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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao-Tzu
Sex Ed: Birds don't have penis or vagina: how birds mate
an injured baby mourning dove arrives
Birding club ideas we have for forming a local Homeschoolers Birding Club. If you are interested in joining us, let us know!
Bird Watching has become increasingly important to our family. Shelby's fascination with the birds in our house and back yard has extended to the entire family. Her favorite book is a bird guide, and she clamours constantly to be held up so she can look out the window at the birds at the feeders. She also stalks poor DooDoo as he walks around the house. (more) Doo-dooooos and bird watching
Homing Pigeons Homing pigeons are finding their way around Britain by following roads and railways, zoologists claim.
Raptor, Inc. we attend a Raptor Rehab program
FROM THE QUAKER HS LIST: Noah's ark and the Pigeon of Peace a delightful retelling of Noah's Ark
Bird and Shark Guidebooks "Shelby Lynn is getting along pretty well with her broken leg. She has learned to scoot and drag herself around on her arms, looking rather like a baby harp seal. She has remained a happy, good natured little person. Shelby has always preferred adult books with good illustrations to the myriad baby books we have. Currently she is fixated on a Bird Guide book that has many, many pictures in it. By cuddling with my nineteen month old baby and glancing through the guide book with her, I have learned to identify a few avian species I was unsure about. I've personally learned the difference between sparrows and wrens (previously I lumped them into "Little Brown Birds", starlings, blackbirds and grackles ("blackbirds") and also between gulls and terns. Shelby enthusiastically Signs Bird and says, "DooDoo." (more)
flocks of seagulls on the Licking River
Pigeon in the Toilet Tabitha came running downstairs with a bedraggled, wet pigeon wrapped in a towel. DooDoo had somehow fluttered his way into the toilet bowl and then couldn't escape. He was shivering violently, his poor beak clattering. We wrapped him in another towel, placed him against Tabitha's skin and put a hot water bottle under him. After a short while, he was warm and relaxed, and cuddled up against her as she worked on her Girl Scout Ceramics badge. Hmmm, pigeons and rats in the toilet, raccoons falling through our ceiling, and squirrels living in our dryer. Our family takes sharing the Earth to new heights.
geese flying overhead I was just sitting here at my computer when I heard some honking. A "V" of Canada geese flew overhead, honking in the dim morning light. My eyes welled up with tears. I remember my great Grandma Oma running outside to watch the geese fly overhead our family farm near Mammoth Cave, Kentucky. She dried her hands in her apron and turned to me, saying, "Isn't that the lonesomest sound?" I was very small....(more) more bird watching As I've mentioned before, Shelby's obsession with birds has led me to watching them a great deal myself. After all, she is too short to look out the window by herself. I have to hold her so she can see them. (more)
Project FeederWatch
March 25, 2004
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is in the process of embarking on
another important citizen-science study. The House Finch Nest Survey
(HOFINS) is designed to determine whether differences in the breeding
biology of House Finches across their range are responsible for
seasonal and geographic variation in House Finch eye disease. With
the help of you and other citizen scientists observing nesting House
Finches, we hope to identify geographical differences in nesting
dates, numbers of eggs or young, and numbers of successful nests
(nests that produce at least one House Finch fledgling). We will look
for associations between these nesting patterns and geographic
variation in eye disease prevalence (the proportion of infected birds
in the population). By monitoring House Finch nests, you can help us
determine how many juvenile House Finches, susceptible to disease,
are produced in your part of the continent. Our House Finch Disease
Survey produced some ground-breaking results, thanks to the
participation of caring birders like you. We hope you will help us
make the HOFI Nest Survey every bit as successful.
To get involved, sign up at
<www.birds.cornell.edu/hofisignup/nestsignup.html> or call
800/843-2473 (outside the U.S., call 607/254-2473).
Click here: Another pigeon Mandy was out walking the greyhounds when she found another injured pigeon. It was very weak, but we hand fed it and it is growing stronger. It drank a great deal of water. It is very quiet. We kept it isolated from DooDoo at first. It does not seem to have any broken bones that I can tell, but of course, I am not an X-ray machine. :-) I am just hoping it doesn't bring any disease in to DooDoo. Our resident pigeon DooDoo is very happy to have company.. He keeps strutting and cooing. (more)
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