Laura Dornan

Columbus Audubon thanks Laura Dornan and the Canton Audubon Society for their kind permission to republish this article. An apt description for why this Arctic breeder comes down to the large grasslands, hay-fields, and reclaimed strip mines of eastern Ohio every winter. They begin to arrive in Ohio the third week of October through the

Columbus Audubon thanks Laura Dornan and the Canton Audubon Society for their kind permission to republish this article. One of the joys of backyard birding on a wintry day in Ohio is seeing White-throated Sparrows at your ground feeders. This attractive and easy-to-identify sparrow breeds in the coniferous and mixed forests of Canada, New England,

Columbus Audubon thanks Laura Dornan and the Canton Audubon Society for their kind permission to republish this article. Some ducks that whistle rather than quack, among them male Greater and Lesser Scaup, American Wigeon and Blue-winged Teal, are in fact ducks. But whistling-ducks in the genus Dendrocygna, or “tree swan”, are more closely related to

Columbus Audubon thanks Laura Dornan and the Canton Audubon Society for their kind permission to republish this article. Chordeiles, from the Greek word Chorde, meaning a stringed musical instrument, and deile, meaning afternoon or evening, describes this member of the Nightjar family, flying overhead in the evening, hunting insects drawn to street lights. Except it