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Mindful Birding: A Beginner’s Guide, Seattle, WA is the latest in the Lessons from a Birdbrain series. Featuring birds in Seattle, it’s a simple guide to starting both birding and practicing mindfulness.
Highlighted birds include: Anna’s Hummingbird, Bushtit, Spotted Towhee, Rhinoceros Auklet, Bewick’s Wren, Glaucous-winged Gull, Belted Kingfisher, Chestnut-backed Chickadee, and a Mystery Bird!
“Whether we’re in the city, forest, mountains, or marshes, we learn so much from the birds. Mindful Birding makes it easy and fun to swoop right in!” –Rebecca Young, Seattle musician, Roots of Empathy and yoga instructor
Ohio & Belize

Lessons from a Birdbrain: Summer, Ohio
Birds Included:
Pileated Woodpecker
Ruby Throated Hummingbird
Greater Yellowlegs
Black Crowned Night Heron
Mute and Trumpeter Swans
Brown Booby
Purple Martin
Herring Gull
Baltimore Oriole
Turkey Vulture
Indigo Bunting
Great Blue Heron
Ruddy Duck
Tree Swallow
Prothonotary Warbler
Double Crested Cormorant
Great Egret
Gray Catbird
Belted Kingfisher
Yellow Warbler
Barred Owl

Lessons from a Birdbrain: Migration Celebration (Spring / Fall)
Birds Included:
Yellow Rumped Warbler
Palm Warbler
Black Throated Blue Warbler
Pied-billed Grebe
Northern Parula
Surf Scoter
Rusty Blackbird
Yellow Warbler
Common Tern
Horned Grebe
Evening Grosbeaks
American Woodcock
Fluffy the Amazing Ruby Throated Hummingbird
Eastern Phoebe
Nashville Warbler
Green-winged Teal
American Coot
Hermit Thrush
Northern Shoveler
American Redstart
Wood Duck

Lessons from a Birdbrain:
Winter, Ohio
Birds Included:
Bald Eagle
Blue Jay
Northern Cardinal
American Crow
Carolina Chickadee
American Goldfinch
Ring-billed Gull
Snowy Owl
Northern Mockingbird
Red-headed Woodpecker
Common Goldeneye
American Robin
Bufflehead
Cedar Waxwing
Hooded Merganser
Merlin
White-throated Sparrow
House Finch
Tufted Titmouse
Red-tailed Hawk
Northern Flicker

Mindful Birding Belize: A Birdventure
Birds Included:
Rufous-tailed Jacamar
Keel-billed Toucan
Crimson-collared Tanager
Violet Sabrewing
White-crowned Parrot
Masked Tityra
Chestnut-colored Woodpecker
White-necked Jacobin
Scarlet Macaw
Red-legged Honeycreeper
Rufous-tailed Hummingbird
Black-headed Trogon
White-collard Manakin
Black-faced Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Black-cowled Oriole
Yellow-throated Euphonia
Morelet’s Seedeater
Barred Antshrike
Green Kingfisher
Clay-colored Thrush
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