Bird Notes with Dwight Davis

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The Indigo Bunting
Bluer than blue
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Bird Anting
An enigma still
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White-Eyed Vireo
The hidden mimic
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The Wheatear
Long distance champion?
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Hong Kong Birds
Some avian observations from the other side of the world
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Dunlin
A red-backed sandpiper by any other name
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Kookaburra
The Laughing Jackass doesn’t live in the jungle
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Cardinal
Favorite state bird
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Kinglets
Active feathered mites
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Long-tailed Duck
Clangorous winter visitor
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A New Bird for a New Year
...but where is it?
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December Ducks
Waterfowl visitors abound in the winter.
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Grackles
Glossy and discordant.
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Feather Wear
New feathers fly better.
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The Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Foraging in suburbia.
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The Mimids
Assertive master mimics
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The Chipping Sparrow
A true feathered friend.
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Red-Cockaded Woodpecker
The danger of habitat specialization
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The Chestnut-sided Warbler
Now common, colorful migrant
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Yellow-rumped Warbler
Magical spring transformation
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The Piping Plover
Rhymes with "lover"
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The Pitohui
Toxic birds
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Buzzards Day
Ungainly harbingers of spring
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Eider Down
Warmth for the winter.
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Open Field Visitors
What to watch for in winter.
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The Tailorbird
Sewing a nest.
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A Foolish Wag
Mozart's pet starling.
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The Barred Owl
Halloween scream in the night.
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Red-Headed Woodpecker
Remembrance of birds past.
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The Swallow-tailed Kite
Elegance on the wing.
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The Ovenbird
Mysterious song at eventide.
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The Ouzel
The Little Dipper.
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The Nighthawk
The bullbats are about.
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Which White Waders
Sorting out the herons.
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The Towhee
Towhee, chewink or drink-your-tea
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Bright Feathers for the Journey
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The Voice of the Turtle
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The Gannett
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Blue gray Gnatcatcher
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Ruddy Duck
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Swans
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The Shoveler
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"The Eagle and the Child"
Despite the tall tales, eagles do not fly off with children.
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La Gazza Ladra
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Bird of Washington
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Valentine Birds
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Snowbird
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Hooded Merganser
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The Christmas Bird
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Edible Birds
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Chimney Swift
The original twitterer
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Beethoven's Birds
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Lesser Black-backed Gull
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Teddy Roosevelt, Birdwatcher
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St. Francis and the Birds
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Mulberry Birds
Birds to be seen going 'round the mulberry bush in the spring.
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Mis-named Warblers
A tale of misguided ornithological onomastics.
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Laughing Gull
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Summer Singers
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Loud Songster
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Kites
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Teale's Boblinks
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Sinbad's Roc
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John Gould
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Migration and Mortality
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Louisiana Waterthrush in October
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The Genus Euphonia
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Nestling Mortality
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The Wood Thrush
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Father Knows Best
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The Poety of Bird Names
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The Yellow of Warblers
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The Readstart
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Housewren
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Audubon
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Isaak Walton's Birds
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The Skylark
Blythe Spirit
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Crows
Distinguishing the Corvids
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The Cuckoo
Harbinger of Spring
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An Irish Bird?
Emerald Isle Birds
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American Pipet
Walking Winter Visitor
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Halcyon Days
Birds of the winter calm
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Winter Wren
The King Of The Birds
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Chickadee
Bright Voice Of Winter
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Buffflehead
Big Headed Diver
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Pied Billed Grebe
The Water Witch
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Bonaparte's Gull
The Tern-Like Visitor
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Lady Birds
Birds Named After Women
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Wild Turkey
All-American Bird
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Scooters
Winter Sea Ducks
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Rusty Blackbird Blitz
Where Have They Gone?
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Torpidity
Do Birds Hibernate?
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Pewee
The languid sound of summer
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Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
On the quarter and over the plains
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Carrier Pigeon
Feathered war heroes
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Summer Tanager
Red visitor from the tropics
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Colonial Birds
Birds of the Founding Fathers
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Golden-Winged Firebird
Jules Verne was not an ornithologist
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Cooling
Birds beating the summer heat
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Red-Eyed Vireo
Persistant summer songster
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Autumn and Spring Colors
Feather and leaves in fall and spring
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Eclipse Plumage
Drab late-summer wardrobes
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The Fire-Hangbird
Lord Baltimore's feathered namesake
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Storm Petrels
Oceanic water walkers
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Hummingbird Migration
The ruby-throat flies the Gulf
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Where does a Bird Live?
Is a nest a home?
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Cormorant
The shaggy-topped fisherman
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Fairy Tern
The wispy white bird without a nest
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Yellow-rumped Warbler
Small and drab, but everywhere
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The harlequin and the turnstone
Birds from the Picasso Field Guide
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Tail Wagging
Who wags and why
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You can reach Dwight at dwight.davis@whro.org