Allen & Mindy Waldron

Allen & Mindy WaldronAllen and Mindy Waldron are a pair of local West Virginia birders living in nearby Raleigh County.  Mindy has been a birder for many years.  Allen came to birding in the 90’s.  Both are members of the Bibbee Nature Club and the Brooks Bird Club in West Virginia. They spend the summer months operating two MAPS ( Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship) bird banding stations.  They stay busy throughout the year with 3 Breeding Bird Surveys, Breeding Bird Point Counts, Christmas Bird Counts and the Big Sit.  Raleigh and Summers Counties in southern West Virginia are their favorite locales for birding, botanizing, and enjoying all aspects of nature.  

 

 


 

 

Birds don't have teeth. They are the only class of vertebrates without teeth. Instead, they have a gizzard that grinds food, located between their crop and intestine. Some birds swallow clams and mussels whole and their gizzard grinds the shells into digestible material.

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