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MaryM
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Posted: Sept 11 2009 at 3:53pm \| IP Logged

This summer the Celebrate Urban Birds section at Cornell Lab of Ornithology site sponsored a cool contest of Funky Nests in Funky Places which was shared in this thread. This fall they have another fun contest - Spooky Bird Contest. Celebrate Urban Birds is part of their great Citizen Science Project (which includes the Feeder Watch and Great Backyard Bird Count which are mentioned frequently here).

This contest is to highlight unusual bird behaviors that may seem strange or spooky. I've looked through what has been submitted for the contest so far. There are great pictures. This contest section of the site also includes explanations of some of the strange behavior of birds. It's all quite intriguing. I hope you enjoy.

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Dear Birding Friends,

Halloween is just a few weeks away, so we want to see and hear spooky things about birds! This is the latest environmental challenge from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Celebrate Urban Birds citizen-science project in conjunction with the Encyclopedia of Life website. We call this contest "A Murder of Crows and Other Spooky Bird Tales." (Believe it or not, a large group of crows is called a "murder," but there’s nothing really scary about it. Crows are very intelligent, family-oriented birds.)

Still, sometimes birds do things that seem pretty spooky and strange. So for this challenge, we want you to take photos, do a painting, write a story or poem, even shoot a video showing crows, pigeons, starlings, an owl, or any kind of bird doing something puzzling or strange to you. Then we can reveal what the behaviors are really all about. There’s usually a perfectly natural, non-scary explanation!

Visit the site for more contest information or just to view the entries.

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Posted: Sept 11 2009 at 5:31pm \| IP Logged

Thanks, Mary! My dd just spent a while entertaining herself by reading the stories they've already received.

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