NABCI Committee Releases National Bir...
NABCI helps the bird conservation community speak with a unified voice about top priorities that our federal, state,
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NABCI helps the bird conservation community speak with a unified voice about top priorities that our federal, state,
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 27, 2018) – The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) today announced 13 grant awards
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August 28, 2018 – by Judith Scarl, NABCI Coordinator – Today I am excited to share NABCI’s new
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WASHINGTON, DC – July 17, 2018 – The Alliance for America’s Fish & Wildlife is excited to see
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A migration journey up to 20,000km! Amazing! 🤩New #ornithology research: Blackpoll Warbler is officially one of the top long-distance migrants in the *world* with round trips of 20,000km! The most important areas for #conservation to help these #birds are SE USA and Venezuela. https://news.uoguelph.ca/2019/03/tiny-songbird-makes-record-migration-u-of-g-study-proves/
📣 It’s Feathered Friends Friday 🐦 here at Appalachian Mountains Joint Venture! Please help us celebrate 🥳 this week’s feathered friend by coloring 🖌✍️🖍 the page below and then showing off your artwork #AMJVFeatheredFriends 😁
Simply download and print the image file or join the new AMJV Feathered Friends Coloring Pages group, where the coloring pages are posted as PDFs: www.facebook.com/groups/AMJVFeatheredFriends
Today is all about the Northern Flicker, a fairly large woodpecker that shows off bright yellow shaft feathers (in eastern birds), especially when in flight. The Northern Flicker’s ringing calls and short burst of drumming can be heard echoing through the Appalachian Mountains in the spring. To learn more about the Northern Flicker and hear its various calls, visit: www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/northern-flicker
Have you seen (or heard) a Northern Flicker? Comment below! We’d love to know when and where you saw these beauties, and we want to highlight and give thanks for the conservation work of engaged landowners, organizations, and agencies that help these and other AMJV Feathered Friends in the Appalachian Mountains (feel free to tag any not mentioned!) 🙌👏! American Bird Conservancy National Audubon Society Cornell Lab of Ornithology Green Forests Work Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center Central Appalachian Spruce Restoration Initiative
Note: This coloring page is adapted from Page 36 of Peterson Field Guide Coloring Books: Birds © 1982 by Houghton Mifflin Company, authors Peter Alden and John Sill. Permission for use courtesy of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company (many thanks Peterson Field Guides🙌!). The full coloring book includes coloring images, descriptions, and matching color stickers for 262 bird species. This and other Peterson Field Guide Coloring Books (& Field Guides) for mammals, wildflowers, shells, and more 🐇🐚🌸🐿🦝 are available wherever books are sold - awesome, right?!
The beautiful pictures below are courtesy of Dave Doe/Shutterstock (Northern Flicker), Gerald A. DeBoer/Shutterstock (Northern Flickers courting), Steve Byland/Shutterstock (Northern Flicker pair), and Greg Homel/Natural Elements Productions (Northern Flicker flight). Thank you for taking such amazing photos, Dave, Gerald, Steve, and Greg!
To learn more about Northern Flicker and to find out how you help to create and conserve habitat for their species and many other birds, check out:
amjv.org/
abcbirds.org
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Northern_Flicker/id
www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/northern-flicker
www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/birds/n/northern-flicker/
We can’t wait to see your coloring pages and hear about your Northern Flicker sightings!
Working both collectively and independently, joint venture partners conduct activities in support of bird conservation goals developed by the partnership. Our strength is in our ability to strategically deliver conservation actions at a scale and scope unachievable by any single agency or organization.
