Dan and I just got back from a trip to Tampa for just 2 nights for the Thanksgiving holiday. My brother had a knee replacement on Wednesday (he’s doing fine), so we tied visiting him and doing some birdwatching in that area. Do you know how much we carried with us for just three days? … Continue reading
Bar-tailed Godwit’s Self – Control.. ~ by a j mithra With the help of satellite tracking, researchers found that, Bar-tailed Godwits made the longest non-stop flight of any bird… A female bar-tailed Godwit, flew nonstop for eight days and covered 7,242 miles from Alaska to New Zealand…. These birds use the air’s low pressure to help … Continue reading
The devotional a few days ago from Days of Praise had one called The Names of Men. They were referring to the many list of names of people in the Bible and how many of them are unknowns. Why are they listed? The article gives a good answer to that, but here is the main point … Continue reading
The Fountain re-published this article I wrote back in 2009 and decided to re-post it here also. (with editing) Happy Thanksgiving, 2012! Today, many of us here in the United States ate turkey on Thanksgiving Day. Luckily, many turkeys will survive our holiday and continue to roam around. Here locally in Polk County, Florida, I … Continue reading
THE RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET. (RELOCATED – CLICK HERE)
From col. J. G. Parker. Jr. Copyrighted by Nature Study Pub. Co., 1897, Chicago. THE PHOEBE (RELOCATED – CLICK HERE)
I deleted this info because it was out of date and causing 404 errors. See Birds of the World Families for most up to date links. I was adding new photos to it and here is a neat one I came across. Isn’t he cool? Looks like he has glasses on. He does great things … Continue reading
Ian’s Bird of the Week – (Southern Cassowary) and Solar Eclipse by Ian Montgomery Newsletter 11-14-12 It’s unusual for my primary photographic goal on a trip to be other than a bird, but birds this week in northern Queensland have been overshadowed – pun intended – by yesterday’s solar eclipse. Residents of the Townsville district … Continue reading
From col. F. M. Woodruff. Copyrighted by Nature Study Pub. Co., 1897, Chicago. THE HOUSE WREN. (RELOCATED – CLICK HERE)
And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” (Genesis 1:22 NKJV) And God H430 blessed H1288 them, saying, H559 Be fruitful, H6509 and multiply, H7235 and fill H4390 (H853) the waters H4325 in the seas, H3220 and let fowl H5775 multiply H7235 in the earth. H776 (Genesis 1:22 … Continue reading
More of Him… ~ by ajmithra When female Zebra Finches have no option, but to mate with an ugly male, they tend to lay larger-than-normal eggs. The researchers say, that the females are compensating for the lack of its genetic fitness of the father, by giving their offspring an egg containing extra nutrients and more … Continue reading
Stop flying solo… ~ by a j mithra The linear flight formations of migratory birds are called echelons. The V and the J structures are typical and are the most readily recognized flock echelons… There are two well-supported and complementary explanations for why birds fly in formation. One is to conserve energy by taking advantage of the upwash vortex fields created by the … Continue reading
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