If the wonderful Green Jay and ebullient Great Kiskadee are the main courses of a South Texas birding vacation, then birds like the three above are the delectable side dishes—the ones you’re not positive will show up at the table, but you spend all year anticipating, and savor for weeks afterward. This year Chris Wood, [...]
The holiday season doesn’t start officially for another nine days or so, but there’s a new book on the horizon that might earn a place on your advance list. It’s the Bird Songs Bible, a hefty tome from Chronicle Books that also features hundreds of recordings from the Cornell Lab—built right in. The book covers [...]
Back in the olden days, “Hello world!” was the traditional greeting whenever anyone logged onto the Internet for the very first time. And this week we had our own “Hello world” moment when we launched the Cornell Lab’s Facebook page. http://twitter.com/#!/lab_of_O/status/2352832678199296 If you’re a Facebook user, we hope you’ll stop by our page, “Like” us, [...]
What does the future of conservation look like? According to Wesley Hochachka, it looks fast and young. We last heard from Wes on the island of Helgoland, and before that in Brazil, but this week he’s at a conference at the American Museum of Natural History. Here’s Wes with his impressions: Sure, I know that [...]
Congratulations to the winners of the 2010 Great Backyard Bird Count photo contest! Our judges have been hard at work classifying, appraising, and selecting winners and runners-up in the contest’s six categories: Overall, Composition, Group, Habitat, Behavior, and People. At left is the winner in the People category—Bernice Muir’s photo of a Chestnut-backed Chickadee that [...]
