Twisted by Hans Peters

Here are some of the links you may have missed over the past week from all things Burdr.

News and Science

• Owner of pheasant hunting business says he killed Golden Eagle, fined $10k via Daily Journal
• African Penguins face extinction via Global Post
• More than 8,000 birds were collected during the oil spill via PNJ
• Planting for the birds via San Antonio News
• Optical illusions and bird identification via Sibley Guides
• Bird-safe building standards taking flight in San Francisco via The Examiner

We Love Birds by Lizzie Hedrick

• Second Graders In NY Learn Why Birds Are Windows to the Planet’s Health via Rivers Town Patch
• An Engineering Feat by Birds That Doubles as Home for a Brood via NY Times
• European birds use nectar as migration energy drink via BBC Nature
• Bizarre new craze for birds with arms gets internet in a flap via Mail Online
• Humans Might Be Able to See the Earth’s Magnetic Field, Like Birds Do via Popular Science
• Emperor penguin from Antarctic visits New Zealand beach via BBC
• Caution urged with lost Emperor Penguin via Massey University
• Sad. Maryland’s only nesting northern goshawk is killed via Washington Post
• Yay! Injured golden eagle rehabs and is released in West Virginia via New Haven Register
• College scientist cites enlarged skeletal muscles as reason birds exist via EurekAlert
• 4.3 Million for Neotropical Migratory Birds and Habitat Conservation via Birdlife
• Bird Study Suggests Effects of Childhood Bullying Don’t Last via NY Times
• Reward offered for killer of rare goshawk in Maryland via UPI
• What Birds Teach Us: Don’t Take Them – or the Future – for Granted by David Yarnold via Huffington Post

White-plumed Antbird by Philip Stouffer

• Good News! Birds Thought Extinct Return to Harvested Rain Forest via LiveScience
• Birds of a feather display only a fraction of possible colors via EurekAlert
• Scientists look for surviving Eskimo curlew birds via Reuters
• Why Penguins Are Afraid of the Dark via ScienceNOW
• First Short-tailed Albatross Born In U.S. Fledges via American Bird Conservancy
• Songbirds eavesdrop on predatory chipmunks via BBC Nature
• Tanzania steps up for the Serengeti and says ‘no’ to asphalt road via BirdLife
• New Zealand Birds affected by Awakino oil spill via NZ Herald
• Great! Injured Bald Eagle in Washington healed and released via APB
• Evolution of Flight: Did Early Birds Run and Flap Before They Flew? via Discover
• Blue grosbeak makes very rare visit in Michigan via Herald Palladium
• Ill penguin stranded in NZ is offered a lift home via Boston
• Threatened shorebirds establish colony atop Florida wildlife officials building in the Keys via The Republic
• Endangered Puerto Rican Parrot on the Rise via ABC News
• She loves birds even though she’s never seen one via StarTribune

Photos and Videos

• Close via Burdr Tumblelog
• Thirsty via Burdr Tumblelog
• Somersault via india Nature Watch
• Golden Eagle feeds its chick via Burdr Tumblelog
• Grey Heron hunting ducklings (WARNING:PHOTOS) via The Telegraph
• The final gulp! via India Nature Watch
• Twisted via Burdr Tumblelog
• Clash of the Eagles via Burdr Tumblelog
• Mother and Child via Burdr Tumblelog

• No one can hurt you as long as I’m here via Burdr Tumblelog
• The Toss via India Nature Watch
• Flight via Burdr Tumblelog
• Babies via Burdr Tumblelog
• Spoon-billed Sandpiper via Burdr Tumblelog
• Crow at sunset via India Nature Watch
• Awww! via Burdr Tumblelog
• Nature’s Baby via India Nature Watch
• At last got the fish via India Nature Watch

Burdrs and Blogs

• Happy Father’s Day via Stokes Birding Blog
• Best foot forward via Mersey Bird Blog
• She with the aqua-colored eyes… via Red and the Peanut
• Officer named Byrd rescues a bird! via Burdr
• Pacific NW specialty… Varied Thrush via Pacific NW Birdr
• Woodpecker Inspired Shock Absorber via Burdr
• Male Yellow Wagtail in wheat and Yellowhammer via pewit
• Wandering Albatrosses via Stacey in Antarctica
• Common Nighthawk – Photo Study via The Nemesis Bird

• Supreme Court Backs Ban On Pesticide via Burdr
• An apparent hybrid Yellow-billed x Common Loon via Sibley Guides
• Spoon-billed Sandpiper via Burdr Tumblelog

• Birds With Arms via Burdr
• The new Wood-Warbler taxonomy via Sibley Guides
• Love the video! Gearing up for this…Papua New Guinea via Lost in Birding
• Red-winged Blackbird singing in the High Meadow at VOA Park… via Red and the Peanut
• Hummingbird at the birdbath via The Zen Birdfeeder
• Flickr Roundup For Week Of 6/24/2011 via Burdr
• Finch Saved From 2-Story Drain Pipe via WildRescue
• Cute! Black neck stilt family via Dina’s City Wildlife Adventures
• Barn owls, barn owls, barn owls… via WildRescue
• Like the video! A Savannah Sparrow chips in the High Meadow… via Red and the Peanut