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Bird Brain?:
A BBC Video: Are crows the utlimate problem solver?
Inside the Animal mind: Epidsode 2
From Barbara Carter -- Posted 19 Dec 2017
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Hoots of the Barred Owl:
Article from the Audubon podcast with recordings and narrative about the
many different "hoots" of the Barred Owl.
From an Audubon mailing -- Posted 23 Feb 2017
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Bear River Refuge in
top 5: Audubon
article which lists BRMBE as a top five spot for spring migration.
Sent in by Mike Hearell -- Posted 19 Apr 2016The Perfect Shot:
An article about a photographer's quest to get the perfect shot of a
Diving Kingfisher
from the "Boredpanda." Sent in by Kris Purdy -- Posted
7 Dec 2015
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Birds or Paradise:
Video of some Birds-of-Paradise from New Guinea
from the Cornel Lab of Ornithology. Sent in by Barbara
Carter -- Posted 20 Nov 2014
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Crows vs. Ravens:
".Caw vs. Croak: Inside the Calls of Crows and Ravens"
by Dr. Kevin McGowan of the Cornel Lab of Ornithology in Cornell Lab
eNews -- Posted 10 Oct 2014
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The Genious of Birds - Embronic Development:
"...you will enter a fertilized egg to witness a bird's embryonic
development."
Sent in by Barbara Carter -- Posted 13 May 2014
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Murmuration of the
Starlings:
Video by Dylan Winters about the
amazing European Starling flocking behavior -- "the murmurations."
Sent in by Barbara Carter -- Posted 8 Mar 2014
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Sounds of the Lyrebird:
Video and sounds from a David
Attenbourgh piece about the Superb Lyrebird of Australia..
Sent in by Eliza Moody -- Posted 14 Feb 2014
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Humingbird's Tongue:
Video on hummingbirds and the structure
and function of their tongues.
Link sent in by Dick Arnold -- Posted 6 Nov 2013
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Video of a Greater Sage-Grouse Lek in Wyoming:
Males strutting their stuff for some
females at the largest
lek in Wyoming .
Video by Eric Peterson
-- Posted 22 Apr 2013
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Long Cloaked in Mystery, Owls Start
Coming Into Theri Own:
An article and a short video from the
New York Times .
Link sent in
by DeeDee O'Brien
-- Posted 28 Feb 2013
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Eurasian Jays Exhibit Human Behavior:
An article in a scientific magazine,
"Birds infer their partner's desires during bonding ritual" .
Link sent in
by Alan Jensen
-- Posted 5 Feb 2013
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"Oven
Nest" Contruction:
A page from Latin America (in Spanish)
with photos and a video of Rufous Horneros ("Ovenbirds"), building
an oven-shaped nest. ["Nidito" = little nest or "crib"
maybe?, "horneros urbanos" =
Urban Ovenbirds).
The original source of a page sent in
by Jack Binch
-- Posted 8 Jan 2013
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Crows vs Ravens:
A short video on how to tell a Crow
from a Raven [~ 4 min.?]
Sent in by
Oliver Hansen
-- Posted 5 Jan 2013
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My Life as a Turkey:
PBS: Nature Film. Joe Hutto's
remarkable experience of raising a group of wild turkey hatchlings to
adulthood (for over a year) [~ 40 min.?]
Sent in by
Steve Christensen
-- Posted 25 Nov 2012
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Bird Sense:
Radio West interview with Tim Birkhead,
professor of Behavioural Ecology at the University of Sheffield. (about
52 minutes)
Sent in by Dave Hanscom
-- Posted 23 Nov 2012
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Voices: Common Loon:
This is short clip about the call of
the Common Loon.
Produced by the Cornell Lab of
Ornithology
-- Posted 24 Nov 2012 |
Common Loons and Calls |
Loon Tremelo and Wail
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eBird Photo
Quiz:
This is a Photo Quiz designed to find
out about the varying skill levels of the birders that use eBird.
Sent in by Letitia Lussier
-- Posted 9 Oct 2012
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Clever Bird Goes
Fishing:
This is a YouTube video of a Green
Heron fishing with a piece of bread .
Sent in by Brenda Kidman
-- Posted 30 Aug 2012
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Video about Black
Swifts:
Interesting presentation by Kim Potter
of the Forest Service in Colorado about nesting and migration of Black
Swifts .
