Downtown birds
Can you identify this “urban” bird? It was blasting its song over the main site for the New York State “Special Concern” Eastern Spiny Softshell Turtles in downtown Jamestown this past Sunday! It is not obscured and it is close but this is a difficult angle. Yep, that is actually a Tennessee Warbler (Oreothlypis peregrina)! There was a surprising bunch of migrants at the site and I noted the following: Eastern Kingbird 1 Warbling Vireo 2 Red-eyed Vireo 1 Swainson’s Thrush 1 Gray Catbird 2 Tennessee Warbler 3 Nashville Warbler 4 Common Yellowthroat 1 Cape May...
Read MoreEastern Kingbird (Tyrannus tyrannus) by Scott Kruitbosch
Eastern Kingbirds are patrolling our open areas once again. I wonder how long it took this bird, photographed this afternoon, to arrive in WNY from South America…
Read MoreSwainson’s Thrush (Catharus ustulatus) by Sean Graesser
This Swainson’s Thrush (Catharus ustulatus) looks great in Meet Your Neighbours style by Sean and provides a terrific look at a sometimes confusing species we will be welcoming back to the U.S. very soon.
Read MoreRTPI Staff Teaches Litchfield High School Students in the Costa Rican Rainforest
Between February 24 and March 7 RTPI Affiliate Sean Graesser and Director Twan Leenders traveled to the Costa Rican rainforest again to teach Connecticut high school students about the importance of rainforest conservation as part of the Forman School Rainforest Project. This unique hands-on biology course based out of the Forman School in Litchfield, but also catering to high school seniors and juniors of local public high schools, is currently in its 22nd year. Every year a group of 12-14 students travels to the remote (and difficult to reach) rainforest preserve Rara Avis, where they work...
Read MoreKentucky Warbler (Geothlypis formosa) by Sean Graesser
After returning from Costa Rica RTPI Affiliate Sean Graesser tells me, “This Kentucky Warbler was one of the 20 neotropical migrants we caught and banded over the last two weeks. All in all the 2014 Forman Rainforest Project bird team caught over 170 birds. I took a quick portrait of this beautiful warbler Meet Your Neighbours style before it was released hopefully to return to an area near you. ” It and so many other warblers will be on the move north soon or are already!
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