Monthly Archives: July 2009


Featured Blog: Birdfreak

Eddie “Birdfreak” Callaway and Jennifer “Veery” Outcalt are the brother-sister blogging team behind the Birdfreak blog. In the summer of 2006 they came up with the idea of creating a website to promote birding and bird conservation. They struggled to find a memorable name that wasn’t taken already. Although they got into blogging a bit [...]

Community Bulletin Board – July 12, 2009

If you have news, event or classified listings that you want to share with the NBN community, send your info to me for posting on the community board, to get the word out to everyone! Submissions can be sent to sanderling [at] symbiotic [dot] ca, with the subject line “NBN Bulletin Board”. Don’t forget to [...]

Friday Roundup: July 10, 2009

Better late than never, no?  Enjoy your weekend! –=====– Scientia Pro Publica #7 – Science is Everywhere (!!!!) at Greg Laden’s Blog Carnival of the Blue #26 – Break out the wasabi for a sashimi edition at Southern Friend Scientist I and the Bird #104, pt 1 & pt 2 – A twitterific edition from [...]

Blog Conferences (Guest post by NBN Member BirdingBev)

Have you ever been to a conference?  I know, I know.  Silly question.  Let me rephrase, have you ever been to a blogging conference?  Different story, huh?  Well, I’ve been to a few now.  The big one was BlogHer; there had to have been hundreds of people there, heck, could have been as many as [...]

Mind Map to the Future of Blogging

Forecasting the future of blogging sounds like an exercise in futility, since most seers and soothsayers failed to predict the rise of blogs at all. In fact, at every turn, a significant new player like Facebook or Twitter comes along and completely rearranges the online micropublishing landscape. But just because people can’t necessarily predict the [...]

NBN Book Giveaway: Life List

Last month on 10,000 Birds, I reviewed Life List: A Woman’s Quest for the World’s Most Amazing Birds, the biography of Phoebe Snetsinger written by Olivia Gentile. I loved the book and also loved that the author and her publisher were interested in giving away some books to our readers. You will probably also love [...]

Newest Blogs in the Network: 7-8-09

Fifteen new members this week, on a wide variety of topics. Read, and enjoy! Art wildlife art and illustration – In my blog I keep you informed about my work, including commissioned illustrations, paintings in progress, sketches done in the field, my prizes, etc Conservation Atagahi – A blog focusing on issues pertaining to wildland [...]

Carny Deadlines: July 7, 2009

Upcoming carnivals… –=====– I and the Bird #104 – to A birding blog by Gunnar Engblom by the end of the day today! Friday Ark #251 – to the Modulator by this Thursday, July 9 Scientia Pro Publica #7 – to A DC Birding Blog by July 18 Festival of the Trees #38 – to [...]

Nature Blog Networking: California, here I come

The third largest state in the US and with by far the largest population, California is known for a lot of things, but for our purposes the most interesting are by far its spectacular natural places.   Because of this abundance, the Golden State holds the honored distinction of having the most extensive state park system [...]

Featured Blog: Susan Gets Native

Susan K. Williams has the best job in the world, and she blogs about it. She’s an educator for a Cincinnati-based bird of prey rehabilitation center and has conducted more than 1,000 programs with the center’s education birds. Her blog, Susan Gets Native, not only highlights her work with raptors, but also the humor in [...]