Category: BirdWatching

_{This YouTube video was produced by the American Bird Conservancy.}

The elusive Bicknell’s Thrush (Catharus bicknelli) was once considered an isolated population of the Gray-cheeked Thrush. Then, in 1995, ornithologists decided that differences in plumage, size, song, and range warranted

_{This YouTube video was produced by the American Bird Conservancy}

Each spring heralds a unique spectacle on the brushy western plains of North America. Year after year, male Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) congregate on ancestral display grounds known as leks.

_{This YouTube video was produced by the American Bird Conservancy.}

The rufous-breasted Red Knot (Calidris canutus rufa), once known as the “Robin Snipe,” is a champion long-distance migrant, flying more than 9,000 miles from south to north every spring, then … Continue