Weekend Bird Blogging #8

An eclectic weekly collection of recent posts about birds, birders, and birding by bloggers throughout the blogosphere—but mostly from sources other than the mainstream bird blogs—that illustrates the universal appeal and attraction of our feathered neighbors, personally selected by me for your reading and viewing pleasure:

BLOG POSTS:

• a daily dose of design – For the Birds—and in Memory of Charley Harper
  
• Biological Ramblings – Pre-dawn Swallow Shenanigans [adventures in banding]
• Calamity News – Beware of Killer Giant Penguins from the Past [spoof]
  
• Daily Kos – Dawn Chorus: Birdblogging [Note to all you birdbloggers out there: take the poll!]
  
• Filling the Well – Alaska #2: Bird Watching
  
• Incredible Art Department – Artist Charley Harper Dies
  
• Living the Scientific Life – Peterson Reference Guides: Gulls of the Americas
  
• Matt’s Sci/Tech Blog – The Case of the Headless Parrot
  
• Outpost Mâvarin – The Fan-Tailed Warbler Disaster
  
• Terrierman's Daily Dose - Balancing Hawks & Doves in Wildlife Management
  
• The Blue Voice – Losing the Birds
  
• the horse’s mouth – Fish on Fridays (2) [it turns out that the Choctawhatchee region of Florida is notable for more than just Ivory-billed Woodpeckers!]
  
  FOUND BIRD BLOG:
  
• Bird Year Blog [North American]
  
  MAINSTREAM MEDIA:
  
• Jerusalem Post [Israel] – Keeping cool, stork-style
  
  VIDEOS:
  
• KQED QUEST – Fatal Attraction: Birds and Wind Turbines [Altamont Pass, CA]
  
• YouTube - Challenge to Evolutionists and Atheists—Woodpecker [creationist nonsense—view at your own risk]
  
  OTHER COMPILATIONS:
  
• A DC Birding Blog – Loose Feathers #105
  
• Blog Carnival – I and the Bird #52 [from The Wandering Tattler]
  
• Living the Scientific Life – Birds in the News #89