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Over the past few weeks rare gulls appear to be on the move across North America. With unprecedented numbers of Slaty-backed Gulls turning up coast to coast this winter and the recent report of a Ross’s Gull at Niagara Falls it would appear that birders should be more diligent about checking out large flocks of […]

So,
While searching for silly/entertaining videos before bed, I noticed a video that described a news man getting bird chat in his mouth while on camera. Always interested in seeing what sort of displeasure our feathered friends are getting into, I decided to take a look at the video. To start off the news man talks […]

I was up a little earlier than usual this morning so my platform feeder was full before the birds started making their rounds.  I looked out as I sat down for breakfast and in the dawn light was a small flock of Common Redpolls at the feeder!  These were the first redpolls on my feeders […]

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Today before donning my 2004 Montezuma Muckrace T-shirt which you can see here, I decided to look at the team names on the back half-expecting to see one of my ESF teams listed. However much to my surprise I noticed that my team name was surprise surprise, “Chat Happens”. Now if my memory serves […]

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We’ve been working busily on the site and getting updates on whenever we can. New additions to the site include: ‘State Lists‘ category on the Lists page, and the new ‘Website of the Week‘. Updates on Chad’s bio have been done as well. Keep checking out the sidebar on the main page for recent updates […]

I get up at seven, yeah
And I go to work at nine
I got no time for livin
Yes, Im workin all the time
It seems to me
I could live my life
A lot better than I think I am
I guess thats why they call me
They call me the workin man
They call me the workin man
I guess thats what […]

Reading the latest issue of Birder’s World, I came upon a ‘Birding Brief’ which left me very sad, but mostly angry:
Recently it was discovered that pigeon enthusiasts in various states (CA, OR, TX, WA, WI, NY, and more) were killing various hawks and other raptors (Cooper’s Hawk, Red-tailed Hawk, Peregrine Falcon) so that a specially […]

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Newest to our Feature Articles page is The Trillogy: Separating Eastern North America’s Trillers. It falls under our ID Challenges page, and in particular our Auditory Challenges. This newly created page was first inspired by the post that Ryan put up on May 13, 2006 about the difficulties in learning the difference in trill between […]

Although it is 4 months away, Chat Happens is gearing up to celebrate this year’s International Migratory Bird Day. We are going to be looking for creative work from all of you to do so. To find out more about this special event, click here.

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With the day off today from work I decided to head over to Greene County for another shot at a few good targets that I’m hoping to get early in the year for my ‘08 year list. These were mostly gulls including Iceland, Glaucous, and Lesser Black-backed. I was also hoping to take my camera […]