounds on the Lower Cape Fear River and surrounding sites to court mates, build nests, and lay eggs. Although the timing of migration...
The British Ornithologists' Union Records Committee (BOURC) maintains The British List. Recording the diversity of species that have occurred in the wild but do not meet the criteria for inclusion in Categories A or C is important as it helps us both understand the diversity of escapes (with implications for attributing records to natural vagrancy), [...] The post Revision of Category E of the British List appeared first on British Ornithologists' Union.
18. jun. 2026 kl. 01:59
Cholao, a small Lesser Yellowlegs (Tringa flavipes) is becoming a well-known character among Audubon's social media followers. Its migratory journey between the Cauca Valley, in southwestern...
18. jun. 2026 kl. 01:59
Cholao, a small Lesser Yellowlegs (Tringa flavipes) is becoming a well-known character among Audubon's social media followers. Why? Because of its migratory journey, which started in the Cauca...
17. jun. 2026 kl. 20:08
At an outdoor concert in Cali, Colombia, Esteban Valdivia is selecting his next instrument from what looks like a museum display. There’s an Incan deer skull, a Carchi syrinx, a flute made from the...
It’s hard to imagine North America without grasslands. From the Great Plains to the Chihuahuan Desert, patchworks of grasses, wildflowers, and sedges carpet vast landscapes, laying the literal...
