North America Birds Links

Lonely Planet: Incredible bald eagle bonanza (The Salt Lake Tribune)

It's no surprise that bald eagles were chosen as the national symbol for the United States. With 8-foot wingspans, ponderous confident flight, piercing cries and a bold white-headed appearance, they are one of the most majestic birds in North America.

Report: Tar sands threaten birds (Post-Tribune)

Up to 166 million of the birds we see in our back yards could disappear as a result of extraction and refining of oil from Canadian tar sands, according to a new report.

He wants to haunt students about extinction (Lancaster Online)

The Carolina parakeet, which your grandfather may have seen in Lancaster County.Gone forever.The passenger pigeon, once one of the most common birds in America and which nested in the treetops of Pennsylvania forests.Extinct. Martha, the last one, died in the Cincinnati Zoo in 1914.Feel guilty You ...

Birds of a feather (The Daily Item)

It was only a handful of bird enthusiasts who met at the Montour Preserve on December 14 for the 109th Christmas Bird Count(CBC), but the numbers didn’t deter the eager group to setting out to observe as many birds as they could from dawn to dusk.

Island birders in a state of Bohemian rhapsody (Victoria Times Colonist)

You might say our weather on Vancouver Island this winter has gone to the birds.