This Week In Burdr: Spoon-billed
Here are some of the most popular posts, tweets, retweets, videos and photos from everything Burdr over the past week.
The photo above is of a young and really cute Spoon-billed Sandpiper. It’s from the BBC article about trying to save them from extinction.
News and Science
- Birders feed a growing niche of Maine’s tourism industry via Mainebiz [Twitter]
- Birds are thriving in the warm spring and public affection via The Guardian [Twitter]
- RSPB expresses anger at wild bird killings via The Courier [Twitter]
- Missing Eagle rediscovered in west of Scotland via Telegraph [Twitter]
- Transmitters used to track Whimbrels via Northumberland Today [Twitter]
- After DDT scourge, bald eagles return to Catalina via CBS News [Twitter]
- Wyoming wind farm using military technology to track birds and bats to reduce deaths via The Republic [Twitter]
- Horrible. 3 California condors die of lead poisoning via SFGate [Twitter]
- If a bird and building collide, the bird loses via TwinCities.com [Twitter]
- Project to sort out why birds crash into buildings via INFORUM [Twitter]
- Yay! With a broken wing now healed, bald eagle to be released at Arkansas lake via The Republic [Twitter]
- Bird watchers mapping Iowa nesting species via Eastern Iowa Outdoors [Twitter]
- Birds’ greatest urban predator: The city skyline. via MPR [Twitter]
- 9 Falcon Chicks Born Atop 3 NYC Bridges via NBC New York [Twitter]
- Penguins do the wave to keep warm via MSNBC [Twitter]
- German police train vulture ‘detectives’ to find bodies via BBC [Twitter]
- eBird surpasses 3 million bird observations in May via eBird [Twitter]
- Internet offers peek into East Tennessee bald eagle nest via WBIR [Twitter]
- High hopes for Cambodian vultures via Stuff.co.nz [Twitter]
- Reward offered for information leading to arrest & conviction golden eagle poacher via USFWS [Twitter]
- So cute! Bid to save sandpiper at risk of extinction in Russia via BBC [Twitter]
Photos and Videos
- Hitching a Lift via Burdr Tumblelog [Twitter]
- Parenthood via Burdr Tumblelog [Twitter]
- Manukura, a rare white kiwi chick via Burdr Tumblelog [Twitter]
- Family via Burdr Tumblelog [Twitter]
- Cute Coot Family via Mark Phillpot [Twitter]
- Birds’ nests in unusual places via The Telegraph [Twitter]
- Ash-throated flycatcher “You lookin’ at me?” via SearchNetMedia [Twitter]
- Pelican via Burdr Tumblelog [Twitter]
- Birds of Peru: Johnson’s (Lulu’s) Tody-Flycatcher via jpperret [Twitter]
- Red-Winged Blackbird Calling via Martin Belan [Twitter]
- Cormorant Fishing via Burdr Tumblelog [Twitter]
- Paradise via Burdr Tumblelog [Twitter]
- Chasing Sunset via Burdr Tumblelog [Twitter]
- Flying upside down… via Burdr Tumblelog [Twitter]
- Babies via Burdr Tumblelog [Twitter]
- Spring Dream via Burdr Tumblelog [Twitter]
Burdrs and Blogs
- FAQs about Feeding Mealworms to the Birds via The Zen Birdfeeder [Twitter]
- A Short-billed Dowitcher walking the beach… via Red and the Peanut [Twitter]
- Dark-Necked Tailorbird: Up Close & Personal via Wings Among Us [Twitter]
- Fishers via Thaibirds and more [Twitter]
- Perseverance via Burdr [Twitter]
- Crossbill on the Peanuts? via Fair Isle [Twitter]
- Right Place, Right Time via Birding Dude [Twitter]



