by News | Oct 16, 2018 | Birdie Girl
Written by Kaitlin Stainbrook / Colorful rufous hummingbirds, like this male, have amazing memories. They often seek out and stop at the same feeders and flowers during their annual migration routes. If you reside in a northwestern state, like Washington or Oregon,...
by News | Sep 27, 2018 | Birdie Girl
Author: Annie Dell’Aria / In 1957, a 21-year-old art school graduate named Don Featherstone created his second major design for the Massachusetts-based lawn and garden decoration manufacturer Union Products: a three-dimensional plastic pink flamingo propped up...
by News | Sep 13, 2018 | Birdie Girl
By Gustave Axelson / All About Birds / Early one morning last January, I drank Colombian coffee the Colombian way—tinto, or straight dark. I sipped my tinto while sitting on a Spanish colonial veranda at Finca Los Arrayanes, a fourth-generation coffee farm and hotel...
by News | Aug 31, 2018 | Birdie Girl
Written By Yonette Joseph / August 2018 / LONDON — In a feat attributed to the recent heat wave that swept across Europe, rare Andean flamingos at a wetlands reserve in Britain have laid eggs for the first time in 15 years. The exotic birds are “fickle breeders” and...
by News | Jul 31, 2018 | Birdie Girl
Written by Michelle Regna / BuzzFeed Contributor / 1. If you don’t follow bird accounts on Instagram, you’re seriously missing out! Instagram: @praveensiddannavar The Lilac-breasted Roller is the national bird of both Kenya and Botswana. 2. With roughly 20,000*...
by News | Jul 14, 2018 | Birdie Girl
By Angela Serratore / smithsonian.com 2018/ It’s easy to imagine the glamorous early 20th-century woman who might wear the tiara in front of me. Delicate and adorned with wispy white feathers that wouldn’t come cheap, this aigrette (the French word for egret) would...
