Vol. 7 // Here's $50 off the best bird seed on the market 🐦

Exciting News from Flying Colors:
The Carton is here!

We now offer all our blends of premium organic wild bird food in a beautiful three-gallon cardboard carton, perfect for easy pouring, storing, and recycling.

Choose from three varieties of our bird food — all made with 100% USDA certified organic ingredients and hand-mixed with love in New York's Hudson Valley—including the Pine Plains “Original” Blend, Woodstock “Hempy” Blend, and Millbrook “No-Mess” Blend.

We are offering The Flyer subscribers an exclusive friends & fam discount: $50 off the purchase of any carton with the discount code FRIENDOFTHEFLYER, valid until March 18. And if you subscribe for regular FREE shipments, you receive an additional 10% off on top of the discount code. There’s no commitment, and you can cancel at any time.

Be sure to also check out our jars too, the perfect gift for every birder in your life. ✨

Found in the midwest area of the United States

These chickens have style. Greater Prairie-Chickens (which aren’t actually chickens at all—they’re grouse) roam the plains of the midwest.

During mating season the males retract their feathers to entice females with their large, bright orange “eyebrows” and “cheeks,” which look a bit like ripening mangoes. This species almost went extinct in the 1930s (like its close relative the Heath Hen did in 1932) because they were a popular gaming bird, but its numbers are on the rise due to conservation efforts and protections against hunting.

Fun fact: Competing males gather in groups at the “booming grounds”—nicknamed so due to the loud booming sounds their inflated cheeks make—to do their courtship dance, and females come by to check out their prospects, and ultimately choose a mate.

Give a Hoot

Three birding bits you should know about this week

🦇 Bat signal
Bat falcon is spotted for the first time in the United States
The bird of prey can normally only be seen in Mexico and Central and South America, but it’s currently visiting Texas.

❓ Unsolved mysteries
Why did birds fall from the sky in Mexico?
The footage of hundreds of birds seeming to fall from the sky in an instant in Mexico sparked curious questions—but the flush of birds was likely caused by a predator’s chase.

💔 Conscious uncoupling
Polar bear inbreeding and bird 'divorces': Weird ways climate change is affecting animal species
Black-browed Albatrosses, which normally mate for life, are splitting up and choosing new mates more often during warmer years.

A Product We Love

Unique and worthy products from the wide world of birding you might enjoy

Window tray bird feeder from Wayfair. Watch birds up close from the comfort of your favorite living room chair. $196

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"If happy little bluebirds fly

Beyond the rainbow

Why, oh why can't I?"

–"Over the Rainbow"

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About Us

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.