Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:51:53 +0200
And no bird has been so often evoked and emulated in song and symphony as the cuckoo. The male Ruffed Grouse stands upon a resonant fallen log in the shelter of a brushy thicket, thumping the air with his wings. Some even pollinate flowers!
The argonauts of the western Pacific and Polynesia, when navigating the vast distances between tiny islands, observed with great care the migration of birds.
This bird has also been called the Chattering Plover and the Noisy Plover. The Boreal forest is a vast band of spruce and poplar that extends from coast to coast across Alaska and Canada. By August, many young birds are full sized, have left the nest, and can fly short distances, but they still follow their parents and beg for food. You may find it in willow thickets, brushy tangles, and other dense, understory habitats, usually at low to medium elevations around streams. And birding by ear is a great way to approach the world of birds.
This meeting of waters is a lush expanse of marsh, tidelands, and tree-lined streams.
Puffins are icons of the seabird world. And no bird has been so often evoked and emulated in song and symphony as the cuckoo. Its soft cooing voice hints at its connections to anther bird: scientists group roadrunners with the cuckoos. Deep in left field, an Oriole pounces on the ball.
This Laysan Albatross, with a wing span of about seven feet, is completely at home in the vastness of the open ocean. To compensate, these birds move their heads. The bills of young birds are not crossed at hatching, but cross as they grow. Deep in left field, an Oriole pounces on the ball. These birds migrate north each spring from Western Mexico, to nest in dry, open forests and brushy areas, mostly east of the Cascades. And no bird has been so often evoked and emulated in song and symphony as the cuckoo.
Nothing will bring wondrous songbirds to your yard faster than a ready supply of water. The male Ruffed Grouse stands upon a resonant fallen log in the shelter of a brushy thicket, thumping the air with his wings. Western Tanagers are distinctive summer visitors to our area and the only tanagers seen regularly in Washington.
They occasionally crowd into suburban bird feeders, nudging out smaller birds. The Killdeer is one of the most widespread and commonly seen shorebirds in North America.
This is no fly-by-night joint.
At the crack of the bat, a Blue Jay flies toward first and glides around the base. In late July, the Great Horned Owls chicks are four and a half months old, and must fend for themselves much of the time.
