Wisdom on cultivating backyard bird habitats, what we can learn from nesting studies, and an invitation to join us for the upcoming Great Backyard Bird Count (THIS weekend!) with the brilliant Becca Rodomsky-Bish. PLUS: what should we feed our hummingbirds and what's another name for an American woodcock?

Links from Becca's show:

The Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC)

Nest Quest Go!

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Free Birding & Ecology Resources from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology:

Merlin Bird ID

E-Bird

Other Free Resources:

iNaturalist

Seek

Follow Becca:

Becca's Cornell Lab Profile

The Thing with Feathers is birds, birding, and hope with an obsessive newbie birder and a wide range of experts and special guests.

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Many thanks to author & professor Todd Peterson for suggesting the perfect name for the pod (and for Emily Dickinson, for having such a lovely poem in the public domain!). Our music is by Del Belcher. The Thing with Feathers is hosted and produced by Courtney Ellis.

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