Arkansas News

  • Counting Birds at your Feeder for your eBird Yard List

      Keeping a “yard list” in eBird is a wonderful way to document all the different species of birds, and numbers of those species, that you see at your bird feeders.  And, thanks to our unusually cold November, Arkansans are seeing lots of birds at their backyard feeders. A couple years ago eBird published the […]

  • Will Leaving My Hummingbird Feeder Up Stop Them From Migrating?

    By late September, ruby-throated hummingbirds have been migrating through Arkansas for more than 2 months and birders may find there are fewer and fewer birds at their feeders.  Scientists determined that hummingbird migration is initiated based on day length so the presence of sugar water feeders will not stop hummers from flying south to winter […]