Birdchick Podcast #36 Marajuana, Vulture Detectvies, Marriage Test, Spoon-billed Sandpipers

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We're starting a contest in the podcast.  The first person to correctly identify the bird call in the middle of the podcast and wing a copy of Crimson Wing in Blue Ray and DVD.

German police employe vultures to search for dead bodies.

A "birder" is arrested on suspicion of carrying marajuana...but is really burning sage.  How many birders burns sage on their field trips?

A test from the 1930s for husbands and wives.  Non Birding Bill and I took this quiz (there are different questions for husbands and different questions for wives).  NBB scored a "Superior" and I scored "failure."  How about you?

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Illustration of a spoon-billed sandpiper and here's a link to a photo.  There are hardly any left, learn more here.