Nest boxes for Bluebirds are not just for nesting! Dick Tuttle tells how else they can help the birds survive — and describes the thrill of seeing “your” Bluebirds using them.
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National Audubon recently presented a webinar on wind energy development. If you are interested in this topic, the webinar provides a lot of useful background information — and also helps to explain Audubon’s positions and work in this area. The webinar is about one hour, including answers to questions from the audience.
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After I finished my eighth grade academic year at school, I built my first bird houses that I nailed to a hand full of trees in my neighborhood. I enjoyed watching House Sparrows and House Wrens going in and out of my creations, but I had mounted my boxes too high on the trees for
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I had originally planned to write an article for Song Sparrow on the importance of the Native Plant Backyard Challenge, which begins this month. I had planned to invoke relevant new research, notably a October 2021 report by the USDA Forest Service, which found that urban and suburban homeowners can help to increase bird diversity
On Native Plants and Nomadic Living Read More »
The Central Ohio Owl Project’s fall banding effort ended with some exciting results. A total of 16 Northern Saw-whet Owls were caught during fall migration, and two of those already had bands. One had been banded by fellow Ohio owl bander Tom Bartlett on Kelleys Island about three weeks before it showed up in Union
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For the nineteenth consecutive year, I counted migrating Chimney Swifts as I watched seven chimneys at six locations inside the city of Delaware and one additional chimney in Galena, Ohio. Swifts dropped in only six of the eight chimneys as they sought safe vertical walls with rough surfaces to cling to for the night. The
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