The Birders Report

Ring-billed Gull at Kutras Lake, Redding, California photos by Larry Jordan Kutras Lake is actually an outcropping of the Sacramento River in Redding, California.  There are many places to bird adjacent to the downtown area as you can see on this map.  The most popular spots being Turtle Bay and Kutras Lake. If you click [...]

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Geese Flying Overhead in “V” Formation photos by Larry Jordan As the winter turns to spring and the geese once again begin flying north in those beautiful “V” formations you hear flying overhead, it is time to check your nest boxes once again.  Even if you cleaned your birdhouses out in the fall, after all [...]

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Hermit Thrush photos by Larry Jordan Enjoying the cold and rainy day off today, I decided it would be a great day to record some backyard birds for Project FeederWatch.  If you haven’t heard, Project FeederWatch is a winter-long survey of birds that visit feeders at backyards, nature centers, community areas, and other locales in [...]

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The Burrowing Owl Community Is Watching photo by Larry Jordan Scott Artis of JournOwl has uncovered a cover-up at California Department of Fish and Game (CDFG) involving the suppression of a report that suggests that their current policy relating to Burrowing Owls amounts to “take.”  ” Take” is a euphemism for “killing” in conservation terms.  [...]

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White-rumped Sandpiper photo by Tim Bowman from Wikipedia Commons I was listening to NPR on the way to work this morning (as I always do, being a proud supporter of public radio) and heard of an interesting study on arctic shorebirds, their migration and predation. Laura McKinnon, a researcher with the University of Quebec at [...]

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