10,000 Birds
MARCH 24, 2011
The typical woodpecker, with its coloration of black, white, and red, is ingrained into our brains as birders. We all have our familiar species and we all know our local woodpeckers well enough that a quick glimpse is often all we need to identify them. Because many of our common woodpeckers are such a regular sight we rarely end up taking more than that quick glimpse.
4 The Love Of Animals
MARCH 20, 2011
The little polar bear that captured the attention and hearts of so many has passed away. Knut was only 4 years old, and the cause of death is still unknown. Here is an adorable video of Knut as a cub: Knut was on the cover of Vanity Fair, his 4th birthday party was attended by 250 people, and he was known as “The Star of the Berlin Zoo&# ! Knut, you will be missed!
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Critter News
MARCH 22, 2011
Here's an article from the Telegraph regarding chickens feeling empathy. The research is from the School of Veterinary Sciences at the University of Bristol. I used to hate chickens as a child and thought they were irritating. Now, I think they're wonderful and we sponsor Camilla the Chicken through Farm Sanctuary's animal sponsorship program.
Animal Ethics
MARCH 22, 2011
Here is a New York Times story about veggie burgers and how they are getting better with time.
Speaker: Steve Romanco
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 23, 2011
Something has always puzzled me in my years working in the bird feeding industry: why don’t we offer more fresh fruit to birds in our yards? Oh sure, you can find mixes with dried fruit like banana chips and raissins. Heck you can even find mixes with heavy fruit flavoring…but why don’t we offer fresh fruit scraps to birds on tray feeders instead?
4 The Love Of Animals
MARCH 23, 2011
Happy National Puppy Day! As always, if you are thinking of adding a new furry family member to your household, please think rescue and adoption first! You might be surprised to learn just how many puppies are waiting for homes. Check out Petfinder.com to search in your area. In honor of the day, here is our sweet mascot, Baby the Maltese, as a puppy!
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 19, 2011
home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Asides / World Sparrow Day 2011 World Sparrow Day 2011 By Corey • March 19, 2011 • 3 comments Tweet Share Though it may seem insane to American readers, as well as to any other people who view the House Sparrow as an invasive pest, in its home range Passer domesticus is on the wane.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 22, 2011
home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birding / Birding Lodges – Part 2 – Punta Cana Resort & Club Birding Lodges – Part 2 – Punta Cana Resort & Club By James • March 22, 2011 • 2 comments Tweet Share On my journeys around the world with Nikon’s BATV I have stayed at some very hospitable birding lodges.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 25, 2011
The national bird of Sweden is the Blackbird Turdus merula , otherwise known as the Common Blackbird or Eurasian Blackbird , though, of course, in Sweden it is not known by any of those names but as Koltrast.* The Blackbird became the Swedish national bird as a result of a newspaper poll in 1962. Beyond the charisma and song of the species it is unclear why the Swedish people chose the Koltrast as their national bird.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 20, 2011
home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / First Phoebe of 2011 First Phoebe of 2011 By Corey • March 20, 2011 • 11 comments Tweet Share My first sighting of an Eastern Phoebe each year is, for me, when spring officially begins. I finally got my first phoebe of the year yesterday, Saturday, 19 March, a mere eighteen days after the first phoebe of the season was reported in New York City.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 21, 2011
home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Asides / Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds By Corey • March 21, 2011 • No comments yet Tweet Share The New York Times and Tweety have it absolutely correct. Hat-tip to Stella.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 24, 2011
The Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds is undoubtedly the most innovative avian reference guide to come along in many years. In fact, the guide represents such a bold leap forward that reading it makes one wonder what the future of bird guides holds. This is why we asked readers to share their views on the NEXT big step in bird guide design, philosophy, or technology as part of our Fun, Fun, Fun Crossley ID Guide Giveaway.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 23, 2011
After spending the early morning on Saturday birding at Alley Pond Park I was happy with having seen my first Eastern Phoebe of the year and thought I could rest on my laurels for the rest of the weekend. Then the accursed listserv had to ruin my peace of mind by letting me know that someone found a Ross’s Goose at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge while I was looking at no-good, lousy phoebe.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 25, 2011
This is a short account of what happened one fine Monday around noon, March 21st of 2011, while I was at work. It won’t need many accompanying words, so I won’t deliver many. Suffice to say at the onset that it was a beautiful and blue Monday morning, as beautiful and full of migratory vibes as Mondays in spring can get after a miserable and cold, rainy, cloudy, shabby, busy & birdless weekend.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 22, 2011
A grounded cargo vessel wrecked on Nightingale Island, which is part of the Tristan da Cunha archipelago in the South Atlantic. Consequently, a spill of both fuel and heavy crude oil now threatens island wildlife, including nearly half of the world population of endangered Northern Rockhopper Penguin. If there is any good news, it may be that the Inaccessible Island Rail is probably safe by dint of being inaccessible!
