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Queens Big Day (Kind of)

May 13, 2013 by Corey 7 Comments

After several weeks of putting in way too much time at work I finally finished bargaining a contract early last week and had it...

Birding

Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of May 2013)

by Mike 10 Comments

How was your weekend? Did you see awesome birds? Take good care of the mothers in your life? Most important, did you love our...

Birds

Bubble-gum Pink Legs

May 12, 2013 by Donna 2 Comments

Bubble-gum pink legs. That’s how the limbs of the Black-necked Stilt, Himantopus mexicanus, were first described to me, and that’s what I’m going with for 10,000...

Birds

Pink in Africa

by Adam Riley 1 Comment

Of course Africa could not to be left out of the pink weekend so I have researched all African species whose official or alternative...

Birds

The Bill of the Flamingo

by Jochen 1 Comment

The bill of the Greater Flamingo is a marvel of nature that would make any baleen whale turn pale with envy. Indeed, they are...

Birds

Major Mitchell’s Cockatoos

by Clare M 5 Comments

It’s Mother’s day today in the U.S.A and down here in Australia-actually it will be almost over when you all arise in the U.S.A....

Birding, News

Of Nesting Spoonbills, Nestling Flamingos, Left-the-Nest Shearwaters, and Mystery Gulls

by Meredith Mann No Comments

Pink-footed Shearwater image by Felonious Jive What do all these birds have in common? They’re (at least partially) pink. And they’re making the news,...