Daisy Yuhas has been studying Chilean Swallows in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. In her next post, she crosses the Beagle Channel (named after the same ship that carried Charles Darwin) and introduces us to her second field site, Estancia Harberton. Let’s hope the weather holds: I’m enjoying the view from my seat on a catamaran [...]
It’s funny how often scientists will adopt a technique to learn one thing, and end up learning something else along the way. That’s been the case with many studies that use video surveillance of nests—and discover all kinds of strange goings-on. Daisy Yuhas has two good examples with this latest post about Chilean Swallows in [...]
A quick update on the status of eBird’s supercomputing collaboration and their production of these cool animated occurrence maps. The team just released their latest five range maps, bringing the total now online to 15, and launched a dedicated page about the occurrence maps on their site. A recent post on our Facebook page really [...]
We’ve got citizen-science programs that run the gamut from global life-listing to backyard feeder bliss… and on into the urban world. Many city dwellers who might otherwise associate feathers with pigeons have opened their eyes to the world of birds through Celebrate Urban Birds. The project emphasizes creativity and sets people on the path to [...]
Great news for the Short-tailed Albatross, a bird once so endangered by feather hunting that its population plummeted from an estimated million individuals to 10 pairs nesting on a single island in Japan in the 1950s. Since then, the long-lived species has slowly improved its numbers to about 3,000 birds. Today, the American Bird Conservancy [...]
Birding is such a simple pleasure. The bird watchers on your list probably already have umpteen field guides and a good set of binoculars—and you don’t necessarily want to venture into the four-digit price tag of a good spotting scope. But don’t lose hope! Some gifts not only enhance the enjoyment of birds—they give back [...]
