January 2006 BirdNote Episodes:
With a call like the bugle notes of a cavalry charge, a Western Scrub-Jay flaps and glides. Calling again, the Scrub-Jay perches boldly upright atop a tall tree, its long tail spiking downward. Western Scrub-Jays are on the move. Learn more.
Urban owls escape the harsh weather of northern Canada or the Cascade or Rocky Mountains, spending the winter in somewhat milder climes. A crash of the rodent population in their own territories may send the birds into new feeding areas, often hundreds of miles away. Learn more-- and let us know what you think of BirdNote!
Thousands of sea ducks (including goldeneyes, scoters, Harlequins, and more), as well as other marine birds, descend on Puget Sound each fall. But over the last 30 years, the numbers of some, particularly scoters, have dropped dramatically. Learn more.
Parakeets in the wild? This far north? Members of a flock of about 20 to 25 parakeets first showed up in Seward Park in Seattle in the early 1990s. Ornithologists generally agree that they are Scarlet-fronted Parakeets, thousands of miles away from their native Central America. Learn more.
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