Birding camp for adult birders
National Audubon Society recently announced that it will open Maine's Hog Island camp in 2010 for four adult sessions and one teen session. First opened in 1936, the camp on Muscongus Bay closed in 2009 but will offer a late-May 2010 session for adult birders.In the first "Maine Seabird Biology and Conservation" session, adults can work with Dr. Stephen Kress and Project Puffin biologists for

Sesame Street's Big Bird is Giant Golden Condor?
Like The New York Times' ArtsBeat blog says in Monday's post: Who knew??In honor of the 40th anniversary of "Sesame Street," puppeter Caroll Spinney and a colleague responded to NYT readers' questions about the tall, yellow-feathered character. Guess what Big Bird's favorite book is? (Tip: It's about wild birds.)

Christmas Bird Count for young birders!
In Northern California two years ago, Sonoma Birding created a half-day Christmas Bird Count program for children ages 8 to 14. The Audubon CBC for Kids runs from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., not from midnight to midnight as in the traditional CBC, and the suggested count dates fall between Dec. 10 and Jan. 15.Sonomabirding.com provides many helpful details in the link above, and the framework sounds

Brown Pelican no longer endangered
From the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service:Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks Tom Strickland and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Sam Hamilton today announced that the brown pelican, a species once decimated by the pesticide DDT, has recovered and is being removed from the list of threatened and endangered species under the Endangered

First Friday: Nov. 6
Congratulations to Clare Kines! He earned top honors in this month's First Friday fiction contest.By crafting an intriguing 500-word tale, Clare earned the chance to receive a recently published birding book of his choice. No doubt the book will provide good reading fodder during the dark arctic winter.Please participate in the December contest! Mark Dec. 3 as the deadline for your fictional