A new backyard bird every day: who's singing and what it sounds like. 🐦
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🐦 Backyard Bird of the Day
Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus), heard yesterday morning, 56% confidence.
💡 Unusual among woodpeckers, the Northern Flicker feeds mostly on the ground, especially on ants.
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ALT Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus)
🐦 Backyard Bird of the Day
Common Grackle (Quiscalus quiscula), heard yesterday morning, 84% confidence.
💡 The Common Grackle has a special hinge in its upper bill that lets it saw open acorns.
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ALT Common Grackle (Quiscalus quiscula)
🐦 Backyard Bird of the Day
Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata), heard yesterday morning, 86% confidence.
💡 Blue Jays mimic hawk calls, possibly to clear other birds away from a feeder.
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ALT Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata)
🐦 Backyard Bird of the Day
Purple Martin (Progne subis), heard yesterday afternoon, 76% confidence.
💡 East of the Rockies, Purple Martins nest almost exclusively in birdhouses put up by people, a tradition going back to Native Americans hanging hollow gourds for them.
ALT Purple Martin (Progne subis)
🐦 Backyard Bird of the Day
Cedar Waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum), heard yesterday afternoon, 96% confidence.
💡 Cedar Waxwings can occasionally become intoxicated, and even die, from eating overripe berries that have started to ferment.
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ALT Cedar Waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum)
🐦 Backyard Bird of the Day
American Robin (Turdus migratorius), heard yesterday morning, 53% confidence.
💡 American Robins mostly find earthworms by sight, not by sound as long assumed.
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ALT American Robin (Turdus migratorius)
🐦 Backyard Bird of the Day
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus varius), heard yesterday afternoon, 83% confidence.
💡 The Yellow-bellied Sapsucker drills neat rows of small holes into tree bark and returns repeatedly to drink the sap that oozes out, along with any…
ALT Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus varius)
🐦 Backyard Bird of the Day
Dunlin (Calidris alpina), heard yesterday afternoon, 78% confidence.
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ALT Dunlin (Calidris alpina)
🐦 Backyard Bird of the Day
Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis), heard yesterday morning, 52% confidence.
💡 Female Northern Cardinals sing too, unusual among North American songbirds where typically only males do.
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ALT Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis)
🐦 Backyard Bird of the Day
American Barn Owl (Tyto furcata), heard last night, 87% confidence.
💡 The American Barn Owl hunts almost entirely by sound, using asymmetrically placed ears that let it pinpoint prey in total darkness.
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ALT American Barn Owl (Tyto furcata)
🐦 Backyard Bird of the Day
Common Yellowthroat (Geothlypis trichas), heard yesterday evening, 77% confidence.
💡 The male Common Yellowthroat's black mask is thought to signal his fighting ability to rivals — birds with bigger masks tend to win more contests.
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ALT Common Yellowthroat (Geothlypis trichas)
🐦 Backyard Bird of the Day
House Finch (Haemorhous mexicanus), heard yesterday morning, 52% confidence.
💡 A male House Finch's red coloring comes entirely from diet, not genetics — pale food, pale male.
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ALT House Finch (Haemorhous mexicanus)
🐦 Backyard Bird of the Day
Northern Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos), heard yesterday afternoon, 90% confidence.
💡 A single Northern Mockingbird can learn and mimic over 200 different songs in its lifetime.
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ALT Northern Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos)
🐦 Backyard Bird of the Day
Common Nighthawk (Chordeiles minor), heard yesterday afternoon, 98% confidence.
💡 Despite the name, the Common Nighthawk isn't a hawk at all — it's related to nightjars and catches insects on the wing at dusk.
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ALT Common Nighthawk (Chordeiles minor)
🐦 Backyard Bird of the Day
American Robin (Turdus migratorius), heard yesterday morning, 86% confidence.
💡 American Robins mostly find earthworms by sight, not by sound as long assumed.
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ALT American Robin (Turdus migratorius)
🐦 Backyard Bird of the Day
Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis), heard yesterday morning, 77% confidence.
💡 Eastern Bluebirds nearly vanished in the early 1900s, outcompeted for nest cavities by introduced European Starlings — the nest-box movement helped bring them back.
ALT Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis)
🐦 Backyard Bird of the Day
Graylag Goose (Anser anser), heard yesterday evening, 75% confidence.
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ALT Graylag Goose (Anser anser)
🐦 Backyard Bird of the Day
American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos), heard yesterday afternoon, 83% confidence.
💡 American Crows can recognize individual human faces and remember them for years.
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ALT American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos)
🐦 Backyard Bird of the Day
White-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis), heard yesterday afternoon, 97% confidence.
💡 White-breasted Nuthatches habitually creep face-first down tree trunks, the opposite direction of woodpeckers, letting them spot insects those other…
ALT White-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis)
🐦 Backyard Bird of the Day
Black-crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax), heard yesterday afternoon, 82% confidence.
💡 The Black-crowned Night Heron is most active at dusk and after dark, and its stocky shape and short legs make it look quite different from most…
ALT Black-crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax)