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	Exploding bird - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Some people believe feeding birds with dry grains, such as rice, barley or wheat, the seeds would expand in volume in birds' stomachs and cause them to explode (some people throw birdseed at weddings instead due to concern about the fate of birds eating rice).
		Some people believe feeding birds with Alka-Seltzer or similar products may cause the birds to explode.
		A related common urban legend is that feeding a bird a paracetamol tablet will cause an explosion.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Exploding_bird (485 words)

	Flying High: Bird Man
		The bird is powered by a rubber band and is said to be capable of flights of 150 feet.
		Although da Vinci observed birds carefully and made many drawings, he never totally understood how birds use their wings to lift and propel themselves through the air.
		Bird flight was much more complicated than even da Vinci realized, and he lacked the materials and technology needed to make the machine leave the ground.
	www.pbs.org /safarchive/4_class/45_pguides/pguide_603/4563_bird.html (775 words)

	Bird Watcher's Digest: Common Bird Myths
		The core of the story is that a group of bird watchers was using a tape recorder to lure a rail into view and then one of the participants, failing to pay attention, stepped on and squashed the bird.
		Why some birds deviate dramatically from their expected course is a subject of intense debate, but pending the presentation of any proof, any proof at all, the "blown across the country by a gale" theory should be retired.
		If birds were repelled by the scent of human beings and fled if their odor appeared on the nest, there would be wholesale abandonment of nests every year.
	www.birdwatchersdigest.com /site/backyard_birds/myths/myths.aspx (2803 words)

	The Birdchaser: I and the Bird #18
		Before bird banders routinely used RFID chips on their bands, and public websites allowed birders to get real time coordinates for RFID banded birds, bird watchers had to actually depend on skill and luck to find the birds they wanted to see.
		Another interesting account of birding in the early 21st Century is B and B's narrative of a cold Great Backyard Bird Count and an unexpected bird of prey.
		Home Bird Notes gave evidence of how some how people in the early 21st Century were seeking positive interactions with birds and nature in what she described as "a little good news".
	birdchaser.blogspot.com /2006/03/i-and-bird-18.html (1858 words)

	10,000 Birds - May 2005
		This Saturday, May 14, is International Migratory Bird Day, a celebration of the incredible journeys of migratory birds between their breeding grounds in North America and their wintering grounds in Mexico, Central, and South America.
		Birds all across the country will observe this special day by flying to where they were going anyway.
		The purpose of International Migratory Bird Day, which falls on the second Saturday in May each year, is to encourage bird conservation and increase awareness of birds through hikes, bird watching, information about birds and migration, public events, and a variety of other education programs.
	www.10000birds.com /may2005.htm (7018 words)

	Exploding sheep - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		An exploding sheep is a meme, commonly found in American and British computer games, although its genesis lay in the wider sphere of popular culture.
		The earliest well-known reference to exploding sheep in popular culture was made by Johnny Carson, in the role of psychic Carnac the Magnificent, on The Tonight Show, where Carnac predicted "Sis boom bah" and opened the sealed envelope to read, "The sound of a sheep exploding" (a video of the skit (http://www.johnnycarson.com/carson/entertainment/whats_showing/feature/carnac/index.jsp?id=27)).
		That the Exploding Sheep typeface does not signify exploding sheep except in name suggests that the meme has established itself in the software subculture beyond computer games.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Exploding_sheep (814 words)

	Birding Trip to Southeastern Arizona - Rodeo, New Mexico
		We saw a number of species in Rodeo that we had seen earlier on the trip, and we finally spotted the elusive Scaled Quail (which subsequently, of course, reappeared frequently).
		We also saw a Red-tailed Hawk close to the road, and I enjoyed taking pictures of him until we realized that the majestic bird was apparently injured and could not fly.
		This was lifer #50 of the trip for me, and the most exciting of my 71, even though this is a bird found in the East as well as the West.
	pages.prodigy.net /carena/rodeo.htm (588 words)

	Laura's Guide to Bird Conservation: Solving Bird Problems (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Most birds are welcome in our yards, but when they become a nuisance for people or a threat to other birds, sometimes we need to find safe ways to deal with them.
		Then slowly move behind the bird to guide it toward the open window.If no windows or doors can be opened to guide the bird outside, keep the room darkened and try to toss a towel over the bird.
		Fish declines due to birds are a tiny fraction of declines due to habitat degradation, pesticides, manure and other nutrient runoffs, mercury and other toxins, power plants, dams, shoreline erosion, and commercial and sometimes sport fishing, but birds make an easy scapegoat.
	www.birderblog.com /bird/Conservation/PartII/32-BirdProblems.html (2066 words)

