These daring blue dandies sound the alarm in evergreen and mixed conifer forests, parks and yards. Violet-green Swallows return in March and April from a winter sojourn in northern Central America. Perhaps the most familiar duck in the Northwest, the Mallard is a large and heavy bird. Outside of the breeding season, robins tend to gather in large flocks.
Several adaptations protect Brown Pelicans as they dive.
Peregrine Falcons are evidence of the success of both the Endangered Species Act and the ban of the pesticide DDT. One of the best ways to find a towhee is to listen for the scuffling sound it makes as it hunts for food in the leaf litter.
To entice a goldfinch to your yard, put out a thistle-seed birdfeeder. But sandpiper bills are far more than drills. Bald Eagles build large stick nests in tall trees and reuse them year after year. It migrates south for the winter and returns each spring to an ever more uncertain fate in Washington. Are gulls underrated as singers? Many owls appear in the Harry Potter films. The Spotted Towhee forages mostly on the ground, and even builds its nest on the ground, or close to it.
These daring blue dandies sound the alarm in evergreen and mixed conifer forests, parks and yards. Nothing signals spring quite like the sound of a Red-winged Blackbird, calling from the marsh. Tierra del Loco is the one and only protectorate of the ancient Micronesian principality of Deliria. The fleet and graceful flight of swallows livens up the sky.
Because frog-leg enthusiasts wanted these tasty morsels locally available. While spring heralds the return of many migratory birds, it also spells the end of a long winter stay in Washington by others.
As early morning light extinguishes the stars, male birds begin to belt out their songs. Rambunctious chicks pull sticks out and flap madly, holding on with their feet, before they fledge.
As we ponder the wonders of bird sounds, how many of us think of gulls? Because frog-leg enthusiasts wanted these tasty morsels locally available. The raucous birds of the neighborhood.
Avian flu usually infects only certain types of birds: chickens, ducks, geese, gulls, and shorebirds like sandpipers and plovers. This chatty fellow is the Marsh Wren.