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  • The Black-and-White Birds of North America
  • The Favorite Birds of Our Profiled Bird Guides
  • A Selection of East African Sunbirds

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audubon.org /1 month ago

The Black-and-White Birds of North America

You can find black-and-white birds everywhere. If you live out west, heading to the grocery store often means seeing at least one Black-billed Magpie. And in the east, looking out...

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10000birds.com /2 weeks ago

The Favorite Birds of Our Profiled Bird Guides

In our series on bird guides, so far, 131 profiles have been published. To start the interview, we asked each of them the same question: What is your favorite bird species? Not sur...

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10000birds.com /3 days ago

A Selection of East African Sunbirds

The biweekly reminder on my phone “10,000 Birds” generally equates to a routine (but much appreciated) conundrum of what can be shared that is interesting enough, bird-related, and...

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birdnote.org /1 month ago

The Secret Lives of Goldfinches

American Goldfinches are one of our most familiar birds, but they lead lives that are anything but ordinary. These birds will sometimes raise two broods a year, have a secret weapo...

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10000birds.com /2 days ago

Birds with terrible opinions

Birds—we like them. Mostly. But every family has that one relative whose opinions make you quietly reconsider inviting them to dinner. Birds are no different. Here are a few specie...

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audubon.org /1 month ago

So Many Birds, So Little Time (or Bands)

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 fir...

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audubon.org /1 month ago

Which Birdsong Is the Most Beautiful? Here's What Scientists Found

Ask any birder to name their favorite birdsong, and you’ll get a variety of answers, from the cheery, rich tunes of the Baltimore Oriole and American Robin to the more musical note...

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10000birds.com /1 month ago

9 Things Birds Do Better Than Humans

Navigating Finding the same breeding spot after an absence of half a year, rather than getting lost in IKEA. Flying Without all the add-ons (luggage check-in, security check, board...

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audubon.org /2 weeks ago

Correspondence From a Bird

A letter by the bird of the month: Dear Audubon Southwest, I am honored to be selected as the October bird of the month. It seems my years of doing mid-air flips and spins to catch...

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10000birds.com /1 month ago

US State Birds by Popularity

Unsurprisingly, not all bird species are equally popular in the United States. One way to measure this is by looking at how often they have been chosen as official state birds. The...

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10000birds.com /1 month ago

The Broad-winged Hawk

In September, one of the most-hoped for raptors is the Broad-winged Hawk. Among the earliest raptor migrants, Broadies fly in large flocks. Every fall, the entire North American ma...

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10000birds.com /3 days ago

How Urban Birds Have Become More Adaptable Than We Imagined

By Mehran Khan Mehran Khan is the founder of Animal Feather, where he writes about birds, wildlife, insects, and the fascinating ways animals interact with their environments. In t...

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10000birds.com /1 week ago

Backyard Bird Feeding in Pakistan

By Faisal Rehman Faisal is a backyard bird-feeding enthusiast from Pakistan who writes practical bird-feeding guides at BirdFeedly. If you picture backyard birding, you probably pi...

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10000birds.com /4 weeks ago

Species Spotlight: Blue Jay

Like some US citizens, the Blue Jay comes off as a bit of a poser, as this early description by Alexander Wilson demonstrates: the Blue Jay “is distinguished as a kind of beau amon...

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10000birds.com /1 month ago

Not Just Another Bulbul

I’ve been reading a bit about bird and flower motifs – specifically those involving roses and nightingales – a curious path to take given that I’ve never seen a nightingale, nor do...

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audubon.org /1 week ago

The Pink Birds of North America

Fact-checked by Kenn Kaufman, field editor, Audubon magazine. We don’t have a lot of pink birds in North America. In fact, even if we get generous with the definition of pink and c...

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audubon.org /2 days ago

10 Fun Facts About the Northern Shrike

Dapperly dressed in black, white, and glacial gray, the Northern Shrike might pass as any other songbird. But don’t be fooled—it's also a brutal killer. With a bold black mask and...

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10000birds.com /1 week ago

Bird Names, Geography, and Reality

Thanks to Christopher Columbus and his distorted sense of geography, Native Americans came to be known as Indians. A few bird species share a similar fate. The Turkey is a bird nat...

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birdnote.org /1 day ago

Songbirds Teach Each Other Tricks

In the UK for years, milk came in bottles with foil caps. Great Tits, a common songbird, learned how to peck through the foil. The skill spread. But how? Researchers trained Great...

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10000birds.com /1 week ago

Birds That Definitely Listen To Punk Music

Punk has never been primarily about musical ability. Neither has being a bird. Some species, however, are more qualified than others. Hoatzin: I was thinking of leaving this one ou...

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scitechdaily.com /1 month ago

Blackbirds Somehow Know When a Snake Is Too Dangerous To Attack

Red-winged blackbirds largely avoided striking rattlesnakes while aggressively attacking gopher snakes, revealing a striking difference in nest defense behavior. At nests across we...

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birdnote.org /3 days ago

A Bird of Two Colors

Related to shearwaters and petrels, the Northern Fulmar will eat just about anything it finds on the surface of the ocean, from fish and squids to dead whales. While some have snow...

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audubon.org /1 month ago

Many Female Songbirds Have Shorter Lifespans Than Males, Scientists Find

Female birds have long flown under the radar. In birding, a focus on often flashier males has often skewed our perceptions of the avian world, and in science, little was known abou...

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10000birds.com /1 month ago

Demotivational Posters for Birds (XLVI)

Most of the birds we regularly communicate with admit that they rarely read ornithological papers, including papers specifically about themselves. Their main objection is that such...

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