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Bird Notes

English, Nature/Natural sciences, 1 season, 257 episodes, 3 minutes
About
When not in the radio studio, Dwight Davis likes to go afield with his binoculars and watch birds. "Birdnotes" is a result of his long-time interest in birds, a short feature that can be about almost any aspect of bird life, from migration to coloration to birds in art to song.
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The Downy Woodpecker

Diminutive and Demure
2/26/20240
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Tail Waggers

Why Wag?
2/19/20240
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The Broad-Winged Hawk

Sotto Voce Raptor
2/5/20240
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Mozart's Starling

A Musical Pet
1/29/20240
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The Chickadee

Cheerful in the Cold
1/19/20240
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Scoters

Look, but don't eat
1/15/20240
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Feathered Winter Mites

Birds Small and Busy
1/5/20240
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Swans a' Swimming

on the 7th day of Christmas
12/29/20230
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A Christmas Bird

The European Goldfinch
12/22/20230
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Beethoven's Birds

Ludwig the Birder
12/19/20230
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Halcyon Days

Kingfishers calm the waters
12/8/20230
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December Ducks

A Day at the Beach
12/1/20230
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Loud Songster

The Wren
11/24/20230
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Migration and Mortality

It's not easy being a bird
11/17/20230
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Migration and Mortality

It's not easy being a bird
11/17/20230
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Yellow-billed Cuckoo

A John Burrow's observation
11/10/20230
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The Pitohui

A poisonous bird
11/3/20230
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As thin as...

An avian simile
10/27/20230
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Baltimore Oriole

A Bird Named After a Lord
10/20/20230
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Teal

What's in a Word?
10/6/20230
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Avian Onomastics

The Red-bellied Woodpecker
9/29/20230
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Feathered Males and Females

Sexual Dimorphism
9/22/20230
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Clever Corvids

Sorting the Crows
9/15/20230
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Bird Thoughts in a Vermont Forest

What I did on my Summer Vacation
9/8/20230
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Molting

Feathers Old and New
9/1/20230
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Which White Waders?

Distinguishing herons et al.
8/25/20230
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The Pewee

Lazy summer sounds
8/18/20230
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The Tailorbird

Feathered sewer
8/11/20230
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"Timberdoodle"

The Woodcock
8/4/20230
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Birds Beat the Heat

Staying cool
7/28/20230
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Grackles

Avian Dissonance
7/21/20233 minutes, 18 seconds
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Le Coq Gaulois

Vive la France
7/12/20230
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A Sound of Summer

The Red-winged Blackbird
7/7/20230
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Birds for the Fourth

Avifauna from Colonial Times
6/30/20230
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Summer Tanager

Bright welcome to the season
6/22/20230
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Feathered Father

The Phalaropes
6/12/20230
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June Magic

Song of the Wood Thrush
6/9/20230
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The Song Sparrow

Another spring song
6/1/20230
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The Seaside Sparrow

a surfeit of sparrow names
5/26/20230
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The Chipping Sparrow

Garden Friend
5/18/20230
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The Great Crested Flycathcer

Another sound of spring
5/12/20230
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The Rose-breasted Grosbeak

Bright spring visitor
5/4/20230
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May Birds

Misnamed warblers
5/4/20230
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The Blur-Gray Gnatcatcher

An early spring arrival
4/21/20230
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Happy Birthday, Leonardo

All that and a birdwatcher too
4/14/20230
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Hong Kong birds

big city birds
4/7/20230
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Avian Laughter

The Kookaburra
3/31/20230
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The Cardinal

lusty spring singer
3/24/20230
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The Red Kite

A Bird for St. David's Day
3/3/20230
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Elusive Birds

I Know You're in There!
2/3/20230
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Birdsong Therapy

Listen to the science
1/27/20230
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The Bird of Washington

Audubon's mistake
1/20/20230
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The Dunlin

"..smaller than a breadbox"
1/13/20230
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The Wakatobi Sunbird

A new bird for the new year
12/30/20220
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Bobolinks on the Move

Edwin Way Teale's observations
8/26/20220
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The Java Sparrow

Bach Bird
8/12/20220
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The Bullbats are About

Sounds of Summer
7/29/20220
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Staying Cool

Birds Beating the Heat
7/21/20220
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The Magic of Birdsong

Listen to the Mockingbird
5/30/20220
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The Mimids

