Listening to a Continent Sing

the companion website to the book by Donald Kroodsma

BUMBLEBEES OR-338

Prairie City, Oregon

May 26, 7:48 a.m.

Sunrise at 5:16 a.m.

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As bird voices quiet through the day or season, foraging insects warm up and buzz from flower to flower.

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Yellow-rumped warbler, mountain chickadee, western tanager, hermit thrush, brown-headed cowbird

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Photo by Edwin Kroodsma