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Volume 17 • May 13, 2022
Welcome to
🦜 The Flyer 🦜
by Flying Colors
Happy weekend! Each Friday 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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Have you ever seen a Starling murmuration? (via @janttspov)
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Bird of the Week: The Cliff Swallow
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Found in most of North and South America
 Hear Their Song
Cliff Swallows are the architects of the natural world. Their white foreheads give them away, and they can be spotted along bridges, overpasses, and the sides of cliffs during spring, busily building their nests out of mud.
Cliff Swallows feed off insects in the air and are quite the spectacle for bird watchers, as they actively flit in and out of their nests to feed and gather materials. They like to congregate as a large colony (sometimes with thousands of nests) above the ground as they collect from mud puddles and build their youngs’ protective, jug-shaped homes glob by glob, fashioning their very own stucco.
Fun fact: After leaving the nest young Cliff Swallows gather in groups called creches; their parents can find them again by their unique voices.
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Give a Hoot
Birding bits you should know about this week
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Watch
🦅 Bald eagle fledglings
Make this a two-and-a-half minute meditation: Young bald eagles get ready to fly in a serene marsh reservation in Florida.
Learn
🪶 The National Geographic Guide to Birding in North America
A beautiful and informative 30-minute guide to identifying birds (recognizing things like flight patterns and feeding behavior) on YouTube. Impress your friends with your new skills!
Laugh
💃🏻 Dancing birds compilation
Get your party dress on and shake a tail feather with these graceful (and strange) moves from Bird of Paradise, Albatross, and more.
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Give Your Backyard Birds the Best
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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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'Tis the blithest, bonniest weather for a bird to flirt a feather,
For a bird to trill and warble, all his wee red breast a-swell
I've a secret. You may listen till your blue eyes dance and glisten,
Little maiden, but I'll never, never, never, never, tell.
– “Robin’s Secret” by Katharine Lee Bates
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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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