The Birders Report

Male Broad-billed Hummingbird (Cynanthus latirostris)
photo by Gregg Scott
I found this photo by Gregg Scott on the Science Blogs site and he actually had a link to a desktop wallpaper size photo that you can download here Hummer . This is one of the coolest wallpapers I have (and I have lots of ‘um). [...]

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Ruby-crowned Kinglet photo by Doug Greenberg
Take a good look at this photo of the Ruby-crowned Kinglet because, chances are, you will never get this good a look at this bird in the wild but maybe for a split second, and that’s on a good birding day!

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Lazuli Bunting photo By Walter Ammann
The longest running citizen science project in the world, Audubon’s Christmas Bird Count, starts Friday, and it’s looking for a few thousand volunteers like you.
Excursions are organized around the country by local bird clubs, and anyone can join in to help simply by identifying the birds you spot.

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Dark-eyed Junco photo by Mark Schmitt
The last few weeks have been the return of the Dark-eyed Junco.  These gregarious members of the sparrow family flock to feeders every winter across North America.  They are a joy to watch because of their flight habits of “flittering” around from place to place in flocks.  They appear to [...]

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A mysterious seabird that forages at the face of shrinking glaciers highlights the 12 Alaska species red-listed as critical by the Audubon’s 2007 Watchlist.  This rare bird is called “Alaska’s avian ‘poster child’ for global climate change.”
Federal biologists John Piatt and Kathy Kuletz wrote in a 2004 scientific paper, “the fate of the Kittilitz’s murrelet [...]

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