NOTE: More news and resources are being compiled here I took a deep breath of relief this morning when I read that the “top kill” procedure at BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil leak seemed to have worked. UPDATE: Sadly, on Saturday it became apparent that the top kill had not worked after all. Oil is continuing [...]
Last weekend, some 70 teams competed in the 27th annual World Series of Birding, including Team Sapsucker and Team Redhead from the Cornell Lab. It was a phenomenal—and phenomenally long—day of birding that began (for the Sapsuckers) with a Barred Owl at midnight and didn’t let up until a reluctant Black Rail called out at [...]
For Tim Gallagher, editor of Living Bird magazine, the Deepwater Horizon oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico brought back sad memories of a spill cleanup he became involved in 20 years ago, in Bolsa Chica, California. He had arrived on the scene as a writer and photographer to document cleanup efforts—but the oiled birds [...]
Twenty years ago, a group of agencies, conservation organizations, academics, industry, and private individuals formed Partners in Flight. Their goal was to cooperate across states and provinces, across the continent, and across three languages, to protect birds in all the places they spend their lives. It was a formal recognition that North America is stitched [...]
Two days ago, the folks at eBird put out a call-to-action to birders who live near the Gulf Coast and want to help with the oil spill response. Today eBird launched a Google gadget that anyone can use on their website, blog, or Google homepage to explore recent sightings of 10 vulnerable species along the [...]
We’re now just under two weeks away from this year’s World Series of Birding—to be held May 15, 2010 in Cape May, New Jersey. It’s a 24-hour birdathon involving some 70 teams in a race to see the most species of birds. Once again, the Lab is entering two teams* both sponsored by Swarovski Optik: [...]
