Friday, May 6 at 6:30 pm. Online via Zoom (Register in advance) Zoom Presenter: Chris Wood In-person Field Trips dates in May at various locations and times Hello Fellow Warbler Lovers! Once again Connecticut Ornithological Association offers its Spring Workshop on Wood Warblers, this year with guided field trips. (Yay!) Wood Warblers (family Parulidae) are … Read more
Photo above: Short-billed Gull, March 20,2022. Long Beach, Stratford, CT. Photo for eBird by Frank Mantlik Short-billed Gull (Larus brachyrhynchus) During January 175 bird species were added to initialize this year’s eBird CT “state year list”. Four species were added in February, and in March EIGHTEEN additional new species were added to our state year … Read more
Meriden Natural Resources $800 Build a Chimney Swift tower using community youth Sue Frisch $1,000 Project to restore a heron rookery Simsbury Land Trust $300 Habitat improvement project Southington Land Trust $400 Restore habitat with native plants Sam Merker $675 Bittern study under supervision of Chris Elphick and Min Huang Nancy James $300 Educate about … Read more
Common (Kamchatka) Gull During January 175 bird species were added to this year’s eBird CT “state year list”, and in February only four new species were added to our state year list (bringing the state year list up to 179 species). Here are those four species, in the proposed rank order of noteworthiness (regardless of how … Read more
The Bruce Museum in Greenwich, CT invited four birding experts who are current or former COA leaders to discuss birding’s popularity and role in science. What is the impact of birding on a local, national, and international scale, and what can birds teach us about ourselves? The program titled “Bruce Presents: Birding, from Back Yard … Read more
Thick-billed Murre The top Bird of the Month (BOTM) bird for January 2022 was Thick-billed Murre (two different individual birds –and now a third one at Harkness on February 2). One was spotted and photographed on Jan.17 by Patrick Dugan (at Cove Island Park) and the second was spotted and photographed at the other end … Read more