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Welfare Queen
She’s still there.
A Cooper’s hawk flew into the Library of Congress last week. In a series of blog posts, the LoC recounts the efforts to identify this bird and form a plan to retrieve her and help her out of the building. She has since stolen bait food that was intended to lure her into a trap (for relocation), and I wonder if she’s planning to settle in. After all, it’s a pretty nice gig – weather protection, some gorgeous clear sight lines I’m guessing, and free delivery.
Watching Our Researchers Like a Hawk
And Watch a Hawk Makin’ Lazy Circles in the Dome
Time for Another Hawk Update
Update: She “finally got evicted”.
Bird Sampler
Birds. Aren’t they awesome?
Mac Stone created this fabulous time-lapse of burrowing owls by their nest. Don’t miss the wonderful cameo by a humble orange cone. (Link to video)
Bird displays – especially the mating kind. Need I say more? Well, Ed Yong discusses the special effects of these feathers at length.
Drying Dance
This bird spent several minutes pushing wings and tail under the water.
And then danced on the surface to shake off the rinse.
Pelicans Are Perfect!
Pelicans receive fish at the London Zoo
Pelicans have been perfect since the early Oligocene, according to a newly published analysis of a fossilized bill, and partial skull and neck. The study’s lead author, Antoine Louchart, doesn’t actually want to commit to that interpretation, but the 30-million-year old fossil he reports on is so similar to today’s pelican species that it would be classified in the Pelecanus genus.
Fluid
Claire Morgan makes astonishing assemblies of taxidermied animals and other materials, meticulously placed with nylon strands. She uses many kinds of animals and insects, as well as fruit and leaves. I don’t have any idea what to make of any of it. I can’t decide whether I love it or would never want it in any space I occupy, even briefly (I or the work). Lots more photos of many installations over the last seven years at her website.
No Ma’am I Do Not Like You at All
Gettin into the Dogs’ Dish
Robin O’Keeffe
A robin in Walton Square takes a quick rest on its way back to its fledgling with a beakful of worms.
On the Brink
