The Super Whoopers (tm) website.  The Whoopers are Cygnus cygnus, it seems.
http://whooper.wwt.org.uk/whooper

Paul

Thanks Paul.  You dug deeper than I did!

Gayle

A satellite-tracked Super Whooper swan has lived up to his name and completed the migration between Iceland and Scotland, flying 800km non-stop over the ocean in just 14 hours. The aptly named Supersonic Bill was just three hours short of the shortest ever recorded journey time by a whooper swan.
 

Lest there be some confusion, the Super Whooper discussed here is not a Whooping Crane.  It is a Common Crane or Euroasian Crane that is sometimes called a Whooper, one of fifteen species of cranes world-wide.  The Whooping Crane is a North American crane.  Most crane species are threatened or endangered.

Gayle

Lou, I have enjoyed your rather eclectic YouTube finds, but this one is the best!  One shoud bookmark it for days when the world does not look so good!

Hundreds of birds are being flown to a bird rescue center in California after being harmed by an algae bloom.  Their feathers lose waterproofing after being fouled by the slime.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/28/BAEA1AB7MT.DTL


Gayle

Thank you for that lovely walk!

This one from Birdchick is just too hysterical!

Kakapo blog

 

Hilarious!   Thanks!

Gayle

I was this weekend on Texel. ( a perfect place for some birdwatching) I was looking at a spoonbill, but there was a lady who walked too close to the spoonbill and of course he flew away!


Afke, this is a wonderful photograph!  Thank you!

Gayle (in a smiley-free zone!)

If you think bats are cool, see  pictures in the link.
And if you think bats are ugly, watch them too!!

Not only are the bats incredibly cool, capturing those photographs is almost unbelievable.  He is a most talented and patient photographer!

Gayle