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FEMALE BLACKPOLL WARBLER – A female blackpoll warbler is foraging for insects in an alder thicket. Blackpolls move methodically through the foliage eating insects that they pick off leaves and branches of shrubs and trees. They are less apt to flit into the air to catch flying insects than are some other warblers. The female blackpoll does all the incubating and brooding of the chicks. Her more subdued coloration camouflages her on the nest.

Blackpoll Warbler––An epic migration brings a tiny songbird to us from the Amazon basin

A recent Birder’s Notebook article featured the astonishing 11-day migration of bar-tailed godwit “B6,” and the Nome-based research project that documented the longest known nonstop migration in the...

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