#bird migration

[audible-smiles]

Oregonians: Lights Out Oregon starts tonight! It’s peak migration season for the next month, and millions of birds will be flying by night. Bright lights disorient them, draw them into cities, and increase the number of window strike deaths. If you have any overnight lighting, please consider turning it off! You can also call local businesses if you see lighted buildings overnight, to inform them of the risk.

Other people: Your city, county, state, or other region may have a similar initiative with slightly different timing or specific recommendations. Look it up!

[geopsych]

Listen up! This is from 5 years ago today and those red-winged blackbirds had returned and were claiming their territories. Can’t wait to hear them this year.

[fannyrosie]

Snow geese migration - Victoriaville, Québec

(no music, just birds SCREAMING)

[toyastales]

Turquoise Cotinga

Photographer: Andrey Navarro

[admiralgiggles]

Did I mention there was an avalanche of snow geese?

[elliottnotyet]

The actic tern has the longest migration of any animal. It goes from the Arctic circle to the Antarctic circle, always chasing summer.

[Image ID: drawing of an arctic tern flying. It's a white bird with a black patch on the top of its head. End ID]

[stone-cold-groove]

The Migration of Birds - 1952.

[guardian-of-local-forest]

love it when i'm so deep in my bird bachelor thesis that i just type to google "migrants" and think that something about bird migrant species will pop up. you should see my surprise when it doesn't.

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Migrating snow geese stop off at the Reservoir Beaudet, in Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada. Each year the hardy birds travel from the far north, where they breed in colonies on the tundra, to the balmy climes of the southern US and Mexico, where they spend the winter

Photograph: Bernard Brault/AP

[autumncottageattic]

gammsystrar

[geopsych]

Went out hoping to hear a phoebe and—achievement unlocked! It’s the sort of hoarse voiced one in the background saying its name over and over. They’re back!

The bird song app picked up a warbler too at one point. Migration is happening.

[fannyrosie]

La migration de l'oie des neiges

Snow geese migration

Outfit rundown (these geese are white-ish with black wing tips and accents); Coat: old Mary Magdalene; Skirt underneath: second-hand Innocent World; Beret: old Ralph Lauren; Boots: old Cobb Hill; Bird brooches: Design à la mode Osaka event (can't remember the artist); Tights: heattech by Uniqlo

[toyastales]

Common green magpie

[admiralgiggles]

Did I mention seeing a blizzard of snow geese?

[birdingblog]

I spent about 4 hours at Hawk Ridge this afternoon and got to watch kettles of broad-winged hawks for the first time!! Most of the birds were too high to show up on my camera, so this is just a tiny fraction of what was there.

Besides the broad-wings, I saw in the ballpark of 100 sharp-shinned hawks, dozens of kestrels, and handfuls of bald eagles and common nighthawks, among other birds. Overall, a very exciting day!!