Bird News

Breeding Birds

Bob Shriber
The continuing story this spring is another cloudy rainy day with wind from the North and Northeast. Birdwatchers love their breeding birds but the challenge is finding migrants that you don’t regularly encounter.
Susan B. Whiting

Last weekend Luanne Johnson and Liz Baldwin of Biodiversity Works asked for volunteers to help celebrate World Shorebirds Day.

Susan B. Whiting

The American golden plover was hunted on the Vineyard and elsewhere in the 1800s.

Susan B. Whiting

Bob Shriber's yard in Aquinnah was the hot spot as he spotted a yellow-billed cuckoo, which has been rare on the Vineyard this summer.

Susan B. Whiting

The 2014 inventory found there were 119 active osprey nests on the Island. If I did my math correctly, we had 63 successful nests.

Susan B. Whiting

I had an inkling that migratory movement was afoot when I received a call from Laurie Reese. She reported two yellow warblers and two ovenbirds in...

Susan B. Whiting

We usually don’t start seeing black-legged kittiwakes from the Island beaches until October, unless we have a storm prior to that month.

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