Weekend Bird Blogging #7

An eclectic weekly collection of recent posts about birds, birders, and birding by bloggers throughout the blogosphere?but mostly from sources other than the mainstream bird blogs?that illustrates the universal appeal and attraction of our feathered neighbors, personally selected by me for your reading and viewing pleasure:

BLOG POSTINGS:

• Birds & Music ? Birds: Alaska and More
  
• Judy?s Jottings ? A Visit to the Top of the World in Barrow, Alaska
  
• Lost in the Ozone ? Chuck-will?s-widow
  
• Ronna?s Blog ? If It Quacks Like a Duck
  
• Stop Hushan Dam! ? Huben Birding Stories [Taiwan]
  
• The Ohio Nature Blog ? Ohio Birds
  
• Windstar Wildlife Institute ? I Saw Birds Not Seen in 20 Years!
  
  MAINSTREAM MEDIA:
  
• Chicago Tribune [IL] ? Wooded Island booming, not ?bleak? [Chicago?s Jackson Park is fine with birders]
  
• The Mining Journal [MI] ? Early June mornings are wonderful for birding [in Michigan's U.P.]
  
  FOUND BIRD BLOGS:
  
• Arkansas Birding [North American]
  
• Birding in Asia [Asian]
  
• Hondubirding [North American]
  
  PHOTOGRAPHS (from flickr) [can you tell them apart?]:
  
• American Oystercatcher (Haemaetopus palliatus) [North America]
  
• African Oystercatcher (H. moquini) [Africa]
  
• Black Oystercatcher (H. bachmani) [North America]
  
• Blackish Oystercatcher (H. ater) [South America]
  
• Eurasian Oystercatcher (H. ostrelagus) [Eurasia]
  
• Magellanic Oystercatcher (H. leucopodus) [South America]
  
• Pied Oystercatcher (H. longirostris) [Australasia]
  
• Sooty Oystercatcher (H. fuliginosus) [Australasia]
  
• South Island Oystercatcher (H. finschi) [Australasia]
  
• Variable Oystercatcher (H. unicolor) [Australasia]

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