birds

  • Book Bingo NW 2024: Sky Creatures

    Are you ready for dragons and birds and creatures that FLY? Check out these titles from the #BookBingoNW2024 Sky Creatures list! This was one of our top requested categories from staff and participants and we are thrilled to offer several suggestions. Spread your wings and try something new! Conversations With Birds by Priyanka Kumar –… Continue reading

  • City Hawks

    With the quieting of our city streets, I’ve been noticing the intensive activity of our urban bird neighbors, who have been courting, homebuilding and generally flying about with abandon as us humans slow down. Pigeons and robins abound, but twenty-five years ago Cooper’s Hawks began colonizing urban and suburban landscapes throughout the US, developing a… Continue reading

  • Bird Week: Birds in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

    The Seattle Public Library is partnering with the Seward Park Audubon Center for Bird Week, April 23-30, in celebration of the center’s 10th anniversary and the National Audubon Society’s 2018 Year of the Bird.  In honor of Bird Week, I’ve selected three titles written for young people with appeal to bird lovers of all ages: a… Continue reading

  • Bird Week: Birds of the Pacific Northwest

    The Seattle Public Library is partnering with the Seward Park Audubon Center for Bird Week, April 23-30, in celebration of the center’s tenth anniversary and the National Audubon Society’s 2018 Year of the Bird. The Pacific Northwest region is blessed with many bird species and birdwatching enthusiasts.  With longer days, April is a fine month to… Continue reading

  • Bird Week: Put a Bird On It!

    Bird Week: Put a Bird On It!

    The Seattle Public Library is partnering with the Seward Park Audubon Center for Bird Week, April 23-30, in celebration of the center’s 10th anniversary and the National Audubon Society’s 2018 Year of the Bird. Long before Portlandia made it a meme, artists and craftspeople have been adorning their work with birds. One of the earliest… Continue reading

  • Bird Week: Birds Ground Us — The Earth and Environmental Equity

    Bird Week: Birds Ground Us — The Earth and Environmental Equity

    The Seattle Public Library is partnering with the Seward Park Audubon Center for Bird Week, April 23-30, in celebration of the center’s tenth anniversary and the National Audubon Society’s 2018 Year of the Bird. A bird in hand is worth two in the bush. Don’t you think our lush planet is worth far more than two… Continue reading

  • Bird Week: Tweet Spring! Celebrating Seattle’s Birds

    The Seattle Public Library is partnering with the Seward Park Audubon Center for Bird Week, April 23-30, in celebration of the center’s tenth anniversary and the National Audubon Society’s 2018 Year of the Bird. From the oldest of worlds into the new they flew, heralding dawn, signaling coming night, solitary, in flocks they arrived. Seed carriers,… Continue reading

  • Birds Near and Far

    -posted by library staff April is a fine month to turn our attention to wild birds. With the longer days of springtime, there are more opportunities to hear the joyous songs of our busy local birds. I enjoyed a melodious treat recently on an early evening walk in my neighborhood. The Central Library boasts a… Continue reading

  • Woodpecker Wake-Up Call

    Before the calendar told me that spring had arrived, a familiar visitor announced it in a very bold way. Every spring for the past several years, a northern flicker woodpecker (Colaptes auratus) has pecked away on my roof during mating season in spurts of rapid, repetitive motion lasting several seconds. The sound of a jackhammer… Continue reading

  • Pursuing the bird of a lifetime: Birders and birding resources

    We are a group not to be ignored. The numbers of birders in the United States totals approximately 48 million individuals who generate some $82 billion in expenditures toward equipment and trips near and far to pursue the bird of a lifetime. These figures come courtesy of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. One can… Continue reading