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Posts Tagged ‘birds’

WHY WE DON’T SEE BIRDS MIGRATE SOUTH

Why do we notice when birds head north in the spring, but then space out completely when they head south? Have you ever noticed ANYTHING besides the Loud Mouth Canada Goose winging south? Do the songbirds use an underground railroad or something? FedEx? Theoretically there should be even more birds in the southward run, so [...]

Springtime Singtime

The male cardinals began yelling a couple of weeks ago: WHEET! WHEET! WHEET! Just like that, after a winter of not speaking, they abruptly erupted. The lengthening daylight somehow raises the amount of testosterone circulating in their blood. And when the hormone reaches a critical concentration, the yelling begins: MY YARD! MY TREE! MY BUSH! [...]