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Move over yellow cardinal, you’ve been replaced by the gynandromorph cardinal.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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We started a Patreon!

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. 

From now on birders will ask each other at festivals, "Where were you when you first found out about The Tadoussac eBird List?" Here's a video to give you an idea of the event.

Let's face it, bird taxonomy is currently a shit show. 

Pileated vs Tesla. 

Stick insect eggs can survive being pooped out of a bird. 

Rabbit vs fox vs bald eagle. 

Neil Degrasse Tyson needs a hug. 

Laurel or Yanny...also where it came from. 

One male great horned owl living with two females.

Also some great horned owl raising a red-shouldered hawk chick. Until the tree fell down. 

You can pre order a signed copy of Julie Zickefoose’s new book Saving Jemima. I HIGHLY recommend it.

The crazy lengths people will go to try and have the best list…

Four pound dog taken by a gull.

Loons raising a mallard.

Puffins beaks are amazing...and you can attract them with window feeders?

There's a red warbler in Arizona!

Gulls get a guy banned from a hotel for 17 years.

New book: Does It Fart? Also, help out Laura Erickson.

If guys flirted like birds...and vice versa. 

Birds can see the Earth's magnetic field. 

Why did the eagle attack the pitcher?

Birdcast has live migration maps this spring!

A hot mess of an article about birds, National Parks and climate change.

Urban barred owls give very few ducks.

The closing of the Lodge and Spa in Pico Bonito National Park is covered in a bit more detail over at This Birding Life.

Bird sperm fundraiser. Yep. That's what I typed.

Laura Erickson on Bird Farts.

EDIT: added the correct audio file. Whoops! -nbb

Oxpeckers sleeping around giraffe "armpits" and testicles. 

Thanks to searching for poop on NASA images, we found some penguins. 

Video of red kites at Gigrin Farm. 

Here's the naturalist dream date. 

eBird is keeping some locations of birds vague.

Costco Hawk is living it up indoors and yes it escaped.

The obscure 80s movie called Looker. 

Beast Box--make your own dj poppin' sounds with actual wildlife calls. 

What? A saw-whet owl band in a barred owl pellet. 

The O RLY owl is 17. The Internet is old. 

Sparrow Swap for bluebird trail runners. 

Godwit Days. 

FYI There's a yellow cardinal. 

What real field biologist resumes should include.

Ovenbird vs a garter snake. OMG those birds are surprisingly badass. 

Morning Bird Walk Bingo!

Woodpeckers get brain damage.

Blind goose involved with swans dies. 

Nigel the gannet dies next to his statuesque mate. (Read while listening to Making Plans for Nigel or Attainable Love)

Bird Walk Bingo!

  It's winter so of course we talking about owls. Here's an article that I did for Audubon with tips on how to search for Northern Saw-whet Owls. The politics of reporting owls...there are definitely more northern species of owls in the northern US this year, but the locations are being kept on the down low this winter. Even eBird has put owls on the sensitive species list so you can't use it for exact locations.

Vogue did an article about bird watching...and it isn't terrible...

Non Birding Bill's other podcast: Aging Poorly.

One of the reasons we stopped podcasting is in this post. It's hard to have a snarky birding podcast when the news is often terrible. But we're back for now. Thank you for your patience. 

It's the end of an era, folks. Eagle Optics is closing its doors at the end of the year. 

There's some cool stuff over at Big Day Birding. 

Great article about what different birds species do during a hurricane. 

Could captive breeding help sage grouse?

The plight of young conservationists seeking an actual job. 

Hawk + Snake + power lines = frowney face. 

Map of what people observing birds noticed during the solar eclipse. 

You should totally listen to the American Birding Association Podcast. 

 Hurricane Harvey the Hawk updates.

A study attempts to categorize birders. Do you fit one of the four categories?

Listen to Alec Baldwin learn about birding from Charles Munn on Here's the Thing. 

Spencer Pratt is the hummingbird hero we need right now. 

If you purchase this print by August 23, 50% of the purchase goes to the Southern Poverty Law Center. 

Paddle Birding!

So...we recorded this over a week ago and forgot to post it. Whoops.

The first half hour is a rant on the Senior Pass price increase for federal parks. If you really want one at the old rate, order it at YourPassNow.com before August 28. 

The second is about the government looking into public and private land to build a wall that will keep no one out of the United States. Without going through due process for Eminent Domain, work has already begun on private property at the National Butterfly Center for a border wall. Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge will also be ripped apart for a useless border wall. 

We got to meet Dr. Chuck Tingle this weekend…yes, THAT Chuck Tingle. If you are unaware of who that is then follow this link when you are not at work and not around your kids.

The curious case of Curry Gull!

Drunk guy uses Uber to get a bird to wildlife rehab.

