Last month, along with the rest of us, the national radio program Studio 360 started getting spring fever. In anticipation of warmer temps and returning songbirds, they issued a challenge to their listeners: Remix Spring—and they’ve just announced the winners. The idea was to celebrate the annual burst of music that arrives each spring as [...]
December 21, 2012 – 11:59 am
The Cornell Lab’s Macaulay Library is the world’s largest and oldest archive of natural sounds and video, and you can browse its holdings online. Though it’s best known for its bird recordings, the Macaulay Library also features insects, fish, amphibians, reptiles, and mammals—including a recent addition: gibbons recorded in the wild in Thailand. They’re the [...]
December 4, 2012 – 2:58 pm
To a computer, it’s just a complex combination of ones and zeros. Decoded for our ears, it becomes wondrous sound—a symphony, or the song of a lark. Thanks to digital technology, recordings of bird, insect, mammal, fish, and amphibian voices in the Lab’s Macaulay Library will last virtually forever. It’s taken more than 12 years, [...]
November 13, 2012 – 3:42 pm
At an event in Washington, DC, this weekend, Cornell Lab directors presented a set of short, crisp, exciting talks about the work that we do. They’re a great introduction to the kinds of exciting research, conservation, and outreach that consume our lives. Lab director John Fitzpatrick kicked things off with his argument that birds really [...]
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Tagged Chris Clark, Ed Scholes, Gerrit Vyn, John Fitzpatrick, Ken Rosenberg, Mike Webster, Miyoko Chu, Nancy Trautmann, Tim Laman
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It’s an exciting time to be in field biology—the naturalists of today have more tools at their disposal than ever before. To learn how to use those tools, a group of Cornell students have been spending this summer in the field; and Abby McBride, a summer writing intern, accompanied them in the field to write the [...]
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Tagged Abby McBride, birding, Birds, birdwatching, David Winkler, Eric Gulson, fieldwork, fledglings, Hilary Yu, Jen Goforth, photos, Scarlet Tanager, sound, sound recording, video
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Studying puffins in Iceland, where the birds are numerous but also vulnerable to changes in climate and oceans, is important work—but it doesn’t always look like it. Researchers like Erpur Hansen who want to know how the breeding season is going have to figure out how to look inside puffin nests dug into the ground. [...]
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Tagged Atlantic Puffin, birding, Birds, birdwatching, fieldwork, Iceland, photos, sound recording, sounds, travel, video
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This is Part Two of a post about searching for the 12 endemic birds of northeast Queensland’s Wet Tropics World Heritage Reserve, with the help of many of the region’s wonderful guides and lodges. Part One of the story is here. Part Two introduces six endemic species not mentioned in Part One: Grey-headed Robin, Bridled Honeyeater, Bower’s [...]
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Tagged Australia, birding, Birds, birdwatching, Del Richards, endemics, Kingfisher Park, photos, sightings, sound, travel, tropical fieldwork
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This is Part 1 of an account—for any of you who love tales of unusual birds in unusual places—of a recent trip to Australia’s Wet Tropics region near Cairns, Queensland. In this Part we will discuss: Macleay’s Honeyeater, Victoria’s Riflebird, Pied Monarch, Golden Bowerbird, Tooth-billed Bowerbird, and the abominable Fernwren. Read Part Two here. Birders love [...]
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Tagged Australia, birding, Birds, birdwatching, Far Northern Queensland, Fernwren, Golden Bowerbird, Macleay's Honeyeater, photos, Pied Monarch, sound, Tooth-billed Bowerbird, travel, tropics, Victoria's Riflebird, Wet Tropics
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October 13, 2011 – 11:39 pm
Yesterday we suggested a few good books about birding (and got many more from commenters and Facebook fans—thanks!). But you can’t read all the time—so here are a few moments of video to immerse you in the color, sound, behavior, and diversity of birds. These first five are our own multimedia productions (see more at [...]
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Tagged BBC, Big Day, big year, birding, Birds, birdwatching, Common Loon, David Attenborough, duck, eider, falcon, hawk, Inside Birding, kingfisher, Mourning Dove, photos, Red-winged Blackbird, shorebirds, travel, video
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Our All About Birds website lets you listen to the songs and calls of more than 500 bird species, for free. And starting this week you can even listen to them on mobile devices such as iPhone, Android, iPad, and iPod Touch. The new feature is not an app—you access the songs through your phone’s [...]
