Birdchick Podcast

Puffins beaks are amazing...and you can attract them with window feeders?

There's a red warbler in Arizona!

Gulls get a guy banned from a hotel for 17 years.

New book: Does It Fart? Also, help out Laura Erickson.

If guys flirted like birds...and vice versa. 

Birds can see the Earth's magnetic field. 

Why did the eagle attack the pitcher?

Birdcast has live migration maps this spring!

A hot mess of an article about birds, National Parks and climate change.

Urban barred owls give very few ducks.

The closing of the Lodge and Spa in Pico Bonito National Park is covered in a bit more detail over at This Birding Life.

Bird sperm fundraiser. Yep. That's what I typed.

Laura Erickson on Bird Farts.

EDIT: added the correct audio file. Whoops! -nbb

Oxpeckers sleeping around giraffe "armpits" and testicles. 

Thanks to searching for poop on NASA images, we found some penguins. 

Video of red kites at Gigrin Farm. 

Here's the naturalist dream date. 

eBird is keeping some locations of birds vague.

Costco Hawk is living it up indoors and yes it escaped.

The obscure 80s movie called Looker. 

Beast Box--make your own dj poppin' sounds with actual wildlife calls. 

What? A saw-whet owl band in a barred owl pellet. 

The O RLY owl is 17. The Internet is old. 

Sparrow Swap for bluebird trail runners. 

Godwit Days. 

FYI There's a yellow cardinal. 

What real field biologist resumes should include.

Ovenbird vs a garter snake. OMG those birds are surprisingly badass. 

Morning Bird Walk Bingo!

Woodpeckers get brain damage.

Blind goose involved with swans dies. 

Nigel the gannet dies next to his statuesque mate. (Read while listening to Making Plans for Nigel or Attainable Love)

Bird Walk Bingo!

  It's winter so of course we talking about owls. Here's an article that I did for Audubon with tips on how to search for Northern Saw-whet Owls. The politics of reporting owls...there are definitely more northern species of owls in the northern US this year, but the locations are being kept on the down low this winter. Even eBird has put owls on the sensitive species list so you can't use it for exact locations.

Vogue did an article about bird watching...and it isn't terrible...

Non Birding Bill's other podcast: Aging Poorly.

One of the reasons we stopped podcasting is in this post. It's hard to have a snarky birding podcast when the news is often terrible. But we're back for now. Thank you for your patience. 

It's the end of an era, folks. Eagle Optics is closing its doors at the end of the year. 

There's some cool stuff over at Big Day Birding. 

Great article about what different birds species do during a hurricane. 

Could captive breeding help sage grouse?

The plight of young conservationists seeking an actual job. 

Hawk + Snake + power lines = frowney face. 

Map of what people observing birds noticed during the solar eclipse. 

You should totally listen to the American Birding Association Podcast. 

 Hurricane Harvey the Hawk updates.

A study attempts to categorize birders. Do you fit one of the four categories?

Listen to Alec Baldwin learn about birding from Charles Munn on Here's the Thing. 

Spencer Pratt is the hummingbird hero we need right now. 

If you purchase this print by August 23, 50% of the purchase goes to the Southern Poverty Law Center. 

Paddle Birding!

So...we recorded this over a week ago and forgot to post it. Whoops.

The first half hour is a rant on the Senior Pass price increase for federal parks. If you really want one at the old rate, order it at YourPassNow.com before August 28. 

The second is about the government looking into public and private land to build a wall that will keep no one out of the United States. Without going through due process for Eminent Domain, work has already begun on private property at the National Butterfly Center for a border wall. Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge will also be ripped apart for a useless border wall.