Welcome to my blog.
All tagged Audubon
While the damage wrought by Hurricane Idalia is still being assessed, one pleasant consequence of the storm has been the extensive dispersal of the American flamingo. The big pink birds are being spotted throughout much of the Eastern Seaboard this week, no worse for wear.
The grand prize winner in Audubon’s annual photography contest is remarkable for its banality: a pair of rock pigeons, one of the most common birds on the planet.
In Los Angeles, a robust population of an invasive species – the red-crowned parrot – is thriving. For once, the aliens are not a threat to native species; in fact, the LA parrots might end up saving their cousins in the wild, where these birds are threatened.
While birders around the city enjoy the peak spring bird migration, stalking the wilds of Central Park and other green spaces in the five boroughs, tens of thousands of our feathered friends meet their untimely deaths by window collision.
