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Birds: Stories and Lore
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Here are a few more stories from Diane Porter. Most of these emphasize how understanding what the birds are doing and something about the ecological challenges they face enhances the pleasure of observing them.
The magazines where the articles were first published are mentioned with each piece.
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Stars of Navigation
Indigo buntings, like many other birds, migrate at night, navigating by the stars. How do they learn to do that? We may never know the whole mystery, but here is part of the answer. |
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Jewel Birds
Here's a little something about ruby-throated hummingbirds, and where they've been when they return to your garden in spring. There are also some suggestions on attracting them. |
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Spotted Owls
The spotted owl, which has stirred so much controversy over logging on public lands in the Pacific Northwest, is rare and hard to find. Here's a personal encounter with the subspecies that lives in Arizona. |
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Episode from a Life List
It wasn't cold enough at home in Iowa, so a group of birders headed for Minnesota in the midst of winter, in search of snowy owls, spruce grouse, and memories to warm them till spring. |
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Raptor Rapture
Fall is raptor time in much of the United States, and the best time to see migrating hawks. Stand with the author by the edge of a river and watch a peregrine falcon hunt for a meal. |
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Eastern Meadowlark
Some birds live in the trees, some by the shore. But the meadowlark loves wide open spaces. The male is entirely golden when he faces the female to impress her at mating time. |
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More Bird Stories
Birdwatching is your lifetime ticket to the theater of nature
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Articles about the relationship between birds and humans:
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