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- A Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Tends Its Nest
- A Bluethroat Feeds and Broods Chicks on Its Nest
- A Colorful Male American Redstart Sings
- A Couple of Mallards “Dabble” and Feed on Aquatic Vegetation
- A Dusky Scrubfowl Foraging with Its Feet
- A Fancy Experiment
- A Female American Robin Reinforces Her Nest With Mud
- A Female Cerulean Warbler Foraging in a Treetop
- A Female Rock Ptarmigan Sits on Her Nest
- A Gyrfalcon Hunting in the Snow, Catches a Small Rodent
- A Male Ruddy Duck in Nonbreeding Plumage Dives for Food
- A Pileated Woodpecker Feeds His Two Nestlings
- A Red-necked Grebe Sits on Its Nest
- A Wood Thrush Returns to its Nest to Feed Young
- Acorn Woodpecker Feeds Young
- African Grey Parrot: Species in Decline
- Akiapolaau Forages for Insect Larvae
- All About Bird Anatomy
- All About Bird Song
- All About Fancy Males
- All About Feathers
- American Bittern Camouflages in the Reeds
- American Coot Chicks
- An Alert Green Heron Hunting For Fish
- An Expert Mimic: The Gray Catbird
- An Immature Purple Gallinule Forages for Seeds
- Anatomy of Bird Song Slides
- Artist James Prosek’s Ode to the Diversity of Bird Shapes
- Avian Vocal Behavior—Sound Visualizations
- Bald Eagles and Crows Eat Fish on an Alaska Beach
- Banded Kingfisher Gives Nuptial Gift
- BeastBox—DJ with Animal Sounds
- Becoming a Field Biologist
- Behind the Scenes Look at a Hawk Cam
- Behind the Scenes Look at a Heron Cam
- Behind the Scenes of Birds Got Swing
- Bird Academy’s A-to-Z Glossary of Bird Terms
- Bird Plumage Variations and Abnormalities
- Bird Research and Shade-Grown Coffee
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- Bird Song Hero: The Song Learning Game for Everyone
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- Bird-of-Paradise Spreads His Feather Skirt and Dances
- Birding From Birth, Now an Ornithologist
- Birds Got Swing
- Birds Got Swing: A Musical Experiment
- Birds in the Ecology of Alaska’s Yukon Delta
- Birds in the Ecology of the Mississippi River Delta
- Birds of the Yellow Sea
- Birds-of-Paradise Project: By the Numbers
- Black Sicklebill: The Thin Blue Line
- Black Skimmer Chicks Beg For Food With a Humorous Pose
- Blyth’s Paradise-Flycatchers Alternate Nest Responsibilities
- Boreal Owl Hunting in Daylight
- Bright Feathers of the Andean Cock-of-the-Rock
- Brilliant Flash: Red-winged Blackbird Territorial Displays
- Brilliant Iridescent Throat Plumes of the Bumblebee Hummingbird
- Building Blinds: Hiding in Plain Sight
- Built to Peck: How Woodpeckers Avoid Brain Injury
- Built to Sing: The Syrinx of the Northern Cardinal
- Camouflaged American Woodcock
- Can Owls Turn Their Heads 360 Degrees?
- Canadian Arctic Expedition
- Carola’s Parotia: King of the Dance
- Caw vs. Croak: Inside the Calls of Crows and Ravens
- Chasing Hudsonian Godwits Across Continents
- Chickadee Study Shows Climate Change Affecting Distribution
- Clark’s Nutcrackers and the Trees They Depend On
- Cliff Swallows Build Nests From Mud
- Color: and the Birds-of-Paradise
- Comic Relief: Willow Ptarmigan Territorial Calls
- Common Tern Chicks
- Contour Feathers of the King Penguin
- Curl-crested Manucode: Unusual Anatomy
- Dance Moves for Ducks: How to Recognize Courtship Displays
- Dance: and the Birds-of-Paradise
- Deepwater Horizon One Year Later
- Double-crested Cormorant Dries its Feathers
- Eastern Screech-Owl Camouflage
- Everything You Need To Know About Feathers
- Extreme Hummingbirds
- Fanciness Lost
- Fancy Males
- Fancy Males & Choosy Females
- Feather Biology Slide Collection
- Feathers Through Time
- Feathers: and the Birds-of-Paradise
- Female Satin Bowerbird Visiting Bower
- Finding Your Study Subjects: Tools of the Wildlife Biologist
- Flamingos are Algae Vacuums, Really!
- Flap to the Future: The Flight Adaptations Game
- For Birds-of-Paradise, Life’s a Stage
- Foraging and Flocking: The Black-necked Stilt
- Gentoo Penguins Build Rock Nests on the Antarctic Ground
- Golden Eagle in a Hunting Stoop
- Golden Eagle Landing
- Golden Eagle Lifting Off and Flying Through the Snow
- Golden Eagle Soaring on a Thermal
- Hooked on Bird Song
- How a Parrot Learns Its Name in the Wild
- How and Why Birds Sing
- How Birds Make Colorful Feathers
- How Birds Sing
- How do You Put a Lab on a Bird?