Sent in by Bryant Olsen
-- Posted 28 Jul 2012
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Owl Rescue in Ogden:
Jeff Bilsky is interviewed about a
Great Horned Owl that was stuck under a bridge in Ogden. Here's the story
about the attempted rescue .
Link from the BirdTalk Chatline
-- Posted 20 Jun 2012
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Yellow-billed Loon Video:
This video, "Yellow-billed Loon:
Primeval Call of the Tundra," was
produced by Cornell Lab about a pair of
Yellow-billed Loons in Chukotka, Russia. .
Link from the Cornell Lab newsletter
-- Posted 18 May 2012
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Greater Sage-Grouse Lek Videos:
This video was taken by
Bryant Olsen, at the Hendfer Lek two years ago
-- here is another one from this year of a "joust
on the lek" taken at the same location.
Sent
in by Bryant
Olsen
-- Posted 16 Apr 2012
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Sharp-tailed Grouse Lek Video:
Taken by
Bryant Olsen, in northern Box Elder County,
Utah.
Sent
in by Bryant
Olsen
-- Posted 15 Apr 2012
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Singing Say's
Phoebe:
Video of a Say's Phoebe singing
taken at Dancehall Rock off the Hole in the Rock
Road.
Part of a "Spring in Canyon Country" series by Bryant Olsen, recorded on 2
Apr 2012.
Sent
in by Bryant
Olsen
-- Posted 6 Apr 2012
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Fishing Osprey Video:
Three sequences of an Osprey hunting
for fish: First catching a half dozen
small fish at a time; second plunging deep for a fish on the bottom and
third capturing a very large steelhead salmon that is almost to heavy to carry.
Sent
in by Barbara Carter
-- Posted 4 Apr 2012
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Nesting Robins Video:
Complete with music and background sounds, this well-crafted video
sequence covers four weeks of nesting robin activity around a hanging
nest.
Sent
in by Barbara Carter
-- Posted 4 Apr 2012
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Eagle doing the
breast-stroke:
This footage was taken at Mallard Lakes subdivision in Baton Rouge.
Someone had shot a nutria (a large rodent which can weigh up to 20 pounds)
and it was floating dead in the water. I can't believe what this eagle did
to bring that nutria in. I never saw an Eagle doing a breast-stroke
before!
Sent
in by Kris Van Fleet & Oliver Nichelson
-- Posted 31 Mar 2012
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Dove Flight in Slow Motion:
(From BirdTalk --
"Here are two clips of a dove flying (one straight at you and one
from the side) in slow motion, which captures the grace and beauty of
their flight.") Sent
in by Sherry Shadday -- Posted
19 Jan 2012
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"Snake" River Incident:
(From e-mails --
"Another Day on the Snake River ") Sent
in by Kris Van Fleet, David McCoy and Bill Fenimore -- Posted
9 Jan 2012
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14 Beatutful Birds:
(From e-mails -- photos of
beautiful birds of the world "you seldom see") Sent in by
Lyman Moody -- Posted 17 Nov 2011
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Great Bird Photos:
(Bird photos from all over the place by
Tony Adams, which have been popping up in emails) Sent in by
Barbara Carter -- Posted 13 Nov 2011
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Murmuration of Starlings:
(A
chance encounter and shared moment with one of natures greatest and most
fleeting phenomena.) Sent in by
Brenda Kidman and Matthew Wallace -- Posted 10 Nov 2011
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An Albino Hummingbird:
(Fifteen-year-old photographer Marlin
Shank was fortunate enough to capture several images of a rare albino
ruby-throated hummingbird while in a park in Staunton, VA..)
Sent in by Barbara Carter -- Posted
10 Nov 2011
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Owl Coming at the Camera:
(Amazing
high definition, slo-mo photography.
This owl in flight is one of nature's engineering masterpieces. )
Sent in by Barbara Carter -- Posted
10 Nov 2011
- The Owl and
the Pussycat:
(Something
you don't see everydat)
Sent in by Barbara Carter -- Posted
10 Nov 2011
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Eastern Bird Photographer in Utah:
(Article from the Standard-Examiner:
"Love of birds brings Easterner to Utah"
Sent in by Lyle Bingham -- Posted 21 Sep 2012
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Interesting
Hawk Hybrid?:
(Here's an article regarding a probable
Harlan's x Rough-legged hybrid). Sent in
by Jerry Liguori -- Posted 15 Nov 2011
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