BirdNotes is a result of radio host Dwight Davis' long-time interest in birds, a short feature that can be about almost any aspect of bird life, from migration to coloration to birds in art to song.
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Where are the pigeons?
Gobbling insects in your neighborhood
Neighborhood insect eater
Gobbling insects in your Neighborhood
More spring song
Spring Visitor
Spring is Here
Yes, a Poisonous Bird!
A Fisherman's Avian Observations
Bird Songs of the Season
for St. Patrick
Audubon's Mistake
Handsome Winter Visitor
Feathered Mites
Staying Warm
Small Bundle of Energy
Visitors from the North
Pastoral Songs
Ethereal Singer
A Bird of the Bard
Just what was he?
Glossy dissonances
A lamented lost name
The Presidential Birder
Jules Verne was no ornithologist
Colorful Bach lover
Tall Bird Tales
Drab Ducks
Flight Envy
Life or Death Flight
From the Far Side of the World
The Carolina Wren
The Red-winged Blackbird
What Nest?
Song for a Summer Night
Is that a real bird?
Widespread but overlooked
Summer Sound
Vive la France
Colonial Birds
Birds beating the heat
to welcome the new season
Fathers Day Bird
"nature red in tooth and claw"
A spring feast
Listening to the Mockingbird
Snake skins?
Still an enigma
A bird in the bush
Spring Sprite
Festive feathers
More sounds of spring
The Bluebird
Happy St. Patrick's Day
Spring change in miniature
Defying the cold beach
Happy Birthday, George
Chaucer's Love Birds
Big Billed Visitor
Brown like the landscape
An Avian Concerto
Defying the Cold
"born of the whirling snow"
New Names
The European Goldfinch
Calming Kingfishers
Elegance on the Wing
Beyond the Turkey
Thanksgiving Bird
Rare Song
The original Big Bird
Molting and More
Scary sounds for Halloween
The berry bird
Some thoughts on a late leaver.
Rhymes with Clover
English ornithologist
Distaff Onomastics
"A Cigar with Wings"
Small, brown and confounding
Sunlight on the wing
Colors Abounding
Birds Beating the Heat
Singing its name
What I Heard on my Summer Vacation
Le Coq Gallois
Colonial Nortes
John Burroughs' musing
summer visitor
Fine Feathered Father
Mystery Solved
Bold and Bright
A fisherman goes birding
Another Spring Song
Heard but not Seen
Midwest May
Spring Palette
Buckskin Birder
Overflowing with song
Relatively speaking
A Sound to Welcome Spring
A bird from the dog islands
for St. Paddy's Day
Not all "buzzards" are buzzards
St, David's Day Bird
Diminutive and Demure
Why Wag?
Sotto Voce Raptor
A Musical Pet
Cheerful in the Cold
Look, but don't eat
Birds Small and Busy
on the 7th day of Christmas
Ludwig the Birder
Kingfishers calm the waters
A Day at the Beach
The Wren
It's not easy being a bird
A John Burrow's observation
A poisonous bird
An avian simile
A Bird Named After a Lord
What's in a Word?
The Red-bellied Woodpecker
Sexual Dimorphism
Sorting the Crows
What I did on my Summer Vacation
Feathers Old and New
Distinguishing herons et al.
Lazy summer sounds
Feathered sewer
The Woodcock
Staying cool
Avian Dissonance
Avifauna from Colonial Times
Bright welcome to the season
The Phalaropes
Song of the Wood Thrush
Another spring song
a surfeit of sparrow names
Garden Friend
Another sound of spring
Bright spring visitor
Misnamed warblers
An early spring arrival
All that and a birdwatcher too
big city birds
The Kookaburra
lusty spring singer
A Bird for St. David's Day
I Know You're in There!
Listen to the science
Audubon's mistake
"..smaller than a breadbox"
A new bird for the new year
Edwin Way Teale's observations
Bach Bird
Sounds of Summer
Listen to the Mockingbird
Thoughtful mimics
Feathered Perpetual Motion
An Aldo Leopold observation
Rustic genius
Sotto voce raptor
Rufus Winter Visitor
Feathers Against the Cold
The real snowbird
An Unexpected Visitor
In honor of E.O. Wilson
Birds for Christmastide
Winter Calm
Bird Music of a Different Sort
The Swainson's Thrush
Winter to Spring in Miniature
New Zealand's Bird of the Year
An Avian Palette
Primative and Sacred
The Ring-billed Gull
Golden Swamp Warbler
Spring Singer
delightful collective nouns
Lovely and Unusual
November Sketches
"...makes a perfect gift."
