Wearing birds on your sleeve by AudubonCA

Here are some of the most popular posts, tweets, retweets, Facebook posts and photos from everything Burdr over the past week.

News and Information

• Denver based oil and gas company will pay $200k in fines for violating Migratory Bird Treaty Act via Denver Post [Twitter]
• Avian Malaria in Cardinals via Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center [Twitter]
• Giant extinct flightless birds had the most fragile bird eggs discovered yet via LiveScience [Twitter]
• EPA Denies Petition to Protect Wildlife From Toxic Lead-based Ammunition via American Bird Conservancy [Twitter]
• Alan Davies and Ruth Miller travelled the world to spot as many birds as they could to beat world record via Wales Online [Twitter]
• Police Questioning Four People in Connection With Exotic Bird Thefts via FOX Chicago [Twitter]
• Peru’s thriving bird poo business via BBC [Twitter]
• Group suing to try to win US federal protection for the lesser prairie chicken via Houston Chronicle [Twitter]
• 2 suspects caught in bird-napping via Chicago Sun Times [Twitter]
• Decline of horseshoe crabs due to climate change, which leads to decline of Red Knot via ScienceDaily [Twitter]
• Louisiana conference focuses on environmental effects of BP Gulf via WWLTV [Twitter]
• Repowered Altamont wind farm could save California birds via SF Gate [Twitter]
• Audubon Gulf Recovery Project to receive $200k from Members Project via National Audubon Society [Twitter]
• NYC sky-scrapers dim lights to help migratory birds via BBC [Twitter]
• Cuckoo chicks in Zebra finches: Eggs from other females can be found in every fifth nest via ScienceDaily [Twitter]
• The first Nuthatch recorded in Netherly, Aberdeenshire, UK via RSPB [Twitter]
• 8 Great Places to See Migratory Birds This Fall via NWF [Twitter]
• The Bittern has had the most successful year since it recolonized the UK in 1911 via RSPB [Twitter]
• Local Audubon Society and Sierra Club chapters file suit against proposed bridge over wetlands via San Francisco Examiner [Twitter]
• 6 refugees from the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico took up residence in Nebraska via Omaha [Twitter]
• Satellite data reveal why migrating birds have a small window to spread bird flu via EurekAlert [Twitter]
• Migratory birds decline in UK due to low African rain via Telegraph [Twitter]

Photos and Videos

• Pied-billed Grebe via birdphotoman [Twitter]
• These two are not aware of each other! via NESASK [Twitter]
• Sparrowhawk chasing a Dunlin. The Dunlin escaped :-) by Peregrine’s Bird Photography [Twitter]
• Heads and Tails via Telegraph [Twitter]
• Moonstork via India Nature Watch [Twitter]
• STILL at the Magdalene oil spill via Australian Seabird Rescue [Twitter]

• Slavonian grebe, one of Scotland’s most mysterious birds via Guardian [Twitter]
• Bird Reporting Certificate by mikael_behrens [Twitter]
• Fill your hummingbird feeders! via Valley Wildlife Care [Twitter]
• Male purple-rumped Sunbird via India Nature Watch [Twitter]
• Giant duck found napping in city! by sinanyuzakli [Twitter]
• Flickr Roundup For Week Of 9/3/2010 via Burdr

• Wearing birds on your sleeve via AudubonCA [Twitter]
• 21,477th shot by mully410 [Twitter]
• American Kestrel portraits via Kootenay Nature Photos [Twitter]

Burdrs and Blogs

• flying godwits via pewit [Twitter]
• American Goldfinch Mom Feeding Chicks via Natural Moments [Twitter]

• Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’hoole via Burdr
• Rich’s friends in the North via John Dempsey’s Bird Blog [Twitter]
• Shorebird Banding via Biological Ramblings [Twitter]
• Bird Banding and Hawk Watching via Life As A Young Birder [Twitter]

• Owen Wilson Toting Zeiss Binoculars in Big Year via Birdchick [Twitter]
• Idaho Birding Hotspot, Herrick Reservoir via Idaho Birding Blog [Twitter]
• Whoa! Be careful when birdwatching in the Malaysian jungle! via Bird Ecology Study Group [Twitter]
• 2 surviving Whooping crane chicks, hatched at Necedah NWR this spring have officially FLEDGED! via Operation Migration [Twitter]

• Shoveler via pewit [Twitter]
• Wriggly worm snatched by plover! via The Nature of Framingham [Twitter]
• Good luck to all the patients! The Summer is winding down via Taking Flight [Twitter]
• Cormorant vs Gull via Birdchick [Twitter]