Feathers in Amber via LA Times

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

News and Information

• Couple wake to find 500 birds perched on their home via Daily Times
• Thirsty Birds ‘Burn The Engine’ In Flight via NPR
• Wind tunnel helps determine how birds fly so far without water via LA Times
• Endangered Short-tailed Albatross Killed by Fishing Boat Off the Coast of Oregon via American Bird Conservancy
• San Francisco considers bird friendly building codes via ABC7
• Scotland’s birds of prey ‘face decline’ over poisoning via BBC
• Conjoined Robin Released via About
• Cornell Lab Receives NSF Grant for BirdCast via eBird
• Snails once flew over Mexico (in the bellies of birds) via io9
• Auburn eagle mascot checks out OK after game mishap via USA Today
• Getting kids involved! Bird program taking flight in Australia via News Mail
• Millerbirds are transported to new home on Laysan Island after a 100 year absence!  via USFWS

Penguins via BBC

• How penguins find a perfect partner via BBC
• Shooting of Whimbrels sparks calls for regulation of shorebird hunting in the Caribbean via RSPB
• Hitchhiking snails fly from ocean to ocean via Science Daily
• Birds Are Changing Their Tune via Discovery News
• Australia’s city birds carry highest toxic load via PhysOrg
• Nests via Sierra Club
• A City of Glass Towers, and a Hazard for Migratory Birds via NY Times
• Advanced birds lived alongside ‘hairy’ dinosaurs via New Scientist
• Parrots teach wild birds how to talk via Telegraph
• Feathers found in amber offer glimpse of early birds, dinosaurs via LA Times
• Minnesota farmer charged in protected birds’ deaths via UPI
• Dino-killing asteroid wiped out birds, too via MSNBC

Photos and Videos

• Penguin Ear Muffs via 500px
• Inquisitiveness via 500px
• Tumblr Tuesday: Tailgating via Burdr

• Biomimicry – The Kingfisher and the Bullet Train via BirdFreak
• Thirsty via 500px
• Shower Massage via SF Gate
• You know you’re a birder when… via foursquare

• Yikes! That’s a tall tower!!! Birding on a Budget – Climbing the Tower at Amazon Manu Lodge in Peru
  via YouTube
• Symmetry via 500px
• Not this time! via 500px
• Flickr Roundup For Week Of 9/16/2011 via Burdr
• Wrong end of a take off! via India Nature Watch
• Morning Whisper via 500px

Burdrs and Blogs

• Blue Against Blue via Sandy Straits and Beyond
• Love the Wryneck! Been busy… via bogbumper
• Did you know… via Spotting and Jotting
• Whimbrel Navigates a Storm but Gets Killed Anyway via A DC Birding Blog
• The Big Birding Blog List via Birding Is Fun
• Leucistic Red-tailed Hawk via Picus Blog
• How penguins find a perfect partner via Penguinology
• Ten Ways to be a Better Birder via ABA Blog
• Biomimicry – The Kingfisher and the Bullet Train via BirdFreak
• The Big Year: Interview with Kenn Kaufman via Birds and Blooms
• Cool cake! Love the little binoculars! Barra Boys Celebrate via Birding Frontiers
• Trapping time in amber via Penguinology