Imagine a bird so small and agile it can take a bath on a maple leaf! I saw a pair of bushtits doing just that, fluffing their feathers and jumping among the wet leaves, water flying and the birds ...
The bushtit is a tiny brown and gray bird with a long tail that lives west of the Rockies in Mexico and the USA. In Canada, the bushtit range includes the lower Fraser Valley around Vancouver and ...
“Psaltriparus minimus” is quite a mouthful – especially when you consider it is a name that belongs to a very tiny bird. Hence “minimus.” Of course that is the scientific name given to one of the most ...
Today, I’m making a long overdue correction of a terrible oversight, writing about a bird I’ve somehow never covered before. This is a wonderful species, plain and common —among my favorite traits, as ...
It is always fun to hear from readers particularly when they get inspired to learn more about birds. A few blogs ago, I wrote about how bushtit flocks might decide the direction to move. Biologist ...
The pygmy bushtit’s diminutive size makes it a superlative species, and it has a genus all to itself. But now genetics is showing that it’s not so special after all. The pygmy bushtit isn’t much to ...
Nellie Cheek of Seymour saw this American Bushtit while out birding and snapped a picture with her Nikon camera. Nellie Cheek of Seymour saw this American Bushtit while out birding and snapped a ...
Today, I’m making a long overdue correction of a terrible oversight, writing about a bird I’ve somehow never covered before. This is a wonderful species, plain and common —among my favorite traits, as ...
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