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Total Counts Run, Effort, Total Species Found, Four New Species Reported This year Montana birders completed 31 Christmas Bird Counts (CBCs), which was the same as last year and similar to the...
Low count temperatures averaged close to 29 degrees F º (minimum low of 14 F º at both Chesterville and Elkton and maximum low of 53 at South Dorchester). Middleton also had very low minimum...
Forty-two Christmas Bird Counts (CBCs) were conducted this year in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, including a new CBC in Clark County, Legacy Grove. A total of 139 species was recorded, which is six...
Pennsylvania birders made their usual excellent contributions to the Christmas Bird Count’s milestone 125th season, as annually done since 1900. Eighty-one sites reported for Pennsylvania, one...
The 125th Christmas Bird Count period took place from December 14th, 2024, to January 5th, 2025. 124 counts were completed in California, with 379 native species and 17 established introduced species...
The 125th CBC in North Carolina consisted of 53 counts, with three (Alamance County, Holly Shelter and Portsmouth) not being run. Overall, the weather this season averaged...
Alabama conducted thirteen CBC’s (Auburn, Birmingham, Cullman, Dauphin Island, Eufaula, Gulf Shores, Fort Morgan, Guntersville, Montgomery, Tuscaloosa, Waterloo, Wheeler Dam, and Wheeler N.W.R....
Fifty-four Christmas Bird Counts (CBCs) were conducted in Virginia for the 2024-2025 season. The total number of species tallied on the 2024-2025 counts was 212 which is just below the 2023-2024...
Oregon held 45 counts this year. The only new count was the long-awaited McNary- Hermiston count, discussed below. Among recent counts, Coos Bay, long the highest in the state with peaks...
The 2024-2025 season was the 125th year of Audubon’s Christmas Bird Count (CBC), the longest running wildlife census in the world! Below is a summary of the counts occurring in South...
A single Marsh Tit has now proven to be very settled in Maridalen. It hangs very closely with two Willow Tits on a couple of horse fields where they feed primarily on the floor and find food in or close to piles of manure. What they are eating though I am unsure – it could either be seeds or insects (perhaps eggs). There is only a single Marsh Tit and I have now changed my previous observation from a pair to just one as I was only focused on identify and documenting one of the birds and just assumed that the bird it was with was also a Marsh Tit but seeing how close company this bird keeps with Willow Tits that assumption was only making an ass out of you and me. I also wonder whether the initial observation of two birds can stand as two as it was initially reported as an unsure record with a photo of just a single bird. Anyways, this bird seems settled for the winter and there is clearly an abundance of natural food although once winter sets in then I expect it will move to feeders. It calls surprisingly little, or at least gives the characteristic “pitchoo” call very sparingly whereas the Willow Tits are churring away all the time. This makes initially discovering it difficult but once the Willows are found then the Marsh Tit should not be far away. Apart from this little bit of excitement Maridalen feels quite dead. There are no flocks of finches on the fields and the lake only has a handful of expected species (Goldeneye, Goosander and Cormorant). With it being so mild there are still quite a few Fieldfares finding worms to eat on grass fields but I am clutching at straws. The Maridalen Marsh Tit (løvmeis) anno 2025 finding some food in the horse muck I'm not sure if it has taken a seed or an insect egg here the Marsh Tit is feeding with a Willow Tit (granmeis) which is at the back. Note the much white and large cheek of the Willow this had the makings of a very good comparison of the 2 species but ended up being blurry. The Marsh is closest here the Marsh is at the back. Note also the large white wing panel of the Willow which is muck less obvious on the Marsh Willow the Marsh Marsh on manure Willow to the left and Marsh to the right Marsh flanked by the two Willows. In this shot the Marsh seems to have an obvious white wing panel Willow Willow Willow 2 of 5 Twite (bergirisk) that stopped briefly whilst I was watching the tits this Treecreeper (trekryper) was searching for food on spruce cones which is a behaviour I cannot remember seeing before These 5 Bullfinches were part of an all male flock of 6 birds - again something I cannot remember seeing before
The National Audubon Society announced today the official promotion of Andrea Jones as Vice President, California. A widely respected leader who has driven several major conservation wins across the...
I spent my typical 2-weeks prior to the Christmas Bird Counts (CBCs) scouting every day in the Central Coast. My notes indicated weather was mostly mild leading up to the CBC season. Inland areas...
The 125th CBC was run with most counts experiencing favorable weather, although temperatures averaged 12 – 15 degrees colder than last season. Participation for many counts was again up from...
