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The hermit thrush, the sandhill crane, the snowy egret recovery, the species we will lose by 2050.
Species
At Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge in early May, a family group of five red-cockaded woodpeckers worked four cavity trees within a hectare. The youngest helper bird at the cluster was a male hatched in 2024.
Species
At 8:46 p.m. on May 30, on a flat-roofed parking garage on Broadway in Saskatoon, a common nighthawk hunted moths against a sodium-vapor glow. The roof had hosted nighthawk nests since at least 1979. The next renovation, scheduled for 2027, will install a green roof.
Species
On a ridge above the Greenbrier River, the writer's grandfather counted whip-poor-wills by ear from a screened porch each summer evening between 1958 and 1992. The 2026 count, from the same porch, was zero.
Species
In a stand of young jack pine in Crawford County, Michigan, on May 28, a male Kirtland's warbler sang from the same square metre of branch he had sung from the previous afternoon. The pine was eleven years old. In four more years, the bird would not return.
Species
The breeding bird survey route runs from a gas station in Adams County, Ohio, up through 24.5 miles of farmland. In June 2026, the mourning dove count was 41. In June 1990 it was 112.
Species
At 4:42 a.m. on May 14, in second-growth hardwood above the Greenbrier River, the first hermit thrush of the morning began its phrase. The recorder caught it cleanly. The bird had been there for nine days.
Species
From the Rowe Sanctuary blind at 5:48 a.m. on March 22, the river was a continuous line of birds for a kilometre in either direction. The sound was not a call. It was a weather event.
Species
The bird stands in six inches of brackish water at Stone Harbor, New Jersey, indifferent to the joggers on the boardwalk. A hundred and twenty years ago, that posture would have killed it.