10,000 Birds
MARCH 20, 2011
home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Autumn colours Autumn colours By Clare M • March 20, 2011 • 5 comments Tweet Share As you all get ready for the onset of spring in the northern hemisphere we are heading into autumn. In the north of Australia we also have changing colours, but it is not the foliage that changes.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 24, 2011
Sure, flaunt the birds. Piping Plovers establishing beachheads, Timberdoodles whistling skyward, every day a new arrival. Go ahead, I can take it. I have the warmth of the Sun. Now one of the truly wondrous things about my part of the world is the play of the light, the ever changing light. We’ve just past the Vernal Equinox, that moment when everyone in the world gets the Sun equally.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 20, 2011
home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Asides / Crossley ID Guide Giveaway Winners Crossley ID Guide Giveaway Winners By Mike • March 20, 2011 • No comments yet Tweet Share The three winners of our Fun, Fun, Fun Crossley ID Guide Giveaway are Carol Casavant , Nathaniel Hernandez , and Chris Douglas.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 22, 2011
home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Asides / More Habitat for Snowy Plover? More Habitat for Snowy Plover? By Corey • March 22, 2011 • No comments yet Tweet Share Though it is certainly bad news that the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service expects sea levels to rise due to global warming, swamping beaches on which Snowy Plovers currently nest, it is good news that the number of beaches proposed for protection
10,000 Birds
MARCH 22, 2011
home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds , Terminology / Cow Birds Cow Birds By Rick • March 22, 2011 • 1 comment Tweet Share So what do Buffleheads and Bitterns and Hornbills have in common? They’re all named for livestock. It didn’t take much imagination to name Cowbirds or Cattle Egrets or Cattle Tyrants , but there’s more fantasy, even more wit, involved in the naming of other bovine
10,000 Birds
MARCH 21, 2011
home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Asides / Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg By Mike • March 21, 2011 • 2 comments Tweet Share Seriously, that really happens in this excellent video of a Great Horned Owl scavenging a deer carcass by Kirk Mona.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 25, 2011
Great idea! Kudos to Richard Crossley, Princeton University Press, and the American Birding Association for an engaging cross-promotion. ABA President Jeff Gordon shares the scoop on The ABA Blog. Any takers? a.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 25, 2011
To call this quiz “An Avian Quiz&# is a bit of a stretch. All disparaging comments should be forwarded to Corey or Mike. All kudos should be sent to me! This week I mangle and analyze words. Your job is to make some sense of it all. On this quiz, you might want to work backwards. Maybe not. - Take a beverage produced by a large distributor. - The beverage’s name is 10 letters long. - You will see that the first 5 letters and the last 5 letters have 3 letters in common. - D
10,000 Birds
MARCH 24, 2011
Spring is here, right? So why am I looking out my window at 4 inches of snow? Early spring is full of ornithological as well as meteorological surprises. If you can get out there, you may encounter some fancy early migrants. On the other hand, if you live at my latitude, you may just get stuck in a snowdrift! Where will you be this weekend and will you be birding?
10,000 Birds
MARCH 24, 2011
Our friends at Swarovksi Optik just announced they would be providing further funding to support international conservation action for the critically endangered Sociable Lapwing through the BirdLife Preventing Extinctions Programme as a BirdLife Species Champion. And they just released some phenomenal (at least that’s what Dale says ) new binoculars.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 22, 2011
home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Asides / Win a Copy of Hawks at a Distance Win a Copy of Hawks at a Distance By Corey • March 22, 2011 • 1 comment Tweet Share Utah Birders has a copy of Hawks at a Distance to give away. Go win a copy and you might get it before I get off my keister and write my review… Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more!
10,000 Birds
MARCH 19, 2011
home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Inspiration / March by Goethe March by Goethe By Mike • March 19, 2011 • 1 comment Tweet Share Swallows are a sure sign of spring the world over. The famous swallows of San Juan Capistrano are Cliff Swallows , but for me, Tree Swallows signal both the end of winter in March and its new beginning around October.
4 The Love Of Animals
MARCH 24, 2011
Rescuers from the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW – www.ifaw.org ) have mobilized to Japan to conduct an assessment and assist with animal rescue efforts following the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan. “The humanitarian needs remain overwhelming but given the important role that companion animals play in the Japanese family and the important role that livestock plays in the Japanese economy, it’s important that we address the issues immediately,” said IFAW’s
10,000 Birds
MARCH 19, 2011
home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Answer to the Diabolical Avian ID Quiz: From A to Z in Queens Answer to the Diabolical Avian ID Quiz: From A to Z in Queens By Corey • March 19, 2011 • 4 comments Tweet Share The Diabolical Avian ID Quiz: From A to Z in Queens was pretty darn diabolical even though I tried to include a clue by using “from A to Z&# in reference to the fact that all three qui
4 The Love Of Animals
MARCH 25, 2011
Earth Hour 2011 takes place tomorrow, March 26, 2011 ! People, businesses and iconic buildings around the world will switch off their lights for an hour at 8:30pm local time. The World Wild Life Fund hosts this event to help spread the word that people care about the Earth, and conserving the resources we have. You can sign-up and pledge to take part by clicking here !
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