Podcast #124: Birds Eating Each Other, Birder Reality Show? Birder Movie?

Warning...links to potentially gross photos. If you click on a link and are disturbed, I don't want to know about it. Really gross photo of a bald eagle and a mallard (gross but AWESOME). 'Merica!

Sam Galick got some amazeballs photos of a northern goshawk taking out a Cooper's hawk.

Sparrowhawk nails rare wayward cliff swallow in Sweden.

Birders are gaining in popularity.  Another birder movie might be coming if it gets the rest of its funding on Kickstarter (c'mon, it's got Fred Willard) and...a birder reality show in the works???

California restaurant owners build restaurants near the sea where there are birds and sea lions...and get upset about the smell.


Birdchick Podcast #122: Hurricane Birds, Owl vs Cat

Please don't read the comments under this photo cause it's just gonna make you angry. But here's an intriguing photo captured on a Minnesota trail cam that appears to have captured a barred owl going after a cat.  This is posted on Facebook, so you may have to be logged in to Facebook to see it. Sexy bird costumes.

Hmm. Birding Is Fun has generated a list of "Birding Power Couples." Why are we on it?

eBird's Brian Sullivan talks about what can happen when a hurricane like Sandy hits during mirgration. Here's a good article detailing what birds can and will do when a hurricane hits. And here's an interview with ABA president Jeff Gordon.

There's already a Facebook gallery of Sandy birds.

I'm on another podcast called Obsessed with Joseph Scrimshaw. If you like profanity...you'll love this. Do not listen to on speakers at work.

Birdchick Podcast #121: Reporting Birds, Bird of the Year,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2V_cXDlwDWw This is a video for the American Birding Association multimedia contest for their Bird of the Year. Honestly, you can try and enter this, but I'm not sure you can top this video. You can try. But I'm not sure it can be done. I've watched it five times already.

Things get heated at an election for the Madison Audubon Society...to the point that the election resulted in a court case.

Dude with food poisoning refinds finch that hasn't been seen in 80 years!

Guy sees over 9000 birds and decides to let the listing go...

A weird form of bird photography...birds in mist nets and if that weirds you out, here are some gorgeous traditional portraits. Hat tip to Bill Todd.

Birdchick Podcast #118 Scott's Fined Millions For Tainted Bird Food

Scott's Wild Bird Food aka Miracle Grow fined $12.5 million in criminal and civil penalties that regulators say are the heftiest ever issued under federal pesticide law. Weirdest survey about birders and birding...ever. Warning, it takes awhile.

Are you a member of the American Birding Association? Be sure to cast your vote on whether or not to expand the listing area!

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Birdchick Podcast: #116 What Happened???

OK, so we kind of got in an argument with the last podcast (certainly not the first time and certainly not the last) so we took it down.  We didn't realize it would still show up in the feeds. So we redid it.

Yes, we are still married.

Things we talked about:

Crazy Pants in Duluth, MN wants to shoot hawks...cause they're what's wrong with the ecosystem.

Like Omar on The Wire, changes to the American Ornithologists Union taxonomy a' comin'.

You should listen to Joseph Scrimshaw's Obsessed Podcast. You can also buy his book here.

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