January 17, 2011 – 11:37 am
In Daisy Yuhas’s final post from Ushuaia, Argentina, she welcomes mosquitoes and bids a fond farewell to swallows: A few days ago, for the very first time since I have arrived in Ushuaia, a mosquito bit my arm. I was so stunned and, frankly, happy—these bugs are a staple in Chilean Swallow diets—that I didn’t [...]
January 11, 2011 – 7:27 pm
As winter settles in up north, Daisy Yuhas is watching Chilean Swallow chicks getting ready to fledge down in Argentina. Summer or no summer, the end of December brought snow and hardship to many swallows, but a few happy surprises as well. Daisy has the story: It has been a bumpy season in Ushuaia. We [...]
January 10, 2011 – 7:00 pm
This post is just to let you know you’ll likely see a reduction in posting over the next month. That’s because your trusty blogger (Hugh) is taking a break from regular Cornell Lab duties in order to go on a research expedition to Antarctica through the middle of February. I’ll be mainly writing about an [...]
January 7, 2011 – 11:40 am
One of the birds I didn’t get to see during my travels in Belize was the endangered Yellow-headed Parrot. Today Katie Blake describes a close encounter with two of these delightful birds—orphans from an encounter with poachers. Katie was in Belize last summer as a research assistant studying Mangrove Swallows on the Golondrinas de las [...]
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January 5, 2011 – 4:59 pm
There’s been an immense amount of concern and confusion about what caused thousands of Red-winged Blackbirds in Arkansas to drop dead in the middle of the night on New Year’s Eve. The general public and media outlets have been calling us with questions, but it’s been very hard for anyone—even the biologists working on the [...]
January 4, 2011 – 12:44 pm
Over the holidays I went to Belize, Central America, for a week. I didn’t take a camera, but I brought my phone. And though I’m not an expert iPhoniscoper by any stretch, the tropics offer enough large, colorful birds that even I was able to nab a few pics through my Nikon Monarchs. It was [...]
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