Daily Archives: August 14, 2009

Thursday at AOU: A New Kind of Conservation for Kirtland’s Warblers

The Lab’s director, John Fitzpatrick, spent Thursday afternoon learning about a new concept in conservation, and how it might be applied to ensure that the endangered Kirtland’s Warbler remains a part of our world into the future. Here’s Fitz: One of the most moving symposia on the meeting’s first day was an afternoon session on [...]

AOU Thursday: Hope for Solving Bird Collisions

Here’s Lab research associate Dr. Caren Cooper with a report from Thursday’s session at the American Ornithologists’ Union meeting in Philadelphia. On Thursday afternoon I went to a session titled Anthropogenic Structures, which is how ornithologists refer to birds hitting things that people have built. Millions of birds die each year in collisions with communication [...]