Looking for a home built, compact, squirrel-proof, recycled bird feeder? Here's a great diy bird feeder design using recycled and easy to find parts that will attract perch feeding backyard birds, and deter squirrels. Check out this video of the diy horizontally mounted bird feeder in action.
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Wildlife photographer and nature writer Marie Read offers five tips on improving your own wildlife photographs both in the field and in your backyard. Widely published, Read's images have appeared in magazines, books, calendars, websites, and product packaging. She is the author of Secret Lives of Common Birds: Enjoying Bird Behavior Through the Seasons...
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Video portrait of the Pileated Woodpecker video set to music.
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Each year free-roaming and feral cats kill hundreds of millions of birds in the US. One controversial solution to deal with the feral cat problem is trap, neuter and release. However, evidence is growing that this method is not eliminating the cat colonies or the predation of birds and other wildlife. There are other...
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A three-year study of 1,500 North American citizen scientists shows that birds prefer tube and platform feeders, stocked with black oil sunflower, sunflower chips, nyjer, and white proso millet. The survey was led by ornithologist David Horn, as part of Millikin University's Project Wildbird. Some of the study's conclusions include: • Tube bird feeders and...
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According to traditional wisdom, they shouldn’t have been there at all. So much for traditional wisdom. They were there in droves. Dozens of American robins visited my yard over the weekend. Their visits, unfortunately, were short-lived. First they gathered in the trees in the backyard. Then they dispersed, some going to the birdbath and...
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Author and editor-in-chief of Living Bird Magazine, Tim Gallagher talks about life, falconry, and the remarkable comeback of the Peregrine falcon.
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Todd McGrain’s “Lost Bird Project” is a six-foot-tall bronze sculpture commemorating five extinct bird species. McGrain, an associate professor of art at Cornell University got the idea for the Lost Bird Project after reading stories about extinct birds, and felt a need to tell their stories. He chose the Passenger Pigeon,...
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There are more than 90 million pet cats in the U.S., the majority of which roam outside at least part of the time. In addition, millions of stray and feral cats roam our cities, suburbs, and rural areas. Scientists estimate that free-roaming cats kill hundreds of millions of birds, small mammals, reptiles and amphibians...
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This is going to be the lamest form they’ve ever received. That was my thought as I participated in my first Great Backyard Bird Count several years ago. More than half an hour into my count I had found only a few tufted titmice and a lone mockingbird. Sure I was headed toward...
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National Bird-Feeding Month was created to advance and publicize the wild bird feeding and watching hobby and each February, a new and unique theme is adopted. The theme for 2010 is “Hatching Out - An Introduction to the Wild Bird Feeding Hobby.” National Bird-Feeding Month reveals the joy of wild bird feeding by surveying basic...
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This video chronicles how Roger Tory Peterson, at the age of 25, revolutionized birdwatching with the creation of the Peterson Field Guide to Birds.
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Scientist and author Donald Kroodsma talks about his life-long passion for bird song. The conversation took place at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology where he was working on CDs to accompany a new book.
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Follow Bluebird enthusiast Jack Finch as he examines his Eastern Bluebird nest boxes and discusses his 30 years of efforts to help save the Eastern Bluebird from extinction.
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Video of the Spatuletail's amazing courtship display. This rare humminbird inhabits the highlands of Peru.
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