Sword-billed Hummingbird

Sword-billed Hummingbirds have astonishingly long beaks and tongues.

Photo charity raffle (link roundup)

There's hundreds of photo prints that are being raffled off at Flickr to benefit Haiti, including the photo of pigeons you see above.

And a few more links:

1. A Sith Lord looks for his missing contact lens. (Gallery is NSFW.)

2. Bioshock event: Be at Wooldridge Park in Austin, Texas on Saturday, January 23rd at noon. A Rapturian cocktail party will follow thereafter.

3. The FBI used a photo of a Spanish lawmaker in their high-tech/clownish effort to estimate how Bin Laden looks today.

*Previously: Sketch card raffle for Haiti.

*Buy Bioshock toys at eBay.

Video of hawks trained to fly next to paragliders

Next time you're in Nepal, why not go Parahawking - - paragliding alongside specially trained hawks that will land right on your arm. Via.

*Previously: Watch a Golden Eagle yank goats right off of a mountain.

*Buy A Supremely Bad Idea: Three Mad Birders and Their Quest to See It All at Amazon.

Fresh Twitter Icons

Inspired Magazine invited 14 artists to create unique Twitter icons. You can download the entire set here.

*Previously: Skull and crossbones Feed icon.

*Buy Chicken Little toys at eBay.

Flower-Breathing Dragon (and more)

Naughty child, flower-breathing dragon, and ominous crow. Three designs on sale in Susan Sanford's t-shirt store.

*Previously: Ominous bannister.

*Buy plush dragons at eBay.

Monstrous birds by Nick Carver

Nick Carver has posted some terrific images of a monstrous group of birds known as "The Flock." Click through for high res images, as well as a boy wearing a suit of armor that would make a great toy.

*Previously: Magneto's a bird person.

*Buy Gaiman's version of monstrous birds at Amazon.

New sculptures on sale in Ann Smith's shop

I've mentioned Ann Smith's animal scupltures before. She recently added several beautiful birds to her store, ranging in price from $60 to $92.

*Previously: Smith's squid.

*Find books about unusual birdhouses at Amazon.

Today's Tee Fury t-shirt

This dead bird t-shirt $9 today only at Tee Fury.

*See more of my t-shirt picks here.

*Buy "The T-Shirt: A Collection of 500 Designs" at Amazon.

Mechanical Hummingbird

Click through for the high res version of this mechanical hummingbird.

*Previously: Steampunk Narwhal Steamship.

*Buy steampunk oddities at eBay.