2025 Christmas Bird Count

This year marked the 50th anniversary of the Wild River Audubon Christmas Bird Count.  The Christmas Bird Count (CBC) is the longest-running formal citizen science project in the nation having first been held on Christmas Day 1900.  Tom Anderson organized the first...

Red Breasted Nuthatch (Sitta canadensi)

“Yank! Yank! Yank!” A nasal little voice beeps in tree branches overhead. It sounds reminiscent of a toy trumpet (https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/229281561), an endearing feature of a tiny bird with a big presence in the boreal woods. Red-breasted Nuthatches prefer...