The Birder’s United bi-weekly online news letter touted LocustFork.Net as a “great Website for birders” on Tuesday, Feb. 27.

A Web site that may be of great interest to members of Birders United is LocustFork.net. The site covers a wide selection of issues of interest to birders including a news column and Weblog.

There is also a photography section. Note particularly the feature on the birds of Alabama. More than 71,000 people visit the site each month.

A Great Web Site for Birders

Thanks for the kudos…

If you are curious about the changes going on in American news gathering and delivery, from print newspapers to the Web, PBS Frontline is a good place to turn.

Drawing on more than 80 interviews with key figures in the print, broadcast and electronic media, and with unequaled, behind-the-scenes access to some of today’s most important news organizations, FRONTLINE correspondent Lowell Bergman examines the challenges facing the mainstream news media, and the media’s reaction, in “News War,” a special four-part series.

Series Synopsis

News War Intro

Photo by Kenny Walters

This great blue heron was captured by Kenny Walters at East Lake Park in Birmingham, Alabama.

As of this morning, Feb. 26, participants had counted more than 10.5 million birds in the Great Backyard Birdcount and recorded 621 species on 75,699 checklists, far surpassing the previous record of 61,049 checklists, according to today’s press release from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society.

If you counted birds for the Great Backyard Birdcount during the Presidents’ Day weekend and haven’t turned your results in yet, the final day to post your results and photos online is Wednesday, Feb. 28.

http://gbbc.birdsource.org/gbbc

The first report on the final results will not be up until March 10, but you can explore the maps and tables of the preliminary results at:

http://gbbc.birdsource.org/gbbcApps/results

And don’t forget to check out the photo gallery here:

http://www.birdsource.org/gbbc/gallery

Paul Green of the Audubon Society and Miyoko Chu of Cornel send a “big thank you for making this a memorable and record-breaking tenth anniversary year.”