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Birdbooker Report 179 #booksTuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 12:38AMCompiled by an ardent bibliophile, this is a weekly report about all those wonderful nature, science and history books that are hot-off-the-presses in North America and the UK Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them. ~ Arnold Lobel [1933-1987] author of many popular children's books ...

Storm has wildlife centers full of displaced crittersMonday, July 18, 2011 @ 9:50PMThe powerful windstorm that ripped through the region last week left the staff at Kane and DuPage county wildlife centers in a whirl.Workers arrived at the Willowbrook Wildlife Center in Glen Ellyn on the morning of the July 11 storm to discover a massive catalpa tree had crashed into an outdoor woodchuck cage and blocked off part of a nature trail.It wasn’t long before the phones started ...

Bird's words thwart potential burglaryMonday, July 18, 2011 @ 7:45PMMICHIGAN CITY | A talking parrot alerted a woman to two intruders, who then ran off from a Michigan City-area home. "He's definitely the watch dog on this occasion," said Daniel Sturken, owner of the 21-year-old blue and gold Macaw.

Storm makes refugees of wildlifeSunday, July 17, 2011 @ 6:48PMThe powerful windstorm that ripped through the Chicago area last week left the staff at Willowbrook Wildlife Center in a whirl.Workers arrived at the Glen Ellyn facility last Monday morning to discover a massive catalpa tree had crashed into an outdoor woodchuck cage and blocked off part of a nature trail.It wasn’t long before the phones started ringing off the hook. Staff members fielded a ...

Weird but trueSunday, July 17, 2011 @ 2:06AMInmates in the Polk County jail may get three free meals a day -- but they better find their own underwear. Sheriff Grady Judd has stopped giving jailbirds free skivvies as part of their uniforms and is forcing them to buy their own -- or go commando. Judd says the...

Wong’s baroque-inspired artwork is elegant and beautifulSaturday, July 16, 2011 @ 7:29PMA TODDLER claps her hands in delight and runs excitedly towards the sound of singing birds while mid-morning shoppers at The Gardens Mall in Kuala Lumpur stop and look curiously at the eye-catching bird cages hanging from the ceiling of Wei-Ling Contemporary art gallery.

Gary Bogue: What's turning on these squirrels?Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 5:07PMSquirrels get crazy after digging in the grass and a reader wonders if he has 'squirrel-nip' growing in the yard.

Pair of injured eagles prove to be lovebirdsSaturday, July 16, 2011 @ 3:02PMThey are the fiercest-looking lovebirds you'll ever see, and they demonstrate their bond by eating dead rats side by side, wings touching.

Summer Exploring: Weymouth Woods offers close-ups of natureSaturday, July 16, 2011 @ 6:43AMSOUTHERN PINES - Stand for a moment almost anywhere in the midst of the 900 acres that make up Weymouth Woods, and you're likely to hear . nothing.