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Volume 54 • December 1, 2023
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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Where the wild (rainbow) things are. (via @jabaddams) |
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Bird of the Week: The Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch
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Found in western North America
 Hear Their Calls
Don’t underestimate this blush-bellied bird: Gray-crowned Rosy-Finches are built tough to thrive atop some of the highest mountains in North America, from the peaks of the Sierra Nevadas to the slopes of Denali. Blizzards are snow problem for them—they forage for seeds on snowfields and tundras and breed on remote mountains where few humans are found. As for their nests, all they need is a small space in a cliff’s crevice, on a slopeside boulder, or even in a hole in the side of a building. Yetis are no match for these fearless flitters.
Fun fact: There are four species of Rosy-Finches: Asian, Gray-crowned, Brown-capped, and Black.
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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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He can sway in aspen and tender seedgrass
in his low meadows, wearing the disgrace
of his early delicacy still, where blue grouse,
calliope hummingbird, rosy finch rise
and fall in paintbrush, harebell, penstemon,
beeplant, columbine. Nothing is gone.
—From “A View” by Mona Van Duyn
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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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