Thoughtful mimics
5/27/20220
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The Redstart

Feathered Perpetual Motion
5/2/20220
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Upland Plover

An Aldo Leopold observation
4/28/20220
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Audubon

Rustic genius
4/18/20220
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The Broad-winged hawk

Sotto voce raptor
4/8/20220
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The Fox Sparrow

Rufus Winter Visitor
2/11/20220
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Eider Down

Feathers Against the Cold
1/28/20220
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The Snow Bunting

The real snowbird
1/19/20220
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The Northern Lapwing

An Unexpected Visitor
1/14/20220
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The Cordillera Azul Antbird

In honor of E.O. Wilson
12/31/20210
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The Twelve Days of Christmas

Birds for Christmastide
12/27/20210
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Halcyon Days

Winter Calm
12/27/20210
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Euphonic Bird Names

Bird Music of a Different Sort
8/18/20210
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Song for the Journey

The Swainson's Thrush
6/1/20210
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The Yellow-Rumped Warbler

Winter to Spring in Miniature
3/1/20210
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Accipiter Confusion

Sexual Dimorphism
12/30/20200
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The Kakapo

New Zealand's Bird of the Year
11/19/20200
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Bird Colors

An Avian Palette
11/13/20200
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The Glossy Ibis

Primative and Sacred
11/5/20200
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"The Parking Lot Gull"

The Ring-billed Gull
10/22/20200
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The Prothonotary Warbler

Golden Swamp Warbler
6/29/20200
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The Robin

Spring Singer
4/16/20200
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Terms of Venery

delightful collective nouns
2/7/20200
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The Cedar Waxwing

Lovely and Unusual
2/5/20200
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Aldo Leopold

November Sketches
11/17/20190
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"Close to Birds"

"...makes a perfect gift."
11/8/20190
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Elusive Birds

Checklist Challengers
10/20/20190
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The Shearwaters

A Life on the Ocean Wave
10/2/20190
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Ouzel

What is an ouzel? The answer involves both etymology and ornithology.
1/20/20190
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Grackles

Glossy and discordant.
1/1/10
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Louisana Waterthrush in October

skylark they never wert
1/1/10
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Tail Wagging

Who wags and why
1/1/10
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Kookaburra

The Laughing Jackass doesn’t live in the jungle.
1/1/10
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Open Field Visitors

What to watch for in winter.
1/1/10
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The Chickadee

Winter Cheer
1/1/10
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The Ouzel

The Little Dipper.
1/1/10
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Red-Eyed Vireo

Persistant summer songster
1/1/10
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December Ducks

Waterfowl visitors abound in the winter.
1/1/10
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The Osprey

The One and Only
1/1/10
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Loud Songster

Loud Songster
1/1/10
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Pewee

The languid sound of summer
1/1/10
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Mimids Three

Accomplished Songsters
1/1/10
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The Rails

As thin as...
1/1/10
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Le Coq Gallois

A bird for Bastille Day
1/1/10
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La Gazza Ladra

La Gazza Ladra
1/1/10
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The Fire-Hangbird

Lord Baltimores feathered namesake
1/1/10
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Golden-Winged Firebird

Jules Verne was not an ornithologist
1/1/10
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Valentine Birds

Valentine Birds
1/1/10
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A New Bird

The Sezhuan bush warbler
1/1/10
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The Year of the Bird

Bird news for the new year
1/1/10
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Bright Feathers for the Journey

Bright Feathers for the Journey
1/1/10
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The Indigo Bunting

Bluer than blue
1/1/10
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Crows

Distinguishing the Corvids
1/1/10
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The Chipping Sparrow

A true feathered friend.
1/1/10
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The Prairie Warbler

Welcome, Sweet Spring
1/1/10
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Teal Green

The duck came first.
1/1/10
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The Towhee

Towhee, chewink or drink-your-tea
1/1/10
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The Gannett

The Gannett
1/1/10
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The Yellow Of Warblers

Bright Springtime Palate
1/1/10
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What is a Timberdoodle?