	News Update
		The bird is large, slightly bigger than crow-size, and probably in its first year, according to several people whom I have asked.
		But the realization that one can study mammal brains by using bird brains, he said, "is a revolution." "I think that birds are going to replace the white rat as the favored subject for studying functional neuroanatomy," he added.
		In birds, sensory information flows through the thalamus and enters specific clusters that are functionally equivalent to the fourth layer.
	usaref.org /news_update.htm (11330 words)

	Exploding bird (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Some people believe feeding birds with dry grains, such as rice, barley or wheat, the seeds would expand in volume in birds' stomachs and cause them to explode.
		Some people believe feeding birds with Alka-Seltzer or the like may cause a bird to explode, even making a claim that this is commonly done by teenagers, fraternities or others for amusement.
		During spring training, in Tucson, Arizona, March 25, 2001, baseball pitcher Randy Johnson threw a fastball that, against all odds, struck a dove in flight, causing it to "explode" mid-air in a cloud of feathers.
	www.dcult.com /Urban-Lengends/Exploding_bird.php (269 words)

	World of Birds » 11 Tips On Traveling With Your Pet Bird
		Like all other birds, they also love to see the outside world and taking them on trips is a rewarding experience.
		The bird carrier should be large enough for your bird to sit or rest in it comfortably so that it doesn't bump its head or tail on the top or bottom.
		Make sure that your bird has developed no signs of illness prior to the trip and try implanting a microchip in your bird, for its identification, in case you lose it..
	www.worldofbirds.org /item/3 (774 words)

	Gaara vs Bat Guyspoilers for chapter 249 - Naruto Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		One of the reasons that the Akatsuki chick had to do that was to make sure that she could get that explosive bird to him, and one of the reasons she had to be so careful is because it was the last one she had.
		First of all, put an explosive bird in the sand that crushed her arm, because it's the sand that he, Gaara, uses to protect himself.
		Hiding an exploding doll in a lump of Gaara's sand is an awesome idea; blow up his shield of sand from the inside instead of forcing your way in.
	forums.narutofan.com /showthread.php?t=20656&page=2&pp=20 (2030 words)

	The Straight Dope: Should you not throw rice at weddings because birds swallow it and explode? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Supposedly birds eat the rice, it swells in their stomachs, and they explode over playgrounds.
		It seems to me if any bird has an intestinal temperature near boiling, eating a few grains of rice is the least of its worries.
		They quote another expert from Cornell, who says birds have powerful muscles and grit in their stomachs to grind up the rice before it reaches critical mass.
	www.straightdope.com /classics/a5_081.html (1811 words)

	feature
		You know, just pretending the birds were there and doing a lot of this (shoos away imaginary birds).
		The old lady bird expert in the diner is Ethel Griffies, who was 85 years old when she made this film, and she'd been retired for years.
		They tie the birds to me loosely around their leg and with the elastic they could move -- it wasn't mean to the birds you know.
	www.ozbricks.com /syme1984/crowbar/monstervision/archives/feature_birds.html (4712 words)

	BBC SPORT \| AUSTRALIAN OPEN \| Llodra gets the bird
		The bird, believed to be a house martin, came to a grisly end when he instinctively chased a moth across the Rod Laver Arena.
		The gruesome footage of a bird "exploding" in a spring-training game between the San Francisco Giants and the Arizona Diamondbacks last year was shown on dinner-time news broadcasts around the world.
		The bird died instantly but his memory lives on because they stuffed him and put him on display in the museum at Lord's.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport2/hi/tennis/australian_open/1779136.stm (373 words)

	Halfbakery: Exploding Pigeons
		The detonator is activated by the magenetic coil when the bird lands on the statue and boom, one ex-pigeon.
		The charge is big enough to 'end' the bird but small enough not to splatter it all over the shop.
		See, air pistol pellets are soft lead riiiiight, so they bounce off, this is where it gets complicated, you drill a 2mm hole in the tip of the pellet, and slide one of those thin 1 inch nail/carpet tack through the hole, voila your air gun has just became 10x more lethal...to anything.
	www.halfbakery.com /idea/Exploding_20Pigeons (1048 words)

	The Cape and Islands NPR Stations - Bird News
		From the increasing bird song in the morning, to observing courtship displays, changes in bird behavior are increasingly evident.
		This is a welcome development; the denizens of the natural world are tuned in to the photoperiod, the length of day, the rapid approach of spring and summer, the changing of the seasons, to a degree that we can barely conceive of.
		Daytime views of Woodcock are typically a startled glance of the bird exploding into flight from under foot.
	www.wgbh.org /cainan/article?item_id=2707183&parent_id=0 (570 words)

	I got your point Phil, I was just sharing a fishin story. (more)
		Birds easily digest and have no harmful side effects of eating rice.
		Bird seed is easily crunched under your feet while rice, which is very hard, serves more as a miniature skateboard...sending you heals over head if you are not careful walking on it.
		I'm just making assumptions about the fish and I just thought the bird and rice story might be of some interest to some people who still believe that birds will die from eating rice.
	www.mytravelboard4.com /playa/posts/63126.html (598 words)

