Search Referrals to Birds Etcetera

Just for the heck of it, I thought it would be interesting to list the keyword searches that have directed people to this weblog in the last few days. Numbers in parentheses in the lines below represent (1) the place in which Birds Etcetera was listed and (2) the total number of "hits" returned. Birds Etcetera ranked among the top 10 "hits" returned in 43 of the 59 searches (indicated with #), and among the top 10 percent of "hits" returned in 33 of 47 searches with 10 or more "hits" (indicated with **).

Google: dwight & church bird cards (18th of 1,930) *
Google: seakayaking an florida panhandle (6th of 9) #
Google: canada geese and migration new england peer reviewed article (7th of 45) #
Yahoo: usvi state birds (6th of 717) # *
Google: wild birds + law + wisconsin (9th of 16,000) # *
Google kate alaska 5 district (2nd of 20) # *
Yahoo: song sparrow bird (1st of 62) # *
Yahoo: madasgascar postcards (2nd of 3) #
AOL : uss waxbill ams 39 (10th of 14) #
Yahoo: yarn store st. croix usvi (3rd of 4) #
Dogpile/Google: largest land bird of north america (7th of 10) #
Google: marbled murrelet pics (3rd of 32) # *
Yahoo: collegs + cryptozoology + 4 year (1st of 1) #
MSN: "blogspot" (5th of 48) # *
Google: 13 november senate military exception migratory birds (2nd of 26) # *
Google: distribution of sulidae on stamps (5th of 8) #
Google: gwynne mcdevitt (5th of 168) # *
Google: florida birding blog (1st of 83) # *
Yahoo: "betsy karasik" (3rd of 5) #
Yahoo: cryptozoology wv (17th of 116)
Google: cryptozoology artwork bernard heuvelman (1st of 2) #
MSN: "backbone mountain" and "maryland" and "windmill" (11th of 11)
AOL: expert meanings on the northern red cardinal bird (1st of 112) # *
AOL: native american bird meanings for female red cardinal (3rd of 289) # *
Google: prevention damn crows orchards (1st of 53) # *
Dogpile/Overture: research ethnoornithology (3rd of 3) #
Dogpile/Google: research ethnoornithology (3rd of 4) #
Dogpile/Fast: research ethnoornithology (1st of 4) #
Google: woodpecker red cheek Saskatchewan (3rd of 37) # *
Yahoo: military effect on raptors (9th of 2,540) # *
Yahoo: bombing bird habitats in the name of defense article (1st of 149) # *
Google: birders blog (9th of 81) #
Google: cedar waxwing + temperature (10th of 899) # *
Google: name of diving seabird, three letters a-k (10th of 322) # *
AOL: american ornithology: or the natural history of birds inhabiting the united states (1st of 2)#
Yahoo: raven shirt bird (19th of 10,200)*
Yahoo: bird names that start with a p (13th of 16,000)*
Google: origin of the phrase "for the birds" (19th of 353)*
Google: cedar waxwing life span (26th of 146)
Netscape: european chocolates sold in columbia maryland area (8th of 122) # *
Google: stuff about birds (10th of 671,000) # *
Google: "chickenhawk" + "birds" (2nd of 415) # *
Google: usgs buldir map (4th of 56) # *
Yahoo: for sale, the auk, journal (22nd of 544)*
Google: the defender birdfeeder (7th of 66) # *
Google: pacarras (28th of 213)
Google: canadian wild bird feeder companies (8th of 610) # *
Google: cryptozoology (18th of 171)
Google: cornish game bird pics (4th of 122) # *
AOL: duck pluckers (44th of 207)
Google: birders blogs (3rd of 36) # *
Yahoo: "alaska 200 club" (2nd of 2) #
Google: northern mocking pics (42nd of 284)
Google: windmills birds (25th of 30)
Google: postcards socotra (16th of 124)
Google: stuff birds (7th of 689,000) # *
Google: pileated woodpecker in colorado (140th of 903)
Google: lynn bogue hunt coca cola (4th of 54) # *
Google: windmills & migratory birds (4th of 903) # *