Weekend Bird Blogger #10

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 POSTS:

• Casasugar – High Design for the Birds [and pricey!]
  
• COLOURlovers – Colorful Beauty in Nature: Birds
  
• Earth news – Oil spill leads to habitat protections for Pacific shore birds
  
• Eat more cookies – How many birders?!
  
• Laurelines – Good birds, bad bird
  
• NEUROphilosophy – Avian intelligence
  
• Smithsonian—The gist – Birds Inspire Pine Growth
  
• The New York Times Crossword in Gothic – Birds
  
• The Nose on Your Face – Oversexed Hollywood Birds Need Help “Keeping It In Their Feathers”