Several of our staff are spending the week in Brazil, at the 25th International Ornithological Congress. Kind of like a larger, more global AOU meeting, these conferences began in 1884 and are held every four years. Here’s an update from Dr. Martjan Lammertink, a research associate at the Cornell Lab, an expert on the world’s [...]
It’s with great sadness that we have learned of the death of Carolyn Jensen Chadwick from cancer. Carolyn created the long-running NPR/National Geographic Radio Expeditions show and was a close collaborator with staff at the Cornell Lab and our Macaulay Library. The Cornell Lab’s director, John Fitzpatrick, remembers her as “a natural song in perfect, [...]
Here’s another field report from Jon Erickson, the intrepid volunteer who has been recording (for the Macaulay Library) some of the world’s rarest birds during a 9-month stay in Mauritius. This post is from an April visit to a remote part of the Black River Gorges National Park. His visit to the Macchabee Forest, which [...]
Tropically oriented readers may recognize the fire-headed bird above as a Round-tailed Manakin. It’s a spectacular, but by no means the most spectacular, bird that a team of ornithologists (three of them recent Cornell grads) found during a grueling three-month expedition to the Gran Pajonal, a virtually unexplored region of central Peru. That story is [...]
The leading science journal Nature has an article today about eBird working with satellites and supercomputers. It’s a nice explanation of a new development that the eBird team (a joint project of the Cornell Lab and Audubon) is really excited about: they’ve been awarded 100,000 hours of computing time on the National Science Foundation’s supercomputers. [...]
