Malheur NWR – 2023

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Includes photos from the Migratory Bird Festival in April, a couple of weeks in June, and an evening with the Great Horned Owletts at Headquarters.

Bird Photography in the Land of The Morning Calm 

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Birding, let alone bird photography, in South Kore Korea is not a popular past time, which is unfortunate.

Who are You Calling a Bird Brain?

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For hundreds of years, birds have been considered stupid and incapable of advanced thought or learning; this is why the phrase “bird brain” is commonly used to denote persons who are dolts or simpletons.

Conversations with Secretive Birds and what We’ve Learned

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After listening to wildlife professionals at a Pacific Birds Habitat Joint Venture meeting (https://pacificbirds.org/) in 2016 discuss how little was known about the status of secretive birds that inhabit local area wetlands, Puget Sound Bird Observatory (PSBO) initiated a wetland bird monitoring project.

“The Bosque” – Late Fall Beauty

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Nestled next to the Rio Grande River in Central New Mexico sits a series of marshes and low- lying fields known as the Bosque del Apache Wildlife Refuge.