Golden-breasted Bunting by ian.white1

It’s almost the beginning of a new week and time for a recap! So here are some of the most popular posts, tweets, retweets, Facebook posts and photos from everything Burdr over the past week. Enjoy!

Flickr user ian.white1 added this wonderful photo of a Golden-breasted Bunting to the Burdr Flickr group this past week. Such great colors in the photo!

We try to make it easy for you to share your photos. If your on Flickr, you can add them to the Burdr Flickr group! Or if your on Facebook, add them to the Burdr Facebook page like Andrea’s Grackle or Karen’s European Robin below!

If there is something interesting related to birds that happened in your part of the world this past week, share it in the comments!

News and Information

• Sad! Shoebills and weaver birds are among 1000s of birds being killed daily by diamacro poison in Uganda via New Vision [Twitter]
• Stork-billed Kingfisher manipulating a tilapia via Bird Ecology Study Group [Twitter]
• How Bad Is the Oil Spill? Ask the Pelicans by Dir Of Cornell Lab of Ornithology via FOX News [Twitter]
• Ten protected birds of prey have been poisoned in England via Belfast Telegraph (WARNING:Photo!) [Twitter]
• Birds Of A Feather Attack Together via Inside Science [Twitter]
• Fragmented forests result in more snakes, fewer birds via ScienceBlog [Twitter]
• New footage of a pair of nesting Northumberland ospreys via BBC [Twitter]

Congresswoman Betty Mccollum releases a Red-tailed Hawk by Joe Michaud-Scorza

• Raptors released back into the wild via MN Daily [Twitter]
• Concerns mount about oil spills’ impact on wildlife via USA Today [Twitter]
• Come to my place! :) Migratory birds feel the heat, flee Chandlai lake in India via The Times of India [Twitter]
• He’s not the only one! Sierra Club Exec Dir calls spill view ‘deeply moving’ via AP [Twitter]
• 8 released into wild! After 200 Years, Swans Return To Montana via KSBW [Twitter]
• Natural, not due to oil spill, Migratory Bird “Fall Out” being reported along Gulf Coast via Police News [Twitter]
• Canadian Raptor Conservancy wants Canada to have an official bird via CRC [Twitter]
• Gulf oil spill: Chandeleur Islands are first oil victim via LA Times [Twitter]
• Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s “All About Birds” website wins the Lifestyle Webby Award for 2010! via Webby Awards [Twitter]
• Animal Rescue Evolves via WSJ [Twitter]
• Canada searching for national bird to rival US bald eagle via AP [Twitter]
• Hope someone tells the birds, Breton National Wildlife Refuge closed as oil advances via AP [Twitter]
• Containment dome lowered into position over oil leak via LA Times [Twitter]
• Birds in Gulf have new enemy: press. Media aircraft conducting illegal flights and disturbing birds via Audubon Magazine [Twitter]
• Reading University in Berkshire seeks volunteers for bird feeding study via BBC [Twitter]
• Book review: Birdology, The life and times of birds and their devoted watchers via Seattle Times [Twitter]

Photos and Videos

• Hungry, hungry Egret! by mlibbe [Twitter]
• Photographer Roy Hancliff devoted his retirement to capturing the aerial ballet of birds via Telegraph [Twitter]

Who's that handsome bird in the pond? by dcstep

• Who’s that handsome bird in the pond? by dcstep [Twitter]
• Beautiful pair of Crested Treeswifts via India Nature Watch [Twitter]
• Yellow-rumped Warbler by gashphoto [Twitter]
• Lesser and Greater Flamingos Flying together via India Nature Watch [Twitter]
• Head Start by colorob [Twitter]
• The Chase via India Nature Watch [Twitter]

• Blue Jay in flight photo via stokesbirding [Twitter]
• Brown Pelican being cleaned at triage center in Fort Jackson, Louisiana via Telegraph [Twitter]
• Yep, lots of spots! Spotted Laughingthrush via India Nature Watch [Twitter]
• Tongue sticking out! Rufous Hummingbird (male) via YsMum [Twitter]

European Robin by Karen Sophie

• European Robin by Karen Sophie [Facebook]
• Two male peregrine falcons fight in mid-air 250ft above the ground at Chichester Cathedral via Telegraph [Twitter]
• Grackle at Lake Woodruff by Andrea Wetmoreland [Facebook]
• I bet it’s nice and warm! Thrush nest in a traffic light at a busy roundabout in Loughborough via Telegraph [Twitter]
• Oil booms seen offshore as Brown pelicans nest on Breton Island off coast of Louisiana via Guardian [Twitter]
• Careful! A heron inspects an alligator via Guardian [Twitter]
• Who’s that disturbing me? via India Nature Watch [Twitter]

Burdrs and Blogs

• The bird in the back is like I’m not going near that! Golden Jackals via Walk The Wilderness (WARNING:Photo!) [Twitter]
• Common Birds at Raub’s Open Grassland via Tabib [Twitter]

• The Alpine Accentor Digiscoped, video and article via Discovering Alpine Birds [Twitter]
• After The Bath via My Birds Blog [Twitter]
• Okay, that IS a unique find! More fish, birds and turtles via Tern Island Times [Twitter]
• First chick hatches out! via Derby Cathedral Peregrine Project [Twitter]
• Day 3 Update: Storm hampers oiled bird capture via IBRRC [Twitter]
• Peaceful/Zebra Dove courtship ritual via Tabib [Twitter]
• Nesters and migrants, Jamaica Bay NWR: NYC via Fotoportmann [Twitter]
• Bluebird Smorgasbord via Steve Creek Outdoors [Twitter]
• Young Sparrow drinking water, super cute! via My Birds Blog [Twitter]
• Some gorgeous photos! Watching Flickers… via My Bird Tales [Twitter]
• How did t fit in there?! Stalking the Evening Grosbeak via Birding in Michigan [Twitter]

• Metal Bird Sculptures By Joe Pogan via Burdr
• GreenHeron is 3rd bird at oil spill rescue center via WXVT [Twitter]
• Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune talks about the Gulf oil spill during live video chat via Burdr [Twitter]
• American White Pelicans – II via Ivars’ Birds [Twitter]
• Cute photos! American Woodcock Family has a tragic beginning, but a bright future via REGI [Twitter]
• The first photo is my favorite! Shoalin Kez via Dan’s Wildlife Blog [Twitter]
• Subalpine Warbler via Pewit [Twitter]
• Flickr Roundup For Week Of 5/7/2010 via Burdr
• Composite sketch and reenactments of the “Crazy Bird” that is terrorizing Florida! via Burdr