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Dan Cristol

Reporter · US

Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Latest publication
Sep 25, 2026
Outlet visibility, for Daily Press
Top 500K sites
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Aug 1, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Dan Cristol

    Birding: Fall migrants are hard to identify because of molt (opens the original)

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    The father of modern birdwatching, Roger Tory Peterson, called them “confusing fall warblers” and filled four pages of his field guide with olive, green and dull yellow versions of blandness. Sandpipers, which headed to the Arctic in May wearing bold hues of chestnut, auburn and buff, are migrating back through wearing brown feathers that force birders to rely on subtle differences in beak shape and leg color. The clearly marked, immaculate male ducks of spring come back to us looking brown and

  2. Article · Aug 28, 2026 · Dan Cristol

    Birding: Birds and medicine go hand in hand (opens the original)

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    If you are out with a crowd of people peering through spotting scopes at a rare sandpiper, chances are good that some of those people will be physicians. My father was a birdwatching doctor, and so were many of his friends, so I have long been aware of the connection. But why is there such an overlap between bird fanciers and medical practitioners? Since the idea was first pointed out in 1993 by birdwatching physician Steve Davis in an article called “Similarities between bird identification and

  3. Article · Aug 1, 2026 · Dan Cristol

    Birding: Return of beavers is great news for birds (opens the original)

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    Beavers are 50-lb. vegetarian rodents that dam streams to create ponds in which to raise their families. Felt made from their hair was once so popular for waterproof top hats that they were trapped to near-extinction in Europe hundreds of years ago. The search for more beaver pelts was a driving force in the exploration of North America, with beavers being our biggest export for two centuries. Only a few survived the slaughter on both continents, but after decades of help from wildlife agencies,

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