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Yellow-billed Magpies and West Nile Virus
Like their cousins, jays and crows, the Yellow-billed Magpies of California were hit hard by West Nile virus. The disease reduced magpie numbers by half. Habitat loss and poisoning also threaten the...
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Monitoring Migrating Shorebirds - With Sarah Schmidt
Right now, volunteer observers are counting shorebirds on the move. Sandpipers, dowitchers, plovers, Dunlin, and others that raised their young in the Arctic are now making southbound migrations....
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The American Kestrel Partnership
Topics & Themes: citizen science, environmental championRelated bird: American Kestrel (Falco sparverius)
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BirdNote in the Classroom - Jessie Soder's Class
Jessie Soder is bringing nature into her classroom. Students in her 4th and 5th grade classes in Gustavus, Alaska, are studying the birds of their region. They’ve designed a yearlong scientific study...
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Hummingbirds At Home
During spring migration, hummingbirds like this Ruby-throat rely on the nectar of flowering plants. But flowers blooming earlier because of warming temperatures could affect them severely.Topics &...
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Rufous Hummingbirds Head South
Right now in the Northwest, male Rufous Hummingbirds are heading south. By late July, they will pour into southeastern Arizona on their way to wintering areas in Mexico. The females and their offspring...
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Noah Ventola: Environmentalist and Entrepreneur
Noah and his daughter, Madelyn, with a birdhouse they built togetherNoah Ventola’s four-year-old daughter, Madelyn, knows her chickadees from her nuthatches. But her first bird was a bluebird, and that...
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Studying Pigeon Guillemots as a Citizen Scientist
What’s it like to be a citizen scientist studying Pigeon Guillemots? It’s fun!It’s early on a calm, July morning. I’m with Govinda Rosling, co-coordinator of the Pigeon Guillemot Research Group on...
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Citizen Scientists Monitor Pigeon Guillemots
Govinda Rosling, co-coordinator of the Pigeon Guillemot Research Group, is one of 60 volunteer citizen scientists who dedicate their time during the summer months to survey birds at 25 breeding...
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Learning to Band Birds - Puget Sound Bird Observatory
Picture yourself holding a tiny, Black-capped Chickadee like this one. Or a big, blue Steller’s Jay! Volunteer Mark Purcell did just that while learning to net and band birds with the Puget Sound Bird...
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Christmas Bird Counts at the Extremes
This winter, volunteers will tally birds in more than 2,000 locations as part of the annual Christmas Bird Count. In the U.S., birders will venture forth at the very extremes of the country’s...
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Cats and the Christmas Bird Count - With Roger Melendez
While many in the US are out counting birds for the annual Christmas Bird Count, our friends in Latin America are doing the same.Topics & Themes: citizen science
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Recording Cerulean Warblers with Charlotte Goedsche
Since 1998, Charlotte Goedsche has been studying the Cerulean Warblers that breed in the mountains near Asheville, North Carolina. And she has learned some fascinating things! For example, Charlotte...
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Counting Shorebirds for the Avian Knowledge Network
Shorebirds rely on tidelands and mudflats for food, especially in winter when conditions are tough. Join us on this blustery day to count birds such as these Dunlin at an estuary in western Washington...
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Rusty Blackbirds - A Rusty Recovery
It’s basic black with an inelegant voice. It nests in places we rarely visit. And in relative obscurity, the Rusty Blackbird has suffered one of the most dramatic population declines ever recorded...
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Alex Chadwick in Big Bend: Banding Hummingbirds
BirdNote contributor Alex Chadwick visited the outskirts of Big Bend National Park in Texas to meet with Kelly Bryan, a retired park manager and biologist who spends his days placing tiny bands on...
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Beak Meets Seed
Birds like finches, chickadees and this Northern Cardinal love sunflower seeds, but each species uses a different strategy to extract the meat. When a finch plucks a sunflower seed from the feeder, it...
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The American Kestrel Partnership
Topics & Themes: citizen science,environmental championRelated bird: American Kestrel (Falco sparverius)
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BirdNote in the Classroom - Jessie Soder's Class
Jessie Soder is bringing nature into her classroom. Students in her 4th and 5th grade classes in Gustavus, Alaska, are studying the birds of their region. They’ve designed a yearlong scientific study...
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Hummingbirds At Home
During spring migration, hummingbirds like this Ruby-throat rely on the nectar of flowering plants. But flowers blooming earlier because of warming temperatures could affect them severely.Topics &...
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