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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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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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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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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Also tagged Andy Johnson, birding, Birds, birdwatching, Hudsonian Godwit, Nate Senner, Nathan Senner, shorebirds
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It may not feel like the end of summer where you are, but in arctic Russia, where Gerrit Vyn has been watching endangered Spoon-billed Sandpipers, birds are already headed south. Here’s Gerrit’s description of the closing of the season, complete with a late, surprise encounter with a Spoon-billed Sandpiper and its newly hatched chicks: From [...]
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Also tagged arctic, birding, Birds, birdwatching, endangered species, Gerrit Vyn, photos, Russia, shorebirds, sightings, Spoon-billed Sandpiper, travel, tundra
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The emergency effort led by Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust to save Spoon-billed Sandpipers got off to a rousing start with a flurry of hatching in the last few days. In all, 17 tiny sandpiper chicks have hatched, right on schedule as the team were transporting eggs from the field site where they have been [...]
Gerrit Vyn, a producer in our Multimedia program, has been spending the summer in remote eastern Russia filming one of the world’s most endangered birds, the Spoon-billed Sandpiper. In the last post he sent us, he described the plight of this species as well as his first sighting of a Spoon-billed Sandpiper. Here’s his next [...]
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Also tagged birding, Birds, birdwatching, conservation, endangered species, Gerrit Vyn, photos, shorebirds, sightings, Spoon-billed Sandpiper, travel, Wildfowl Wetlands Trust
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In the arctic tundra of eastern Russia, a sparrow-sized shorebird with a one-of-a-kind beak is facing extinction—and a few scientists are doing all they can to save it. In recent years the Spoon-billed Sandpiper‘s population has dropped by a staggering 25 percent per year. Fewer than 200 pairs now remain. So this year, shorebird experts [...]
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Also tagged arctic, birding, Birds, birdwatching, conservation, endangered species, Gerrit Vyn, Russia, shorebirds, sightings, Spoon-billed Sandpiper, travel
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Wednesday was the first full day of scouting for our two World Series of Birding teams, the Redheads and the Anti-Petrels. We’re doing what you do during scouting week—re-learning bird calls, re-finding birds we can count on, obsessing over which route we should take on Saturday, second guessing the route we took last year, and [...]
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Also tagged Big Day, birding, Birds, birdwatching, Charles Eldermire, France Dewaghe, Jay McGowan, photos, shorebirds, sightings, slideshow, travel, Whimbrel, World Series of Birding
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For anyone who feels spring has been taking its time this year, here’s a post from graduate student Taza Schaming, who as of late March was still skiing through four feet of snow to study Clark’s Nutcrackers in Wyoming: “Today I drove up to the site near Triangle X Ranch. It was lightly snowing, but [...]
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Also tagged birding, Birds, birdwatching, Clark's Nutcrackers, conservation, mountains, radio tracking, Taza Schaming, travel, Wyoming
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