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- The Birding Hotspot’s product gets featured in Birder’s World magazine
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- Pelican swallows cell phone at zoo
- Rook intelligence - link to Aesop fable?
- eBird releases list of most wanted counties
- Inside the brains of birds: Zebra Finches
- Birding Hotspots in the US: Drummond Island
- “All About Birds” Gets a Facelift
- Wader populations decline rapidly
- ABA Regional Symposium in North Dakota
- Eagle Watching banned amidst Chaos
- Heavy Optics Carrier makes light work for serious birders
- Reducing bird deaths: a matter of lighting
Recent hurricanes offer rare sightings
Recently flamingos were spotted in Southern Mississippi and Northern Florida.
And no, they hadn’t escaped from the Zoo. Scientists believe the birds were swept inland all the way from Cuba by the recent hurricanes, Ike and Gustav.
It seems that many birds which normally spend their time offshore can be caught in the eye of a hurricane and end up far from home. The possibility of rare sightings is enticing many birders to the areas hit by the storms. Even though the devastation caused by hurricanes and tropical storms is nothing to be happy about, even storm clouds have a silver lining, it would seem.
Read the full story here:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metro/6028099.html
Posted by Dennis on 09/29 at 03:07 PM
