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• Bird Friendly Coffee Now Available at a Major Retailer
  By Gustave Axelson You may also be interested in our main page about Bird Friendly, organic, and shade-grown coffees. Smithsonian-certified Bird Friendly coffee is the strictest standard for shade-grown, organic coffees, but it can be hard to find in stores. This became somewhat easier in June 2013, when Whole Foods Markets began carrying Bird Friendly–labeled [...]
• Finally: a “Master Set” of 4,938 Downloadable Bird Sounds
  Nearly 80 years in the making, the most comprehensive downloadable guide to bird sounds is now available—The Cornell Guide to Bird Sounds: Master Set for North America. Nearly 300 recordists through the decades captured the sounds of wailing loons, warbling warblers, grunting grouse, and everything in between. The 4,938 tracks were selected from nearly 200,000 recordings in the [...]
• Slow Down and Enjoy These High-Speed Birds and Beetles in Action [video]
  By Shailee Shah A chameleon’s tongue, a bee’s flight, a cheetah’s chase, a kingfisher’s dive, a manakin’s “singing” wings—many animals go about their lives doing things in the blink of an eye. There is a whole secret world of the fast-moving that remains to be explored and understood with the aid of high-speed videography. I [...]
• Learn About Birds From Anywhere: New Online Webinar and Course Offerings
  New online-learning offerings are the latest additions to the Cornell Lab’s collection of educational materials. The options now range from live, one-hour webinars with an expert ornithologist all the way to an in-depth, college-level correspondence course with a 1,200-page textbook. If you enjoy watching and learning about birds, you might like the chance to investigate [...]