Birding

We love to travel to find new birds and participate in a lot of bird counts. We also created a Guide to Birding Field Guides and host a collection of over 300 birding links from all over the globe.

Conservation

While our main focus continues to be birds, we promote other areas of conservation as well. Conserving land not only benefits wildlife, but is hugely beneficial to people as well.

Outdoors

We love all sorts of outdoor activities, especially hiking and spend a lot of time outside with dogs and horses. We are working to produce more articles on all sorts of outdoor fun!

Photography

Every week we bring you Bird Photography Weekly. We periodically talk about our adventures in digiscoping. Feel free to browse our photo lifelist.

31 Cool Bird Facts #26 – Semipalmated Plover

October 26, 2008
Article in: Birding

Semipalmated Plovers [Charadrius semipalmatus] are common shorebirds that can best be described as small, brown and white, and completely adorable.

Semipalmated Plovers

The Semipalmated Plover has been seen to swim short distances across small water channels during foraging while on migration. Chicks also swim short distances to follow parents to small islets on shallow lakes. – Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s All About Birds

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Shorebird Battles – Semipalmated Plovers

August 14, 2008
Article in: Photography

In a much more relaxed argument than the fighting Ruddy Turnstones, these digiscoped Semipalmated Plovers were trying to work out their disagreements through words (or peeps).

Step one – stick out your booty
Semipalmated Plovers

Counter-attack with another booty raise
Semipalmated Plovers

Peep out your problems…
Semipalmated Plovers

Take a nap when done
Semipalmated Plover

Thanks to Swarovski Optik for loaning out a wonderful spotting scope to allow for these digiscoped images of shorebirds.

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