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In Search of Owls
Gerrit Vyn, BirdNote board member and Cornell Lab photographer, videographer, and audio-recordist, took an amazing photo of a Short-eared Owl. Here's his story of how he captured the image:Related...
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Vultures! Nature's Clean-up Crew
In celebration of International Vulture Awareness Day - September 5, 2015King Vulture © Patricia van Casteren King Vulture © M. Kuhn
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American Dipper Juvenile Goes for a Caddisfly Larva
Photographer Mike Hamilton was exploring Tokul Creek east of Seattle late in the summer ...... when he spotted this juvenile American Dipper.
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Late Summer Shorebirds
Celebrating Shorebirds!It's late summer and all across North America, millions of shorebirds — sandpipers and plovers — are on the move. Seattle photographer Gregg Thompson has been following the...
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Celebrating "National Wildlife Refuge Week"
National Wildlife Refuge Week - October 11 - 17, 2015What Are You Doing to Celebrate?Green Jay © Joanne Kamo
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Black-crowned Night-Heron - Night Stalker
Black-crowned Night-Heron © Trudy NicholsonRelated birds: Black-crowned Night-Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax)
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The Sounds of Nine Special Birds
Can't get enough bird sounds? Enjoy a full minute of beautiful sounds of Cerulean, Golden-cheeked, Swainson's and Kirtland's Warblers, plus the Piping Plover, Lark Bunting, American Golden-Plover,...
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Strike, Shake, and Gulp
Everett Marina, Everett, Washington –Related birds: Great Egret (Ardea alba)
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Black-backed Woodpeckers - Pioneers of the Post-Fire Forests
What is it about Black-backed Woodpeckers and fire?Audubon's Alisa Opar wrote in an earlier blog: "Black-backed Woodpeckers are perhaps the most iconic of post-fire species, since they’re wholly...
View ArticleThe Living Bird - New Book from Cornell, by Gerrit Vyn & Others
A beautiful hardcover book from Cornell, The Living Bird: 100 Years of Listening to Nature, celebrates the joyful and complex relationship between birds and people. The Living Bird features photos by...
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Pileated Woodpecker roosting holes
Photographer Gregg Thompson had a stroke of good fortune. He writes:In late September, I noticed a pair of Pileated Woodpeckers on this tree trunk. It was too late in the year for them to have any...
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Interaction between two Red-tailed Hawks
Mike Hamilton was birding at Sikes Lake near Carnation Farm, outside the town of Carnation in Washington State, when he spotted a juvenile Red-tailed Hawk flying low over some Cackling Geese in a...
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Nature's Goggles - Nictitating Membranes
Paul Williams, FCC - IronAmmonite.comThey're there and then they're gone — literally in the blink of an eye!Related birds: American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos), Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus...
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In Search of the Araripe Manakin
Former BirdNote board member, Gerrit Vyn, is a sound recordist and photographer for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. The bird he's looking for is a stunner — the Araripe Manakin. The bird is critically...
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What's Up with That Owl? Casting Pellets...
Many kinds of birds — from herons to hawks (and all kinds of raptors, including owls), even shorebirds and fish-eaters like kingfishers — regurgitate pellets. The digestive systems of these birds have...
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Travel to Cuba with BirdNote!
Cuba's national bird, the Cuban Trogon © Laura Gooch The BirdNote trip to Cuba is now a lovely memory. We enjoyed birds, culture, music, history, and art!Watch for more BirdNote trips in the...
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Red-winged Blackbirds - Denizens of the Marsh
It’s spring, and a male Red-winged Blackbird brandishes his red epaulets to warn away other male Red-winged Blackbirds from his patch of cattails. At the same time, he sings to lure the females into...
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