10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2024

So, like a football stadium named after an insurance company, the broadbill ended up bearing a name celebrating a sponsor. The Little Cuckoo-Dove indeed looks like a cross between a pigeon and a cuckoo, though it is the former, proudly (and in my opinion, mistakenly) raising its own chicks despite the costs and annoyances of doing so.

Birds 230

Birds Indonesia Breeding Charlotte 230

10,000 Birds

APRIL 30, 2013

Baltimore Orioles are surprisingly slight when you get a look at them, but troupials are about the size of a jay, and with the bearing to go with it. Troupials raise their own chicks, generally 3 to 4 per clutch, they just steal the nest in which they raise them. Take a look at this sucker. For starters, it’s massive.

Baltimore 179

Baltimore Broker North America Raised 179

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

The first guide bearing the National Audubon Society imprint was Audubon Bird Guide; Eastern Land Birds , written by Richard Hooper Pough, and illustrated by Don Eckelberry. If you remember that the first edition of Sibley was published with “National Audubon Society” on the cover, raise your hand. I didn’t.).

North America 279

North America America Birds California Condor 279