Minnesota Birdnerd

      I've been banding birds at my Murphy Lake banding site for a long time. This is my 6th year of doing full time migration banding a...

  Bird lists and bird collecting in the United States can be traced back 200 years or more in the exploits of explorers and early naturalist...

 I've been back from chasing the eclipse for a few days now and after taking a look at the photos I brought back I thought I'd post ...

  Hybrid birds, while unusual, are more common than most people think. Some bird groups show more hybridization than others. This would incl...

  As a songbird bander I get to handle and study a pretty wide range of small, familiar perching birds from local Black-capped Chickadees to...

  Banders all know that, in general, if you have a bird in a good “banders grip” the odds of hurting the bird are minimal and it can be proc...

   After a LONG, snowy winter here in Minnesota I was more than ready for the changing over to spring. However, the transition has been slow...