Weekend Bird Blogger #11

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:

• BEN—Bama Environmental News – “Kid Birding” in Birmingham
  
• Daily Dolan Geiman – Shop Talk: Ornithological Love
  
• English1001interviews – My Interview with an Ornithologist [Fredrick Sheldon]
  
• First 50 Words – Birders
  
• G-Trove > Journal – Birding out at sea [off Sydney, Australia]
  
• Histomat: Adventures in Historical Materialism – Marxism and ornithology
  
• Little House in the Paddy – ‘Tyro’ Ornithologist
  
• PhiloBiblos – McCormick Ornithology Sale Sets Record
  
• RedV – Audubon: artist, ornithologist, odd duck
  
• The Common Room – The Barred Owl and Education [Frank Chapman]
  
• The Heroine Next Door – Nikon Birding Catalog [birding and sexism]
  
• The San Diego Beat – Birding in San Diego County [interactive map]
  
• Pet Bird – Bird Watching in Your Backyard
  
• Too Many Cooks – Ornithologist
  
  FOUND BIRD BLOGS:
  
• Gallicissa (Asian)
  
• Mark Lewis’s birding blog [European]
  
• Teach me about birdwatching!!! [South American]
  
• Warwickshire Birding [European]
  
  MAINSTREAM MEDIA:
  
• Frederick [Maryland] News Post – Tracking the elusive saw-whet owl
  
• Kitsap [Idaho] Sun – Arizona Birding Jaunt Good for Both Body and Soul [by Joan Carson, the Bird Lady]
  
• Los Angeles Times – Glass wall has birders seeing red
  
• MinnPost.com – ‘Birders’ changing Minnesota’s outdoor image
  
• Outdoor News Daily – Competitive Birding at Bernardos [New Mexico] Big Day
  
• The Independent [U.K.] – The labour exchange: The fisherman and the birdwatcher
  
  VIDEOS:
  
• Brightcove.tv – Wild Bird Banding [Ron Canterbury at the New River Birding and Nature Festival]
  
• Unorthodox Atheism – New Dance Craze: The Ornithologist
  
  OTHER COMPILATIONS:
  
• A DC Birding Blog – Loose Feathers #126
  
• Birding in Maine – Bird Feathers #3
  
• Blog Carnival – I and the Bird #63 (via The Greenbelt)
  
• Living the Scientific Life – Birds in the News #107