Birdchick Podcast #159: Talking Starlings and Crossbills as Pets?

  This is a hard story about the pet bird trade in Beijing but we need to read it. And before you think, oh these are birds, I'll never see...check out the bohemian waxwing and red crossbill. On a side note, the US is offering a $1 million reward for information to help dismantle one of Asia’s largest wildlife-trafficking syndicates.

Pete Dunne suffered a stroke last spring but he's still doing what he loves at Cape May. Read more about his future plans here.

Wind company fined $1 million for killing eagles (as they should be fined). But be careful where some of the information protesting wind farms on birds' behalf is coming from.  Quite a bit of it comes from oil companies.

Are hummingbirds really eating suet?

Some New York City residents are not happy about the influx of wild turkeys. Maybe they should try the weird looking coyote decoys.

Hand reared spoon-billed sandpiper found with wild flock.

Talking starling story.

You, North American Peeps, consider signing up for a Christmas Bird Count near you.

Liam Neesons.

Birdchick Podcast #158: Starling Poop In Rome & Hawk Owl Rescue

This is what I feel like when I go birding: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi8a1fOl4u4&feature=gp-n-y

Read names of people who said they loved the podcast (it's on your phone).

Rome is inundated with starling poop.

Kayaker rescues hawk owl in Finland--amazing photo, here's the English version.

14 year old birder named Khalid Boudreau discovered the second-known breeding spot of the American white pelican in B.C.

Forbes article tries to explain why the ToysRUs ad is backfiring but makes it a gender issue but Stephen Colbert NAILS it.

Study about traffic noise and its affect on birds.

Check out an online seminar on the behind the scenes of Cornell's Bird Cams. Learn some of the secrets this coming Monday, Nov. 18, at 7:30 P.M. Eastern, in a special live presentation from Bird Cams Project Leader Charles Eldermire.



Birdchick Podcast #157: New Sibley? Toys R Us are jerks.

Brace yourselves, kids, there's a new Sibley coming. The company Toys R US has an advertising department that is full of complete and total jerks because of this ad:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5SXybm6bss

Funny article about rules for the 20 something birder.

Did you enjoy my post on Austria? Want to have a similar trip? Sign up with my friend Ben and Clay and go on their digiscoping tour of Austria.

Here's Carl Sagan

All the illion's from Cosmos by Carl Sagan. Millions, Billions, Trillions and 1 Quadrillion. For all the other words that aren't those ones. Please watch Cosmos.


Birdchick Podcast #156: Black Birder Rules and Pokemon

Birdchick Podcast #155: Boobies, Women and Zombies

Mom stories--"don't you know who my daughter is" or visiting NWR and it's closed. I was interviewed by a college newspaper and the article is just so darned cute. Love those college reporters.

What bothers me most about the zombie genre is addressed in this article on Boing Boing.

A brown booby in Buffalo.

Alpine swifts are CRAZY flyers.

How predatory sounds can affect an ecosystem.

Record holding teen birder in the Chicago Tribune.

Revisiting sexism in science and nature careers. A science writer is asked to write for Bio Online for free by an editor, she declines and gets called a whore by the editor. This is not acceptable as the now former Biology Online editor has learned.

How many of these 13 essential outdoor experiences have you done?

Cool photos you should check out: Bald eagle vs great blue heron over a fish and the 2013 Wildlife Photographer of the Year winners have been announced. I thought this noddy photo was the most intriguing:

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Birdchick podcast #154: Government Shutdown and Eerie Birds

We can't let Non Birding Bill know about this story. Family releases "baby bunny" and it lasts maybe 10 seconds in the wild. Here's a cleansing albino chickadee photo.

Calcified bird photos by Nick Brandt.

9 leading causes of bird deaths in Canada.

Crazy lady writes about...dinosaur "love."

How not to handle criticism.

Ducks Unlimited beard app fundraiser.

NBB's other podcast.

This is a picture of Kabuki, our cockatiel who you sometimes here in the podcast:

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kabuki

Birdchick Podcast #152: Owls Don't Want To Be In Your Wedding

Remember when I got the offer of a free camo bikini? I opted for a camo bedset instead, I actually really like it. And I learned that white vinegar makes a great fabric softener. Owl that was supposed to deliver wedding rings during ceremony, falls asleep instead.

Once again migratory birds get caught in the 9/11 Tribute in Lights.

Hawaiian petrel found dead in Arizona.

We referenced this article in the last podcast but a report came out that 67 eagles have been killed in the last five years at wind turbines. Bird deaths are a cause for concern but considering all the other things that kill eagles, is that so bad?

Walter Kitundu presents the most intimate photo of an oxpecker with a giraffe you will see all day.

Punk Rock Big Year is test offering bird shirts. The initial design is a red-winged blackbird.

67 eagles killed at wind turbines in 5 years vs 7500 birds killed at one gas flare in Canada in one night.




Birdchick Podcast #150: Birds, Birds, Birds

Incredible series of photos as an osprey attacks a great blue heron. I know, right? American Bird Conservancy is trying to save an Arizona Hummingbird Landmark.

Hen Harriers on the brink of extinction in England.

Woodpeckers and nuthatches benefit from emerald ash borer.

Drinking one's way through the World Series of Birding.

OK...I've seen a lot of weird birding things on the Internet...this is high on the list of weird. It's artistic, but it may not be safe for work for everyone, so careful following this link. Basically...it's butt birds.

Take Cornell Lab of Ornithology classes online--Be A Better Birder.