This is an old story (about a year ago) but there are photos of some jerk trying to smuggle hummingbirds in his underwear. Blake Richard Riede was a complete idiot and released several permanently injured birds of prey from their enclosures in Florida. Species released from Boyd Hill Nature Trail Park include red-shouldered hawk, bald eagle [ Read More ]
A PhD has actually tried to fit Big Bird from Sesame Street into current taxonomy. Time to reprint some field guides. Watch the whole thing, it is hilarious!
Hello all, NBB here. Yes, you’re at the right blog! As part of our ongoing cleanup of the Birdchick Blog, we’re introducing a new look. Expect to see more improvements and changes in the coming days. Update: As I mentioned, changes will be coming to the template over the coming days. Comments for this [ Read More ]
Thanks to Curt Rawn for finding this link. I totally need this on some of my bird surveys.
For some reason, buntings are a hard bird for me to get. Both painted buntings and lazuli buntings were always fluttering out of sight just before I would arrive to see one. A common phrase, “Oh a whole flock just flew past here like five minutes ago.” I finally got painted a couple of years [ Read More ]
You need some bees off your frame? Try Mr. Neil’s excellent Bee Flicking technique. Also a handy way to distract enemies should they surprise you in your bee yard. No bees harmed in the making of this video and most were scooped up off the ground and gently placed back in.
It’s the special news report everyone is waiting for–The Winter Finch Forecast! Will you see finches this winter? Operation Migration has a web cam that live streams flight training for young whooping cranes. Check it out (in daylight hours). NPR wants to tell us about a bird we’ve never heard of…though many birders have–the bar-tailed [ Read More ]
Hello all, NBB here. We’re still dealing with the issue of our site being hacked. The nature of the problem is that when a search engine accesses the pages, it serves up spam along with the actual text of the page. The site may be down briefly later today as I reinstall the blogging software. [ Read More ]
Non Birding Bill and I were over at Mr. Neil’s to do some fall beehive prep (for those who follow, the bees seemed to take my Ned Stark speech well and all but one of the hives actually bumped up production). After we finished checking the hives we were back in the house surfing the [ Read More ]
Interesting…do satellite transmitters harm birds? Bald eagle rehabbed by The Raptor Center was banded and the band was recovered, giving a clue as to how birds fare post wildlife rehab. Bald eagle that was injured and is now used for public programs flies into a window at a football stadium causing public outcry from animal [ Read More ]
