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5 Ways the American Bird Conservancy is Protecting Your Local Birds This Spring

I found a golden-crowned kinglet on my patio three years ago. It was March. The bird was small. Smaller than my palm. It had hit my sliding glass door. I stood there looking at it for a long time. That morning I had been drinking coffee and watching chickadees at my...
  • March 25, 2026

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How Can You Identify an American Black Duck?

The American Black Duck stows away in plain locate in shallow wetlands of eastern North America. They regularly run with the omnipresent Mallard, where they see very comparative to female Mallards. But take a moment see through a bunch of brown ducks to take note the dull chocolate-brown flanks, pale grayish...

December 01, 2025

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American Wigeon (Baldpate): Ultimate Identification Guide & Fun

Calm lakes and wetlands come lively with the breezy shriek of the American Wigeon, a fiddling duck with pizzazz. Breeding guys have a green eye fix and a obvious white crown, winning them the moniker "baldpate." Females are brushed in warm browns with a gray-brown head and a smear around the eye....

November 20, 2025

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Palm Warbler Tail Bobbing Florida: Essential Winter Bird

A warbler that doesn’t act like one, the Palm Lark spends its time strolling on the ground, swaying its tail up and down. This brownish-olive feathered creature has a shining corroded cap and a strong pale eyebrow stripe. They breed primarily in Canada’s boreal woodland, but most individuals see them amid...

November 17, 2025