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Saturday
28 Jan 2012
HI: SHORT-TAILED ALBATROSSES
HATCH CHICK IN HAWAII


ONLY THE SECOND TIME ON AMERICAN SOIL
(New York Times)

TODAY: ...
CA: Calif. birders flock to see
rare Gyrfalcon in Inland Empire ...
(Highland Community News)

Vultures skeletonise corpse for the
sake of forensics ... (NewScientist)

WI: Birders, gawkers enjoy rare
sight of Snowy Owls in Sheboygan
County ... (Appleton Post Crescent)

FL: As numbers grow, Bald Eagles
edge near cities ...
(South Florida Sun Sentinel)
OH: Scotts Miracle-Gro Co. to pay
$4.5 million in fines ... over false
paperwork, toxic birdseed ...
(Columbus Dispatch)
UT: Utah rushing to adopt Sage Grouse
protection plan ... before new fed
rules start hindering industrial
development ... (Salt Lake Tribune)

KY: La Grange, Kentucky is a real
life 'The Birds' town ... (CNN)
FL: Travel guru Arthur Frommer ranks
Florida's Sanibel Island his all-time
favourite travel destination ...
because its a mecca for thousands of
birds ... (Chatham Daily News)

UK: All-white blackbird delights
English birdwatchers ... (Earthweek)


more headlines on Page 2 ...  eBIRD RARITY ALERTS BY STATE: ...
Connecticut ...
Delaware ...
Georgia ...
Maryland ...
Massachusettes ...
New Hampshire ...
New Jersey ...
New York ...
North Carolina ...
Ohio ...
Pennsylvania ...
Rhode Island ...
South Carolina ...
Virginia ...
Vermont ...

CITIZEN SCIENCE:
Cornell/Audubon eBird
Project FeederWatch
report Whooping Crane sightings
report tagged TVs [pdf]
report unusual TV sightings
report unusual beaks
buy a duck stamp

BIRDCAM PREVIEW PANELS:
Falcons
Eagles
Osprey
Owls
Others
All species
Smaller birdcams

BIRD CAMS:
beakspeak's birdcam list
Cornell nest boxes
Dutch Peregrine Workgroup
WBC Wildlife TV
Xcel's birdcams home page
CA: Allen's Hummingbirds
CA: CALTRANS Redding eagles
CA: Channel Islands Allen's Hummingbird
CA: Channel Is. eagles
CA: Hungry Owl cams
CA: San Francisco falcons
CA: San Jose falcons
CA: San Marcos barn owls
CA: Starr Ranch barn owl
CA: Starr Ranch hummingbird
CO: Boulder owls
CO: Brush kestrels
CO: Platteville eagles
CT: Mystic Aquarium penguins
CT: Travelers tower falcons
DE: Osprey
DE: Wilmington falcon
FL: Brevard planter owlet
FL: Cape Coral webcams
FL: Dunedin ospreys
GA: Atlanta falcons
ID: Boise falcons
IN: Fort Wayne falcons
IN: Indianapolis falcons
IN: NIPSCO falcons
KY: KEEP osprey
KY: Princton bluebirds
KY: West Peducah bluebirds
MD: Blackwater eagles
MD: Blackwater osprey
ME: BDR webcams
ME: Goodale's house finch
MI: Jackson falcons
MI: Macomb County falcons
MI: Grand Haven falcons
MN: Black Dog falcons
MN: Elk River falcons
MN: Lake City falcons
MN: Larry's live looncam
MN: Oak Park Heights falcons
MN: Oak Park Heights osprey
MN: Red Wing Grain falcons
MN: Sherco falcons
MO: Lake of the Ozarks
MT: Libby Dam eagles
NC: Charlotte barred owl
NC: Holt Lake wood ducks
NC: WCNC EagleCam 36
NE: NGPC kestrel
NE: State Capitol falcons
NE: Omaha falcons
NH: Osprey
NJ: Duke Farms falcons
NJ: Jersey City falcons
NY: Albany/Rensselaer falcons
NY: Buffalo falcons
NY: Glenham cardinal
NY: Glenham wren
NY: NYC falcons
NY: Poughkeepsie/Highland falcons
NY: Rochester falcons
NY: Syracuse falcons
NY: Treman Bird Feeding Garden
OH: Boonshoft Dayton Falcons
OH: Cleveland falcons
OH: Columbus falcons
OK: Red-tailed Hawks
OK: Sutton eagles
OR - Portland Red-tailed Hawk
OR: Willamette Pass eagles
PA: Harrisburg falcons
PA: Franklin Institute hawk
PA: Gulf Tower falcons
PA: PGC bluebirds
PA: Pitt. falcons
PA: Whitehall robin
PA: Wildwood Lake feeder
RI: Conanicut Island ospreys
SC: Hilton Head osprey
TN: Pigeon Forge eagles
TX: Austin Screech-Owl
TX: Greenville bluebirds
TX: Greenville phoebe
TX: Greenville wood duck
TX: Italy Barn owls
UT: Salt Lake City falcons
VA: CCB falcon cams
VA: Norfolk Bot. Garden eagles
WA: barn owl cam
WA: bluebird
WA: burrowing owl
WA: Blue Herons
WA: Kent eagles
WA: Lake Washington eagles
WA: osprey
WA: Purple Matrins
WA: Willamette Eagles
WI: Alma falcons
WI: Genoa falcons
WI: WPS Pulliam falcons
WI: Whooping Cranecam
WV: eagles livestream
WV: NCTC eagles
 