	Pam's Boykin Spaniel WWW Site - upland hunting
		There is something absolutely beautiful about watching a dog pick up the track of a running bird, exploding with excitement, heading out in the correct direction, crisscrossing the trail, head up to air scent then bead back down to the ground.
		Not able to see the bird, if we zap our dog just as he is closing in for the flush (unknown to us), we have just told him to back off when he should be charging forward.
		Hunting ground running upland birds with a well-trained flushing dog is, to me, the ultimate in hunter and hunting dog teamwork.
	www.boykinspaniel.com /upland3.html (974 words)

	Senator wants to ban bird poop in cattle feed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		U.S. Senator Tom Harkin told regulators Tuesday that bird poop should be banned from cattle feed because it may spread mad cow disease.
		Harkin is concerned that feeding cow parts to poultry and poultry feces to cows might raise the chance of spreading the disease.
		The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is planning on publishing new rules allowing the bird poop meals for cattle to continue.
	www.explodingcigar.com /article1938.html (135 words)

	WoodPewee
		Bills are dark on top with the lower bill being yellow, and they have shorter legs and longer wings than other flycatchers (their Latin name means “short-footed”).
		It is believed this is due to habitat loss on their wintering grounds, as well as over-browsing by white-tailed deer on their breeding grounds.
		They are also non-aggressive but will actively defend their territory by flying after larger birds and pecking at their backs.
	www.libirding.com /WoodPewee.html (561 words)

	Randy Johnson Bird Killing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Bird In the Wing By Tony Kornheiser Sunday, April 1...
		And he also killed a bird with a warmup pitch in the third inning of the Los Angeles...
		In honor of the death of Ozzy the osprey, we present the 10 worst cases of sports and animal cruelty.
	www.zarryo.com /baseball1/randy-johnson-bird-killing.html (456 words)

	Mute Swans Spark Loud Debate in Chesapeake Bay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Summary Maryland wildlife officials and environmental groups agree that mute swans, an invasive species native to Europe and Asia, are elegant, beautiful—and highly destructive to the Chesapeake Bay's fragile ecosystem.
		But how to deal with the bird's exploding population poses a thornier question.
		Birds are then paired with same-sex partners and released back into inland ponds.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2003/06/0605_030605_muteswan_2.html (881 words)

	BirdForum - Birds May Be Behind Exploding German Toads (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		You are most welcome to register for an account, which allows you to take part in lively discussions in the forum, post your pictures in the gallery and more.
		Based on the wounds, Mutschmann said, it appears that a bird pecks into the toad with its beak between the amphibian's chest and abdominal cavity, and the toad puffs itself up as a natural defense mechanism.
		But, because the liver is missing and there's a hole in the toad's body, the blood vessels and lungs burst and the other organs ooze out, he said.
	www.birdforum.net /showthread.php?t=32595 (537 words)

	Links
		The homeless bird population is exploding in this country as more and more birds are bred for a market that is already saturated.
		MAARS' first goal is to educate bird owners and the public about proper bird care so they can make good pet choices and provide the best homes possible for birds should they choose to keep them as pets.
		Foster Parrots is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of parrots, as pets and in their natural habitats.
	www.parrottricktraining.com /birdlink.htm (270 words)

	Desperately Seeking Randy Johnson's Exploding Bird Mpeg ! [Free Republic] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Bird Meets Baseball (slow motion) - (1.3 MB mpeg)
		There is an exploding whale carcass video clip from a few years back that was absolutely priceless.
		Caught a bird on the front end of my car and all I saw was a burst of feathers.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3af4099c220c.htm (990 words)

	Bumper Boy - the ultimate dog training system
		The rest of the target (soft bird shape) survives the shot and falls to the ground so that your dog can retrieve it.
		A must for Hunting Clubs looking for a year round synthetic bird hunting option, BanGo is a wonderfully entertaining way to train both birddog and hunter.
		This is a scored event (not judged) where you receive points for hit birds, retrieves, left over time, and left over shells.
	www.bumperboy.com /bango.php (591 words)

	Dynamic Dove Expansions in North America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The National Audubon Society's Christmas Bird Count, an early-winter survey of North American Bird Populations that has been taking place for 99 years, is an excellent source of information about bird population trends.
		Results from the past 50 Christmas Bird Counts (CBCs) clearly show the range expansion of Mourning Doves, (Go to map 1), which have become one of the most common birds in North America.
		The rapid expansion of agriculture practices and the increased popularity of backyard bird feeding during the 20th century has contributed to the expansion of many dove species.
	www.birdsource.org /features/doves (917 words)

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