Hey, fellow bird lover! 👋
Welcome back to The Flyer 🐦 So glad you're here. Each month we bring you original stories, stunning bird photos, fascinating tidbits from the birding world, and a little something to make you stop and look up. Whether you're a lifelong birder or just someone who loves seeing a flash of color outside the window — this one's for you.✨
Don’t forget to look up.
BIRD OF THE WEEK
The White-tailed Kite
by Alice Cahill (Flickr)
📍 Found in California, Texas, and parts of South America
🎶 Click here to hear their calls
There aren’t many birds that can hover in the air like a helicopter or a UFO, but the White-Tailed Kite is one of them. This Hawk can be spotted on high leaning into the wind to float like a kite, its telltale white body with gray-tipped wings and black shoulders standing out in any weather.
If you’re hoping to see one, keep your eyes peeled near dawn when the White-Tailed Kite takes flight to scope out its prey of small rodents in the grasslands below. Watch it swoop down to snatch up a meal with its talons with impressive precision and speed.
Fun fact: White-tailed Kites roost in groups of 100 or more during the nonbreeding seasons; dusk is the prime viewing time to see them gathered.
by _Veit_ (Flickr)
Birding bits you should know about...
by Bering Land Bridge National Preserve (Flickr)
🎰 Rare Bird Alert
Luck be a Loon
A rare Yellow-Billed Loon took up residence in an unlikely place: The fountain of the Bellagio Hotel in glittering Las Vegas, Nevada.
🗣️ Rumors Fly
How birdwatching’s biggest record threw its online community into chaos
Two birders set a record for seeing 10,000 species of birds on the same day. Drama and scrutiny followed.
🧠 Listen Up
Birdsong Boosts Mental Health
Feeling stressed? Listen to birdsong today!
An amazing bird photo taken by one of our community members. Submit yours to hello@flyingcolors.co to be considered for an upcoming edition!
by @JamesLucasIT on Twitter
A QUOTE
And then I hear
outside, over the actual waves, the small,
perfect voice of the loon. He is also awake,
and with his heavy head uplifted he calls out
to the fading moon, to the pink flush
swelling in the east that, soon,
will become the long, reasonable day.
— From “The Loon” by Mary Oliver
Thank you for being part of our flock!
Be sure to follow us on Instagram, and if a friend forwarded you this email, you can subscribe here.
Questions? Ideas? Epic bird photos? Reach out at hello@flyingcolors.co
About Flying Colors
Flying Colors makes premium organic wild bird food, offering ethically sourced, toxin-free seeds and nuts of the highest quality to nourish wild birds of all types and inspire birders of all ages.
Each specialty blend and single-origin creation is rigorously sourced & researched, and every jar is produced with love & packaged by hand in small batches in New York's Hudson Valley and tested in our own backyards.
Shop Premium Organic bird seed
