Magnificent Frigatebird Blog reports that Mark Obmascik’s The Big Year is being turned into a movie starring Owen Wilson, Dustin Hoffman, and Jack Black.  Now this could be interesting…

The international petition against illegal hunting in Malta which we highlighted last week has received over 22,000 signatures in just one week. “Although the BirdLife partnership is primarily targeting its members with this petition and it has been only a week since we launched it, support is pouring in from all corners of the world. Moreover, opinion polls in Malta have shown that the overwhelming majority is strongly against the illegal killing of migratory birds and the unsustainable practice of spring hunting.” said Joseph Mangion, BirdLife Malta President. Please, please sign the petition and help end the illegal slaughter of Europe’s birds!

Conservation Measures for Falco eleonorae in Greece is a concise and very interesting website which includes a Google Earth map overlaid with the surprisingly different routes taken by four migrating Eleonora’s Falcons flying from Greece to Madagascar. The site is in English which makes everything a lot easier to follow for most of us I’m sure…

Does the fact that we just lived through the second-hottest year on record and the hottest decade on record mean anything to you?  Or will you keep sticking your head in the increasingly-hot sand?  Granted, a single year’s or a single decade’s numbers aren’t solid evidence of anthropogenic global warming but please shut up about global cooling at least.  Maybe we need to start arguing that angels are causing global warming…