Antarctic gentoo penguins
AUSTRALIA - Alcoa falcons
AUSTRALIA - Sea Eagles
CANADA - Alberta falcons
CANADA - ENMAX ospreys
CANADA - Epcor's Genesee falcons
CANADA - Etobicoke falcons
CANADA - Hamilton falcons
CANADA - Delta eagles
CANADA - Hornby Isl. eagles
CANADA - Victoria/Sidney eagles
CANADA - Toronto King St falcons
CANADA - Winnefeg falcons
CANADA - University of Montreal falcons
ENGLAND - blue tit
ENGLAND - Brighton falcons
ENGLAND - Derby Cathedral falcons
ENGLAND - Dudley Zoo penguins
ENGLAND - Lake District ospreys
ENGLAND - New Forest goshawks
ENGLAND - Wirral's barn owls
ENGLAND - Worcester falcons
ESTONIA - Tawny Owl
ESTONIA - White-tailed Eagles
FINLAND - Nauvo osprey
FRANCE - Cernay white storks
GERMANY - Bornheim white storks
GERMANY - Heidelberg falcons
GERMANY - Höchstadt white storks
GERMANY - Mannheim white storks
HUNGARY - Darány white stork
HUNGARY - Dundabogdány white stork
HUNGARY - Hortobagyi white storks
HUNGARY - Nagyhalasz white stork
HUNGARY - Zalaistvánd white stork
ITALY - Bologna falcons
ITALY - Florence falcons
ITALY - U of Rome falcons
NETHERLANDS - De Mortel falcons
NETHERLANDS - Electrabel falcons/kestrels
NEW ZEALAND - albatross
POLAND - MPEC falcons
POLAND - Warsaw falcons
SCOTLAND - Loch of the Lowes osprey
SCOTLAND - Loch Garten osprey
SOUTH GEORGIA - penguins
SPAIN - Arevalo white storks
SPAIN - Iberian Imperial Eagle
SWEDEN - Helsingborg harbour falcons

BIRD GUIDES:
All About Birds (Cornell)
birdplants.org
Birds of North America($)
Dendroica
Sibley Guide
Sibley Guide corrections
WhatBird Identification helper

VIDEOS:
Internet Bird Collection (IBC)
Bird Cinema

PHOTOGRAPHS:
VIREO bird photo catalog
hummingbird photo database
Peter LaTourrette's
  publication-quality images

Flickr search page
where do you want to go photo index
Google image search
Yahoo! image search

RECORDINGS:
Macaulay Library Catalog
Patuxent sound files
Florida Bird Songs
bird songs from tropical america

