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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We’re still reeling from the news of the huge earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan on Friday and whose aftereffects continue to threaten Japan’s people. As if the human catastrophe weren’t enough, the tsunami that crossed the Pacific Ocean has swept over most of Midway Atoll, where it has washed away tens of thousands of [...]
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February 8, 2011 – 3:19 pm
Here’s another update from Hugh Powell: I’ve been in Antarctica for two weeks, traveled more than 800 sea miles, and enjoyed daylight the whole time. And yet my trip list is still well under 10 species. But what species they are! In addition to a warm jacket and a pair of convertible mittens, I brought [...]
February 1, 2011 – 4:28 pm
Our trusty blogger Hugh Powell has sent us an update: Hello from Antarctica! I’ve been here in the deep, deep south for 11 days, 2,000 miles south of New Zealand. I arrived on a C-17 jet at McMurdo Station, at the southern end of the Ross Sea—near where Captain Robert Falcon Scott launched his ill-fated [...]
January 17, 2011 – 11:37 am
In Daisy Yuhas’s final post from Ushuaia, Argentina, she welcomes mosquitoes and bids a fond farewell to swallows: A few days ago, for the very first time since I have arrived in Ushuaia, a mosquito bit my arm. I was so stunned and, frankly, happy—these bugs are a staple in Chilean Swallow diets—that I didn’t [...]
January 11, 2011 – 7:27 pm
As winter settles in up north, Daisy Yuhas is watching Chilean Swallow chicks getting ready to fledge down in Argentina. Summer or no summer, the end of December brought snow and hardship to many swallows, but a few happy surprises as well. Daisy has the story: It has been a bumpy season in Ushuaia. We [...]
January 10, 2011 – 7:00 pm
This post is just to let you know you’ll likely see a reduction in posting over the next month. That’s because your trusty blogger (Hugh) is taking a break from regular Cornell Lab duties in order to go on a research expedition to Antarctica through the middle of February. I’ll be mainly writing about an [...]
January 7, 2011 – 11:40 am
One of the birds I didn’t get to see during my travels in Belize was the endangered Yellow-headed Parrot. Today Katie Blake describes a close encounter with two of these delightful birds—orphans from an encounter with poachers. Katie was in Belize last summer as a research assistant studying Mangrove Swallows on the Golondrinas de las [...]
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December 19, 2010 – 12:33 pm
It’s funny how often scientists will adopt a technique to learn one thing, and end up learning something else along the way. That’s been the case with many studies that use video surveillance of nests—and discover all kinds of strange goings-on. Daisy Yuhas has two good examples with this latest post about Chilean Swallows in [...]
December 3, 2010 – 5:12 pm
When is a Tree Swallow not a Tree Swallow? When your latitude is reading 54 degrees south, not north, that familiar-looking, blue-and-white bird is a Chilean Swallow (pictured above). South is where Daisy Yuhas is right now, interning in Argentina as a field worker for Cornell professor David Winkler’s Golondrinas de las Americas project. The [...]
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