All About Birds

When your neighbor is a vulture

EUREKA SPRINGS -- Soaring majestically above us, riding warm updrafts across the entire sky without a single wingflap while looking for something dead to eat, vultures evoke emotions as diametrically opposite as politicians in an election year.

To some, vultures are grand and graceful creatures that keep our land free of blighted carrion. To others the very word means reprehensible opportunists who prey on the vulnerabilities of others. Also, it must be said that vultures urinate on themselves and vomit in public, but the Turkey Vulture Society can explain all this.

There are 22 species of vultures in the world, but only three in the United States. One of those is the California Condor, which was nearly extinct in the 1980s and is still only tentatively rebounding -- there are probably only 100 birds in the wild and 100 in captivity.

The two vulture species we see in

northern Arkansas are either turkey vultures or black vultures. They are larger than all other birds except eagles.

Source: Lovely County Citizen

The Backyard Birdsong Guide: Eastern & Central NA | Backyard Birding

by admin

Special Price! You can check> Price Best Price> Go to store

Or you can compare and comment>> Compare Retailers

Backyard birdsong guide East Coast / Central. Discover seventy-five unique species from western North America as you enjoy their sound at the touch of a button, reproduced in high quality. Attached digital audio form while reading vivid descriptions of their songs, calls, and related behaviors. Learn to choose the songs to a shaky young Bewick Wren, or find out why many songbirds have dialects that vary from region to region.Full range of maps up-to-date and more than 130 sounds provided by Cornell Lab of Ornithology's world-renowned Macaulay Library.

Source: The Backyard Birdsong Guide: Eastern & Central NA | Backyard Birding

News

The eagle-eyed Gyllenhaals of Oak Park are making a name for themselves in the ...

Wednesday Journal - Dec 31, 1969

Adding to this cacophony of bird song are the more common species — American Robins, Northern Cardinals, Blue Jays and several varieties of Sparrows and Swallows, the backyard birds people readily recognize. Across the border in semi-urban Oak Park,

'The Realistic Joneses,' at Yale Repertory Theater

New York Times - Dec 31, 1969

Bob and Jennifer Jones (Mr. Letts and Ms. Day) are taking in the night air in the backyard when John and Pony Jones (Mr. Fitzgerald and Ms. Posey), perhaps a decade or so younger, come to introduce themselves, bottle of wine in silver cellophane in

Five Easy, Inexpensive Ways to Connect Your Kids With Nature

MarketWatch (press release) - Dec 31, 1969

Listen & Observe Nature -- By cupping their hands behind their ears for better hearing, guide your child to identify sounds made by insects, birds, or mammals. Help them learn to identify birds they see and hear in their backyard and mimic bird songs,

Some like it hot

Colorado Springs Independent - Dec 31, 1969

by Bob Campbell Birdsong-chorus mornings, backyard cookouts, homegrown tomatoes, T-shirts and shorts, crickets and starry nights at least in some ways, livin's easy in summer. What do you most look forward to this summer?

Spectrum of Birdsong

New Hampshire Public Radio - Dec 31, 1969

In fact, birdsong is defined generously to include any and all sounds they make with territorial or courtship intentions. Let's start with a traditional vocalization and then branch out. One of the most common and widespread backyard songsters is well