I received a question the other day from a fellow who lives in Ontario, Canada. He said that while walking around his town’s leafy downtown he noticed lots of birds but when he walks the nearby woods he doesn’t notice nearly as many. He wonders what’s going on. The key to his question is “leafy […]
Over the years I have received a lot of emails with questions about birds. Most are straightforward, concerning identification or behavior. But occasionally I receive an exceptionally weird one. Probably the strangest question I have ever received was from a woman who said that in her home country (not the U.S.), birds would follow her.
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“Researchers have discovered that two hawks from surprisingly distant perches on the tree of life have mated, resulting in rare hybrid chicks. In 2005, Stan Moore, a master raptor bander at Fairfax Raptor Research, spotted something peculiar in the Laguna de Santa Rosa Wetlands Complex in Sonoma County, California. It was a common black hawk
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We are practicing social distancing these days to avoid contacting the coronavirus. We have always practiced social distancing to a certain extent. We keep our distance when standing in line or when talking to others. We disdain “close talkers,” those who get right in your face when talking to you, and get annoyed when boarding
