Flocking Around

Hyping #birds and building #nerds (but mostly just Flocking Around). Check the website ⤵️ for more.

[Chicago Bird Collision Monitors @BirdMonitors]

Another thing you can do to protect birds is, if you happen to be the mayor of a large city on a major migratory flyway, say, a city like Chicago, you can work with your city council to make bird-friendly design mandatory for all new construction.

[Marky Mutchler @MarkyMutchler]

Did you have your lights off? Over ONE BILLION BIRDS flew through the United States in just one night!!!!

Thank you @DrBirdCast for creating and providing such amazing tools to visualize and quantify bird migration!

[Marky Mutchler @MarkyMutchler]

You ever wondered what a couple seconds of a tiny portion of sky would look like during a morning with 180,000+ migrating warblers?

That’s oddly specific, but wonder no more!

[Flocking Around @flockingaround]

It must stop.

[Marky Mutchler @MarkyMutchler]

Nearly 1,000 migratory birds died at ONE building just this morning in Chicago. Imagine across the whole city.

Please please please consider turning lights off in your home and offices over night as our feathered friends make their journey south!

📸 Daryl Coldren

[Flocking Around @flockingaround]

Tonight (and the following two nights) are seeing MASSIVE movements of birds as they migrate at night! Learn more about how we know this at https://t.co/hnxL1vYtFV or https://t.co/fxqCqdVLkx !

#birdmigration #migratorybirds #radar #birdradar

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Chickadees LOVE clean feeders. Hopefully, you took 30 minutes this weekend to give yours a quick scrub!

#birdfeeder #learnbirds #cleanfeeders

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BIRD QUIZ!

Name this little, messy bird!

Hint: It is not frequently found west of the Great Plains!

#birdquiz #birdID #learnbirds

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The robins and catbirds are cleaning off our chokecherry bushes, but that is exactly what I love to see!

What berry bushes do you provide for birds to chow down upon?

#plantsforbirds #berries #robins #robinrobbing

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@NicoSGonzalez Something I did not know I needed.

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We just created some holographic stickers of the Wild Bird Feeding Institute's "feeder bird of the year," the Rufous Hummingbird! While these are not yet ready to ship out, we have some other fun bird stickers: https://t.co/7EDHbELkZ3

#birdsticker #birdingsticker #animalsticker

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The Flocking Around Roost had quite an interesting visitor last week! So why does this Broad-tailed Hummingbird look like this?! It has some sort of color mutation, leading to a form of albinism! (Some might use the catch-all term leucistic.)

#hummingbirds #albinobirds #albinism

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Here's a champion laborer of the animal kingdom that often goes unheralded. The bumblebee! The honey bee often gets a lot of credit, but it is not a native species to North America! The humble bumble, though, is a major pollinator of many North American plant species!

#laborday

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If there is one sports team that is deserving of the Rock Pigeon as its mascot, I think I have identified it: https://t.co/Qc7bT3VUHe

#pigeons #rockpigeon #funnybirds

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Which birding app is your favorite? My favorite birding apps are listed here: https://t.co/1iXNipRqo6

The top of my list is hinted at with this photo... can you guess?

#birdID #birdapps #learnbirds

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The Flocking Crew is stopping by one of our favorite national wildlife refuges this week! (I hope we get to see lots of grebes, like this Horned Grebe.) Learn about the refuge: https://t.co/mOXpapHYD9

#NWR #birdrefuge #conservationarea

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BIRD QUIZ!

Here is this week's bird quiz for you!

Hint: You won't get a pip out of me for this quiz.

#birdquiz #birdID #learnbirds

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Here is a throwback to last year when Flocking Around went to see the monsoonal rains of the desert southwest! This is a baby Barn Swallow that had fledged and was practicing its regal perch!

#babybird #babyanimals #birding #tbt

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The Finch Research Network is reporting Red Crossbills are on the move, with different varieties moving to less common areas. Keep your eyes open for these unique-billed beauties!

#finch #irruption #birdmigration

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The Flocking Crew is on the road helping members of the flock! So here is a Black-necked Stilt image to remind you to go see some shorebird migration!

Who has seen one of these recently?

#shorebird #migration #shorebirdmigration #migratorybird

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BIRD QUIZ!

Name this little brown bird!

Hint: It has quite an amazing VOCAL repertoire!

#birdquiz #birdID #learnbirds