September 4, 2012 – 2:54 pm
Two interns per year get to visit Appledore Island in Maine for a summer of sunrises, monitoring Herring Gull chicks, dodging protective gull parents, and learning every inch of an island you can walk across in 20 minutes. We’ve always wondered what it’s like—so we asked Cornell undergraduate Shailee Shah, who spent the 2012 field [...]
By Hugh
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Posted in Birds, ecology, field reports, science, slideshow, Uncategorized
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Also tagged Appledore Island, birding, Birds, birdwatching, photos, Shailee Shah, Shoals Marine Lab
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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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Posted in Birds, ecology, field reports, sounds, Uncategorized, video
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Also tagged Abby McBride, birding, Birds, birdwatching, David Winkler, Eric Gulson, fledglings, Hilary Yu, Jen Goforth, photos, Scarlet Tanager, sound, sound recording, video
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A colorful, fruit-eating bird with a black mask, pale belly, and scarlet breast—never before described by science—has been discovered and named by Cornell University graduates following an expedition to the remote Peruvian Andes. The Sira Barbet (Capito fitzpatricki) is described in a paper published in the July 2012 issue of The Auk, the official publication of [...]
By Hugh
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Posted in Birds, News, science, Uncategorized
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Also tagged Ben Winger, birding, Birds, birdwatching, Capito fitzpatricki, Glenn Seeholzer, Michael Harvey, Peru, Sira Barbet, tropical fieldwork, tropics
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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. [...]
By Hugh
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Posted in Birds, ecology, field reports, science, slideshow, sounds, travel, video
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Also tagged Atlantic Puffin, birding, Birds, birdwatching, Iceland, photos, sound recording, sounds, travel, video
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I’m spending 10 days in Iceland to learn about research on Atlantic Puffins. My host is Erpur Hansen, an Icelandic biologist who has been studying puffins here since 2007. He visits most of the country´s large puffin colonies twice each year to assess their breeding success. And that’s no small task, as nearly half of [...]
By Hugh
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Posted in Birds, ecology, field reports, slideshow, travel
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Also tagged birding, Birds, birdwatching, Erpur Hansen, Iceland, puffins, sightings, travel
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In early January, two Cornell undergraduates, Andy Johnson and Hope Batcheller, visited Chile to help with some shorebird research and to gather audio and video for our Macaulay Library. One of the places they visited was the Yeso Valley, where they checked in with a research project on an unusual and declining shorebird. Here’s Andy [...]
By Hugh
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Posted in Birds, Chile, conservation, ecology, field reports, science, slideshow, travel, Uncategorized, video
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Also tagged Andy Johnson, birding, Birds, birdwatching, Chile, conservation, Diademed Sandpiper-Plover, photos
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December 19, 2011 – 11:44 pm
All through our lives we draw inspiration from our elders, but there comes a point when we can turn around and start drawing inspiration from the young people coming up behind us. At a recent meeting of the Ohio Young Birders Club, we had a chance to hear from Rachael Butek, a recent high-school graduate [...]
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Posted in Birds, you tell us
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Also tagged birding, Birds, birdwatching, Blue Jay, Margaret Morse Nice, Rachael Butek, sightings, Song Sparrow, Sora, young birders
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December 14, 2011 – 4:06 pm
In addition to our suggestions for 12 gifts that give back, there’s a gorgeous new book on the shelves called Science on Ice, by Chris Linder. It’s the story of four scientific expeditions to the polar regions—and the video above previews the first chapter, on the life of Antarctica’s Adelie Penguins. In addition to Linder’s [...]
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Posted in Antarctica, Birds, products, travel, Uncategorized
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Also tagged Adelie Penguin, Antarctica, arctic, Birds, birdwatching, Chris Linder, penguins, science, travel, video
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October 26, 2011 – 3:56 pm
It’s not every day you get a chance to look back in time at a bird that probably no longer exists. But Cornell Lab of Ornithology scientists were able to do that with the spectacular Imperial Woodpecker of Mexico, when researcher Martjan Lammertink tracked down the only known film footage ever taken of this raven-sized [...]
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Posted in Birds, conservation, Uncategorized
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Also tagged birding, Birds, birdwatching, Campephilus imperialis, conservation, endangered species, Imperial Woodpecker, Martjan Lammertink, Tim Gallagher, travel, video
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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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Posted in Birds, field reports, slideshow, travel, Uncategorized
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Also tagged Andy Johnson, birding, Birds, birdwatching, Hudsonian Godwit, Nate Senner, Nathan Senner, shorebirds
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