Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 11/29/2008
SCOTLAND'S leading bird charity has argued against plans to use laws to give extra protection to a long list of species.
Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
Record numbers of ring-necked parakeets are adding a touch of colour to Britain's fish-grey winter skies. The British Trust for Ornithology said the British population of the bright green parrots has rocketed from 1,500 in 1996 to an estimated 20,000 today, with 75 per cent living in the South East.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
Parakeets in the UK have reached record numbers according to experts leading to concerns for native bird species and fruit farmers.
Colombo Page (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
Nov 26, Colombo: The Field Ornithology Group of Sri Lanka (FOGSL) has launched an annual nationwide program to assess and study the distribution and presence of birds in Sri Lanka...
BU Science Library Blog (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
The Birds of North America is a comprehensive reference covering the life histories of North American birds. The series provides detailed scientific information (18 volumes, 18,000 pages in total) for each of the 716 species of birds nesting in...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
A burrowing owl, a species from California, is one of two new birds that has been added to the Sacramento Zoo collection. The Sacramento Zoo has added two new bird species to its feathered family. The zoo recently opened two bird aviaries featuring burrowing owls and yellow-billed magpies, a zoo news release states. The aviaries are in the Zoo's Backyard, an interactive area including a garden, nature...
craigblog (Free subscription) | 11/21/2008
I think Marc's right, per comment below. I see a lot of those birds around the office.It looks to me like a Brewer's Blackbird with some kind of pigment mutation. Cornell's Ornithology lab has some photos and a range map...
Safari Notes (Free subscription) | 11/21/2008
From ABC here and here , is very good news: Two landholders in southern New South Wales may have helped to save a threatened species of bird from extinction. The bush stone curlew is a ground-dwelling bird endangered in NSW, Victoria and South Australia. It is estimated the bird's population has declined by two-thirds in the past 20 years, with foxes and cats being their main predators. Two landholders...
Coyote Mercury (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
Thanks to BirdingGirl, I discovered The Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s very cool citizen science project, Project FeederWatch. I picked Saturday and Sunday as my count days as those are the days I’m home. The idea is to count the highest number of individuals seen at one time that show up to partake of the delights [...]
Living the Scientific Life (Scienti (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
tags: Birds in the News , BirdNews , ornithology , birds , avian , newsletter Sanderlings, Calidris alba , at Bolivar Flats, Texas. Image: Joseph Kennedy , 24 June 2008 [ larger view ]. Nikon D200, Kowa 883 telescope with TSN-PZ camera eyepiece 1/1500s f/8.0 at 1000.0mm iso400 . Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...
Tiny Planet (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
So very tired, but here we go: A chaffinch map of Scotland: “The work looks deceptively simple, while in fact it is a cleverly multilayered combination of poetry, cartography, ornithology, linguistics, and maybe just a hint of Scottish nationalism”. I love the oddities of the internet. Strip websites back to basics. Like ice, penguins, clouds and atmospheric disturbances? Then you’ll [...]
Minleys (Free subscription) | 11/16/2008
By Greg F Williams Who said you can not enjoy two pleasures at the same time? If you have to go on a Caribbean cruise, another thing you can do is birding given that there are a lot of bird species living out there in the tropics. Here are some of the places you may wish to visit on your cruise. First is the Trinidad Asa Wright Nature Center that is ten miles north of the town of Arima on Blanchisseuse...
Living the Scientific Life (Scienti (Free subscription) | 11/15/2008
tags: endangered species , endangered birds , world map , birds "... species such as the house sparrow, snipe, starling, lapwing and corn bunting have been listed as birds of European concern, but these species have been declining in the United Kingdom's countryside for decades." Mark Avery, 2004. A total of 9934 bird species were assessed for threatened species status by 2004; 1213 species were at...
strange maps (Free subscription) | 11/15/2008
Chaffinch Map of Scotland is a poem written in 1965 by Edwin Morgan (b. 1920), Poet Laureate of Glasgow (1999) and (since 2004) Scottish National Poet (1). The work looks deceptively simple, while in fact it is a cleverly multilayered combination of poetry, cartography, ornithology, linguistics, and maybe just a hint of Scottish nationalism (2). The chaffinch (3), or [...]
A DC Birding Blog (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
N8 is right that bird species show different temperaments in the hand , and this holds for raptors as well as the songbirds that he helps to band. Among raptors, larger birds tend to be calmer than smaller birds. This is not always true, as bald eagles and northern goshawks both have reputations for being a bit high strung, but it holds for most raptor species. Among buteos, red-tailed hawks are fairly...
