Bird – Canada Goose
Bird Identification – Canada Goose Of the millions of migrants that stream across the sky every spring and autumn, none attract so much attention as the wild geese. How their mellow honk, honk thrills one when the birds pass like ships in the night! Such big, strong, rapid flyers have little to fear in travelling […]
Bird – Swamp Sparrow
Bird Identification – Swamp Sparrow Where rails thread their way among the rushes, and red-winged blackbirds, marsh wrens, and Maryland yellow-throats like to live, there listen for the tweet-tweet-tweet of the swamp sparrow. It is a sweet but rather monotonous little song that he repeats over and over again to the mate who is busy […]
Bird – Killdeer
Bird Identification – Killdeer If you don’t know the little killdeer plover, it is surely not his fault, for he is a noisy sentinel, always ready, night or day, to tell you his name. Killdee, killdee, he calls with his high voice when alarmed—and he is usually beset by fears, real or imaginary—but when at […]
Snowy Owl
The Snowy Owl is to be honest my favourite animal it obviously a bird a large bird of prey it’s a carnivore snatching small birds and rodents it flaps his/her wings silently unable to be heard from its prey. Did You Know? Any owl can do turn its Head three sixty (360) The yellow-eyed, black […]
Penguin
The number of penguin species has been and still is a matter of debate. The numbers of penguin species listed in the literature vary between 16 and 19 species. Some sources consider the White-Flippered Penguin a separate species, although today it is generally considered a subspecies of the Little Penguin. Similarly, it is still unclear […]
Bird – Belted Kingfisher – The Halcyon
Bird Identification – Belted Kingfisher – The Halcyon This Izaak Walton of birddom, whom you may see perched as erect as a fish hawk on a snag in the lake, creek or river, or on a dead limb projecting over the water, on the lookout for minnows, chub, red fins, samlets or any other small […]
Bird – Owls
Bird Identification – Owls Like many children I know, owls begin to be especially lively toward night, only they make no noise as they fly about. Very soft, fluffy plumage muffles their flight so that they can drop upon a meadow mouse creeping through the grass in the stilly night before this wee, timorous beastie […]
Bird – Screech Owls
Bird Identification – Screech Owls A boy I know had a pair of little screech owls invite themselves to live in a box he had nailed up for bluebirds in his father’s orchard. Although they had full liberty, in time they became tame pets, even pampered darlings, with a willing slave to trap mice for […]
Bird – The American Robin Red-breasted Thrush – Migratory Thrush – Robin Redbreast
Bird Identification – The American Robin Red-breasted Thrush – Migratory Thrush – Robin Redbreast It is only when he is a baby that you could guess our robin is really a thrush, for then the dark speckles on his plump little yellowish-white breast are prominent thrush-like markings, which gradually fade, however, as he grows old […]
Bird – Field Sparrow
Bird Identification – Field Sparrow While the neighbourly song sparrow and the swamp sparrow delight to be near water, the field sparrow chooses to live in dry uplands where stunted bushes and cedars cover the hills and overgrown old fields, and towhees and brown thrashers keep him company. He is not fond of human society, […]