Here are some of the birding links you may have missed over the past week.

News and Inforamtion

• Orange-throated Hummingbirds: more questions via Sibley Guides
• Birds Insult Each Other Through Song via Irish Weather
• Gay birds as faithful as straight pairs via Telegraph
• The finer points of wing translucence via Sibley Guides
• Threat to birds as Shell struggles to halt oil leak via The Independent
• Is avian malaria a disaster for British birds? via The Guardian
• A tool to measure stress hormone in birds — feathers via EurekAlert
• What to do about House Sparrows at feeders that eat everything in a few hours via Birdwatching

Hooking kids on birdwatching by Jim Williams

• Hooking kids on birding via StarTribune
• Oil spill worst in decade for North Sea but no BP via MSNBC
• Happy Feet Departure Date Set via Stuff
• Lost penguin getting lift back towards its flock and a bonus GPS tracker via Guardian
• Condors vs. power lines, and for once, the condors win via San Jose Mercury News
• Bird homes: a look at some of the most incredible nests in the world via Slate Magazine
• 2nd Leak Detected At Shell’s Gannet Alpha Platform via Red Orbit
• Yay! Loon population thriving in Vermont via WCAX
• Bird Expert Tags Rare White Hummingbird via The Pilot
• British garden birds enjoying ‘baby boom’ via Press Association
• Bird watchers to investigate mystery of disappearing summer migrants via Telegraph
• Twenty years and counting for the Alaska Bird Observatory banding station via News Miner
• Birdwatchers rally to save the sounds of summer via RSPB

The Big Year by Murray Close

• First look at Owen Wilson, Steve Martin, and Jack Black in The Big Year via Birdwatching
• Migrant birds are ‘disappearing’ from Britain via Metro
• Penguins don’t freeze, but they do get very, very cold via New Scientist
• Clapper Rail Bird, Thought Extinct in San Francisco, Found Nesting! via SF Weekly
• Cuckoos 5,000 km journey tracked by satellite via BBC
• Climate change driving species out of habitats much faster than expected via The Guardian
• Summer visitors top list of fastest-falling British bird populations via The Independent
• Shell stops North Sea leak after 10 days via The Guardian
• Boom in British baby blackbirds viaTelegraph
• Why birds of a feather flock together via  The Guardian

Photos and Videos

• Tumblr Tuesday: Cuddle via Burdr
• Little owl and Pygmy owl via Proud Photography
• Jerky Starling and the Imperturbable Prairie Dog via 500px
• Pileated Woodpecker via YouTube

• Flickr Roundup For Week Of 8/19/2011 via Burdr
• Sun bathing Roller via India Nature Watch
• Birdie and the Beast via 500px

• Yay! Pileated Woodpecker returns to the wild via YouTube
• Juggler via 500px
• Morning Yoga via India Nature Watch
• Stare Down via 500px
• The High Jumper via India Nature Watch
• Lookout! via 500px

Burdrs and Blogs

• Juvenile Wood Ducks…at eye level via Red and the Peanut
• Bearded Tit juveniles via pewit
• Birds and dragonflies at Kapok Park via Dina’s City Wildlife Adventures
• Blue Jay buzz cut? via Barry the Birder
• What’s happening with birds in August via Stokes Birding Blog
• A Gallery of Hummingbird Fun Facts via The Zen Birdfeeder
• Back to the Dartford via Wildlife Photographic Journals