INCH WORMS GO THE EXTRA MILE FOR GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLETS

March 14, 2025.Reading time 2 minutes.

Golden-crowned Kinglets are tiny birds, not much bigger than Ruby-throated Hummingbirds, that can withstand extreme cold.Most Golden-crowned Kinglets, breed across Canada. Then they migrate to spend winter across much of the US, including the upper mid-West. Also, there are populations that are year-round residents in higher elevations of the Appalachian Mountains & mountainous West. This […]

MIGRANT BIRDS CLIMATE CHANGE INDUCED PHENOLOGY MISMATCH: AND YOU THOUGHT LEAPING AHEAD ONE HOUR WAS A PAIN IN THE WATCH

March 14, 2024.Reading time 11 minutes.

Cedar Waxwing Hawking Insects On First Warm Day In February

Try being a bird. Want more pain? Try being a migrant bird. On their highly evolved natural calendars, spring, as measured by the First Leaf and First Bloom Indices is leaping forward not by hours but by days or even weeks. Our spring insect emergence, a natural event that migrant birds rely on, started in […]