When you hear their chorus, be assured that our summer birds will soon arrive, some from as far south as Northern Mexico.
Its skillful hunting is enhanced by exceptional sight and acute hearing. To entice a goldfinch to your yard, put out a thistle-seed birdfeeder. These are Sanderlings, small sandpipers that stay through the winter.
Because many birds are largely silent in winter, it may seem that they have left us. Storks and babies have been linked together for centuries. Because many birds are largely silent in winter, it may seem that they have left us.
A light snow falls on her back, as her mate roosts nearby. The Pied-billed Grebe is a common resident bird of our freshwater lakes and ponds. Storks and babies have been linked together for centuries. Researchers suggest that the legend goes back into pagan times, when civilizations were keen to have high birthrates.
The Upper Skagit River in northwest Washington is a favorite sashimi restaurant for hundreds of eagles.
Many owls appear in the Harry Potter films. The evidence and theories are complex. There is an element of luck in birdwatching, and sometimes that luck is mostly bad.
At first glance, a Varied Thrush can appear to be a robin.
Researchers suggest that the legend goes back into pagan times, when civilizations were keen to have high birthrates.
The Pied-billed Grebe is a common resident bird of our freshwater lakes and ponds. The intricate pattern of color on its wings resembles dappled sunlight on the forest floor.
Snowy Owls are usually rare visitors to Western Washington. Brown Pelicans fly just above the breaking surf off the Washington coast. High in a leafless cottonwood sits a female Great Horned Owl, her broad head sporting two ear-like tufts.
The plight of the gravely endangered Spotted Owl illustrates the imperiled status of old-growth forest in the Pacific Northwest.
Can you imagine a spring without the voices of birds? Pacific chorus frogs, less than two inches long, swell their throat sacs to three times the size of their heads to send their calls into the night. While spring heralds the return of many migratory birds, it also spells the end of a long winter stay in Washington by others.
While spring heralds the return of many migratory birds, it also spells the end of a long winter stay in Washington by others.
Snow Geese migrate long distances, stopping at traditional stopover and wintering areas. A recent bonanza of fossils has intensified debate over how contemporary birds are linked to the extinct dinosaurs. But how did that old legend get started, that storks bring babies?
High in a leafless cottonwood sits a female Great Horned Owl, her broad head sporting two ear-like tufts. While spring heralds the return of many migratory birds, it also spells the end of a long winter stay in Washington by others.
A Winter Wren may dart from hiding to grab a meal.
When you hear their chorus, be assured that our summer birds will soon arrive, some from as far south as Northern Mexico.
In many songbirds, the song-producing apparatus known as the syrinx is not much bigger than a raindrop. The call of the male Ring-necked Pheasant carries over the open wheat field. According to myth, Thunderbird was so large and flew so high, it carried the rain on its back and created lightning and thunder.
The silence would be deafening, the absence of their songs like the loss of one of our primary senses. They flitter across the landscape, passing erratically before you. But many remain, and even the shy and secretive sometimes reveal themselves.