DIRECTORIES:
Audubon chapters
bird links to the world
birding & wildlife trails
Majka's birding links
The Owl Pages
Yahoo Birding Forums

BIRDLINKS:
ABA birding ethics
ABA checklist of the BNA
accessible bird sites
Audubon CBC historical results
Audubon WatchList
Auk
avian flu fact sheet
Bent's Life Histories of NA Birds
BIO One
Bird Cams Around The World
Birder's World Magazine
birding on the net
birding pals
BirdNote.org radio show
BirdWatchersDigest.com
Breeding Bird Survey
Britain's Hawk Conservancy
Calif. Condor Cons. Org
calc area of a park or field
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Cornell's ivory-bill home page
Costa Rican Bird Route
eagle migration maps
eBird
eNature.com
free bird clipart
hummingbird migration map
hummingbird society
Hummer/Bird Study Group
ivory-bill org
Jack Siler's bird map
Kate St. John's peregrine blog
Larry Niles' red knot blog
National Audubon Society
The Nature of Delaware
North American Owls
Ohio Birding Forum
online source for ornithology books
operation migration
Pale Male
Pitt's complete Audubon collection
Project FeederWatch
Real-time Weather Data
walking/hiking trail mileage planner
Rutland Osprey Project
Sibley's blog
Sora searches
South Carolina Birding Fare
species numbers & alpha codes
Stokes Birding home page
Stokes blog
tides, sun, and moon tables
Top 25 Birding Web Sites
Two-Fisted Birdwatcher
USF&WS bald eagle hotspots
USF&WS endangered species
USF&WS ivory-bill home page
USF&WS Laws/Treaties/Regulations
USF&WS NWRs home
WhatBird Forums
WINGS birding tours

PORTALS:
About.com Birding / Beginners
About.com Birding / Wild Birds
backyard birding
birding.com
birdingguide.com
birdwatching Dot Com
fatbirder.com
where do you want to go birding?
wildbird.com

ORGANIZATIONS:
American Bird Conservancy
American Birding Association
BirdLife International
Canadian Peregrine Foundation
HawkWatch International
Purple Martin Conservation Asso.
The Nature Conservancy

YESTERDAY: ...
OR: New study shows captive-bred
California Condors die in the wild
chiefly from human-caused problems
... (The Oregonian)

 

NY: How Pete Nye saved New York's Bald Eagles ...
(Daily Yorktown)

FL: PVC pipes can make great legs
... for injured Sandhill Cranes ...
(Audubon Magazine)
OK: Oklahoma faces uphill battle in
keeping the Lesser Prairie Chicken
off endangered species list ...
(NewsOK.com)

FL: Belleair Beach considering
imposing fines on people who feed
wildlife ... (MyFox Tampa Bay)
OR: Timber industry files lawsuit
against murrelet designation ...
challenges habitat designation ...
(Oregon Natural Resources Report)

FL: Florida Scrub-Jays love peanuts
... especially the three-nut ones ...
(Nemesis Bird)

NJ: Get ready for the Great
Backyard Bird Count ... February
17-20 ... (Wild New Jersey)

PHOTOGALLERY ... Top 25 Wild Bird
Photographs of the Week ...
(National Geographic)


more headlines on Page 2 ...

