The migration of the great birds has already started – here how you see it
Birds began to make their way to the south of the winter, and you have a seat in the front row of the width
We are only in the middle of the summer in the northern hemisphere, but for our feathers friends, autumn migration is running. The birds that traveled north for the breeding season to take advantage of the long day in the area and abundant insects during the summer months have raised their young. After the sun and food, they now started their way to the south to spend the winter. It is one of the great glasses of nature, and to a large extent wherever you are, you can monitor it.
Why the fall of the fall is exciting
Unlike the spring migration, in which the birds tend to rush into the reproductive lands to demand a region, you find a companion and go to the urgent works of reproduction, the autumn migration is revealed at a more comfortable pace. Some species will travel on thousands of kilometers between their summer and winter homes, which stops refueling along the road. It is a great time to search for birds that you may not face.
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In the northeastern United States, where I spend most of my time, I was watching coastal birds. Recently, on a beach in Midcoast Maine, a friend of a snowy zall for males – a rare visitor on the eastern coast – coincided with the small invertebrates in The Wrack. It is difficult to say how it ended away from the usual scope of this type, but it was clear that he was in a step: pepper was hanging with two migratory coastal birds when I left it – and went the next morning, to the panic of the other birds who came to see it.
A few days ago, I went to see the three -color playing party, which was hanging in a strong pond behind the Amazon warehouse in Connecticut. (Often the best birds in the less glittering locations.) After watching the colored small kinetic fish with the dagger bill, they remained for a few hours, noting the life of birds constantly changing in the pond. The coastal birds that I have not seen since the spring – stored alley, almost filled sandy tools, stoned from solid sand, big yellow, and less than sand – were dropped and left throughout the morning. He was a magician, deserved the bite of mosquitoes.
Travelers are not just coastal birds. In one of the meadows that I repeat to get my steps, the migratory songs began to move-the American Redstart here, and the blue Gnatcatcher there. Soon, the yellow wall and the indigo pumpo, the house will start and swallow the tree as well.
I will be sad to see local reproductive birds leave. But autumn migration will bring other types to winter here. Yesterday I went with a friend of swamps and pools in the Jamaica Pay Wildlife Wildlife Refuge, near John F. Kennedy International in New York City. An important stop for migratory birds, the refugee was quieter than we were hoping. But seeing the green wild ducks was a reminder that our ducks will return soon, along with white sore throats and dark juncos that visits the feeding of the backyard in the winter.
How to see birds
There are a number of tools that can help you know when and where you go to see birds while deporting autumn. Colorado State University and Cornell University products Bird migration expectations From August 1 to November 15, which appears to be predicted by night migration. They even put a useful table The peak of the windows of deportation for us cities. You can see the migration of night birds as it was discovered by the US weather control network with Live immigration maps. You can look at the deportation patterns in your area in real time or as a summary overnight Immigration information panel.
Fall migration also brings an opportunity to refine your identification skills. Now that the time has ended to appear to attract his colleague, the birds turn quieter clothes and take a break from singing. Without its bright colors and songs to get to know them, it is difficult to identify many birds. More complicated matters, both adult and abnormal birds travel, each of which has their own feathers. Good field guide, whether in the form of a book or application (love Sibley for birds And the relevant Sibley application), It can help you know if you see a mourning for sadness or war in Connecticut, single sand or sand sand.
But you do not need to rely on these tools to enjoy autumn deportation. Sometimes the best birds happen when you give up your phone or camera and separate it, so that nothing can be distracted from unusual creatures in front of you.