The Black Oystercatcher is completely dependent on the marine shoreline for food, even in winter, when waves hit the rocks with awesome force.
Birds usually fly relatively low.
Just for a LARK, MARTIN and JAY decided to have a SWALLOW.
And scaup love to eat them.
With an almost seven-foot wingspan and weighing nearly twenty-five pounds, this swan is among the largest of all waterfowl. They eat wood-boring insects and insects that nest in trees, including long-horned beetles and especially carpenter ants.
Sitting about three feet tall, the Bald Eagle has a wingspan of more than six feet. Thirty years ago, there were six million Northern Pintails in North America. What we hear as a blur of sound, the Winter Wren hears as a precise sequence of sounds, the visual equivalent of seeing a moving film as a series of still pictures.
Twenty-five years ago, there were twice as many Lesser and Greater Scaup in North America as there are today. In the Amazon, heat and humidity weigh upon you and a cacophony of birdcalls surrounds you. The expected winter birds flutter past: chickadees, juncos, robins, even the lovely Varied Thrush.
The Tundra Swan is a bit smaller.
Sitting about three feet tall, the Bald Eagle has a wingspan of more than six feet. And if you go, consider hiring a local nature guide. Stretch your arms as far as you can, and imagine a bird whose reach is even greater!
One piercing, cheerful yelp catches your ear.
And how do songbirds sit on metal perches with no problem? And the birds sound different, too!
Among the most evocative sounds of early autumn are the voices of migratory geese, flying overhead in V-formation. Right now a flock of Bar-headed Geese could be flying over Mt.
A stiff December breeze blowing down the Columbia River delivers an exhilarating chill. Just for a LARK, MARTIN and JAY decided to have a SWALLOW. What we hear as a blur of sound, the Winter Wren hears as a precise sequence of sounds, the visual equivalent of seeing a moving film as a series of still pictures. The finches nest high in the mountains in summer, and roam the countryside in large flocks in winter.
Learning to tell these LBBs apart can be really frustrating for novice birdwatchers.
Yet one immense field appears snow-covered, blanketed in white.
It has a pleasing and rhythmical song, which it sings even in winter. Harlequins are unique in other ways, too.
The Twelve Days of Christmas began as a French secular love song. In the Amazon, heat and humidity weigh upon you and a cacophony of birdcalls surrounds you. And if you go, consider hiring a local nature guide.
And if you go, consider hiring a local nature guide. They eat wood-boring insects and insects that nest in trees, including long-horned beetles and especially carpenter ants.
Beginning in the Sixteenth Century, local lads would go forth for a yearly wren hunt.
And you often find them together in winter. As December days shorten, birds spend the long, cold nights in a protected place, sheltered from rain and safe from nighttime predators.
The Black Oystercatcher is completely dependent on the marine shoreline for food, even in winter, when waves hit the rocks with awesome force.
The ducks seem oblivious to the cold, even as they stand on ice-covered lakes and streams.
Small forest birds, such as nuthatches and creepers may spend the night huddled together in tree cavities.