Experience the iconic American West at the Jackson Hole Birding Festival! Explore the beauty of the wild Jackson Hole valley and the stunning biodiversity of the Greater Yellowstone region, rich in public lands, adventure, and [...]
The Adirondacks are a vast, six-million-acre wilderness in upstate New York, offering some of the most spectacular natural landscapes in the Northeast. As the southernmost reach of the great northern boreal forest, the region features [...]
At my daughter’s soccer practice the other day, I saw an adult male Red-shafted Flicker. Pretty typical for this kind of woodpecker—feeding on the ground. Hm. If you calculated a time budget for the bird, I’m pretty sure you’d find that it spends more time feeding on lawns and in meadows than pecking on limbs and boughs.
