HOODED WARBLERS: DEFYING THE DOWNWARD POPULATION TRENDS OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS

September 8, 2026.Reading time 2 minutes.

Male Hooded Warbler in his preferred habitat of dense understory. In this case north GA rhododendron & mountain laurel along a small creek. Hooded Warblers are bucking the trend of declining populations. Their numbers are actually increasing as they expand their breeding ground range northward into New England & Ontario as average temperatures increase. This […]

Color Counts

April 20, 2021.Reading time 4 minutes.

I have watched my fair share of bird documentaries. Almost all include courtship and mate selection rituals. These are often bizarre or weird to our eyes. That is until we think back to our teens and the corollaries come racing back to mind. One of my unfair conclusions early on was that the females (it […]