Purple Finch
Haemorhous purpureus
What it looks like: Purple Finches are chunky, streaky brown and whitish birds. Males have pinkish-red plumage that starts most intensely at the crown and gets more faded down towards the lower and back parts of the body; females are all streaky brown and white.
Brown Creeper
Certhia Americana
What it looks like: A small, slender, unobtrusive brown bird with a long tail, the Brown Creeper can often be seen hitching up the trunk of a tree where it pries tiny insects from cracks in the bark with a long thin bill then dropping to the trunk of another. Creepers are a mottled brown but display a buffy band on the wings when in flight.
Housatonic Community College students are studying painted turtles at Connecticut Audubon Society’s Roy and Margot Larsen Wildlife Sanctuary in Fairfield, with a goal of eventually charting growth rates and estimating population size.
Golden Eagle
Aquila chrysaetos
What it looks like: This large raptor, one of the largest in North America, is often overlooked because of its cursory similarity in appearance to Turkey Vultures and sub-adult Bald Eagles. With a wing span of nearly seven feet, it is a large presence when mixing with our local birds.
Join the Super Stuffers at Birdcraft Museum in Fairfield on November 6 to help us get the word out about Connecticut Audubon Society. We’ll start with a walk through our bird sanctuary and a sneak peek at the museum (currently closed to the public and undergoing renovation), then move inside to eat snacks and put […]
October 23, 2013 — Pine Siskins have been leaving their summer haunts in the boreal forests and have been passing through Connecticut in large numbers recently. Over the past weekend, Lighthouse Point Park in New Haven recorded more than 3,000 siskins migrating past the hawk watching station.
Fairfield, Oct. 22, 2014 - Quick action by two visitors to a Connecticut Audubon Society sanctuary in Fairfield and by Connecticut Audubon staff helped save a Barred Owl that had injured a wing most likely while hunting for food. On Saturday, two people who were hiking at the Larsen Sanctuary, which is adjacent to Connecticut […]
Palm Warbler
Setophaga palmarum
What it looks like: Palm Warbler has a chestnut crown, yellow eyebrow and throat, underparts streaked with chestnut, and yellow undertail coverts. There are two populations of Palm Warblers with the majority of those migrating through Connecticut having more yellow than the western forms. In the fall, adults and immature birds are duller and browner than in spring. Older birds tend to have more yellow on their undersides. Palm Warblers constantly bob their tails, which can be a good first indicator of what it is.
The Connecticut Young Birders Club is organizing a bird walk on Sunday, October 19, for young birders of all abilities. The walk will be led by Tina Green, president of the Connecticut Ornithological Association. Meet at 7 a.m. at Southport Beach and we will carpool from there, starting at Connecticut Audubon Society’s Christmas Tree Farm. […]
Workers from Connecticut Light & Power Company moved an Osprey nest in Westport on Monday, October 6, that was built near a power line and also erected a new nest platform nearby for the Ospreys to use next March when they return to breed. The proximity of the nest to the electrical line resulted in […]
