We took some extra days off around Canada Day, and because my husband works for an American company now, he also had July 4th off. The weekend weather forecast wasn't looking too great--chances of rain or high temperatures--but we played it by ear and managed to get a lot of fun stuff done.

We road tripped down to the Alberta Birds of Prey Center ( Read more... )

Neat article!

Birds Sing to Their Eggs, and This Song Might Help Their Babies Survive Climate Changehttps://getpocket.com/explore/item/birds-sing-to-their-eggs-and-this-song-

gingervere, this seems up your alley ( Read more... )

From me and birdsrightsactivist :-D


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x-posted to parrot_lovers

https://www.audubon.org/magazine/summer-2020/the-parrot-king

OVER THE PAST 14 YEARS, MARTIN GUTH HAS BUILT A MONOPOLY ON SOME OF THE WORLD’S RAREST BIRDS. WILL HIS SECRETIVE ORGANIZATION ULTIMATELY HELP PUT MORE PARROTS IN THE WILD, AS HE SAYS ( Read more... )

I'm the Wednesday wordsmith at 1word1day and I came across this word in a puzzle book. Watch the community and improve your vocabulary!

I was chatting with one of my bird friends and we realized that we didn't know why some birds hopped and others walked. We have been lifelong bird lovers and it seemed weird that we didn't know the answer to such a basic question ( Read more... )

All y'all probably spotted this in the news recently :-) It turned out to be a horned lark.

If you haven't heard about it, well, click here and Google will take care of the rest :-)

x-posted to parrot_lovers

I saw this going around Facebook and thought it was so cool! I have never heard of Pesquet's Parrot before.


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Meet the red-legged seriemas in the link below and learn about their fascinatingly cute and frightening killing throw :-Dhttps://slate.com/technology/2019/08/the-cute-birds-playing-with-golf-balls-are-actually