Merlin
| Falco columbarius | Order: Falconiformes | Family: Falconidae (Falcons and Caracaras) |
Falco columbarius
Order: Falconiformes
Family: Falconidae (Falcons and Caracaras)
This noisy falcon has become more urbanized in recent decades, nesting in old crow nests and picking off birds visiting backyard feeding stations.
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Laura's Published Works
Radio Programs
- Merlin: All Wizards Have Limitations 2024
- Our Changing World 2024
- New Wheels for Birding! 2023
- Merlin: A Different Kind of Magician 2023
- What to do BEFORE improving backyard habitat: Cats 2023
- October! 2022
- Hawk Ridge: Fifty Years and Counting! 2022
- Alaska, Part 6: Birding the Nome-Taylor or Kougarok Road 2022
- Walter's Beautiful Neighborhood 2022
- Sounds of Early Spring 2022
- Chickadee Day 2022: The Worst of Times 2022
- Evening Grosbeaks! 2021
- Spring! 2021
- Smith's Longspur! 2020
- Backyard Fun 2020
- Fall Migration Update 2020
- American Redstart on Peabody Street 2019
- Review: Merlin, the Bird Identification App 2017
- Where Are the Birds? Part I 2017
- The Cruelty of an April Wind 2016
- Peabody Street Robins 2015
- Predation on Hummingbirds 2014
- Merlin Tag Team 2014
- This Cold Spring 2013
- 2012: Early Spring 2012
- Fall Warblers 2011
- Merlins 2011
- Movie Review: Hairspray 2007
- Summer Pleasures 2007
- Baby Merlins 2007
- Breeding Bird Survey 2007 2007
- Migration Update, 2006 2006
- Christmas Bird Count 2005 2005
- This Winter 2005
- Cool Migration: 2004 2004
- Downy Woodpecker 2004
- Migration Report 2004
- Mourning Dove Season 2004
- Pine Warbler (DD) 2003
- Red Squirrel 2003
- Optimism 2003
- Record-breaking Day at Hawk Ridge 2003
- Shorebirds 2003
- Bear Baiting 2003
- Mona Rutgers dealing with West Nile Virus. 2002
- Pileated Woodpeckers and other striking birds 2001
- Protective Gear 2000
- Early Fall Migration 2000
- Fox Sparrow 2000
- "Wise Use" movement 1999
- Northern Flicker 1999
- Birds Mating for Life 1999
- Photon and the Ants 1998
- Protective Gear 1996
- Hawk Ridge Weekend 1996
- Predation 1996
- The Dragonfly Connection 1995
- Hawk Ridge 1995
- Merlin 1995
- Merlins at the School Bus Stop 1995
- Fox Sparrows 1995
- Walking to School 1993
- A Happy Merlin Story (DD) 1993
- Merlins (Placeholder) 1993
- Merlin (Placeholder) 1993
- Varied Thrush: Exit Pursued by a Shrike 1992
- Hawk Counting 1992
- Hawk Ridge Assistants 1992
- Lazy Summer Days (Placeholder) 1992
- Home Construction II 1991
- Baby Jays 1991
- Northern Flicker 1990
- Migration Madness 1989
- Mobbing and Piracy 1989
- American Kestrel (DD) 1989
- Dawn Dickey Duty 1989
- Elderhostel 1989
- Pumphouse Data 1989
- Questions about birds 1989
- National Warbler Awareness Week: Magnolia Warbler 1989
- Merlins 1989
- Albinism 1989
- Contest results, part 2 1989
- Contest Winners! 1989
- Spring is on its way 1989
- Bald Eagle 1989
- Vice Presidential Debates 1988
- Hawk Ridge Weekend 1988 1988
- Songs and Calls of Northland Specialties 1988
- Migration Update 1988
- Partial Albino Redpoll 1988
- Crows and other spring arrivals 1988
- Pileated Woodpecker (reworked from 1987) 1988
- Bird Brains 1987
- Ode to the Lakewood Pumping Station 1987
- Merlins on Peabody Street 1987
- Some questions about birds 1987
- Birding Anywhere 1987
- Bald Eagle 1987
Sound Recordings
- Early spring: 14 minutes 2023
- Merlin: 3 calls 2022
- Common Redpolls and Merlin 2022
- Merlin 2022
- Common Redpoll: Over 11 minutes of chattering 2022
- Evening Grosbeaks respond to Merlin 2021
- Fifty Minutes of Evening Grosbeaks! 2021
- Mid-April Dawn Chorus 2021
- Merlin: 2 calls 2021
- Merlin: 2 calls, shortened time between 2021