Thousands of nesting Herring and Great Black-backed Gulls, a songbird banding station, Barn Swallow colonies, eiders, terns, guillemots... the opportunities for learning about birds at Cornell's Shoals Marine Lab on Appledore Island, Maine are endless. This 4 credit, two-week course takes place in late May and early June. We spend nearly every minute of the course in the field, moving between the islands to learn how to monitor bird populations, band birds, study nesting and foraging behaviors, and to understand bird biology.

Learn more about this amazing field station at the Shoals Marine Lab web site. Details about the course can be found on the Field Ornithology course page or by downloading the course schedule and syllabus. An article on the course was published in BirdScope, Autumn 2007.