Non Birding Bill's Sparrow Photo:
10 years anniversary of guarding snowy plover chicks at Coal Oil Point Beach.
Killdeer Sound from All About Birds
Join the American Birding Association
Gosahawk
bill-sparrow
Birdchick Podcast #13 Migration, Nest Watch & Punk Rock Big Year
For Friday's podcast, we covered migration, big years, Cornell Lab or Ornithology and...Nicholas Cage (don't see Wicker Man but do see Moonstruck). BadBirdz Migration RADAR--for all your spring migration predictions.
Hummingbirds.net for all your spring ruby-throated hummingbird reports
A live cam of an Allen's Hummingbird nest.
March Madness Bird Bracket.
Punk Rock Big Year! Check this guy out.
Very cool bird watching shoes...shoes for bird watching females, not necessarily to go bird watching in.
If 10 people join the ABA (and email us he confirmation) Non Birding Bill will join his first bird club ever.
Birdchick Podcast #12: Jeff Gordon & Bustard Job
It's time for the Birdchick Podcast and we have a special guest in this week's podcast: Jeff Gordon the president of the American Birding Association. Find out of Jeff why you should join the American Birding Association and what the plans are for this organization's future. Remember, if 10 people join the ABA as a result of this podcast, Non Birding Bill will get his own membership. Email me your confirmation email sharon at birdchick dot com Also, at the end, Non Birding Bill and I discuss an exciting bird job opportunity with houbara bustards.
Other things mentioned in the podcast include Birders' Exchange and Canopy Tower (the happiest birding place on Earth). Oh and here is a video to Alvaro Jaramillo--Jeff mentioned him in the podcast:
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Birdchick Podcast #11 World Sparrow Day, Oldest Albatross & Owls in Mail Boxes
March 20 is World House Sparrow Day!
House sparrow feeder giveaway in India.
Oldest albatross survived the tsunami.
Jim McCormack's Ohio blog--owl in the mailbox. Another screech owl in a mailbox. And another!
Best bird shirts (and undies) EVER: Magnificent Frigatebird and Birdorable.
European Robin is a "bird of pray." Here's more on the bird Non Birding Bill refuses believes exist.
To donate to the Red Cross relief efforts in Japan, text REDCROSS to 90999 to make a $10 donation or visit the Red Cross website. There are other places you can donate, such as Doctors Without Borders.
Birdchick Podcast - Dead Deer, Bent & FLAP
This has to be a Friday podcast because it got a bit weird! Non Birding Bill was not prepared for the talk of dead deer. Here are links to some of the subjects: Arthur Cleveland Bent
FLAP - Slide show at the Royal Ontario Museum and lawsuit.
Valmont Owl Cam check out the live shots. Here's a video of crows mobbing the owls.
Twin Cities Naturalist blog entry of a great horned owl visiting their deer carcass...and taking off with a leg.
Birdchick Podcast 03-09-11
In today's podcast we speak to Richard Crossley of the new Crossley ID Guide to Eastern Birds (he also was part of one of the best shorebird books ever--The Shorebird Guide). We have our first winner for the join the ABA challenge! Norm Jensen wins honey from our beehives! Email proof you joined since we first put of the challenge (email confirmation from the ABA will do) and we'll send you some sort of prize. Here's a link to the blog article of what kind of bird are you?
And if you missed it yesterday, here is the link to the oldest living bird according to North American Banding records--a Laysan albatross that is over 60!
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Birdchick Podcast 03-07-2011
Here are links to topics we covered:
Kabuki, the cockatiel you might hear in the background of the podcast.
Yorkshire home for bank nesting birds (like kingfishers)
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Birdchick Podcast 03-04-2011
The latest Birdchick Podcast is out. Below are links to some of the things we talked about:
6 Terrifying Ways Crows Are Smarter Than You
Cats Killing 79% of Catbird Fledglings
One Woman Blocks Rookery from chainsaws
Jeff Foiles Duck Hunting Scandal
Herpetologists vs Ornithologists
ABA President's Message Will you answer our challenge issued in the podcast?
You can join the American Birding Association here.
Have any questions for the podcast or suggestions? Email me at sharon at birdchick dot com
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Birdchick Podcast 03-02-11
The latest Birdchick podcast is up. Below are links to what we talked about.
Birder's World Magazine now BirdWatching
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Birdchick Podcast 02-27-11
[Note from NBB: Fixed the echo on this one as well. Big thanks to Olga Nunes for her help.] The latest Birdchick Podcast is up! In this, Non Birding Bill and I discuss teenage songbird song, eBird, the BirdsEye App, the Big Year Movie and Cornell's upcoming Young Birder Event (which I get whiney about).
Here are links to topics we discussed:
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