Bird News

Rare Sightings

Susan B. Whiting

Whoa, where do I start? This long weekend brought several goodies for the Vineyard birders. It all started on Thursday, August 30, when Dick...

8:00 pm, September 6, 2007
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New Research: Island's Extinct Heath Hen Was a Unique Bird

Tom Dunlop

Now a genetic study of the skins of scores of heath hens, all of them from the Vineyard, shows that the Island bird, although it looked and behaved...

8:00 pm, July 22, 2004
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To Track Majestic Osprey to the Ends of the Earth

E. Vernon Laux

Gus Ben David, director of Massachusetts Audubon's Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary in Edgartown, takes a four-wheel-drive vehicle out into the field by...