The American Woodcock
1/1/10
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The Scary Cassowary

Definitely not Big Bird
1/1/10
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Colonial Birds

Birds of the Founding Fathers
1/1/10
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Chimney Swift

The original twitterer
1/1/10
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A New Year Bird

Wilson’s antbird
1/1/10
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Spring Song

Forever Young
1/1/10
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The House Finch

Hollywood at your feeder.
1/1/10
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Irrupting Raptors

Waiting for a visit from the imposing hunters from the north.
1/1/10
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The Willett

An easy ID
1/1/10
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The Black Swift

Avian Secrets
1/1/10
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The harlequin and the turnstone

Birds from the Picasso Field Guide
1/1/10
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The Curious Colies

“On the Fourth Day of Christmas...”
1/1/10
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Cormorant

The shaggy-topped fisherman
1/1/10
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Orange-crowned Warbler

Defining non- descript
1/1/10
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Football Birds

Feathered mascots
1/1/10
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Nestling Mortality

facts of life and death
1/1/10
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The Phoebe

Avian name calling.
1/1/10
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Lincoln’s Sparrow

Not named for Abe.
1/1/10
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Swans

Swans
1/1/10
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Hummingbird Migration

The ruby-throat flies the Gulf
1/1/10
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Laughing Gull

Laughing Gull
1/1/10
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American Pipet

Walking Winter Visitor
1/1/10
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Autumn and Spring Colors

Feather and leaves in fall and spring
1/1/10
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Cooling

Birds beating the summer heat
1/1/10
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Red-Headed Woodpecker

Remembrance of birds past.
1/1/10
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The Ovenbird

Mysterious song at eventide.
1/1/10
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An Irish Bird

Emerald Isle Birds
1/1/10
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The Shoveler

The Shoveler
1/1/10
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The Fox Sparrow

Robust, foxy visitor
1/1/10
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The Skylark

Blythe Spirit
1/1/10
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Yellow-rumped Warbler

small and drab, but everywhere
1/1/10
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Downey Woodpecker

Little Drummer Bird
1/1/10
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The Wood Thrush

Der Meistersinger
1/1/10
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Red-Cockaded Woodpecker

The danger of habitat specialization
1/1/10
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Audubon

Audubon
1/1/10
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The Christmas Bird

The Christmas Bird
1/1/10
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Birds in the Twelve Days of Christmas

Just what is a colly bird?
1/1/10
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Spring Symphony

Songs of an April Morning
1/1/10
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St. Francis and the Birds

St. Francis and the Birds
1/1/10
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The Pitohui

Toxic birds.
1/1/10
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From a Winter Window

Feathered Mites
1/1/10
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Storm Petrels

Oceanic water walkers
1/1/10
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Fantastic Fliers

Endurance Champion
1/1/10
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Mulberry Birds

Mulberry Birds
1/1/10
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Fairy Tern

The wispy white bird without a nest
1/1/10
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Snowbird

Snowbird
1/1/10
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The Bluebird

Gentle harbinger of spring
1/1/10
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The Wheatear

Long distance champion?
1/1/10
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The Piping Plover

Rhymes with "lover".
1/1/10
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Father Knows Best

the phalarope
1/1/10
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Red Winged Blackbird

Memorable summer sound
1/1/10
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Kinglets

Active feathered mites.
1/1/10
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The Voice of the Turtle

The Voice of the Turtle
1/1/10
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Window Watching

Window Watching
1/1/10
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The Scaups

The Mussel Ducks
1/1/10
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Edible Birds

Edible Birds
1/1/10
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Kites

Kites
1/1/10
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A New Bird for a New year

...but where is it?
1/1/10
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Carrier Pigeon

Feathered war heroes
1/1/10
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Hong Kong Birds

Some avian observations from the other side of the world.
1/1/10
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The Hoatzin

One strange bird.
1/1/10
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Fuel for Migration

“…keep repeating it’s the berries”
1/1/10
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Happy Birthday,Roger Tory Peterson

Father of the Field Guide
1/1/10
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The Darkling Thrush

Thomas Hardy’s songster.
1/1/10
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The Yellow-billed Cuckoo

Foraging in suburbia.
1/1/10
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John Gould

John Gould
1/1/10
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Isaak Walton's Birds

Isaak Waltons Birds
1/1/10
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Bird of Washington

Bird of Washington
1/1/10
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The Readstart

Perpetuum Mobile
1/1/10
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The Tailorbird

Sewing a nest.
1/1/10
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The Chestnut-sided Warbler

Now common, colorful migrant
1/1/10
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Yellow-rumped Warbler

Magical spring transformation
1/1/10
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The Eagle and the Child

Despite the tall tales, eagles do not fly off with children.
1/1/10
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Feather Wear

