“With a range that spans five continents, including much of North America, the Black-crowned Night-Heron is the most widespread heron in the world. It is most active at dusk and at night, feeding in the same areas that other heron species frequent during the day.” All About Birds - Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
One of my goals is to have a picture of each bird that we see for our life list. June was a good month for pictures. Here is one of the Eastern Kingbird. Notice the white tip on his dark tail.
I have a goal of collecting a picture of each bird species that we record. There are 4 possible Vireo’s in Ramsey County (7 in Minnesota). We have now seen 3 of them. We have not yet seen the Philadelphia Vireo and I still need a picture of the Yellow-throated.
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Here is the Warbling Vireo,
the Red-eyed Vireo,
and we saw a White-eyed Vireo in Alabama this spring:
This great horned owl story on KARE 11 from the Raptor Center is one of the stranger cases that we’ve seen in the clinic. She is also proof that not only cars are a danger to birds, but so is carelessly discarded fishing equipment.
Last weekend as part of the BioBlitz 2009, the National Park Service set up a bird banding station with 3 remote nets. We watched the staff catch and band several small songbirds including this Indigo Bunting. It was surprising how small they actually are as compared to what you see up in a tree when they’re singing.
