Guide to Bird Watching

Index of Articles in the Bird Identification Category

Chickadee (Parus sp.)
Length about 5 inches. Resident in most of North America.
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Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica)
This is one of the most familiar farm birds and a great insect destroyer, seeking prey from daylight to dark on tireless wings. Its favorite nesting site was barn rafters, upon which it stuck mud baskets to hold its eggs.
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Baltimore Oriole
Look for this bird in groves and shade trees in residential areas of towns and suburbs.
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Bird Watchers and Researchers Have A New Online Database for North American Bird Species
If you are a bird fanatic, you will be interested in a new site dedicated to over 2000 North American bird species.
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Bird Watching News and Events

DNR sets 2008 waterfowl seasons (The Ashland Daily Press)

MADISON — Waterfowl hunters will again enjoy a full 60-day Wisconsin duck hunting season in 2008, including an increase in allowable wood duck harvest and an additional 10 days of dove hunting.

UPDATE:Mississippi Waterfowl Late-Season Dates Set (Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal)

Jackson - The Commission on Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks approved dates for the 2008-2009 waterfowl hunting season on August 27, 2008 at their monthly meeting, according to the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks (MDWFP). The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released late-season frameworks in early August providing a “window” of dates from which states may select specific ...

Waterfowl hunting seasons set for 2008-09 (Daily News Journal)

Tennessee's 2008-09 waterfowl hunting seasons were established by the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Commission during its August meeting at Pickwick Landing State Park on Thursday. The TWRC serves as the governing body for the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency.

Waterfowl hunt clinic Sept. 20 at Babcock Center (The Tomah Journal)

BABCOCK -- Sportsmen interested in learning the basics of hunting waterfowl can attend an upcoming Beginner Waterfowl Hunting Clinic at the Sandhill Outdoor Skills Center.

Goose hunting kicks off fall waterfowl season (WSTM Central New York)

Gall waterfowl hunting begins soon with the September goose season.

Martin's Outdoor Notes: Hunters will enjoy getting additional waterfowl (Mansfield News Journal)

Ohio hunters will again enjoy a 60-day duck hunting season and a six-duck limit this year.

Dave Henderson: Waterfowl seasons set; goose season opens Monday (The Ithaca Journal)

There was a goose survey one year in the late 1960s, as I remember, that found just one goose — a gander wandering aimlessly in Stewart Park — in the Cayuga Lake area.

Goose hunting kicks off fall waterfowl season (WRGB Albany)

ALBANY, N.Y. Fall waterfowl hunting begins soon with the September goose season.

Goose hunting kicks off fall waterfowl season (WCAX-TV Vermont)

Associated Press - August 26, 2008 3:05 AM ET ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Gall waterfowl hunting begins soon with the September goose season. The state Department of Environmental Conservation...

Goose, waterfowl seasons set in New York (Press & Sun-Bulletin)

The Canada goose, once just a visitor that passed through this area in the fall on its way south, has virtually become vermin in New York over the last decade.