December 2009 - BirdWatching Field of View
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Here's a photo that grabbed our attention. An American Coot attacks a young chick and prepares to kill it. Bruce Lyon , professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California Santa Cruz, shot the photo during the course of a...
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Contributions from two organizations have tripled the amount of a reward offered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons who shot and killed a Whooping Crane near Cayuga, Indiana...
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We have our second winner in our Readers' Favorites Survey ! In our December 2009 issue, we asked you to tell us your favorite places in the United States and Canada to see warblers, and as you did when we requested locations to watch eagles , you...
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For the cover of our December 2009 issue, we knew we wanted a shot of a winter finch -- one of a handful of hardy northern songbirds that wander unpredictably each year -- but we didn't know which one. We would have been happy with a Pine Grosbeak...
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After all the bad news about Whooping Cranes and their human caretakers — the shooting death of an adult female , the vandalism at the Operation Migration hangar , and the recent crash-landing of the top-cover Cessna in a farm field in southern...
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Matt, Julie, and I got some very good news this week: BirdersWorld.com received a 2009 silver Eddie Award for excellence in online editorial from Folio magazine. The Eddie and Ozzie Awards, conducted annually, are the largest awards competition in magazine...
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A seven-year-old Whooping Crane — the only successful breeding female from the eastern migratory population — was shot and killed in western Indiana, near the town of Cayuga in central Vermillion County, officials with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife...
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BirdsEye , a new app for the iPhone and iPod Touch, is being released today. It will show you the locations of bird sightings in your area -- as soon as they're posted to eBird . BirdsEye pairs reports from eBird with photos from VIREO , audio from...
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In a recent article in Birder's World about birding with the iPhone (“In the know, all the time,” October 2009), writer Laura Kammermeier reported on an app that was still in development that taps into the bird sightings on the Cornell...
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