It’s a week before the start of the 15th annual Great Backyard Bird Count, or GBBC for short. If you’re new to the count, or just want to hear more about how and why it’s done, tune in to Bird Calls Radio this Sunday afternoon at 1:00 EST. Our director, John Fitzpatrick, will spend the [...]
We saw this beautiful Brown Booby at Suncoast Seabird Sanctuary in Florida.
Our second day in Florida we spent seven hours at Tampa’s famous Lowry Park Zoo. We took hundreds of photos and saw a lot of cool birds and other animals. Here’s some of them. Giraffes The super rare Okapi Relatives to giraffes! Shoebill Stork Helmeted Guinea Fowl White Ibis (wild) One of the coolest experiences [...]
To escape from the winter blahs of northern Illinois, Stacia and I headed to the Tampa area in Florida for a week. We were able to fly out of Rockford (instead of Chicago) which meant it was super easy and hassle free. Shortly after landing at St. Petersburg/Clearwater Airport, we headed to Weedon Island Preserve [...]
Last weekend, bird-lovers up and down the country participated in the RSPB's Big Garden Birdwatch. It was a good chance for amateur photographers to capture what they saw on film.
We’re in the midst of creating a free, online bird ID tool that can answer everyone’s first birding question, “What is that bird I saw?”—and we need your help to train the system. The project, called Merlin™, combines artificial intelligence with input from everyday birders and bird occurrence data from eBird. By using observations from birders [...]
So, you want to find a rare bird, eh? Well, that’s easy enough to do. But first, a couple of questions: What is a rare bird? And, why? The answer to the first question is easy. A rare bird can be anything you want it to be. Really. You can make any birding quest to [...]