Featured Image Photo Credit: Rhododendrite It was my first fall migration birdwalk in Ohio, and I was curious as to what migrants would show up here in the Midwest. One of the first we spotted, darting around a low bush, tail flicking open, was a Magnolia Warbler. I was entranced; they were unknown in Washington
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(featured image photo credit: PotMart186, Wikimedia, CC BY-SA) By Kate McFarland When neuroscientist Julie Elie won the 2026 Coller-Dolittle Prize for her work on semantic cognition in Zebra Finches, international news media proclaimed that she had “decoded birdsong” and used Zebra Finches’ vocabulary “to talk back to them.” It makes sense that the headlines would
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By Pia Purra Bird collisions are one of the best-known environmental hazards of wind power. Now, researchers have developed a new approach that utilizes warning signals found in nature to help protect birds. “The starting point for this idea was that in nature, many animals use colors to warn predators of danger. Often, the tendency
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It was just a spot on the CBC map, but it had a singular allure: an old unused quarry lake, hidden behind a shopping center. We have only a few large bodies of water in the Columbus Circle, so I had to check it out. To get there, though, required climbing through a brushy ravine
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By Kathi Borgmann Watch Video (3-Min Version) Watch Video (10-Min Version) Every spring, the familiar songs of Wood Thrushes and warblers return to the parks and backyards of eastern North America. But their journey begins far to the south—in the lush, remote forests of Central America that sustain them throughout most of the year. A
Many Columbus Audubon members know Toni Stahl as a certified Habitat Ambassador, 20-year publisher of the Nature Scoop newsletter, and long-time provider of the Backyard Habitat website. This past summer, Toni received a rude surprise when the August issue of the newsletter was blocked for well over a hundred readers. Unable to determine what was
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