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Phil’s Photo Monday
Great Blue Heron by: Phil Robertson
Cool Facts
Thanks to specially shaped neck vertebrae, Great Blue Herons can curl their neck into an S shape for a more aerodynamic flight profile and to quickly strike prey at a distance.
Great … Read more
Phil’s Photo Monday
Cooper’s Hawk
Cool Facts
Dashing through vegetation to catch birds is a dangerous lifestyle. In a study of more than 300 Cooper’s Hawk skeletons, 23 percent showed old, healed-over fractures in the bones of the chest, especially of the furcula, … Read more
Phil’s Photo Monday
AMERICAN ROBIN
Cool Facts
An American Robin can produce three successful broods in one year. On average, though, only 40 percent of nests successfully produce young. Only 25 percent of those fledged young survive to November. From that point … Read more
Phil’s Photo Monday
American Goldfinch, photo by Phil Robertson
Cool Facts
American Goldfinches are the only finch that molts its body feathers twice a year, once in late winter and again in late summer. The brightening yellow of male goldfinches each spring is … Read more
Phil’s Photo Monday, American Coot
Cool Facts
Although it swims like a duck, the American Coot does not have webbed feet like a duck. Instead, each one of the coot’s long toes has broad lobes of skin that help it kick through the water. … Read more