Birdchick Blog
The LA Times had a jaw dropping headline: Companies Won't Face Charges In Condor Deaths...but how accurate is the reporting? A cat credit for wind farms?
Red-winged blackbird riding a red-tailed hawk.
Bald eagle foreplay gets out of hand.
6 year old reinstated as Jr Duck Stamp winner.
Eye-rolling bird watching article (at least for me).
So. Much. News. Non Birding Bill and I are about to head to Biggest Week in Birding, will we run into you? We'll both be there the first weekend and just me the second. If you see us on the boardwalk, please say "hi."
CRAZY migration fallout happened in Texas at South Padre Island. The above is not a weird shaggy vine on a painted palm tree...those are all chimney swifts. Here's another photo. Check out this photo of a hoard of dickcissel and a lone indigo bunting or this one of orioles.
The Jr Duck Stamp was just a mess this year. From the Associated Press having to print a correction to the prize being revoked from the 6 year old.
Dude fights off grizzly bear with his spotting scope.
Cool photo gallery of hummingbird nests. You must look.
Crazy, beautiful red-winged blackbird with some pigment issues.
15 products to prevent birds from hitting windows.
A TED talk on duck homosexual necrophilia. I know, right?
The house where Alfred Hitchcock wrote "The Birds" is up for sale.
A California Condor section of sorts. Raptor Center is asking for a little extra help this spring after an influx of injured owls that have been admitted.
Holy cow! Thousands of misdirected grebes saved by volunteers in Utah.
We gotta pay more attention to pesticides.
A very bitter blog from Birdist about state birds.
A study by the National Park Service and the US Geological Survey found that feral cats are directly responsible for killing endangered petrels.
What? A stunt husband? Well, kinda sorta. I spend the week in the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas, and spent some time with all around cool chick Marci Fuller (who is the head of the Rio Grande Valley Bird Festival). We talk some news and some of the cool parts of birding in the Valley. The lady who narrates and studied the Moonwalking Bird is coming to the fest this year!
In the news:
A crested caracara is in Nova Scotia? What's that all about?
Some female humming birds are a tough id. A first state record in Delaware ends up being a record for no one as the bird molts.
Bird JobsUnbelievable (and graphic) footage of a red-tailed hawk's fatal mistake--attacking a bald eagle nest
Get it now while supplies last: owl skirt!
This is an emergency and short podcast about The National Audubon Society severing ties with writer Ted Williams due to pressure from feral cat groups. How many feral cat people are Audubon Members? Somebody, send this guy to a writing class.
Recent bird jobs. Hey, remember how we talked about Georgia hanging up fake vultures to scare away vulutres...well New Jersey is hanging up real dead vultures.
Ambient traffic noise can kind of emasculate singing male birds. Also, some species change their songs over the years.
Huh, crystals can be formed from birds poop.
The New York Times just doesn't care about the sage grouse issue because they illustrated their article with this:
The Gunnison sage grouse should be on the endangered species list. Please consider commenting on it to US Fish and Wildlife.
If you haven't seen this on Facebook, check out the yellow cardinal in Ohio.
The latest in bird photography shaming on YouTube. A guy teases a great gray owl with live bait (he didn't even give the bird the food--what the heck, jerk wad?)
So...if you want to get rid of vultures...you hang out dead vultures?
Is someone going to try and "de-extinct" the passenger pigeon? (I apologize for the amount of times the blog author uses the word "hip." Oy.
What's up with the whooping crane that was shot in Texas by a hunter?
Hilarious take on Duck Duck Goose.
The grossest cowbird photo series you'll see this week!
So cool. Prairie Birder has created her own digiscoping adapter! Swarovski, give her an internship!
NBB has another podcast: Drinking With Geeks!
An internship for someone who is a furry and a bird watcher!
10 huge discoveries about migration discovered with geolocators.
Somebody in Ohio sees Jesus in bird poop...so of course he's going to auction it.
Weird looking redpoll in Alaska.
In case we didn't know this...pesticide over use is REALLY bad for birds.
A general owl article that I saw Johh Cusack link to on Twitter.
From the ABA blog--Rise of the Young Birder Clubs. Eye rollingly bad story about blackbirds roosting in a Kentucky town.
Bird watchers not happy about proposed zip line.
Man who accidentally shot a whooping crane turns himself in.