New feathers fly better.
1/1/10
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Eclipse Plumage

Drab late-summer wardrobes
1/1/10
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Ovenbird Flight Song

Mysterious music at dusk
1/1/10
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Eider Down

Warmth for the winter.
1/1/10
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The Swallow-tailed Kite

Elegance on the wing.
1/1/10
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Buzzards Day

Ungainly harbingers of spring.
1/1/10
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Books for Birders

Birds in the Hand
1/1/10
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The Red Kite

The unofficial bird of Wales
1/1/10
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The Canary

From the Canine Islands
1/1/10
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Migration and Mortality

Migration and Mortality
1/1/10
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The Brown-headed Cowbird

Why build a nest?
1/1/10
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The Cattle Egret

Population Fluctuation
1/1/10
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The Tufted Titmouse

A small bundle of winter cheer.
1/1/10
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Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

On the quarter and over the plains
1/1/10
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Dunlin

A red-backed sandpiper by any other name.
1/1/10
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Ruddy Duck

Ruddy Duck
1/1/10
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Teale's boblinks

skylark they never wert
1/1/10
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Which White Waders

Sorting out the herons.
1/1/10
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Java Sparrow

A handsome Bach bird
1/1/10
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Cardinal

Favorite state bird.
1/1/10
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The Bluejay

Mr. Clemons as ornithologist
1/1/10
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Mis-named Warblers

Mis-named Warblers
1/1/10
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The Yellow Breasted Chat

Buffoon of the Briar Patch
1/1/10
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Housewren

Housewren
1/1/10
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The Sanderling

On a winter beach
1/1/10
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Tupi Terms

Exotic Bird Names
1/1/10
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Summer Tanager

Red visitor from the tropics
1/1/10
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Rose-breasted Grosbeak

A spring warbler.
1/1/10
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Shifting Sparrow Species

Nomenclature updates
1/1/10
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White on Ducks

interesting field marks
1/1/10
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Sinbad's Roc

Sinbad's Roc
1/1/10
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An Amazing Journey

The Flight of AX 6587
1/1/10
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Siskin Saturation

Finch Irruption, 2012
1/1/10
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The Broad-winged Hawk

Demure Raptore
1/1/10
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Where does a Bird Live?

Is a nest a home?
1/1/10
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Hooded Merganser

Hooded Merganser
1/1/10
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The Goldfinch

Bright feathered sunshine
1/1/10
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The Saw Whet Owl

Strange sounding and cute
1/1/10
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The Warbling Vireo

A Drab Songster
1/1/10
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Lesser Black-backed Gull

Lesser Black-backed Gull
1/1/10
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Bird Anting

An enigma still
1/1/10
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The Cuckoo

Harbinger of Spring
1/1/10
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A Foolish Wag

Mozart's pet starling.
1/1/10
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Happy Birthday, Roger T.

Peterson’s Poetry
1/1/10
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The Kingfishers

Colors Abounding
1/1/10
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The Nighthawk

The bullbats are about.
1/1/10
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The Poetry Of Bird Names

Bird Names
1/1/10
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Long-tailed Duck

Clangorous winter visitor.
1/1/10
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Beethoven's Birds

Beethoven's Birds
1/1/10
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The Honeyguide

…”red in tooth and claw.”
1/1/10
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Summer Vacation

In a Vermont forest.
1/1/10
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The Hermit Thrush

Ethereal Songster
1/1/10
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Song Sparrow

Brown suite, bright song.
1/1/10
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Loons

Winter visitors
1/1/10
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White-Eyed Vireo

The hidden mimic
1/1/10
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The Mimids

Assertive master mimics
1/1/10
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Bird-named Planes

Feathered and other Harriers
1/1/10
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The Barred Owl

Halloween scream in the night.
1/1/10
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The Red-bellied Woodpecker

Toward a better name
1/1/10
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Evening Grosbeak

A robust winter visitor
1/1/10
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Blue Gray Gnatcatcher

Blue Gray Gnatcatcher
1/1/10
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The Genus Euphonia

skylark they never wert
1/1/10
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Woody’s inspiration

The pileated woodpecker
1/1/10
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A New Old Bird

A Perplexing Fossil
1/1/10
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Summer Singers

Summer Singers
1/1/10
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Teddy Roosevelt, Birdwatcher

Teddy Roosevelt, Birdwatcher
1/1/10