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 [...]
December 19, 2010 – 12:33 pm
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 [...]
December 3, 2010 – 5:12 pm
When is a Tree Swallow not a Tree Swallow? When your latitude is reading 54 degrees south, not north, that familiar-looking, blue-and-white bird is a Chilean Swallow (pictured above). South is where Daisy Yuhas is right now, interning in Argentina as a field worker for Cornell professor David Winkler’s Golondrinas de las Americas project. The [...]
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