hello tweeties,

today (1000 PST, 1300EST), the Audubon Society is streaming a live webcast where Dr. Greg Butcher discusses his recently published report about global warming and its effects upon North American birds. You can learn more about it, including getting a free PDF of the report and also how to participate live in this webcast by visiting this link;

http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2009/02/first_ever_audubon_live_webcas.php

i hope you can arrange to make the time to participate in this webcast -- it's a first for the National Audubon Society, and they should be encouraged by all of us to realize the power of the internet to educate the public.

the most recently demystified mystery bird, courtesy of photographer, Dave Rintoul, was a probable juvenile Northern Goshawk, Accipiter gentilis;

http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2009/02/todays_mystery_bird_for_you_to_176.php

here's today's mystery bird for you to identify, thanks to photographer, Joseph Kennedy;

http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2009/02/todays_mystery_bird_for_you_to_126.php

cheers,

GrrlScientist
Devorah
http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/
Roosting high up a tree somewhere in Central Park, NYC