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Signs of Spring!

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Welcome to the MYBC Signs of Spring! art exhibit. All artwork featured in this gallery is created by MYBC club members. Each season, the Massachusetts Young Birders are encouraged to create art related to our upcoming gallery theme. The prompt for the current gallery (below) was to have club members create work that reminds them of spring and all of the nature signs they can begin to look for during this exciting time of the year!

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"This poem was written to educate people who think all robins leave for the winter and return to the Northeast in spring. Many stay in New England during the winter months, but they are less visible as their source of food changes from things like worms to berries." - Henry
Written by: Henry Malec-Scott, 10
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Spring Artwork

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Tree Swallow Fledglings

above, artist: Shin Yu, 10

Breeding season is here, and this is the output.

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Yellow-billed Cuckoo
(Coccyzus americanus)

above, artist: Henry Malec-Scott, 10

The yellow-billed Cuckoo is the species of cuckoo that is most likely to abandon brood parasitism - the act of laying eggs in other birds' nests so the hosts raise and fledge their young. Some Yellow-billed cuckoos will make a nest to raise a family of their own.

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Northern Parula
(Setophaga americana)

above, artist: Henry Malec-Scott, 10

The Northern Parula is a species of warbler that once belonged to its own genus, Parula, but is now in the genus Setophaga because of new DNA evidence. It makes a loud, buzzy "gee-zip" call and they are floofy and plump.

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American Woodcock
(Scolopax minor)

above, artist: Henry Malec-Scott, 10

The American Woodcock is a shorebird known for its aerial courtship display in which it spirals in the air while making a distinctive "Peent, peent" call.

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Hudsonian Godwit
(Limosa haemsticka)

above, artist: Henry Malec-Scott, 10

The Hudsonian Godwit undertakes a phenomenon known as loop migration - following different routes when traveling north or south. We see godwits in North America mainly during spring migration.

Spring Photography

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A Spring Story

"Just a few months ago, I got the chance to read A World on the Wing by Scott Weidensaul. It chronicled the thousands of miles that birds migrate each year, from the smallest hummingbirds to predatory hawks, and showed just how impossibly possible it all was. When I finished the book, I not only found myself surprisingly passionate about the book's subjects, but also inspired to incorporate them, in some form, within my own writing. Returning to the book, I found that one species specifically shone above them all - the Whimbrel. Though nowhere near as crazy looking as fellow curlews, I read about how radio tagged whimbrels were found to have flown right alongside or even through Caribbean hurricanes, yet only to face deadly manmade threats that awaited them. As I researched more, the story of the whimbrel showed to be even more amazing and perilous than I could have imagined. To me, the whimbrel's journey has now become more than just a symbol of spring and fall migration. It is a symbol of resilience. A symbol of survival."
 
- William B., 15

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