Checklist Challengers
A Life on the Ocean Wave
Peterson’s Poetry
An easy ID
The pileated woodpecker
What is an ouzel? The answer involves both etymology and ornithology.
A Perplexing Fossil
Accomplished Songsters
Buffoon of the Briar Patch
Mr. Clemons as ornithologist
The unofficial bird of Wales
interesting field marks
Bird news for the new year
Wilson’s antbird
Endurance Champion
Birds in the Hand
Memorable summer sound
Toward a better name
Welcome, Sweet Spring
Hollywood at your feeder.
Demure Raptore
Definitely not Big Bird
A Drab Songster
Exotic Bird Names
Nomenclature updates
A handsome Bach bird
The American Woodcock
Just what is a colly bird?
Strange sounding and cute
The duck came first.
Father of the Field Guide
The Sezhuan bush warbler
Why build a nest?
Defining non- descript
The Flight of AX 6587
Songs of an April Morning
Window Watching
From the Canine Islands
“On the Fourth Day of Christmas...”
Robust, foxy visitor
A robust winter visitor
The One and Only
In a Vermont forest.
A spring warbler.
Population Fluctuation
Forever Young
Little Drummer Bird
The Mussel Ducks
On a winter beach
A small bundle of winter cheer.
Avian name calling.
Mysterious music at dusk
A bird for Bastille Day
Avian Secrets
Winter Cheer
Bright feathered sunshine
Gentle harbinger of spring
Not named for Abe.
Feathered and other Harriers
Feathered mascots
Winter visitors
Finch Irruption, 2012
“…keep repeating it’s the berries”
Waiting for a visit from the imposing hunters from the north.
…”red in tooth and claw.”
Thomas Hardy’s songster.
One strange bird.
Ethereal Songster
Brown suite, bright song.
As thin as...
Bluer than blue
An enigma still
The hidden mimic
Long distance champion?
Some avian observations from the other side of the world.
A red-backed sandpiper by any other name.
The Laughing Jackass doesn’t live in the jungle.
Favorite state bird.
Active feathered mites.
Clangorous winter visitor.
...but where is it?
Waterfowl visitors abound in the winter.
Glossy and discordant.
New feathers fly better.
Foraging in suburbia.
Assertive master mimics
A true feathered friend.
The danger of habitat specialization
Now common, colorful migrant
Magical spring transformation
Rhymes with "lover".
Toxic birds.
Ungainly harbingers of spring.
Warmth for the winter.
What to watch for in winter.
Sewing a nest.
Mozart's pet starling.
Halloween scream in the night.
Remembrance of birds past.
Elegance on the wing.
Mysterious song at eventide.
The Little Dipper.
The bullbats are about.
Sorting out the herons.
Towhee, chewink or drink-your-tea
Bright Feathers for the Journey
The Voice of the Turtle
The Gannett
Blue Gray Gnatcatcher
Ruddy Duck
Swans
The Shoveler
Despite the tall tales, eagles do not fly off with children.
La Gazza Ladra
Bird of Washington
Valentine Birds
Snowbird
Hooded Merganser
The Christmas Bird
Edible Birds
The original twitterer
Beethoven's Birds
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Teddy Roosevelt, Birdwatcher
St. Francis and the Birds
Mulberry Birds
Mis-named Warblers
Laughing Gull
Summer Singers
Kites
Sinbad's Roc
skylark they never wert
Loud Songster
John Gould
Migration and Mortality
facts of life and death
Der Meistersinger
the phalarope
Perpetuum Mobile
Bright Springtime Palate
Bird Names
Housewren
Audubon
Isaak Waltons Birds
Blythe Spirit
Distinguishing the Corvids
Harbinger of Spring
Emerald Isle Birds
Walking Winter Visitor
Lord Baltimores feathered namesake
Is a nest a home?
small and drab, but everywhere
The ruby-throat flies the Gulf
Who wags and why
Birds from the Picasso Field Guide
Oceanic water walkers
Drab late-summer wardrobes
Feather and leaves in fall and spring
The wispy white bird without a nest
The shaggy-topped fisherman
Persistant summer songster
Birds beating the summer heat
Jules Verne was not an ornithologist
Birds of the Founding Fathers
Red visitor from the tropics
Feathered war heroes
On the quarter and over the plains
The languid sound of summer