Harrier vs Hawk by E Martin Photo

Here are some of the most popular posts, tweets, retweets, Facebook posts and photos from Burdr this past week. Enjoy!

The photo above is by Flickr user E Martin Photo. It’s part of a series of photos of a female Harrier Hawk attacking a Red-shouldered Hawk. Definitely check out the rest of the photos!

News

• New “State of the Birds” Report Showing Climate Change Threatens Hundreds of Species via State of the Birds [Twitter]
• The internet is buzzing about the 2010 “State of the Birds” report via State of the Birds [Twitter]
• Texans Fight Over Birds and Water Rights via Wall Street Journal [Twitter]
• USDA Announces Initiative to Improve Sage-Grouse Conservation via USDA [Twitter]
• Vehicles Hit Hundreds of Owls via Current Results [Twitter]
• Montana Raptor center seeing first hand the effects of lead in the environment via The Bozeman Chronicle [Twitter]
• Mosquitoes, not birds, as suspected, may have played primary role spreading West Nile westward across US via The Johns Hopkins Gazette [Twitter]
• Wonder what he’ll get? “Sentencing delayed for LA songbird smuggler” via AP [Twitter]
• Environmental group challenges sage grouse finding via Mercury News [Twitter]
• NPR remembers Theodore Cross and his pursuit of ‘Waterbirds’ [Twitter]
• Whoa! Fog likely killed dozens of birds in Tennessee town via Tennessean [Twitter]
• Luckily everyone survived! Crashed plane was chartered to count birds via CBC News [Twitter]
• Environmental Groups Launch Legal Action Over Office Tower Bird Deaths via CityNews [Twitter]
• Horrible! “NY man enters guilty plea to poisoning two bald eagles” via Wellsville Daily Reporter [Twitter]
• Birds could be a solution to mosquito mayhem on a school campus via The Optimist [Twitter]
• Awesome! Jazzman’s Cafe Unveils First-Ever Bird Friendly Coffee from Africa via Hao-Odnla [Twitter]
• Steve Martin replaces Dustin Hoffman in the birdwatching comedy called The Big Year via Film School Buzz [Twitter]
• “Chickens that appear half-hen, half-rooster aren’t quite as mixed up on cellular level” via DiscoveryNews [Twitter]
• Sad! 50 to 80 birds found dead in Florida after eating toxic seeds via Tampa Bay Online [Twitter]
• The Worlds Rarest Bird Photography Competition via Wildlife Extra [Twitter]
• “Wind turbines: ‘Eco-friendly’ – but not to eagles” via Telegraph [Twitter]
• Wow! “2.4 million people in Ohio watched birds” via WFMJ [Twitter]
• Yay! Portland airport cuts bird incidents in half in 2009 via NWCN [Twitter]

Photos and Videos

• Harrier vs. Hawk series by E Martin Photo [Twitter]
• Stop, shop & soar via hummingbird2 [Twitter]
• This Screech Owl has been hanging out in a neighboring community for a month or so now via Virgin Islands Online [Twitter]
• Whoa! “Great Grey Owl swoops down on a tiny meadow vole” via Telegraph [Twitter]
• Careful! “Bird perches on razor-wire at US Army camp in Iraq” via Guardian [Twitter]
• Asian Fairy Blue Bird (Female) via neelakhandan [Twitter]

Burrowing Owl by Flávio Cruvinel Brandão

• Burrowing Owl pic of the day by Flávio Cruvinel Brandão [Twitter]
• Nice video of a marsh wren building a nest via Wrenaissance [Twitter]
• White Winged Dove Perched via los_maestros [Twitter]
• Now that’s quite the mouthful!! via YsMum [Twitter]

Birding at Dusk via seabamirum

• Birding at dusk via seabamirum [Twitter]
• Photo of a Red-tailed Hawk as he soared over head via kootenayphotos [Twitter]
• Yup Feeling sorry for anyone trapped inside while I enjoy cup of Joe and spot of birdwatching via vanessalaurin [Twitter]
• Yellow-rumped warbler drinking from a spigot while in flight via beachhunter [Twitter]
• “Look what I caught!” by Florida Blume [Twitter]
• A White-breasted Nuthatch surveys the buffet table via hummingbird2 [Twitter]
• A Ring-billed gull bathes on in a pool of water at La Jolla Shores by teffluvium [Twitter]
• “Organized Confusion” by Craig Leaper [Twitter]
• Might take you a second to see this Grey Flycatcher nesting in a wood pile via Telegraph [Twitter]

Reuben and Jacob enjoyed a morning birdwatching! via hellerington

• This is so cute! Reuben and Jacob enjoyed a morning birdwatching! via hellerington [Twitter]
• Hummingbird paradise! “Hummingbird overlooks 50 acres of flowers!” via Telegraph [Twitter]
• Rare Vanuatu Petrel via Guardian [Twitter]
• Frazzled Red-winged Blackbird via LadyWoodpecker [Twitter]
• “Just a pretty couple” via India Nature Watch [Twitter]
• “Another Yawny Tawny” via India Nature Watch [Twitter]
• One of several White-whiskered Puffbirds we saw at Canopy Tower in Panama via AKbirder [Twitter]
• “Fight!!!” via India Nature Watch [Twitter]
• White-breasted Nuthatch at Sandia Crest, NM via LRockwellatty [Twitter]
• Afternoon birding in AZ after a long morning’s walk via LRockwellatty [Twitter]
• Whoa! “Pelican drinking water” via India Nature Watch [Twitter]

• Video of Snow Geese in Missouri by MrCLKproductions [Twitter]

Burdrs and Blogs

• Cooper’s Hawk Portraits via Mike’s Birding & Digiscoping Blog [Twitter]
• Plumed Whistling-Ducks via WA Zoologist [Twitter]
• Eurasian Common Teal at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge Queens, NY via Birding Dude [Twitter]
• Black-footed and Laysan albatross, “Let’s try this again” via Tern Island Times [Twitter]
• “Humor in Birding” via Cary Birdcam Blog [Twitter]
• Rehabilitation and Release of a Mallard Duck via Volunteers for Wildlife [Twitter]
• I want one! USB Robot Owl via Burdr
• Remember the PBS show about hummingbirds? Well here is the camera they used! via OhGizmo! [Twitter]
• Lola has started to brood via Urban Hawks [Twitter]
• Yay! The Canon lens thermal travel mug is now available for pre-order! via Burdr
• The Sophisticated Sonar Of Owls via Burdr
• Pictorial: Longing for the Birds of Summer via Birding in Maine [Twitter]