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BIRDING ADVENTURES TV NEWS Greetings!
Happy New Year! 2010 brings with it many changes for BATV. Firstly, we are very proud to announce that as of 1 January 2010, Nikon has assumed title sponsorship of the show and Birding Adventures now becomes Nikon's Birding Adventures. Please see more in the press release below. Tomorrow, Thursday the 7th of January 2010 marks the beginning of our all-new 3rd season with exciting destinations like Suriname, Palm Beach and the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. We have expanded coverage for 2010, including 9 million Households in the New York area! Go to http://www.birdingadventures.com/batv_schedule.php to find BATV in your area. Congratulations to the winner of our weekly quizz, Rip Fletcher from Canada! And be sure to enter this week's quizz to win a copy of Life List by Olivia Gentile. Learn more below about our upcoming show, the Snail Kites of Palm Beach County, Florida. Stay tuned for another Birding Adventure and have a cracking 2010! 
THE TV SHOW WHERE BIRDS OF A FEATHER ADVENTURE TOGETHER
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| NIKON ANNOUNCES TITLE SPONSORSHIP OF BIRDING ADVENTURES TV! Melville, NY - Nikon® is proud to announce its title sponsorship of Birding Adventures TV. Now Nikon's Birding Adventures TV, the series follows host James Currie as he explores the wilderness and culture of top worldwide destinations. The highlight of the show is a quest for the "golden bird", a unique and exciting species from each destination. Nikon's Birding Adventures TV begins in January with a lineup of exciting shows, featuring Snail Kites in Palm Beach County Florida, Green Jays, Aplomado Falcons and Red-crowned Parrots in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas and Guianan Toucanet from the jungles of Suriname.
"Nikon is thrilled to support the show and James' passion for the outdoors," said Jon Allen, General Manager of Nikon Sport Optics. "Nikon builds its optics for the toughest of adventures and is elated to have James put its binoculars and Fieldscopes to the test week in and week out."
Nikon's Birding Adventures TV is available on many networks, including Fox Sports Network™ and Untamed Sports TV™, to more than 100 million households. For local listings, visit
http://www.birdingadventures.com/batv_schedule.php
About Nikon
Nikon Inc. is the U.S. distributor of Nikon sports and recreational optics, world-renowned Nikon 35mm cameras, digital cameras, speedlights and accessories, Nikkor lenses and electronic imaging products. For more information about Nikon's full line of Binoculars, Spotting Scopes, Fieldscopes and Laser Rangefinders, visit www.nikonbirding.com.
About Nikon's Birding Adventures TV
Nikon's Birding Adventures TV focuses on adventure bird watching and explores exotic birding destinations; the most unusual, rare and highly sought-after bird species; amazing cultures and wildlife. The show portrays a unique blend of information and adventure, making bird watching refreshing, contemporary, interesting and exciting. The program has a strong conservation emphasis and highlights the urgency of preserving the planet's incredible birdlife. For more information about Nikon's Birding Adventures visit www.birdingadventures.com.
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| SNAIL KITES! Snail Kites are 45 cm (18 in) long with a 120 cm (47 in) wingspan. They have long, broad, and rounded wings. It is long-tailed, with a white rump and undertail coverts. The dark, deeply hooked beak is an adaptation to its diet. The adult male has dark blue-gray plumage with darker flight feathers. The legs and cere are red. The adult female has dark brown upperparts and heavily streaked pale underparts. She has a whitish face with darker areas behind and above the eye. The legs and cere are yellow or orange. The immature is similar to adult female, but the crown is streaked. It flies slowly with its head facing downwards, looking for its main food, the large apple snails. It feeds almost exclusivley on this single prey item. For this reason, it is considered a molluscivore.
The Snail Kite is a locally endangered species in the Florida Everglades, with a population of approximatley 400 to 500 breeding pairs. Research has demonstrated that water-level control in the Everglades is depleting the population of apple snails and, in turn, the Florida population of Snail kites. However, this species is not generally threatened over its extensive range.Learn more about the conservation of this unique bird on this week's show!
The threatened Florida Snail Kite |
 BATV WEEKLY QUIZZCorrectly identify the mystery bird in the photo at left and win a copy of Olivia Gentile's new book, "Life List". See below for more details on this great book. Email all answers to info@BirdingAdventures.com and title your email "Quizz". Clue: This bird has a unique diet The winner (first correct entry drawn) will be announced in next week's newsletter.  LIFE LIST: A Woman's Quest for the World's Most Amazing Birds by journalist Olivia Gentile is a provocative and moving biography of Phoebe Snetsinger, who spent the first half of her adulthood raising children outside St. Louis and the second half making hundreds of expeditions to remote, rugged corners of all seven continents and seeing more bird species than anyone in history.
Congratulations to our last winner, Rip Fletcher, who correctly identified our last mystery bird as a Common Paraque! Rip won a copy of Life List by Olivia Gentile |
TV SCHEDULE Our schedule for early 2010 is as follows: Week of January 4 Snail Kite - Florida Week of January 11 Aplomado Flacon - Texas Week of January 18 Guianan Toucanet - Suriname 
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Happy Birding, The Birding Adventures Team 
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