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Unusual Birds Gallery
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Sick Birds Gallery
Find out how to identify birds and download identification tools
Learn how to help birds as they seek out food sources, nesting habitat, protection, and more
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Learn about house finch eye disease
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology feeders
Ontario (winter only)
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Graphs of regional population trends and distributions
Explore papers that have used FeederWatch data
Lab scientists analyze the data submitted by FeederWatch participants.
See birds well outside their winter range submitted to Project FeederWatch.
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Gina Sanchez
Denver, CO, USA
We are always told not to Judge a book by its cover yet we do this everyday. The American crow at first glance we take for granted, it’s just a ugly noisy blackbird, but if you stop and look really look you will so much more. Not just black but an array of colors in their black wings.Instead of a “murder” of crows it’s actually a family generation foraging together. They use tools and have complex communication. Next time you see crows look closer and you might not just see blackbirds but a beautiful intelligent creature that deserves our respect not our prejudices.
Category 7: Boring is Beautiful
I’m not ugly
Gorgeous! It takes a lot of skill to photograph complete black. I got adopted by a black cat 3 years ago. I always thought they were boring with no markings, but he is beautiful, strong and sleek, like your crow.
Thank you! I love them, I have been “part” of their flock for almost 5 years now so they let me get somewhat close. They wait for me at the same spot everyday and call to me with one long cawwwww. The matriarch is Kevin.
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