Birdchick Podcast #137: Top Birding Questions Answered!

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.

Remix your birdsong contest.

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:

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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.

Birdchick Podcast #136: Too many bird jobs

  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!



Birdchick Podcast #135: Geolocators, Jesus in Bird Poop

Birdchick Podcast #133: Naked Birding, Albatross, Crazy Owls

FYI: the subject of nudity as in "I used to be a nude art model in college" kind of way comes up in this podcast.  Just so you know in case you listen with your kids. Did you see the finalists for the worst bird photo contest?

Bird jobs this week.

Need a laugh? Just watch this.

62 year old albatross still laying eggs!

In other crazy nesting news, bald eagles laid eggs in the Twin Cities in January and there's a live cam. In other news, a great horned owl took over an eagle nest that's on a live cam.

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Speaking of great horned owls, a great horned got caught in the grille of someone's SUV and a red-tailed hawk got caught in someone's Civic.

Somebody (not me) is claiming to do a nude big year of birding.

Did you know you can see submissions to eBird in real time?

Interesting theory of how starlings monitor each other when in a murmuration.

A good article on why you can't exactly trust using Google Images to id birds.

Birdchick Podcast: #132 Red Knots, Gift Bearing Jays, Listing Rules

This week's crazy bird jobs: Bavarian Blue Tit study.

Montana Bird Technicians.

Hawaii Bird Banding Technicians.

Birds and Beers is in the news!

Hurricane Sandy could continue to have a devastating impact on migratory birds, including the red knot. Also there is a petition to continue the moratorium on harvesting horseshoe crabs.

Listing Rules...at least from the American Birding Association rule book.

Um...it's National Bird Feeding Month.

Google Maps inspired bird house.

Brian Williams gets catty.

Whoa, whoa, whoa...I got a press release from the American Bird Conservancy and it was good news.  What the heck is going on.

There's still time to enter to win my spotting scope!

Birdchick Podcast #131: Cats, Space Coast Festival, Dinosaurs

Hey!  Did you know that I'm having a contest to give away my Swarovski ATM spotting scope? Yes, you could win, just send me your worst bird photo (but please read all the contest rules first). This week in crazy bird jobs:

Volunteer Field Assistant for the Blue-throated Macaw

Couples encouraged to apply for land bird surveys!

TOMKAT Ranch field assistant

Reader responds to the new bird job segment about cougars in California and you should check out biobabbler blog post on a cougar in her yard...and her creative defense.

A new comprehensive study about cats effect on wildlife has staggering results.

Another fossil is supposed to make us look at birds differently...don't all fossils, I mean, c'mon? Oh and here's a story about scientists figuring out that a fossil was a female bird that was ovulating...maybe that makes me look at scientists differently...

Swamp sparrows are way more aggressive than you may realize. Here's a video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zo12PP3PZpo#!

It reminds me a lot of the book Birds Fighting.

Birdchick Podcast #130: Weird jobs Sharon wants to take

Birdchick Podcast #129: Birds, We Talk About Birds

Stuff that happened while Non Birding Bill and I were out of town: Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Black Swamp Bird Observatory launched a website to try and connect young birders called Young Birders Network.

Ornithologist forced to participate in reality tv show.

Some gruesome but awesome images of a lanner falcon and chanting goshawk...that does not end well for at least one of a flock of turtle doves.

The American Birding Association announced the 2013 Bird of the Year and Robert Mortensen of Birding is Fun fame made a hilarious video.  This man knows how to commit:

Visit the official ABA Bird of the Year website: http://aba.org/boy/

And this video led to this:

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And then this:

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Sometimes, there are just plain weird projects on Kickstarter and it may be best to quietly navigate away from the page.

The Hitler Hoary Redpoll video...(man, if you're not a birder, that probably sounds weird).

You can use a pigeon to deliver your mail...but not feel guilty about it!

And you think you have a crappy job...