Tropical Birds Links

Finding Minnesota: Watching Birds All Year (WCCO Minneapolis - St. Paul)

Bird watching season doesn't stop just because it's snowy and cold outside. In fact, Minnesota has some of the best places to see birds -- even in the winter.

Some dino daddies were caregivers (Billings Gazette)

One of the great debates among ornithologists has long been which came first - not the chicken or the egg, but male-only or both-parent care of eggs in birds.

Peregrine falcon sets one-day flight record Satellite transmitters reveal birds’ capabilities and let computer users ... (The Hazleton Standard-Speaker)

A peregrine falcon that researchers fitted with a transmitter and named Elizabetha left her summer home in the Arctic on Baffin Island in Canada and began flying south.

Olbrich provides a tropical escape on an icy day (The Capital Times)

The weather outside was frightful Sunday, but inside the Bolz conservatory at Olbrich Botanical Gardens it was as hot and humid as a summer's day. More shades of summer: a free concert nearby. "It's cheaper than Florida," said Bonnie Rossi of Madison, who was enjoying the conservatory with her husband and daughter. "It's so good to see something green and growing," Brian Rossi said of the ...

Singapore's last rural retreat in peril (The Sarasota Herald-Tribune)

It is Singapore's secret Eden, a miniature village called Kampong Buangkok that is hidden in trees among the massed apartment blocks, where a fresh breeze rustles the coconut palms and tropical birds whoop and whistle.