Tag Archives: Andy Johnson

Fen-filled summer: godwits, Gyrfalcons, and fuzzy shorebird chicks [slideshow]

August 5, 2011 – 7:11 pm

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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Cornell Lab teams victorious in World Series of Birding!

May 17, 2011 – 1:10 pm

On an overcast and occasionally rainy day in Cape May, the Cornell Lab Redheads and Anti-Petrels found enough good “gets” to offset the painful misses from a slow day of songbird migration. Both teams won their divisions in the 2011 World Series of Birding: the Redheads won Cape May County with 163 species, and the [...]

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Redheads head for gold in the World Series of Birding

May 8, 2011 – 1:10 pm

It’s been two weeks since Team Sapsucker set the Big Day record in Texas—but that’s not quite the end of the 24-hour birding marathons. The World Series of Birding is next Saturday, May 14, in New Jersey, and in this post and the next we’ll introduce the two teams we’re sending: the Redheads, made up [...]

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