While I was busy last week working on the new All About Birds species profiles, the Birdshare crowd got down to brass tacks with part one of our photo wish list. The response was wonderful – our photo holdings for each of the 10 species we asked for doubled, tripled, quadrupled, or better! We started [...]
Since we started Birdshare in late July it’s taken on a life of its own. We now have nearly 350 members and more than 4,300 photos, with more streaming in every day. Birdshare members sometimes ask if we’re looking for any species in particular. And now, as we start to put together new species account [...]
If you’re looking for a good read, head over to livingbird.org, where you can now read the entire Autumn issue of Living Bird magazine for free. In this issue we take you to central Florida’s gnarled scrublands, where genetic analyses have recently revealed just how tenaciously the Florida Scrub-Jay inhabits its diminishing habitat. Tour the [...]
Happy 2009! Here at Sapsucker Woods, we’re starting the new year deep in thought about our redesigned All About Birds website, set to debut in the spring. Here’s a little something called a “wireframe” to give you an idea of what we’re cooking. We’d love to know what you think. For anyone not fluent in [...]
In Nate Senner’s last post about his work with Hudsonian Godwits in Chile, he winds up with an unexpected problem that came disguised as a stroke of good luck. Read on to hear him explain how he and the shorebird research team solved it. Sometimes there are just too many birds Can you have too [...]
