Birdchick Blog
We got to meet Dr. Chuck Tingle this weekend…yes, THAT Chuck Tingle. If you are unaware of who that is then follow this link when you are not at work and not around your kids.
The curious case of Curry Gull!
Drunk guy uses Uber to get a bird to wildlife rehab.
New York Times birding gear guide…that hat is a hard no from Sharon.
Puffins beaks are amazing...and you can attract them with window feeders?
There's a red warbler in Arizona!
Gulls get a guy banned from a hotel for 17 years.
New book: Does It Fart? Also, help out Laura Erickson.
If guys flirted like birds...and vice versa.
Oxpeckers sleeping around giraffe "armpits" and testicles.
Thanks to searching for poop on NASA images, we found some penguins.
Video of red kites at Gigrin Farm.
Here's the naturalist dream date.
eBird is keeping some locations of birds vague.
Costco Hawk is living it up indoors and yes it escaped.
The obscure 80s movie called Looker.
A study attempts to categorize birders. Do you fit one of the four categories?
Listen to Alec Baldwin learn about birding from Charles Munn on Here's the Thing.
Spencer Pratt is the hummingbird hero we need right now.
If you purchase this print by August 23, 50% of the purchase goes to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
So...we recorded this over a week ago and forgot to post it. Whoops.
The first half hour is a rant on the Senior Pass price increase for federal parks. If you really want one at the old rate, order it at YourPassNow.com before August 28.
The second is about the government looking into public and private land to build a wall that will keep no one out of the United States. Without going through due process for Eminent Domain, work has already begun on private property at the National Butterfly Center for a border wall. Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge will also be ripped apart for a useless border wall.
Weird things happening on bird cams. There appears to be a Canada goose uprising and they're taking over osprey nest platforms. Not all ospreys are taking it lying down.
The field guide we've all been waiting for: The Field Guide To Dumb Birds of North America.
Help a graduate fund her research project.
How much would you pay to go glamping for a nigh parrot in Australia?
The city if Wichita is offering tips to prevent herons and egrets from nesting in your yard.
The California super bloom has been great for birds too. Be sure to check out the video.
It's project nest watch time and there is of course an app for that.
The owl drama is intense this month on social media. You can follow the hashtag #owlmasterbaiters on Facebook to following along.
Funny caracara story and terrible caracara movie.
Lawsuit in New York to protect threatened piping plovers from non native feral cats.
Oh hey, it's a great blue heron eating an alligator.
New apps out there including Merlin which will ID your bird photos and Song Sleuth which cam help ID some bird songs.
For some reason, somebody took this guy seriously about his ivory-bill sightings. Seriously, he's been at this since the original sightings.
Falcons on a plane.
Great news, updated Warbler Guide app and it's now available for Android!
This winter's gull drama involves a Ross's gull. Here's one heck of an eBird list with pictures.
Bald eagles might be more of a problem on free range chicken farms than we realized.
Newer podcasts to check out: