Volume 56 • February 2, 2024
Welcome to
🦜 The Flyer 🦜
by Flying Colors
Every month, we share original content written by the Flying Colors team, fascinating stories & tidbits from the world of birding, curated products, epic bird photos, and more.
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Flying Colors is launching a new flock of curated birding supplies — from bird feeders, houses, guidebooks, and more. As a special thank you to our incredible #birdnerd community, we'll be offering 25% off this new collection to Flyer subscribers when it launches. We expect to launch next week so share the love with your friends by telling them to subscribe!
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Bird of the Week: The American Bittern
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Found in North and Central America
 Hear Their Calls
The American Bittern is a heron that fluctuates between looking like a stocky and short swamp creature (which it is) and its long-necked, elegant cousins. (They also cross their eyes when looking for prey below them, adding to their somewhat silly appearance.) American Bitterns’ striped chest feathers and brown wings blend in perfectly with their marshy surroundings, making them hard to spot amongst the reeds. They disappear even further when they hide by stretching their necks and pointing their bills to the heavens.
If you want to see one, try using your ears first: they have air sacs that produce the same sort of water droplet-like sound (oonk-GA-loonk) that humans make by flicking their cheeks with a finger. These booming calls gave them the nickname “water-belcher.”
Fun fact: American Bittern’s eyes turn from yellow to orange during breeding season.
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Backyard Birds Love Our Organic Bird Food!
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When it comes to your backyard birds, only the best will do. Flying Colors’ premium organic wild bird food comes in a beautiful three-gallon carton.
Choose from five custom blends — Pine Plains, Woodstock, Millbrook, Black Oil Sunflower, and Squirrel-Proof Safflower — all made with 100% USDA certified organic ingredients like, sunflower hearts and safflower, and hand-mixed with love in New York's Hudson Valley.
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Give a Hoot
Birding bits you should know about this week
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Your Shot
An amazing bird photo taken by one of our community members. Submit yours to hello@flyingcolors.co to be considered for an upcoming edition!
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Elf owl, elf owl, what do you do
When all of us are sleeping?
I go down to the water hole to wait
Where the frisk-tailed things come creeping,
And the little gray mice by the grass stalks climb
To the moon of the mesa, and bide my time
To mark the blind mole's furrow.
And I strike my kill,
And eat my fill,
And get me back to my burrow.
— “Elf Owl” by Mary Austin
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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.
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