Members of the bird-watchers’ social network WeLoveBirds.org have until November 24 to enter their best bird photo into a new photo contest. After entries are in, members will vote to determine the winning image, and the winning photographer will receive a copy of the new Bird Songs Bible, a compendium of illustrations, information, and sound [...]
How hard can it be to lose a flamingo? Well, the above species, James’s Flamingo, went missing for fully half the twentieth century, before an expedition rediscovered them in the volcanic lakes of Bolivia’s Altiplano, 14,000 feet above sea level. These days, two Cornell graduate students, Marita Davison and Jennifer Moslemi, focus their research on [...]
Peter Wrege and Liz Rowland are wrapping up their research at Grand Saline Bai, in Gabon—but Peter has sent us a recording of elephants cavorting in the dark, and Liz has just seen her first daytime elephants in the bai (clearing). Enjoy her photographs, and then close your eyes and listen in on Peter’s recording: [...]
Biologists Peter Wrege and Liz Rowland, of our Elephant Listening Project, are spending night after night on a tree platform in the rainforest of Gabon. They’re learning about forest elephants, and their night-vision binoculars are a key piece of equipment. Here’s Liz with a first-hand description: A change of plan As so often happens with [...]
This month we’re taking occasional time-outs to hear about elephant research that Peter Wrege and Liz Rowland, of our Elephant Listening Project, are conducting in Gabon (previous posts here). Peter is a veteran of many trips to Gabon, but this is Liz’s first time seeing forest elephants. Last week, she saw her first four. A [...]
A few weeks ago, Wesley Hochachka was at the International Ornithological Congress in Brazil, learning about using satellites to do fieldwork more economically. Now he’s on an island in the North Sea called Helgoland, just off Germany and Denmark. Like places such as Cape May, New Jersey, the barrier islands of the northern Gulf of [...]
