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Meetings, field trips, and natural happenings in the Chenango County, New York, area.
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Northern Cardinal
The familiar Northern Cardinal is a relatively recent addition to our area's avifauna.
Well into the middle of the twentieth century, this fiery feeder bird was a classic "southern species," but its range has moved north along with such other southerners as Red-bellied Woodpecker, Tufted Titmouse, and Northern Mockingbird, all of them now found in our area. |
Posted: 2:15 PM, Thursday, April 10, 2008 in Recent Sightings |
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Downy Woodpecker
New York is blessed with a great diversity of woodpecker species, including such fancy ones as Pileated and Black-backed Woodpeckers--the latter, a boreal forest specialist, will be one of the "target birds" on our May 29 field trip to Ferd's Bog.
Our area's most abundant woodpecker is also the smallest in North America, the Downy Woodpecker.
Here's a fact to make you a success at your next cocktail party: Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers are named for the texture of their back feathers, which are finer and softer in Downy and coarser and stiffer in its larger cousin. |
Posted: 1:14 PM, Thursday, April 10, 2008 in Recent Sightings |
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Spring Finches
It's a wonderful time of year to watch American Goldfinches, a widespread and lovely little finch that happens to be the emblem of the Chenango Bird Club.
The males are fast molting into their breeding plumage, showing odd patches of gray and black where in just a few weeks they'll be as bright as a summer day. |
Posted: 1:11 PM, Thursday, April 10, 2008 in Recent Sightings |
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