Some years I don™t catch many Tennessee Warblers (Vermivora peregrina), but this year seemed to be a good year for them. Their populations surge and wane with outbreaks of spruce budworms (Choristoneura fumiferana) on their northern nesting grounds. The budworms…
Birds
“The soft color tones combine to make a most charming picture of pleasing loveliness. He appears to be a well groomed aristocrat among birds.”
Today, at dawn, I went out in the field to open my nets and heard the unique and exuberant R2D2-like song of the Gray Catbird (Dumetella carolinensis). They were back from their southern winter vacations. As a banding intern in…
“This is the most exciting ornithological discovery in a long, long time.”
Before retiring tonight, I checked my local birding listserv one last time. Just beginning to burn up cyberspace is a report that the Ivory-billed Woodpecker had been rediscovered in Arkansas in 2003, and been kept a secret until today…