November 28, 2011 – 10:37 pm
The Great Backyard Bird Count is a continent-spanning attempt to count birds over a single weekend in February that draws nearly 100,000 checklists from bird watchers all over the U.S. and Canada. People also send us thousands of pictures for our annual photo contest, which is sponsored by Wild Birds Unlimited and Droll Yankees. Once [...]
A Common Grackle released after a banding demonstration at last year’s Migration Celebration. This coming Saturday is International Migratory Bird Day, and people all over the Western Hemisphere will be celebrating the miracle of bird migration. So on the same day our two World Series of Birding teams (the Redheads and Anti-Petrels) spend 24 hours [...]
The 2011 State of the Birds report was released today by Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar. This year’s report focused on putting some specifics to the idea of the value of public lands. The effort was coordinated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and involved scientists from the Cornell Lab, the U.S. Geological [...]
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They say birds of a feather flock together—but we’re getting into the time of year when those big winter flocks break apart. Birds are pairing up and getting busy nesting. They say a leopard can’t change its spots, but a whole lot of brilliant spring warblers, tanagers, and orioles are on their way to our [...]
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December 17, 2010 – 4:07 pm
A quick update on the status of eBird’s supercomputing collaboration and their production of these cool animated occurrence maps. The team just released their latest five range maps, bringing the total now online to 15, and launched a dedicated page about the occurrence maps on their site. A recent post on our Facebook page really [...]
November 3, 2010 – 5:58 pm
Congratulations to the winners of the 2010 Great Backyard Bird Count photo contest! Our judges have been hard at work classifying, appraising, and selecting winners and runners-up in the contest’s six categories: Overall, Composition, Group, Habitat, Behavior, and People. At left is the winner in the People category—Bernice Muir’s photo of a Chestnut-backed Chickadee that [...]
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August 18, 2010 – 11:22 am
You’ve got until September 6 to enter at least one checklist into our eBird project—and that will enter you in a drawing to win an iPod Touch loaded with the innovative BirdsEye app. There will be one drawing for new users who sign up to eBird and enter data by September 6, and a separate [...]
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August 10, 2010 – 6:28 pm
The leading science journal Nature has an article today about eBird working with satellites and supercomputers. It’s a nice explanation of a new development that the eBird team (a joint project of the Cornell Lab and Audubon) is really excited about: they’ve been awarded 100,000 hours of computing time on the National Science Foundation’s supercomputers. [...]
Two days ago, the folks at eBird put out a call-to-action to birders who live near the Gulf Coast and want to help with the oil spill response. Today eBird launched a Google gadget that anyone can use on their website, blog, or Google homepage to explore recent sightings of 10 vulnerable species along the [...]
For the last few months, we’ve been overhauling the Cornell Lab’s website, giving it much the same kind of redesign as All About Birds got last year. We wanted our website to do a better job of conveying the breadth of what we do here, so that a Web visitor could get the same sense [...]
