Also in this issue: Help Birds Beat the Heat | What's Nyjer?
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| The Joy of Birds | July 2024 | | | | |
| Canada Goose. Photo: Nick Pecker/Shutterstock | | | | |
| One common birdseed ingredient is conspicuously capitalized and tagged with the registered trademark symbol: Nyjer, or Guizotia abyssinica. The tiny black seed is a favorite of finches, but where does it come from? And why is it always capitalized? Learn more about finch's favorite food, Nyjer | | | | |
| American Goldfinch at a mesh feeder holding Nyjer seeds. Photo: agefotostock/Alamy | | | | |
| Recent, deadly heat waves have broken records across the United States and around the world, and summers are expected to get even more sweltering from here on out. This is a dangerous trend for birds. Thankfully, there are ways we can help birds deal with the heat, and you can start in your own home. Keep reading | | | | |
| Lesser Goldfinch. Photo: Jim Nelson/Audubon Photography Awards | | | | |
We're back again with another round of "Who's That Bird?" Using the silhouetted image above and the three hints below, can you name this bird? - Clue #1: While these birds enjoy fruit from time to time, ants are their bread and butter—these birds likely eat ants more frequently than any other North American bird.
- Clue #2: These birds sometimes spread their wings out over ant colony mounds and allow the bugs to crawl on them in a behavior called "anting."
- Clue #3: Instead of the black-and-white plumage and tree-clinging habits typical of its woodpecker cousins, these birds have dappled brown feathers and a tendency to hug the ground.
Here's a bonus hint: this bird's four-letter banding code, or nicknames researchers use as shorthand for species' names, is "NOFL." Click here to reveal the answer and learn more about our mystery bird. | | | | |
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| Anna's Hummingbird. Photo: Dorothy Arnold/Audubon Photography Awards | | | | |
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