New York Times birding gear guide…that hat is a hard no from Sharon.

House finches that use cigarette butts in the nest may get some insect protection. 

Canuck the Crow is causing some mail delivery problems. Also, you can follow him on Facebook. 

Eagle mistakes testicles for turtle eggs (fake news).

Report your dickcissels. 

BSBO and ABC stops a wind turbine on the Great Lakes. 

Eastern phoebe feeding a brown-headed cowbird chick. 

Cowbirds are kind of like the Manchurian Candidate. 

Gay griffon vulture pair raise a chick in an Amsterdam Zoo. 

A fascinating look at the amazing talent of Julie Zickefoose as she restores an Audubon Elephant Folio. 

Jane Yolen is partnering with Cornell Lab of Ornithology to write some books about birds for kids. 

You know the dude who broke the North American Big Year record? He donated over $36,000 to offset his carbon footprint. 

What, there are other podcasts to listen to? Here are the ones we referenced:

Out There With The Birds specifically the migration episode. 

The American Birding Association Podcast

Lang Elliot's Music of Nature

Non Birding Bill's podcast with Sam Landman called Aging Poorly

Weird things happening on bird cams. There appears to be a Canada goose uprising and they're taking over osprey nest platforms. Not all ospreys are taking it lying down. 

The field guide we've all been waiting for: The Field Guide To Dumb Birds of North America. 

Help a graduate fund her research project. 

How much would you pay to go glamping for a nigh parrot in Australia?

The city if Wichita is offering tips to prevent herons and egrets from nesting in your yard. 

The California super bloom has been great for birds too. Be sure to check out the video. 

It's project nest watch time and there is of course an app for that. 

Have you seen Swarovski's new BTX scope? Also, the Cotton Carrier tactical birding harness is no joke and comfortable in the field. 

Are you having a hard day? Check out this bubbler type bath with a buttload of Allen's hummingbirds. 

Why do turkeys walk around in circles and why do bush stone curlews stare at themselves?

Canada's national bird battle. 

Migration needs to hit soon because all North American birders are doing is arguing about owls and baiting. 

Good Birders Still Don't Wear White is out and you should buy it!

The owl drama is intense this month on social media. You can follow the hashtag #owlmasterbaiters on Facebook to following along. 

Funny caracara story and terrible caracara movie. 

Lawsuit in New York to protect threatened piping plovers from non native feral cats. 

Oh hey, it's a great blue heron eating an alligator. 

New apps out there including Merlin which will ID your bird photos and Song Sleuth which cam help ID some bird songs. 

For some reason, somebody took this guy seriously about his ivory-bill sightings. Seriously, he's been at this since the original sightings. 

Falcons on a plane. 

Great news, updated Warbler Guide app and it's now available for Android!

Bird themed tarot deck. 

Non Birding Bill and I referenced Letterkenny. Here’s a scene for what the show is like. The guys are tailgating waiting to get in a fight and they argue about how to cook steaks. In season 4 there’s an episode all about “Canada Gooses.”

Speaking of tv shows there’s a great one from Jason Ward called The Birds of North America. And a really shit one from Rolling Stone basically copying Jason’s idea badly. So here is one of Jason’s shows.

Are black vultures really doing this much damage in Kentucky or are they being unfairly persecuted?

And piping plovers are breeding in record numbers in Maine and New York as well as putting a wrench in the plans of music events in Sandy Hook and Chicago.

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Hey, Sharon forgot to create a post for last week’s podcast, so this it totally not Bill’s fault. Enjoy, and Bill is blameless as always!

Sandhill Cranes raising a Canada goose gosling. Sharks eating migrants.

Sharks eating migrants in the gulf.

I think everything else we talked about was the usual nonsense.

Wait…what did we talk about?

The Patreon members said they wanted guests, so we brought on a guest. Our aim is not to have just anyone bird related on as a guest, but someone who can hang. And Jeremy certainly can. We played the game Wingspan before we podcasted.

This is not posed. This is totally Non Birding Bill trying to explain the rules of Wingspan to Jeremy Messersmith.

You should definitely check out Jeremy’s music in your preferred method. We hear him on the radio, especially the Current here in the Twin Cities. Some of our favorite songs include:

Hitman
Ghost
Tatooine Be sure to check out the linked video
Let’s Ditch Christmas
Everybody Gets a Kitten

Other topics covered in this podcast include Florida man killed by cassowary. And it was 20 years ago that Fabio slammed his face into a Canada goose.

The feminist birding revolution article.

Me on a podcast explaining the relevance of Twitter seven years ago.

Most poplar bird in the us.

OMG what did I post a picture of…

Check out Redpoling: a birder polling group.

The Bird Banter Podcast.