- How Fanciness Evolves
- How Feathers Are Built
- How Hunters and Artists Helped Save North America’s Waterfowl
- How Yellow-billed Loons Survive in the Arctic
- I’m Here, Where Are You?: Wails of the Common Loon
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- Identifying Fall Warblers with Eric Ripma and Bird Academy
- Inflatable Throat: Magnificent Frigatebird Mating Display
- Ingenuity: Capturing the Ideal Photo
- Inside Birding: Color Pattern
- Inside Birding: Habitat
- Inside Birding: Size & Shape
- Inside Birding: Understanding Behavior
- Inspection & Touch: and the Birds-of-Paradise
- Investigating Avian Malaria
- Iridescence Revealed in the Feathers of an Anna’s Hummingbird
- Iridescence: and the Birds-of-Paradise
- Keeping the Peace: Threat Signals in Gull Colonies
- King Penguins Incubating Eggs on Their Feet
- King-of-Saxony: Giant Head Wires
- King-of-Saxony: Otherworldly Calls
- Leaf-Cam: A Hidden Camera Takes a Fresh Look
- Learn How to Identify Bird Songs
- Learn to Identify the Distinctive Calls of Owls
- Loud and Goofy: Long-tailed Duck Territorial Calls
- Magnificent Riflebird: Directional Color
- Massive Noisy Flocks: Snow Goose Migration
- Meet a Feather Scientist
- Meet the Strongest Snowy Owl Chick From a Clutch of Seven
- Meet the Sword-billed Hummingbird
- Migrating Hudsonian Godwits
- Molting Indigo Bunting
- Mountain Bluebird Flying in the Wind
- Multi-Cams: Revealing the Female Perspective
- Natural & Sexual Selection: An Illustrated Introduction
- Northern Mockingbird Sings Hundreds of Borrowed Songs
- Nutcrackers, Whitebark Pines, and Climate Change
- Oiled Birds After the Deepwater Horizon Spill
- Olive-backed Sunbird Removing Fecal Sac From Nest
- On a Lek with Gunnison Sage-Grouse
- On a Sage-Grouse Lek
- On a Sage-Grouse Lek: Elite Males
- On a Sage-Grouse Lek: Female Connoisseurs
- On a Sage-Grouse Lek: It’s My Turf
- On a Sage-Grouse Lek: The Busy Lek
- On a Sage-Grouse Lek: The Male Display
- Paradise Riflebird: Practice, Practice
- Parotia: Ballerina Dance
- Peek at Night Birds While Hearing Their Nocturnal Calls
- Philippine Eagle Landing on a Branch
- PictureClick Demo Page
- Practice, Perfect
- Preening Stork-billed Kingfisher
- Protecting Flamingos in the Andes
- Provide Water for Birds
- Real Angry Birds: Sharp-tailed Grouse Battle
- Restoring America’s Delta
- Ribbon-tailed Astrapia: The Three-Foot Tail
- Roseate Spoonbills Forage
- Seabird Success Story
- Shape Shifting: and the Birds-of-Paradise
- Shorebird Foraging Strategies
- Singing Wings -Behavior
- Singing Wings -Conclusion
- Singing Wings -Feathers
- Singing Wings -Introduction
- Singing Wings -Solution
- Singing Wings -Sounds
- Slow Motion Philippine Eagle Flight
- Snowy Owl Invasion
- Soaring Philippine Eagle
- Songbirds in Action
- Sound: and the Birds-of-Paradise
- Speciation: An Illustrated Introduction
- Spoon-billed Sandpiper: Courtship
- Spoon-billed Sandpiper: Foraging
- Spoon-billed Sandpiper: Hatch
- Spying on Flamingos: Tools of the Wildlife Biologist
- Storing Food: The Granaries of Acorn Woodpeckers
- Straight-billed Woodcreeper Breaks Down Large Insect
- Subadult Plumage of the Paradise Riflebird
- Superb Bird-of-Paradise: Psychedelic Smiley Face
- Superb Lyrebird Might Be the Fanciest Bird in the World
- Superb Owls
- Talking With a Pale-billed Woodpecker
- Teamwork: Discovery through Collaboration
- Tern Colony: A Creche For The Young
- Territorial Call of the American Bittern
- The Dusky Broadbill’s Camouflaged Nest
- The Language of Birds
- The Montezuma Oropendola’s Hanging Nest
- Think About Feathers
- Through the Lens: Birds of Australia’s Northern Territory
- Thump!: The Ruffed Grouse Mate Attraction Display
- Tracking Backyard Birds
- Tracking Epic Migrations: Tools of the Wildlife Biologist
- Twelve-wired Bird-of-Paradise Male-Female Plumage Differences
- Vibrant Red House Finch
- Vogelkop Bowerbird Decorates His Bower With Flowers
- Voices of the Arctic Spring: Semipalmated Sandpiper
- Wall of Birds
- Wall of Birds Project
- Ways To Be Fancy
- What Can We Learn About Stress From Birds?
- What Feathers Do
- What is Unique to Birds?
- What Oil Spills do to Birds
- White-winged Crossbill Foraging Adaptation
- Why Chickadees Grab Seeds and Go: Feeder Bird Strategies
- Wilson’s Bird-of-Paradise: A Full Spectrum
- Wilson’s Phalarope Foraging
- Wire-tailed Manakin Courtship Display
- Wood Thrush Singing
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Drilling Sap Wells
- Yellow-chevroned Parakeet Eating Fruit
- Yula Kapetanakos: Asian Vulture Study
- Zoom!: The Aerial Display of the Common Nighthawk
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