Bird News

Wayward Winds

Robert A. Culbert
Migration can be interrupted by strong northeasters like we experienced last weekend. The website Birdcas (birdcast.info) uses radar to monitor the skies for migrating birds and posts the results.
Willet
Susan B. Whiting

Dick Jennings sent me a photograph of a shore bird he found out on the shore of Cape Pogue Bay. The caption was “What is this, it looks like a...

Susan B. Whiting

It all started with the drive failure on one of the Volvo engines on Dovekie, my husband Flip Harrington’s boat. We found the best place to take it...

birds
Susan B. Whiting

Shorebirds, waders, peeps, squatters, twiddlers, tattlers or sandpipers, it makes no difference what you call the members of the Scolopacidae...

merlin
Susan B. Whiting

The merlins that nested on Chappaquiddick have fledged three chicks. Lanny McDowell, Bob Shriber and I were invited by the owners of the house next...

cormorant
Susan B. Whiting

Greater shearwaters are a pelagic species of bird. They spend a very small percentage of their life on land. The short time they are on terra firma...

owl
Susan B. Whiting

There are three species of birds that have stirred bird-watchers’ interest this week: black skimmers, merlins and a barred owl. Two of these...

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