The 2024-2025 CBC included 35 Iowa counts reporting to Audubon. Weather conditions during the counting period were mild. Rain, fog and icy roads hindered counts during the first weekend. Counts...
During the 125th Christmas Bird Count (CBC) in Canada, counts reported 284 species, a decrease of nine species compared to last season. Three species (Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Steller’s...
Observation With some slow misty rain we got ready for the day in 'hullet'. Before we had even sat down the air was filled with the sound of waxwings, but they never really made any sound later in the...
Ringmærkningen: Today, I had a slow and rainy morning, but that doesn't mean it wasn't nice! The number of birds is decreasing, but there are still some new Fuglekonge (goldcrest) and Solsort (blackbird)...
It was windier than expected as Lise, Florian and I headed out to ring at Kabeltromlen this morning, and so we decided not to open some of the more exposed nets. This did mean we had much fewer birds than...
Ringmærkningen: Coming soon :) Trækket på Odden: Ligesom i går, var dagens træk, et af de mere rolige af slagsen. Grundet regn i 4 ud af de 5 timer, måtte vi det meste af tiden stå i læ...
Først i oktober lancerede DOF-Vestjylland her på hjemmesiden en invitation, til at være med i en tællegruppe omkring Natur Nationalpark Stråsø efter ønske...
In my previous post I wrote about my unsuccesful attempt to see a Pallid Swift on Friday whilst stood at Fornebu and the bird was at Nesoddtangen a mere 3.5km away over the fjord. I did not see the bird, but saw the birders who has seen it, and therefore did not need to consider the question as to whether I could add the bird to my Norwegian list which I was actually quite happy about. On Saturday morning though as I ate breakfast a message came through that the bird was back at the same spot where it had been seen the day before. Even though Nesoddtangen is only 12km from my kitchen table as the swift flies it is a 53km drive which with windy roads would take at least 55 minutes. Another option is to take the ferry from downtown Oslo which if you time everything perfectly would be a quicker option but can easily take even longer door to door if you have to wait for the ferry. As I had committed to take Jr Jr out driving I decided that a trip to Nesoddtangen was off the cards but how about a repeat of Friday’s attempt from Fornebu which is only a 10 minute drive away? It was worth a try. After a bit of searching which didn’t reveal the bird I suddenly picked out two birders who by the synchronised movements of their cameras were watching the bird flying low amongst some houses and every now again I could clearly see a dark small bird zooming past a white house! I had clearly seen the bird but could I really say I knew what I was watching and tick it? I decided to see if I could digitally document my observation and yes it is possible to document a one pixel wide dot at 3.5km range but the documentation does not help in convincing anyone that it is really a Pallid Swift or even a swift for that matter. It was nice to look at the pictures that were taken by the people I could see watching the dark dot and also some super pictures taken later in the day but they were documenting a level of detail that I had not seen. I hoped that I could avoid making a decision by taking the ferry over to Nesoddtangen on Sunday morning and joined a few other birders who were also late to the party but the bird had done a bunk (or perhaps perished overnight). So what to do? I had undoubtedly seen the bird but were the views “tickable”? The temptation to add the bird to my Norwegian and Akershus list was very high (I have seen the bird further south in Europe so it is not a lifer) but I have previously not been backward in expressing my views when others have “ticked” birds based on equally bad views and as I seem to be so concerned with ethics in birding then of course I knew (not so) deep down that I could not add the bird to my official lists no matter how much I wanted to and how easy it would have been to do so. I’ll have to find one of my own some time although as there have only been about 40 observations in Norway it ain’t an easy species to find. This still from the video below shows all of the necessary field characters to allow one to safely NOT add the species to your Norwegian list. The bird is so easy to see that the red ring I have added is hardly needed..... Note the two birders who seemed to be having great views and were much easier to see at 3.5km range Aker Brygge at 0809 on a chilly Sunday morning as I made my way to the Nesoddtangen ferry a new view for me as I look from Nesoddtangen towards Oslo. I have looked the opposite way countless times
Sex-dependent dispersal decisions in a cooperative desert bird The post To leave or to stay home? appeared first on British Ornithologists' Union.
På Verdens Ende 3 udgjorde Florian, Miles og János holdet til morgenobservation. János var tidligt af sted for at sikre gode pladser. Forholdene var lignende i går, dog mindre blæsende og derfor ikke...
Ringmærkningen: Juste enough, not to much, but never bored. If I had to sum up this morning, it would be like that. Given yesterday's events, I decided to open only 140 metres. The birds were nicely spread...
