Videos
House Wrens and Carolina Wrens
Diminutive House Wrens and Carolina Wrens consider themselves barons of the brush pile. They rule with effervescent song. (But the House Wren has a dark side that the Carolina Wren does not.)
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Green Herons Don’t Just Eat Fish
It’s a one minute contest! –between a Green Heron and a wriggly bug who would rather not die.
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Great Blue Herons Fluffing Their Plumage
Care to see Michael Jackson dancing …. in feathers? It’ll only take 30 seconds.
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Mayflies
Mayflies live only one day. They mate, and by the end of the day, they usually die. Does that make it a glorious day … or a sad one?
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Bringing Up Baby Robins
Raising baby Robins is trickier than you might think. They can’t digest worms when they first hatch, for example, anymore than a newborn infant could eat filet mignon. So what do they eat? They don’t have diapers. How do the parents keep the nest from getting completely gross in the first two days? After two weeks, each nestling is eating 14 feet of worm a day, so the parents are worm hunting at warp speed.
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Why Owlets Bob Their Heads
Wanna see a Great Horned Owlet groovin’ to the music? Well, sorta.
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American White Pelicans Herd Fish
After American White Pelicans herd fish together, the birds feast, with their heads dipping and rising and dipping and rising again, like horses on a merry-go-round.
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A Great Horned Owlet’s First Week out of the Nest
The owlet’s first week is about baby steps, baby jumps … and bike riding.
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A Killdeer’s Broken Wing Act
Is it unethical for a videographer to peer at Mama Killdeer’s eggs in order to film the female doing her broken wing act? If so, I’m guilty. But she did perform with élan.
Killdeers are shorebirds … who don’t need a shore. If you don’t believe me, visit any high school football field or golf course, where you’ll likely find a nesting pair of Killdeer. They’ll help you find them by screaming “killdeer” as they fly off in alarm. In fact their Latin name testifies to their noisy habits: Charadrius Vociferus.
They produce “precocial” babies–babies that are already fluffy, ready to run, and able to feed themselves. What’s more, those babies are all born at the same time, no matter how many days apart the eggs were laid. That’s because the first egg laid does not begin to develop until the mother Killdeer begins incubating the eggs. She doesn’t do that until the last egg has been laid.
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