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Flight Clues
IDENTIFYING SMALL SONGBIRDS is always challenging, so any clue that helps narrow the possibilities can be valuable. One very common experience is seeing a small bird fly across an opening and then into a tree or shrub, where it is hidden by leaves. I
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At Its Own Pace
LATE EVERY SUMMER and into the fall, when I’m ambling down a country road in northern Wisconsin, watching raptors at Duluth’s Hawk Ridge, birding along Lake Superior, or sitting in my backyard, I’m drawn to Cedar Waxwings. Many of them sit on bare br
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Treasures In The Canopy
From my perch high in a 200-foot-tall Douglas-fir, I listen to the lone chord of a Varied Thrush sugaring upwards from the understory. Chip chip chip calls signal a flock of Red Crossbills rippling through the mid-canopy. Close by, a Pacific-slope Fl

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