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Red headed woodpecker facts: Did you know they store food in bark?

Do you know that red headed woodpeckers store food in the bark of trees? The red headed woodpecker, one of the birds featured in our new book Tea with Lady Sapphire: Sharing the Love of Birds, is a quite interesting bird that seeks out dead or dying trees and stumps for nesting sites. The red headed woodpecker is [...]

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Migrating birds of North America: Audubon’s Ten Ways to Make a Difference

Audubon’s Ten Ways to Make a Difference for Migrating Birds has great tips to ensure birds stay safe. According to Audubon, perils include bright lights and tall buildings, cats and toxic lawns. I like tip number 4: Prevent window collisions. Make sure birds can see (and avoid) your windows by putting up screens, closing drapes [...]

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The Big Year with Steve Martin: A birding movie in perfect time for our new bird book

Have you heard about The Big Year with Steve Martin? It looks like a fabulous birding movie that corresponds well with the recent release of our new bird book, Tea with Lady Sapphire: Sharing the Love of Birds. The Big Year stars Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson. It tells the story of a [...]

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Pileated woodpecker photos: Woodpecker rehabilitated after colliding with window

As our new book, Tea with Lady Sapphire: Sharing the Love of Birds, features a pileated woodpecker, I want to share this article, “Woodpecker recovers from collision with window: Animals in the News“, with you. It’s heartwarming to see the photo of the recovered pileated woodpecker in the article. According to the story, a pileated woodpecker [...]

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Bird feeder tips

With our new bird book coming soon, I thought you’d enjoy these bird feeder tips: “Eric Sharp: Use different kinds of bird feeders to draw a variety of feathered friends“. The suet cake feeder the author mentions in his article is a good choice. My parents have suet in a cage hanging on wire and [...]

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Bird watching tips for beginners

Below are some great bird watching tips for beginners, and experts too, courtesy of Birding.com: Hint #1: You need a field guide for your area. A field guide is a book with pictures of the birds and tips for identifying them. The best book for new birders in the United States is the Peterson Field Guide [...]

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About woodpeckers

Did you want to learn more about woodpeckers? Here’s an excellent article, “ALWAYS IN SEASON: No matter the weather, woodpeckers stay at work“. It’s interesting to learn about red-bellied woodpeckers from the article, and woodpecker facts. I learned that the bones of woodpeckers’ skulls are extra thick, and the muscles of their necks extra resilient. [...]

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Hummingbird film from PBS: “Hummingbirds: Magic in the Air”

This preview video below from the hummingbird film, “Hummingbirds: Magic in the Air”, from PBS, is very cool. At times it uses slow motion to show what incredible athletes hummingbirds are.   They are one of the smallest warm-blooded creatures on the planet, but they are also among the fastest. Video Link “Hummingbirds: Magic in the Air”: Preview, PBS Watch Full [...]

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Shade grown coffee, birds and conservation

Not being a coffee drinker, I hadn’t given much though to shade grown coffee, birds and conservation. The article “Bird-friendly coffee” enlightened me to the threats birds face from coffee plantations. Robert Rice, a scientist with the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, says researchers have documented steep declines in migratory bird species in recently, mainly from habitat [...]

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Bird beak deformity rates increase in Pacific Northwest and Alaska

Wild birds in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska are growing deformed beaks at unprecedented rates according to scientists. According to the article ”Tweaked Beaks: How Bird Deformities Help Flag Undetected Toxins“, the bird beak deformity is known as avian keratin disorder, which may signal a greater environmental issue. This bird beak deformity is life threatening as it makes it nearly [...]

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