Bird A Day Blog

WHAT Part poetry and part field guide, Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds combines more than 100 poems by Elizabeth Bishop, Charles Simic, Sylvia Plath, Wallace Stevens, and others with carefully matched illustrations by renowned artist David Allen Sibley.

Poet Laureate Billy Collins will join fellow poets George Green, Joshua Mehigan, Linda Pastan and David Yezzi at the Museum to celebrate poems from the anthology paired with their own work. Artist and ornithologist David Allen Sibley will also be discussing his life-like illustrations. Joel Cracraft, curator of ornithology at the Museum, will introduce the program. Book signing will follow.

Co-presented with the Poetry Society of America and New York City Audubon.

WHEN Wednesday, March 10, 6:30 pm

Wine, coffee, and snacks will be available for purchase at Café on One

from 5:30–6:30 pm

WHERE Kaufmann Theater, first floor

Enter at 77th Street

The American Museum of Natural History

ADMISSION $15 adults, $13.50 Members, students, seniors

WEBSITE http://www.amnh.org/programs/programs.php?date=2010-03-10&event_id=1620

Giveaway Winner

Andrew — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 03:31:10 +0000

The giveaway is long over and I apologize! My computer was down for about a week (long story), but the good thing is it’s back up now.

Winner #1 of the giveaway is Donald K. of West Hartford, CT.

Winner #2 of the giveaway is Kimberly S. and her eclectus Lennie of Davenport, FL.

Congratulations to everyone!

Well, that was fun, lets do it again! Next giveaway coming very shortly! ^_^

Thanks to all who entered!

Bird Toy Giveaway

Andrew — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:34:12 +0000

The Bird A Day Blog is giving away a bird toy from A Unique Idea bird toys, to 2 of our readers. Enjoy!

I am going to make this quick and straightforward for your sake.

Here are the two things you need to know:

1. Here is the item we are giving away:

Clothespin Wreath

Toy dimensions: 11″ x 10″

2. Here is what you need to do to enter:

Tweet (@birdaday)about this give-away with a link back to this post.
OR – Post about the give-away on your blog with a link back and leave a comment telling me you did.
OR – Subscribe to my feed via RSS – leave a comment so I know.
OR – Follow me on Twitter – again, leave a comment.

Each of the above are ways to enter, each counts as an entry!

This give-away is open only to residents in the continental United States (sorry!!) and will be open until Sunday, February 7th at 10:00 pm EST.

Boring Full Disclosure Statement: Monies to fund this giveaway are coming out of my own pocket. I am not being paid by A Unique Idea to share their products with my readers.

Thank you so much and good luck on winning! ( ‘>

8 large wooden clothes pins and 7 small wooden clothes pins strung together with stainless steel wire and wooden beads accented with tear apart cotton rope and finished off with a cotton fabric bo

Macaws Seized from Home

Andrew — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 01:50:50 +0000

An article according to the Associated Press today explains how 43 macaws (there were 45 originally, but 2 died before being removed), numerous other birds and other pets were seized from a home in Colorado on Tuesday.

Apparently the animals were owned by an elderly gentleman who was struggling to keep them alive by feeding them dog food.

Full story here: [Exotic birds seized from condemned Colorado home]

Tags: parrot, AP, news, macaw, blogger

Cockatoo Says Moar!

Andrew — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 02:12:08 +0000

Why? You ask?

MUST... OBEY...

I thought this pic of a cockatoo was cute.

Photo credit: Unknown

Baby Penguin Picture

Andrew — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:27:29 +0000

Going with the baby birds streak I’m on this week, here is a pic of a baby penguin. Enjoy! ^_^

Baby Penguin for You

Source: annettelee on deviantART

Cute Baby Budgie

Andrew — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:11:23 +0000

Found this super cute of a baby budgie (american parakeet)

Cute Baby Budgie/Parakeet

Source: Eisaku-Panda on deviantART