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Is this hawk wearing lipstick? click here for the story
Photo by Chris DeVico
More Adventure in the DeVico's Yard click here
Mark Blazis Article on "Bear Banding" Click Here
The Ivory-billed Woodpecker still extinct! Click Here
New Songbird Discovered - Bare-faced Bulbul - Click here to read all about it. Click here to read more about it and look at the pictures.
Article on Alaska, on the lookout for Avian Flu, submitted by Dr. Reich
Bird Populations in Trouble submitted by Steve Vincent
Worcester Sunday Telegram and Gazette: A Merry Band
Audubon: State of Birds USA 2004
Extinction may claim Hawaiian bird
Reuters: Lights-Out Policies in Cities Save Migrating Birds
Reuters: As Ice Thaws, Arctic Peoples at Loss for Words
Worcester Telegram and Gazette Article on the Sturbridge Christmas Bird Count.
Worcester Telegram and Gazette Arcticle: Vets Find Lyme Risk is Great in Dogs
Telegram & Gazette, Jill, Sarah, and Dan, Sub-Permitees!
Sunday, June 18th, 2006 Article starring Mark and Helen! Click here to read
June 2005 issue of All Bird Alert
New York Times: The Amazon at Risk
New York Times: Ivory Billed Woodpecker Found in eastern Arkansas!
From the National Biological Information Infrastructure’s Spring 2005 newsletter: It’s Easier Than Ever to Follow the Birds
Check out this link to NPR that Dr. Reich submitted. There are several articles on the Galapagos Islands being under threat.
Click here: NPR : Galapagos, Under Threat
Dr. Reich sent in some really great articles. Click HERE to read about the Ivory-billed Woodpecker and hear a recording and click HERE to read about Global Warming and the path to extinction.
Check out the newest edition of the Audubon Newswire:
CLICK HERE
Read the UNU Report on Global Warming
Click
HERE
Study: Hummingbirds refuel in
mid-flight
Click here
Quizzes, Games, & Random Fun Info
Mattie
Quiz #2 (Click
to open)
Answer Sheet
Mattie's Quiz (If you don't find this challenging enough, try identifying the hand holding the bird!)
Check out this quiz that Mattie found: http://www.a2z4birders.com/4/matcher/index.html
We've all heard "gaggle of geese" or "murder of crows" but have you ever heard of a "charm of goldfinches?" Common Bird Group Names
How far can you hit a penguin? (click on Bob for the penguin to drop and click on Bob again to swing the club) New Record on Penguin Hitting: Jim Judicki from Allegro MicroSystems, Inc. broke the old record by .5! The new record is 323.5
Rare Hummingbird hospitalized on the Cape! Click HERE Thanks Steve Vincent!
Click HERE: Birds in Peril in Britain Article Link submitted by Joan Sharkey!
Check out this little guy - a gecko that is smaller than a pencil eraser! Thanks to Joan and Mary Sharkey! Click HERE
Everyone except Keith, David Sheridan, Mattie, and Maryann missed a great trip on Saturday, 1-16-10. Read Tim Factor's account of our little voyage. Click HERE
Check out this link to the International Union for Conservation of Nature- Home that Dr. Reich submitted: IUCN
Steve Vincent submitted this article about another extinct species. Click here