Less than five percent of released pheasants surviving but wild turkeys making their way back into the state without stocking. Cormorant guano eliminating common tern nesting sites along the Niagara River. Early spring phoebes, like tree swallows, switching to berries when their usual arthropod diet is not available. The source of the name rough-winged swallow. Blue jays hesitating before migrating across bodies of water.
Cedar waxwings with orange instead of yellow on their tails.
The reasons for splitting the Bicknell's thrush of the Adirondacks and Catskills from the gray-cheeked thrush, the species that migrates through the Niagara Frontier. The chickadee's means of winter survival. And two remarks deserve, I believe, a tie for best of show. The first is Steve Eaton's about how our premier game bird got its name. The Spanish first introduced the turkey from America into Europe in the early 1500s.