Birds
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The Great Backyard Bird Count
Once again it is time for the Great Backyard Bird Count, which goes ahead this year this coming weekend, running from February 13th to the 16th. This citizen science project runs across North America and is another tool in gauging bird populations in winter. In general the North, and Nunavut in particular, is under represented
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The 3rd Annual Arctic Bay Christmas Bird Count
Well, another year has come and gone, and with it the annual Christmas Bird Count. I'm actually quite proud of the little count up here, and although I had hoped that it would grow this year (it almost did) it still was a success anyway you look at it. The Audubon Christmas Bird Count is
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Birds in review – 2008
Okay, I'm jumping on the whole "recap of the years birdwatching" with this retrospective look back at the birds I saw in 2008. [insert sounds of crickets] Lets face it, I didn't leave Arctic Bay at all in 2008 (wait that's not true, I made it to the epicentre of birding – Iqaluit in November).
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Birds of the solstice
Take a trip around the world and read the different accounts of people who birded this past winter solstice, at Birds of the Solstice. Many saw birds other than Ravens, go figure.
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Dark wings
I stepped out the door about the time the sun stood still yesterday. It was solstice, and had I been somewhere south of the Arctic Circle the sun would have appeared to have paused in its apparent movement south. But of course I live much farther north than the Arctic Circle, where terms like the
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I and the Bird #90
The latest edition of I and the Bird, the ninetieth, is up at Jeffery Gordon's blog. Go check on the best in bird related posts collated for your reading pleasure.
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Dark cravings
One blog that I don't visit enough, but is one of those unique, one of a kind voices on the web, is Drawing the Motmot. I love Field Guides, and have mused on them in the past, and I think that it is absolutely impossible, impossible, to own too many of them. Debbie, the author
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I and the Bird #88
I and the Bird #88, is up at Aimophila Adventures. Once again, it is filled with great posts from the world of wild birds and wild birders. It behooves you to go visit.
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Cuban Trogan found in Arctic!
Along with a Striped-headed Tanager (that may not be the correct name now). Okay, they were found in an box of old slides, but still… Did I tell you I speak Trogan? I don't speak Tanager however, so it is a little farther away.
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I and the Bird #84
Rob Fergus is a tireless blogger, with not one, but two blogs, his own The Birdchaser and Audubon's official blog Audubon's Birdscapes. He also just got back from birding Guatemala and turned… just had a birthday. Be sure to check out his steller turn at hosting the premiere bird carnival on the web A Beginner's