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Charlie's Bird Blog
http://www.charliesbirdblog.com
Birding around the world, conservation and photography.
- Added on: Nov 7th, 2005
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Listed in: Green Destinations Personal
- Tags: conservation birds birding Asides birding excursions terminology
Recent Posts
ICCAT leaves albatross conservation dead in the water
From BirdLife: “After a 3-year seabird risk assessment that found tuna and swordfish longline fishing has significant impacts on Atlantic seabird populations, the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas failed to act at ...
What is a Grackle?
Grackles are of the Icterid family, the New World family of birds that includes blackbirds, orioles, oropendolas, meadowlarks, caciques, the Bobolink, and cowbirds. The word grackle derives from the latin word graculus*, which describes the small E...
Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of November 2009)
How was your weekend? Any good birds? Don’t be shy… tell us about your best bird! My best bird of the weekend was a Brown Creeper on a tree outside my kitchen window. Corey’s best birds were Cattle Egret and Black-legged Kittiwake, the form...
Zelda the Turkey Still Roams Battery Park
Zelda is a six-year fixture in Battery Park, in lower Manhattan. Can she make it through another Thanksgiving? Her hordes of fans hope so! Copyright 2009 - For more of the same, visit 10,000 Birds ...
Want to win three ‘Sound Approach’ books?
Of course you do, of course you do. And we want you to win them as well. So click right here to find out how! Copyright 2009 - For more of the same, visit 10,000 Birds ...
The 10,000 Birds Conservation Club (Part Two)
Yesterday we introduced our latest conservation initiative, the 10,000 Birds Conservation Club and the emails and comments flooded in (well, actually, they didn’t - but it was a Sunday in November, so we’re not disheartened quite yet!). ...
