hello everyone,

the most recent edition of Birds in the News is available for you to read;

http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2009/04/birds_in_the_news_169.php

Save Our Boreal Birds has an online petition that seeks to save the boreal that they are seeking 70,000 signatures on (they are currently close of 60,000 signatures), and you do not need to be canadian to sign it;

http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2009/04/help_save_our_boreal_birds.php

today's mystery bird, courtesy of Canadian photographer, Paul Jones, is very challenging to identify;

http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2009/04/todays_mystery_bird_for_you_to_208.php

i also want to show you a photograph of a BLUE house sparrow that was photographed at a backyard bird feeder in Sydney, Australia;

http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2009/04/i_didnt_know_house_sparrows_ca.php

i write about the image and provide a hypothesis for the blue coloring in this bird.

cheers,

GrrlScientist
Devorah
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