Blogs, Birds, and Things Learned

I just used World Wildlife Fund's Conservation Action Network to urge the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to stop ignoring the impacts of coal mining, including mountaintop removal, on our nation's threatened and endangered wildlife. I urge you to take action, too, at http://wwf.worldwildlife.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=209 . Coal mining is devastating Appalachia and harming endangered aquatic life. Widespread and increasing mountaintop removal mining -- a form of mining in which entire tops of mountains are removed and the debris is dumped in valleys and sometimes directly into streams -- is despoiling hundreds of miles of rivers and streams within the Southeast Rivers and Streams ecoregion, which World Wildlife Fund has identified as one of the richest, rarest and most biologically important eco-regions in the world. A long-standing, overly general FWS "biological opinion" concluded that no coal mining operation an...

I have no real reason to post this to my blog, other than, I love this video! This bird just cracked me up! I love his dancing, so I wanted him on my blog! CONTINUES BELOW: Do you have any funny bird videos? I'm thinking about maybe having some kind of video contest. I'll have to plan it out and then I'll post it here and maybe on www.Youtube.com/mrsbigbird So, look for a post for a contest, coming soon! I'll have to figure out a prize and maybe some categories.

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