Category: Songbird

Home / Birds / Archive by category "Songbird"

Warbler Spring Migration

FCW
Warbler Spring Migration Article By Susan Reel-Panish Black throated green warbler  - Photo credit Dennis DiMarco In a June 2018 article, on the National Audubon Society website, author Andrew Del-Colle describes a phenomenon sometimes known as a “Fall Out.” In this case, observers in Quebec, Canada saw hundreds of thousands of Warblers, and some other birds, migrating all at once, over the course of several hours. It seems that the birds wer...

The Benefit of Counting Birds

FCW
The Benefit of Counting Birds
Freedom Center for Wildlife volunteer Allison McClure recently published an article in The Huffington Post titled, "Counting Birds: Over a Century of Citizen Science." The article highlights three important projects, including the Christmas Bird Count, Project FeederWatch, and the Great Backyard Bird Count, in which tens of thousands of people participate every year. The combined data from these citizen science projects help researchers understand factors