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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 October, 2007

Awash in Birds

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

We are awash in Boreal birds. Right now the eastern U.S. is filled with White-throated Sparrows, Winter Wrens, Yellow-rumped Warblers, Dark-eyed Juncos, Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers, and tens of millions of American Robins. This cloudy mid-October morning I stepped out of my house in Maine to find waves of robins passing high overhead. Although American Robins are [...]


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