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Hi there. I have been birding most of my life and am currently a grad student working on a bird migration study. "A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song."
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rhamphotheca: Tree Swallows (Tachycineta bicolor) Photo: Keith Williams, HBW/Rex Tree Swallows huddle through a spring snowstorm in Canada’s Yukon Territory during their southward migration. (via: National Geo)

rhamphotheca:

Tree Swallows (Tachycineta bicolor)

Photo: Keith Williams, HBW/Rex

Tree Swallows huddle through a spring snowstorm in Canada’s Yukon Territory during their southward migration.

(via: National Geo)

Wednesday July 25th // Filed under: swallow, bird, north america, migrant,
rhamphotheca: The Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea) A small, slender white bird, the Arctic Tern is well known for its long yearly migration. Its travel from its Arctic breeding grounds to its wintering grounds off of Antarctica may cover perhaps 40,000 km (25,000 mi), and is the farthest yearly journey of any bird… (read more: Cornell Lab of Ornithology) (photo: Toivo Toivanen & Tiina Toppila)

rhamphotheca:

The Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea)

A small, slender white bird, the Arctic Tern is well known for its long yearly migration. Its travel from its Arctic breeding grounds to its wintering grounds off of Antarctica may cover perhaps 40,000 km (25,000 mi), and is the farthest yearly journey of any bird… (read more: Cornell Lab of Ornithology)

(photo: Toivo Toivanen & Tiina Toppila)

Sunday October 9th // Filed under: tern, bird, migrant, arctic, antarctica,