Birdchick Podcast

House finches that use cigarette butts in the nest may get some insect protection. 

Canuck the Crow is causing some mail delivery problems. Also, you can follow him on Facebook. 

Eagle mistakes testicles for turtle eggs (fake news).

Report your dickcissels. 

BSBO and ABC stops a wind turbine on the Great Lakes. 

Eastern phoebe feeding a brown-headed cowbird chick. 

Cowbirds are kind of like the Manchurian Candidate. 

Gay griffon vulture pair raise a chick in an Amsterdam Zoo. 

A fascinating look at the amazing talent of Julie Zickefoose as she restores an Audubon Elephant Folio. 

Jane Yolen is partnering with Cornell Lab of Ornithology to write some books about birds for kids. 

You know the dude who broke the North American Big Year record? He donated over $36,000 to offset his carbon footprint. 

What, there are other podcasts to listen to? Here are the ones we referenced:

Out There With The Birds specifically the migration episode. 

The American Birding Association Podcast

Lang Elliot's Music of Nature

Non Birding Bill's podcast with Sam Landman called Aging Poorly

Weird things happening on bird cams. There appears to be a Canada goose uprising and they're taking over osprey nest platforms. Not all ospreys are taking it lying down. 

The field guide we've all been waiting for: The Field Guide To Dumb Birds of North America. 

Help a graduate fund her research project. 

How much would you pay to go glamping for a nigh parrot in Australia?

The city if Wichita is offering tips to prevent herons and egrets from nesting in your yard. 

The California super bloom has been great for birds too. Be sure to check out the video. 

It's project nest watch time and there is of course an app for that. 

Have you seen Swarovski's new BTX scope? Also, the Cotton Carrier tactical birding harness is no joke and comfortable in the field. 

Are you having a hard day? Check out this bubbler type bath with a buttload of Allen's hummingbirds. 

Why do turkeys walk around in circles and why do bush stone curlews stare at themselves?

Canada's national bird battle. 

Migration needs to hit soon because all North American birders are doing is arguing about owls and baiting. 

Good Birders Still Don't Wear White is out and you should buy it!

The owl drama is intense this month on social media. You can follow the hashtag #owlmasterbaiters on Facebook to following along. 

Funny caracara story and terrible caracara movie. 

Lawsuit in New York to protect threatened piping plovers from non native feral cats. 

Oh hey, it's a great blue heron eating an alligator. 

New apps out there including Merlin which will ID your bird photos and Song Sleuth which cam help ID some bird songs. 

For some reason, somebody took this guy seriously about his ivory-bill sightings. Seriously, he's been at this since the original sightings. 

Falcons on a plane. 

Great news, updated Warbler Guide app and it's now available for Android!

Bird themed tarot deck. 

This winter's gull drama involves a Ross's gull. Here's one heck of an eBird list with pictures. 

Bald eagles might be more of a problem on free range chicken farms than we realized. 

Newer podcasts to check out:

American Birding

Out There With The Birds

Thank you to everyone who became new members of the American Birding Association last year and sited us as a reason. We won the trip to Canopy Tower in Panama! I was there back in 2012 and I've always wanted to go back!

Some Subarus now include an app that directs you to birds reported to eBird. 

The debate goes on over how many species there are in the world. 

Again if you are looking for other birding podcasts, there are some new ones. Check out the American Birding Podcast and Out There With the Birds. 

Are you in the mood to travel? Want to go to Cuba? Come with me!

There are some new podcasts in town that you should check out! One is from the American Birding Association and the other is from Bird Watcher's Digest. 

Here's a sum up of the people who did a 2016 North America Big Year. And then there's Arjan and his word-wide Big Year. But then there's the worldwide big year from Arjan...