Birdchick Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

Stare at gulls to get them to leave you alone.

Birds nap.

Rabbit or Bird

Larry Bird mural.

Sharon forgot to corral the links. But the public podcast is up.

A dozen ways you can celebrate the life and legacy of Bill Thompson III.

Bald eagles are going crazy by nesting on the ground and dropping trash in people’s yards.

Record sandhill crane count in Nebraska.

Do you live in one of the top ten most dangerous cities for migrating birds? We do.

Bird Genie which can help you id bird sounds is available for iPhone or Android.

That Florida grasshopper sparrow hot mess.

Hey, gang, if you missed the great black hawk in Maine…you will still have a chance to see it.

Totally ok and understandable to suppress a rarity on private property. Not really ok to announce it in this fashion.

What kind of content do you get if you are one of our Patreon members? This kind of content!

Using birding to help anxiety. This is an interesting perspective of how someone found their way to birdwatching.

Please read the latest from Bill Thompson III’s caring bridge site.

The man who invented the falcon copulation hat has died.

Yes, it’s true. There really is a live cam on a bald eagle trio (two males, one female) raising young together.

According to the will of the Patreon I read H is for Hawk.

Turkeys are terrorizing Moorhead, MN

Wisdom the albatross is mating again. Gizmodo has a more colorful headline.

Is it ok to call a bird a trollop in a formal presentation?

Move over yellow cardinal, you’ve been replaced by the gynandromorph cardinal.

White-throated sparrows and the complexity of gender.

A king eider shows up in Maine. Birders go crazy and post about it. A hunter uses social media to locate and legally hunt the rarity.

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The great black hawk that’s been in Maine is in wildlife rehab with frostbite. What will it’s future be?

The American Birding Association Bird of the Year is the red-billed tropicbird. The artwork is by Megan Massa. Follow her on Instagram @MeganDrawsBirds.

The raven and snowy owl video we referenced in the podcast.

Birding doesn't always fee inclusive to the LGBTQ community. 

We are losing Bentsen State Park. 

Swamp sparrows have possibly always sang the same song.

Timing is everything when birds leave the nest. 

Crow  necrophilia. 

Don't be like this herpetologist. 

MPR had a racoon. 

Some Ohio officers do not know how to step aside under a bird nest.

Pad Redig from the University of Minnesota's Raptor Center is an amazing man and one of the reasons I moved to Minnesota. 

There was a raccoon in Minnesota. There were issues.