August 23, 2011 – 3:36 pm
We’re training a computer program to help people identify birds—and we need your help. Here’s project leader Jessie Barry to introduce our new Merlin project, starting with a quick game that helps us learn how people see birds: Thanks to a grant from the National Science Foundation, we’re building a dynamic new online tool to [...]
Longtime readers of this blog may remember graduate student Nate Senner’s dispatches as he chased, “twinkled,” and banded Hudsonian Godwits in Chiloé, Chile. This time, we’re turning the blog over to one of his field assistants, who has spent the last two summers on the tundra and fens of Hudson Bay following godwits around. Andy [...]
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Tagged Andy Johnson, birding, Birds, birdwatching, fieldwork, Hudsonian Godwit, Nate Senner, Nathan Senner, shorebirds
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Red Crossbills range all over North America’s western mountains and northern forests, filling the air with their brief, metallic chips and attacking pine, fir, and hemlock cones with their unique bills. But there’s a growing realization that this species consists of a whole group of distinct types—some of them possibly even full species. Plumages don’t [...]