REGIONAL BIRDING SITES:
CT: Audubon Center in Greenwich
CT: Hammonasset Beach SP
CT: Lighthouse Point Park
CT: Milford Point
CT: White Memorial CC
DE: Bombay Hook NWR
DE: Delaware Bay
DE: Prime Hook NWR
DE: White Clay Creek SP
GA: Wings Over Georgia
MA: Allens Pond Wildlife Sanctuary
MA: Mount Auburn Cemetery
MA: Parker River NWR
MA: Pleasant Valley WS
MA: Plum Island
MD: Assateague Island NS
MD: Chesapeake and Ohio Canal NHP
MD: Conowingo Dam
MD: Ocean City
NC: Atlantic Ocean
NC: Mattamuskeet NWR
NC: Outer Banks
NC: Pea Island NWR
NH: Mount Washington
NJ: Brigantine Div./Forsythe NWR
NJ: Cape May
NY: Braddock Bay
NY: Derby Hill Bird Observatory
NY: Jamaica Bay NWR
NY: Montezuma NWR
NY: Niagara Falls
OH: Adams Lake SP
OH: Crane Creek
OH: Green Lawn Cem. and Arb.
OH: Headlands Beach SP
OH: Killdeer Plains
OH: Magee Marsh
OH: Ottawa NWR
PA: Conejohela Flats
PA: Hawk Mountain
PA: Middle Creek WMA
PA: Presque Isle State Park
PA: Tinicum (John Heinz NWR)
RI: Block Island NWR
RI: Sachuest Point NWR
SC: Cape Romain NWR
SC: Carolina Sandhills NWR
SC: Huntington Beach SP
VA: Chesapeake Bay Brdg & Tunnel
VA: Chincoteague NWR
VA: Great Falls Park
VA: Kiptopeke SP
VA: Shenandoah National Park
VT: Dead Creek WMA
WV: Cranesville Swamp Preserve
WV: Green Bottom WMA
WV: Monongahela National Forest

REGIONAL WEB SITES:
Baltimore Bird Club
birding Charleston, SC
Cape May Bird Observatory
Cape May RBA
Friends of Blackwater NWR
Kate St.John's blog
Lancaster Crow Coalition
Mt. Zion Grasslands
New England hummers
South Carolina birding hotspots map
Tom's Plum Island page

REGIONAL: ...     BIRDINGONTHE.NET: ...
MA: Spotted Towhee/01-27 ...
NY: Rufous Hummingbird/01-27 ...
CT: Snowy Owl/01-27 ...
NH: Snowy Owl/01-27 ...
PA: Snowy Owl/01-27 ...
GA: Gr. White-fronted Goose/01-27 ...
MD: Lark Sparrow/01-27 ...
OH: Ross's Goose/01-27 ...
NY: Pink-footed Goose/01-26 ...
PA: Green-tailed Towhee/01-26 ...
PA: Harris's Sparrow/01-26 ...
RI: Black Guillemot/01-26 ...
MA: Clay-colored Sparrow/01-26 ...
NJ: Eurasian Wigeon/01-26 ...
 

PA: 261 species of birds recorded in Berks County in 2011 ...
(Reading Eagle)

NY: SYRACUSE - Snowy Owls perch at
Syracuse Hancock Airport ...
(Syracuse.com)

RI: MIDDLETOWN - Birders reporting
a Snowy Owl at Sachuest Point
National Wildlife Refuge ... since
late December ... (PortsmouthPatch.com)

NJ: VILLAS - Injured Kittiwake
rests on Miami Beach ...
(Freiday Bird Blog)

NY: ROCHESTER - Rochester CBC
continues to show a drop in Great
Black-backed Gull numbers ... on Lake
Ontario beaches and bays ...
(Rochester D and C)

MD: EASTON - Easton Christmas trees
become Poplar Island habitat ...
(Star Democrat)

NJ: Cumberland County Winter Eagle
Festival returns to Mauricetown ...
Saturday, Feb. 11 ...
(News of Cumberland County)

WV: BLUEFIELD — City officials
pledge support to control a mega
roost of crows ...
(Bluefield Daily Telegraph)

RECENTLY: ...
VA: Eagle Cam resumes at Norfolk
Botanical Garden ... (WVEC)
MD: Effort to save Whooping Cranes
sees successes ... but challenges
remain ... (Balitomre Sun)

CA: Web cam lets viewers watch
California condors care for egg ...
first time public will be able to
watch the birds incubate and hatch an
egg ... (mother nature network)

 

DC: Jason Berry sets modern day Big Year record for DC ...
218 species in 2011 ...
(Surfbirds News)

ME: Study suggests mercury’s
harmful reach has grown ...
(New York Times)

Birds Of Prey postage stamps
available now at Post Offices
nationwide ... (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel)

AUSTRALIA - Ornithologists
determine that male Bowerbirds are
probably tricksters ... (Jezebel)


more headlines on Page 2 ...

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