Kaziranga National Park, Assam
Bird of the Day: Grey-headed Fish Eagle
Kaziranga National Park, Assam
Nature Photography
Bird of the Day: Oriental White-eye
Nandi Hills, Bangalore
Bird of the Day: Peacock (Bandhavgarh National Park, Madhya Pradesh)
Bird of the Day: Black-hooded Antshrike
female – Carara National Park, Costa Rica
Bird of the Day: Great Egret (Sanibel Island, Florida)
photo credit: Stephen Crafts
Bird of Thanksgiving: Great Curassow
female – Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica
Bird of the Day: Black-bellied Plover (Playa Esterillos, Costa Rica)
Bird of the Day: Lesser Flameback
Thattekad Bird Sanctuary, Kerala
Bird of the Day: Long-billed Hermit
Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica
Bird of the Day: Yellow-crowned Night Heron – juvenile (J.N. Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge, Sanibel Island, Florida)
photo credit: Stephen Crafts
Bird of the Day: Northern Barred-Woodcreeper
Carara National Park, Costa Rica
Bird of the Day: Purple Sunbird
Thattekkad Bird Sanctuary, Kerala
Bird of the Day: Glaucous-winged Gulls (Resurrection Bay, Alaska)
Bird of the Day: Anhinga (J.N. Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge, Sanibel Island, Florida)
photo credit: Stephen Crafts
Bird of the Day: Heart-spotted Woodpecker
Thattekkad Bird Sanctuary, Kerala
Bird of the Day: Scaly-breasted Munia (Bandipur Tiger Reserve, Karnataka)
Photo credit: Pallavi Kaiwar
Bird of the Day: White Ibis
Carara National Park, Costa Rica
Bird of the Day: Brahminy Kite
Bangalore, Karnataka
Bird of the Day: Scale-crested Pygmy-Tyrant (Cordillera de Talamanca, Costa Rica)
FeederWatch BirdSpotter 2014
White-breasted Nuthatch feeding at LEGO Feeder. Photo by Gary Mueller submitted to Project FeederWatch 2014 BirdSpotter contest.
Project FeederWatch was one of my other neighbors back at the Lab of Ornithology when I worked for Celebrate Urban Birds. This year, FeederWatch is working on a photo contest with the optics company Vanguard, and it looks like they have some amazing prizes, and therefore some stunning contest entries! The 2014-15 BirdSpotter contest will run from November 5th to February 23rd, and the main goal of the contest is to increase project membership to 25,000 participants for the year.
The FeederWatch mission is pretty straightforward: if you live in North America and have a feeder in your neighborhood (yard, park, etc.), watch it during the winter (November-April) and count the different birds that visit it. Like other citizen science projects that the Cornell Lab of Ornithology is involved with, the data you send in becomes valuable input for scientists in their research!
