Birding Business

02/09/2016

Bird sounds, visualized as computer particle effects.

https://vimeo.com/73974583

Bird sounds captured using a digital audio recorder and fed into a computer to activate particle effects.

02/03/2016

Birds of Prey are being trained to take down unlawful quadrocopters

It may sound like a flight of fancy, but Dutch police are considering using birds of prey to swoop down and pluck rogue drones out of the sky.Police are working with a Hague-based company that trains eagles and other birds to catch drones to investigate wh

01/21/2016

Oh hey, there's a new species of bird.

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/india/new-species-of-bird-discovered-in-arunachal-pradesh-1192968.html

The bird, thanks to the preferred habitat, has been named Himalayan Forest Thrush. The scientific name, Zoothera salimalii, honours the great Indian ornithologist Dr Sálim Ali.

01/15/2016

Help choose the birds for the Cornell coloring book!

https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/americas-favorite-birds/

Learn about birds and biology. Discover videos, sounds, animations, reference guides and teaching slides on flight, feathers, songs, nests and more.

01/07/2016

One way to beat a traffic jam.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/snowy-owl-flying-transport-quebec-traffic-camera-1.3393343

The spectacular image of a snowy owl in flight was captured by Transport Quebec's traffic camera along Montreal's Highway 40 at Sources Boulevard.

01/04/2016

And how was your 2015?

Birders in Northeast Ohio ended the year with a bang, bagging two of the rarest birds of the 21st Century: Ohio's first record of a kelp gull, and the state's second record of a brambling.

01/04/2016

What's it like to serve peacock as a traditional holiday meal?

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/01/01/461504972/episode-674-we-cooked-a-peacock

In the 1600s, a good spice rub was the ultimate display of wealth. People would risk their lives for a sack of cloves. On today's show, we cook a recipe from the spice trade days.

12/26/2015

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2015/1223/Inventive-crows-caught-on-camera-making-tools-video

Researchers stuck tiny cameras on tool-making New Caledonian crows to sneak a peak at the birds' engineering skills.

12/17/2015

Nature is hilarious.

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/12/comedy-wildlife-photography-awards/

Winner, Julian Rad / Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards There's quite a few annual wildlife/nature photography awards these days, and it's nearly impossible to keep up with them all, but if there's room for just one more distinction, I suppose it's the Comedy Wildlife Photograph

12/16/2015

Update on Project SNOWstorm and the continuing Snowy Owl invasion.

http://www.projectsnowstorm.org/posts/new-face-old-friend/

12/04/2015

New study on Migratory birds...

Only 9 per cent of migratory birds have adequately protected habitat across their range, a new study has found.

11/30/2015

http://www.wsj.com/articles/birding-in-the-digital-age-a-primer-1440616642

The best binoculars, field guides and apps for budding birders—and why a Bluetooth speaker is a birder’s best friend.