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Miles Wu will never forget the first time he saw an Indigo Bunting. This past May, as the 14-year-old was finishing his shift as a collision monitor with Project Safe Flight, he heard a thump; the...
If you think I am enjoying too many meetings with old acquaintances at the moment then I apologise and give prior warning that also my next post will be of the reunion kind. A trip to Årnestangen yesterday was of the successful type as can be seen by my eBird checklist not least because for the second time this year I got to have prolonged and repeated views of a juvenile Pallid Harrier. During the course of my visit I saw it (assuming it was the same bird) on six occasions and it came close and some awesome photos could have been taken had I the skill and equipment for the job but as I was reliant on the superzoom to create my own digital memories I concentrated on catching video but the bird flies too quickly so the results are not that satisfactory and do not do the bird justice. Long video of juvenile Pallid Harrier (steppehauk) and a juvenile Hen Harrier (myrhauk) the best photo I took of the Pallid which at least leaves little doubt to both species and age of said species In between visits from the Pallid I spent a lot of time peering through my scope at a distant wader. It was slightly smaller than the Dunlins it was mixing with and appeared to have a clean white belly and a well delineated streaky chest. I really tried hard to turn it into a Baird’s Sandpiper (gulbrystsnipe) but in the end came, under a bit of duress, to the conclusion that it was just an odd Dunlin. There was nothing in its jizz or movements to distinguish it from the accompanying Dunlins and I think there was some faint streaking on the belly. This video accurately conveys the distant viewing conditions and perhaps helps to explain why I found it so difficult to make an ID. Ruff (brushane) on the right and a wader that I spent far too long looking at on the left A Great Snipe that flew up in front of me and showed well in flight means I have finally seen the species this year but it is hardly the same as watching them on their lek site. Just need to see Sanderling now.. only my second sighting of Grey Plover (tundralo) this year but they at least showed very well. In the video there is also a Bar-tailed Godwit (lappspove)
25. sep. 2026 kl. 16:59
Under the fluorescent light of a Discount Tire sign, hundreds of people gathered in a strip mall parking lot near Austin, Texas. In between chats with volunteer naturalists, many lounged in lawn...
25. sep. 2026 kl. 16:20
On a Saturday afternoon in June, volunteers sat at tables in the Chicago Architecture Center quietly building birds out of scrap fabric. One cut out black strips for a Magnolia Warbler’s breast...
25. sep. 2026 kl. 00:20
America’s 138 national monuments may not draw quite the same spotlight as national parks like Yosemite or Yellowstone, but they welcome some 20 million visitors each year and safeguard some of our...
24. sep. 2026 kl. 22:40
Last week, a bipartisan group of Congress members, led by Reps. Brian Mast (R-FL), Rick Larsen (D-WA), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), and Mike Haridopolos (R-FL), introduced a resolution dedicating this...
24. sep. 2026 kl. 21:37
At Nature’ly Sweet farm, located in Merrill, Wisconsin, owner Christopher Petron doesn’t only cherish the sugar maple trees that help produce the syrup he sells. He prizes the full diversity of...
Sure, trees and flowers are great, but tucked between them is another plant just as crucial for birds and worthy of your yard space: The humble and life-giving shrub.But what exactly is a shrub...
Just before I left for Tasmania, I watched Short-tailed Shearwaters (Ardenna tenuirostris) passing Washington's coast, headed the same direction I was about to go. Around 18 million of these...
Anna Vallery, Coastal Program Manager for Audubon Washington, has long been interested in improving methods used for monitoring seabird and waterbird colonies. She is excited to keep pushing this...
Observation: Today was a day for seabirds, and with strong headwinds of 16 m/s from the NW, Jakob, Johan,and I were hopeful. The day started with an almost empty sea, with only a few common scoters (Melanitta...
When I left the lighthouse this morning, it smelled like rain. And indeed, it had rained during the night, which means that opening the nets took a bit longer for Pauline and me than usual and really challenged...
Ringmærkning: xxxxx Trækket på Odden: Today I will start a small project: I try to find the origin and meaning of every scientific name I mention. These will be written into the brackets too. The scientific...
23. sep. 2026 kl. 23:58
Birds connect territories. They can also connect the people who live in them, their knowledge, and the different ways of building opportunities through conservation.With that idea in mind, members of...
23. sep. 2026 kl. 22:32
In recent years, conservation photographer Gerrit Vyn has ventured repeatedly to a place most people have never heard of, much less visited: Teshekpuk Lake. Flat, buggy, and remote, this wetland...
23. sep. 2026 kl. 22:23
Vermont’s forests are the crown jewel of our landscape: they define the state and support healthy communities, robust and diverse ecosystems, and the economic vitality of the state. Healthy forests...
23. sep. 2026 kl. 21:26
This isn’t your typical girls’ weekend. Not that you can tell from the accommodations—a charming farmhouse in Montana’s picturesque Bitterroot Valley—or the wine bottles on the kitchen...
23. sep. 2026 kl. 20:23
What do you do when the Audubon or Audubon Florida's Naturalist magazines come to your door? Read them cover to cover of course! And since we know you want to remember them into the future, we come...
When Jason Zabokrtsky first paddled Minnesota’s Boundary Waters in 1997, he was stunned by a vast wilderness. “It was powerful to see that there were still places like this in the world,” says...
A black bear visited Ethan Tapper’s orchard in the foothills of Vermont’s Green Mountains this spring. It grabbed a young pear tree, bit down, and ripped the trunk in half. Days after Tapper cut...
The morning began just before sunrise with competing Great Horned Owls calling back and forth across Oliver Reservoir in the far southwest of the Nebraska panhandle. It was the first chilly fall-like...
Ever since my first autumn trip to Værøy in 2012 the sound of and then sight of Yellow-browed Warbler has been an essential and longed for part of my birding year. Even the years when I wasn’t able to visit Værøy I have managed to see and hear the species until last year when I drew a blank. I assumed that my planned visit to Værøy in a weeks time would remedy that this year but yesterday I had a far, far, better blank buster. I have had the “tsuit” call of YbW on my mind for the last two weeks and have had my ears peeled in the never ending hope of actually hearing one. Finally I was no longer hearing it inside my head - the sound was real and coming in through my ears. AND I was in Maridalen where the species has never been recorded before AND there was not one but two birds calling AND there was even some (sub)song AND I saw at least one of them well AND I got photos. Værøy will have to produce something a Cosmic Mind F*cker (as the late, great Bill Oddie termed it) to beat a YbW IN THE DALE!!! This was my third YwB in Oslo but was a new species for Maridalen taking the Maridalen list to 229 species of which I have now seen 214. This video has the call, of one and then two birds and the subsong can also be heard photographing it with the superzoom high up in the trees was nearly a challenge beyond my abilities but eventually some record, and even slightly artistic shots were bagged Yellow-browed Warbler (gulbrynsanger) record shot do you spot it? one of three Black-throated Divers (storlom) on the lake. This was the only one that had started moulting a couple of military helicopters buzzed The Dale
Ringmærkningen: I går aftes lovede de svag vind og overskyet, hvilket var næsten uforståeligt, når himlen var blå og solen skinnede lige ind til den gik ned, og månen begyndte at tage over. Men...
Ringing: Today we were prepared for anything, but the garden was much more quiet during opening round, than yesterday, and it also showed through some smaller first rounds. The birds kept a steady flow...
