The Birders Report

In The Cove, a team of activists and filmmakers infiltrate a heavily-guarded cove in Taiji, Japan. In this remote village they witness and document activities deliberately being hidden from the public: More than 20,000 dolphins and porpoises are being slaughtered each year and their meat, containing toxic levels of mercury, is being sold as food [...]

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Rufous Hummingbird photo by Larry Jordan
Last chance to enter the Audubon Magazine Photography Awards!  Deadline is Wednesday, July 15th!
Parlay your passion for birds into a dream trip to Peru, Australia, or Honduras, or win professional photo gear, in Audubon’s first photography awards. Each participant can submit up to 10 bird images, so you have 10 [...]

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Juvenile Bald Eagle photo by Larry Jordan
How would you like to win a “Journey to Peru’s Tambopata National Reserve?”  Well, that is just one prize in the Audubon Magazine Photography Awards: Birds In Focus!
New York, NY – Audubon magazine is launching the 2009 Audubon Magazine Photography Awards: Birds in Focus, created to celebrate the beauty [...]

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Photo from the Sand Springs Leader
This is a neat little story about a frog in a birdhouse from the Sand Springs Leader Newspaper in Arkansas.   I thought it was a cool photo, plus I love frogs and have a pond in my backyard.  As you know, or will find out soon, ponds and flowing water is a [...]

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Happy Easter 
 
Ostrich Egg pysanky by Brigitte Jordan
A pysanky is a Ukrainian decorated egg.  These beautiful works of art are made by the wax batik method and are made as decoration, not to eat.  A small hole is usually made at both ends of the egg and the contents are blown out before the design is written on to [...]

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