Both are smaller cousins to the American Crow and the Common Raven.
In the Amazon, heat and humidity weigh upon you and a cacophony of birdcalls surrounds you.
Washington's population nests on Wrangel Island in Russia, northwest of the Bering Strait, and winters on the deltas of the Samish, Stillaguamish, and Skagit Rivers. Can you guess how many feathers cover a Canada Goose?
Washington's population nests on Wrangel Island in Russia, northwest of the Bering Strait, and winters on the deltas of the Samish, Stillaguamish, and Skagit Rivers. According to myth, Thunderbird was so large and flew so high, it carried the rain on its back and created lightning and thunder. Snow Geese migrate long distances, stopping at traditional stopover and wintering areas. She is incubating two eggs.
Since December, this pair has been hooting back and forth regularly at night.
A crash of the rodent population in their own territories may send the birds into new feeding areas, often hundreds of miles away. Just for a LARK, MARTIN and JAY decided to have a SWALLOW.
Could this be the same sound you remember from a Saturday morning in your childhood? Snow Geese migrate long distances, stopping at traditional stopover and wintering areas.
In the Amazon, heat and humidity weigh upon you and a cacophony of birdcalls surrounds you. One stretches out its neck, and the groomer, or preener, twirls individual feathers in its beak, often starting at the back of the head and working around to the front. And if you go, consider hiring a local nature guide. Who could have known then that the Peregrine Falcon would become first a casualty and then one of the biggest success stories of all? But its song belies a rather bloodthirsty feeding habit.
Listen to the earth awaken as dawn circles the globe.
During winter, Bald Eagles retreat from the territories where they breed, to seek out rivers rich with spawning and spent salmon. Although Common Loons rarely breed in Washington State, large numbers do visit during winter.
But its song belies a rather bloodthirsty feeding habit.
It has a pleasing and rhythmical song, which it sings even in winter. Listen to the earth awaken as dawn circles the globe.
And how do songbirds sit on metal perches with no problem?
Some are designed to help the bird fly or shed water. Because many birds are largely silent in winter, it may seem that they have left us.
A Winter Wren may dart from hiding to grab a meal. Among the most dramatic wildlife sights of a Northwest winter is that of a huge, silent, all-white owl perched out in the middle of the day: a Snowy Owl, visitor from the Arctic.