MARCH 2015 • NEBRASKAland 11
Indoor Birding
By Callie Rietfors
Take birdwatching online: from your
computer, you can stream live camera
feeds of diverse North American birds.
With each season, view different
species' mating, nesting and feeding
behaviors.
Here are a few available sites:
•
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology
has a variety of bird cams, featuring
such species as barn owls in Texas;
great blue herons and red-tailed
hawks in Ithaca, New York; and their
latest addition, great horned owls in
Savannah, Georgia.
Cams.allaboutbirds.org/
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The Iain Nicolson Audubon Center
at Rowe Sanctuary hosts a crane cam
which allows viewers to watch sandhill
cranes roosting on the Platte River in
Gibbon, Nebraska. Ustream.tv/channel/
rowe-sanctuary-s-crane-cam
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Watch peregrine falcons from
two cameras at the Nebraska State
Capitol, with close observation of
the nest box, or check out the falcon
cameras returning in March to Omaha's
Woodmen Tower. Neblandvm.
outdoornebraska.gov/2013/07/
peregrine-webcam-click/ or
Falcons.woodmen.org/falcon_cam.cfm
•
Between November and March,
watch trumpeter swans in Monticello,
Minnesota. (Viewers must use Internet
Explorer.) Monticellofiber.com/
swancam.cfm
•
Check out Bella, an Allen's
hummingbird that has built nests in
the same southern
California ficus
tree since 2005.
Bellahummingbird.com/
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Two cameras offer
different viewpoints
for watching adult
bald eagles Ozzie
and Harriet at their
southwestern Florida
nest. The eagles
have nested here
for October through
April since 2006.
Dickpritchettrealestate.
com/eagle-feed.html#
•
Returning in early February, Ventana
Wildlife Society's wild California
condor cams capture the birds feeding
in Big Sur.
Ventanaws.org/condor_cam/
•
Animal Planet's wild bird cam in
northern Virginia provides observation
of its feeders' common visitors:
woodpeckers, cardinals, sparrows,
mourning doves and other locals.
Apl.tv/bird.htm ■
Bird cams, such as this one by Animal Planet, give an
up-close look at various species continent-wide.
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