There’s some exciting research coming out about toucans and why they have those big crazy bills. According to the research detailed today in the U.S. journal Science the toucan’s beak may be a sort of thermal radiator, releasing body heat when the bird needs to cool down–kind of the way rabbits release heat through their [ Read More ]
But this one takes the cake. It’s a preview for Birdemic and I think it’s on the top of the list the next time Non Birding Bill and I have a Bad Movie Party:
If you’d like to read the first part of this leg of our Kazakhstan trip, visit here. I think the Tien Shan Mountains were my favorite, check it out in the above photo–glaciers! One of the people in our group had been to this area before. He said that his group started earlier than ours [ Read More ]
Check out Jim McCormack’s blog, they were out on a birding trip when they found a pink morph katydid! Cheryl Harner has photos of it where she found this dynamite insect. I have always wanted to see one of those, ever since I first got my copy of Lang Elliot and Wil Hershberger’s Songs of [ Read More ]
For those who have gone to Guatemala for the horned guan and would like a cute shirt to commemorate it, the clever folks at Birdorable have come up with a couple of shirts here and here. For those who are not familiar with the horned guan and what it takes to see one, you can [ Read More ]
Talk about tenacious. According to a story from NPR, two guys are trying to identify a bird, quite possibly a new species, based on a wing found 20 years ago: Their subject is a bird Gerry Nicholls says no birdwatcher has ever seen. Twenty years ago a researcher found it dead and decomposing in a [ Read More ]
From the Columbian (as in Washington state) comes the story of a man who went the distance to save an osprey tangled in fishing line (this is also a good reminder to all who enjoy fishing to not leave their old line behind): When Chuck Needham waded into Lacamas Lake and saved an osprey that [ Read More ]
Want to practice some of your digiscoping skills this Saturday? Come out to Carpenter Nature Center in Hastings, MN from 9am to 11am for a digiscoping workshop. I’ll start showing some of my images and video, show some techniques and then we’ll practice. We’ll perch out the education raptors so you have a chance to [ Read More ]
I’m going to link to a graphic photo. If you love goldfinches and if you have a tough time with dead animals or are just a softy, please believe when I say to not follow the link. I have a few deadlines and I was tucked away at a coffee shop on Friday when I [ Read More ]
Yesterday was an interesting day. A couple of people from Minnesota Public Radio accompanied Lorraine and I out to the hives. We’ve had Euan Kerr out before, but he was interviewing Mr. Neil. For some reason, it really didn’t register to me what we would be doing when they asked to come out. I love [ Read More ]
