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Another thing you can do to protect birds is, if you happen to be the mayor of a large city on a major migratory flyway, say, a city like Chicago, you can work with your city council to make bird-friendly design mandatory for all new construction.
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Did you have your lights off? Over ONE BILLION BIRDS flew through the United States in just one night!!!!
Thank you @DrBirdCast for creating and providing such amazing tools to visualize and quantify bird migration!
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You ever wondered what a couple seconds of a tiny portion of sky would look like during a morning with 180,000+ migrating warblers?
That’s oddly specific, but wonder no more!
Tonight (and the following two nights) are seeing MASSIVE movements of birds as they migrate at night! Learn more about how we know this at aeroecolab.com/uslights or birdcast.info !
#birdmigration #migratorybirds #radar #birdradar
ALT a map of the us shows gray, yellow, orange, and red zones indicating bird migration intensity
Chickadees LOVE clean feeders. Hopefully, you took 30 minutes this weekend to give yours a quick scrub!
#birdfeeder #learnbirds #cleanfeeders
BIRD QUIZ!
Name this little, messy bird!
Hint: It is not frequently found west of the Great Plains!
#birdquiz #birdID #learnbirds
The robins and catbirds are cleaning off our chokecherry bushes, but that is exactly what I love to see!
What berry bushes do you provide for birds to chow down upon?
#plantsforbirds #berries #robins #robinrobbing
We just created some holographic stickers of the Wild Bird Feeding Institute's "feeder bird of the year," the Rufous Hummingbird! While these are not yet ready to ship out, we have some other fun bird stickers: flockingaround.com/birding-s…
#birdsticker #birdingsticker #animalsticker
The Flocking Around Roost had quite an interesting visitor last week! So why does this Broad-tailed Hummingbird look like this?! It has some sort of color mutation, leading to a form of albinism! (Some might use the catch-all term leucistic.)
#hummingbirds #albinobirds #albinism
Here's a champion laborer of the animal kingdom that often goes unheralded. The bumblebee! The honey bee often gets a lot of credit, but it is not a native species to North America! The humble bumble, though, is a major pollinator of many North American plant species!
#laborday
If there is one sports team that is deserving of the Rock Pigeon as its mascot, I think I have identified it: flockingaround.com/post/amer…
#pigeons #rockpigeon #funnybirds
ALT a blue and gray bird with pink feet sits on a telephone wire and looks at the camera with its neck ruffled
Which birding app is your favorite? My favorite birding apps are listed here: flockingaround.com/post/my-f…
The top of my list is hinted at with this photo... can you guess?
#birdID #birdapps #learnbirds
ALT a close up photo of a small falcon with a dark eye, yellow eye-ring, and streaked feathers
The Flocking Crew is stopping by one of our favorite national wildlife refuges this week! (I hope we get to see lots of grebes, like this Horned Grebe.) Learn about the refuge: flockingaround.com/post/hutt…
#NWR #birdrefuge #conservationarea
ALT a black and red bird with golden head feathers sits on a wavy body of water
BIRD QUIZ!
Here is this week's bird quiz for you!
Hint: You won't get a pip out of me for this quiz.
#birdquiz #birdID #learnbirds
ALT an american pipit, a small brown bird with dark chest streaks, sits on a fencepost
Here is a throwback to last year when Flocking Around went to see the monsoonal rains of the desert southwest! This is a baby Barn Swallow that had fledged and was practicing its regal perch!
#babybird #babyanimals #birding #tbt
The Finch Research Network is reporting Red Crossbills are on the move, with different varieties moving to less common areas. Keep your eyes open for these unique-billed beauties!
#finch #irruption #birdmigration
The Flocking Crew is on the road helping members of the flock! So here is a Black-necked Stilt image to remind you to go see some shorebird migration!
Who has seen one of these recently?
#shorebird #migration #shorebirdmigration #migratorybird
BIRD QUIZ!
Name this little brown bird!
Hint: It has quite an amazing VOCAL repertoire!
#birdquiz #birdID #learnbirds
