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Birdchick Podcast

Sharon Stiteler and Bill Stiteler

Sharon Stiteler, the Birdchick, talks about the latest in birding news.

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The "Famously" Inconspicuous Henslow's Sparrow

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2018/06/16

I've really been taking the "Year of the Bird" to heart. This year I decided to carve out some birding just for myself on top of the classes and events I host. It's been one of the best springs (of course, I say that every spring when there are great birds). This week has just been spectacular.I got my whole birding by ear class on this amazing Henslow's sparrow. I wasn't going to post this part, but I feel like I should for the sake of new bird guides

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Birdchick Podcast #237 Raccoons, Bill was right...what?

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2018/06/14

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.

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Birdchick Podcast #236 The Tadoussac eBird List

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2018/05/30

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.

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Birdchick Podcast # 235 Owls Being Weird and...

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2018/05/18

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.

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Birdchick Podcast #234 Eagles and Puffins

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2018/04/11

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?

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Reporting Owls

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2018/03/31

Snowy owl pellets have been documented to contain parts of herring gulls, double-crested cormorants, great blue herons, peregrine falcons, barred owls, mink and house cat...they are

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Birdchick Podcast #233 Migration! Laura Erickson,...

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2018/03/28

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

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Birdchick Podcast #232

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2018/03/13

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.

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Birdchick Podcast #231: Sharon gets the number wrong

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2018/02/27

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.

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Birds In Cages

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2018/02/19

Home cooked meal in Honduras. One of the risks of traveling for birding is that sometimes you are going to see birds

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Birdchick Podcast #230: Brain Damage and Messy...

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2018/02/14

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!

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Birdchick Podcast #229 We're Back!

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2018/02/01

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

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Cuban Parakeets Go Full 69

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2018/01/17

Cuban parakeet in Playa Larga. I've said it before and I'll say it again and again, there is nothing like seeing

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Birding In Troubled Times

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2018/01/12

I'm not racist.I never imagined I would need to make a statement like that, but when the leader of your country says words and supports groups that blatantly are, I feel I need to make sure people know this. Especially the many friends I’ve made all over the world.

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Che Guevera's Cave and Ant Hatches

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2017/12/30

Cueva de los Portales in La Guira National Park One of the places I was most excited about visiting in Cuba was Cueva

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Las Terrazas Birding

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2017/12/29

After some fun times and barely birding in Old Havana, we met up with our main guide in Cuba, Hiram Gonzalez (pronounced "ear rahm" not they way we say Hiram in the US). Hiram is quite possibly one of the last people to see an ivory-billed woodpecker alive in Cuba. He's an ornithologist who specializes in endangered species on the island. If Zapata wren is your goal--he's the one you want to know to see one.

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Horned Guan Death March

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2017/12/26

This post was updated December 19, 2017 when I noticed many of the photos were gone after transferring the blog from Wordpress to SquareSpace. I also updated some of the text. It was originally two posts and now I've condensed it to one.

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Changing Binoculars

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2017/11/27

This summer I had the heartbreak many of us experience with our binoculars...moisture inside the lenses. Who knows when I did it--park service canoe program or on a plane coming home from Hungary.Considering they had been used almost daily since 2005 and I'm rough on equipment that was a hell of a good run. Fortunately, being Swarovskis they have a great warranty and something like this can be repaired with only shipping from my house as the

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Birding In Havana

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2017/11/19

You get a special stamp on your boarding pass after you go through all the security hoops at the Miami Airport. I'm

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Cuba Birding Trip Planning

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2017/10/28

Classic cars lined up in Havana. So you found a way to get to Cuba to do some birding! Awesome! Here are some things I

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