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“Notes from the Field” are contributed articles that highlight current banding projects and the continued importance of bird banding mor than a...

A flash of iridescence caught in sunshine.  

A whirring sound that moves so quickly your eyes cannot follow its source.  

And then delight as you...

By Chad Wilsey

Audubon, February 13, 2025

A newly signed Memorandum of Understanding allows for both organizations to share information from some of the...

“Notes from the Field” are contributed articles that highlight current banding projects and the continued importance of bird banding 100+ years after...

By Gustave Axelson, Photos by Sparky Stensaas

Living Bird Magazine, Winter 2025

After a 2019 study identified major losses to North American bird...

A collaborative story with USGS and USFWS focused on the importance of reporting waterfowl bands.

By Timothy B. Wheeler

Bay Journal, December 13, 2024

A widely publicized study pointing to a shortage of Atlantic menhaden as the cause of osprey nest...

“Notes from the Field” are contributed articles that highlight current banding projects and the continued importance of bird banding 100+ years after...

Highlights from the USGS Bird Banding Lab (BBL) 2024 fall migration station.

By Mason Wheatley

USFWS, November 2024

In the cold of February, a bird was found dead on the sidewalk of Philadelphia, killed after colliding with a...