Author Archives: Rob Fergus

What do you do when a mockingbird sings all night long, keeping you from getting a good night’s sleep? I’ve put up an article on the AbsoluteBirdControl website, but would love to hear other ways that people have dealt with … Continue reading →

Audubon has recently published a workbook online to help you work with your neighbors to make your neighborhood or community more bird-friendly. I wrote this back when I was working for Audubon, and would love to hear any feedback or … Continue reading →

The Planning Commission in Calgary, Alberta is set to vote this week on a Bird-safe design proposal to reduce the number of birds killed by colliding with buildings and glass in the downtown area. A local news headline is terrible, … Continue reading →

The new Crossley ID Guide to Eastern Birds has arrived (complete review on my Birdchaser blog). It does a better job than most covering urban birds, including free-roaming parrots. The great museum-diaorama type illustrations of birds in their wild haunts … Continue reading →

Free-ranging peacocks are established in several communities in the United States, including including Arcadia and Palos Verdes, California, the foothills of the Toquima mountains in central Nevada, parts of Florida including Coconut Grove and Longboat Key, and on Oahu, Hawaii. … Continue reading →

Holland in June. The Dutch Urban Bird Conference (Stadsvogelconferentie). That’s where you should be if you are interested in the best urban bird conservation projects in Europe.

I am currently teaching an Urban Ecology course at Rosemont College in Philadelphia. One of the texts I selected for my students is Douglas Tallamy’s Bringing Nature Home (Timber Press, 2007). I really enjoyed this book, and so did my … Continue reading →

January is the World Parrot Count. So what do you use to identify the wild exotic parrots flying around your city? One place to turn might be the new Parrots of the World field guide by Joseph M. Forshaw (Princeton, … Continue reading →

OK, it is January–which means this is the month to head out and count birds at your local urban parrot roost! I’m helping to coordinate the first World Parrot Count. If you have parrots or parakeets in your area, check … Continue reading →

Next month is the first World Parrot Count. This count is organized by the “extra-tropical“ department of the parrot researchers group of the International Ornithological Union (IOU) and is being led by Roelant Jonker (CML Leiden University) and Michael Braun … Continue reading →