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Dr. Jeff Wells is the Senior Scientist for the Boreal Songbird Initiative. During his time at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and as the Audubon Society's National Conservation Director, Dr. Wells earned a reputation as one of the nation's leading bird experts and conservation biologists. He is now dedicated to understanding and protecting the land where North America's birds are born and raised, the Boreal Forest of Canada and Alaska. Check back regularly to read Dr. Wells' perspectives on the conservation, migration and interesting habits of Boreal birds.

Archive for September, 2005

Chickadee Irruption???????

Friday, September 30th, 2005

Sept. 30, 2005
My friend Will had predicted that today would be a major hawk migration day. Of course, he meant down on the coast at his favorite hawk-watching spot not 30 miles inland here along the Kennebec River in Maine. But just last week I had stumbled into a push of Broad-winged Hawks (and nine [...]

Swimming in the Great Bird Current

Friday, September 23rd, 2005

September 23, 2006 – Hallowell, Maine
A few nights ago, a river of birds streamed over my head, over my little town in Maine, over Portland, and Boston and New York. I stood out on my porch in the dark, the low rumbles of trucks on the highway faintly audible, and listened upwards to the sounds [...]


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