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Birdwatching
Birdwatching is a very popular hobby around the world. Finding and identifying all the different species is a challenge. If you enjoy learning the feeding, nesting, and mating habits of birds, this is the category to watch!
1,175 Questions
What is a good black head remover tool?
A good black head remover can often be found right in your medicine closet. Try using standard tweezers and cotton balls. It isn't necessary to buy fancy tools. Sometimes simple household items work the best.
What kind of a bird is thisLookslike a crow but has a grey body black head and tail?
This sounds like a hooded crow, which is closely related to the carrion crow, and is seen more commonly in some locations such as northern Scotland.
There are several species of treecreepers, including the Eurasian and Australian treecreepers. Treecreepers search for food by moving in a spiral up tree trunks. They eat small invertebrates, including insects like spiders, ants, beetles, earwigs, or woodlice. Treecreepers use their curved beaks to pick the insects off of the tree trunk.
If you'd like to read more about treecreepers, I have added a link to the related links for this question.
This Wikipedia article provides a clear and concise overview of the treecreeper family, particularly information about their location, habitat, and behavior. The article also provides a list of the different species of treecreepers, which might be helpful if you decide to focus on a particular type of treecreeper. It's always important to remember that Wikipedia maintained and edited by a community of users. Because membership in this community may include non-experts, information taken from this source should be verified using other, more reliable sources.
The second link is for the Eurasian treecreeper
This article from ARKive profiles the European treecreeper and provides biological background information that explains why the treecreeper searches for food by spiraling around tree trunks. ARKive is a non-profit initiative of the charity Wildscreen whose mission is to use powerful wildlife photography to encourage interest in environmental protection.
I didn't know much about treecreepers, so I did a quick Google search for "treecreeper diet." I used the Wikipedia article to get a little background information on the treecreeper and then searched "Eurasian treecreeper" in Google to find more information about a specific species.
What does a 'woodcock' bird look like?
The woodcock is a large bulky wading bird with short legs, and a very long straight tapering bill. It is largely nocturnal, spending most of the day in dense cover. Most of the birds in the UK are residents; in the autumn birds move to the UK from Finland and Russia to winter here. The breeding population has been falling recent years, perhaps because of less habitat as conifer plantations become too mature for woodcocks to find open enough breeding areas.
Where do turtle doves migrate to in the winter?
European turtle doves winter south of the Sahara desert.
Where would you find flocks of swallows?
On the eastcoast such as cape cod you will find large numbers of tree swallow in low lying shrubs near the beach. They seem to do this before migrating for the winter. There can be hundreds at a time !
What bird can drink water without rasing his head?
Doves and pigeons. Other birds must scoop water into their beaks and tilt back, but doves can suck water through their beaks like a person uses a straw.
How popular in the United States is bird watching?
Birdwatching is very popular, with about a third of the US participating. This is second only to gardening.
Nope, dodos have been extinct since 1690. There are no dodos in any zoos.
What bird has blue head and wings and a green back?
A blue tit or a starling. (If it was small: blue tit. If it's bigger than a blackbird:starling) (Britain only)
Is there a clean version of black and yellow?
yes theire is a clean black and yellow look it up on youtube.
NO. Just like cats, dogs, and horses, chocolate is poisonous to birds.
What is the starling bird from?
It's from Europe and Western Asia.
Its official name is European Starling.
You don't.
(By the way, the birds you are dealing with are probably House Sparrows. Nasty buggers.)
Here's my suggestion:
1) For now, chuck with the thistle sock.
2) House Sparrows aren't all that thrilled about thistle seed. Buy some sunflower seed and offer it a ways away from where you had the thistle feeder.
3) Buy a tube thistle feeder that is made so that the birds have to hang upside-down to eat. Goldfinches don't mind one bit, but House Sparrows and House Finches (which might also be a problem) can't handle staying upside-down. They do occasionally try, and there is a certain entertainment value to watching them spin around and around on the perch.
4) After a few weeks, when your problem birds aren't being such a big deal and your goldfinches are coming regularly, you can try to put the thistle sock back up in addition to your goldfinch feeder. But don't be surprised if you have other birds on it besides your goldfinches.
5) Don't forget to put out water! Having a steady source of water can keep birds, especially goldfinches (which love running water, if possible), coming back for more even better than food. In the summer, water sources dry up and in the winter they freeze over.
In response to several questions:
The Mourning Dove is a bird, not a mammal. The Turtle Dove (Streptopelia turtur) isn't the same species as the Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura) but they are both in the Dove Family (Columbidae). The name likely springs from their humble, sad song (as one in mourning for the loss of a loved one) but that is only a guess. I have no proof, concerning their name, but anyone who has heard one would likely conclude the same. Unlike the Carrier Pigeon, that once flew through North American skies by the billions, but was hunted to extinction, the Mourning Dove isn't endangered; however it is a hunted bird.
It's natural range is in North America. There is some migration but most inhabit the United States and Mexico, year round. For North American bird watchers, they are a common sight -- so common that they are seen as friends in the field. They are very inquisitive (often watching us, even through windows, as if we are exhibits in their "zoo") and, so, are considered to be as intelligent as crows and other exceptional birds.
Show a picture of a small black bird with red and yellow wings?
Wikianswers cannot display pictures. You will need to do an image search
What is a sound some birds make?
Tweet, whistle, chirp, some birds even make other noises like Mockingbirds.
Why do some birds have eyes at the front of their heads and some at the sides?
Briefly, birds with eyes on the side are prey animals, and birds with eyes on the front are predators. Predatory activity in birds like owls and eagles requires stereoscopic vision (like humans have) for accurate distance judgement. Prey birds like pigeons need to be able to see 360 degrees around them in order to detect predators more effectively. They don't need to be able to calculate distance as accurately.
Eagles and other raptors seems like they have eyes on the side, but if you look at them front-on, or look at their skulls, you can see that the eye orbits are oriented more to face front. Owls are a particularly obvious example of this kind of eyesight, and it gives them a characteristic flat face.
