Here’s Nate Senner to tell you how the last two stops in the survey of Peru’s coastline went. And we hope you’ll enjoy the slideshow, above, from eBird project leader Marshall Iliff, another member of the survey team. Here’s Nate: We were expecting great things—spectacular desert scenery and thousands of shorebirds—from our workshops around Lima, [...]
Last time we heard from Nate Senner, he was herding godwits in Chile. Since then he’s been to Peru for a three-week stint of shorebird-identification workshops with an incredible goal: to survey the entire coastline of the country. Here’s Nate with his first installment of how things went: Twenty-five years ago, two Canadian biologists undertook [...]
Cornell graduate student Nate Senner has been writing from Chiloé Island, Chile, where he’s studying Hudsonian Godwits on their wintering grounds. He wrote yesterday with a puzzling situation on his hands: Where have all the godwits gone? A funny thing began to happen five days ago—the godwits began to disappear. We first noticed that something [...]
Cornell Ph.D. student Nathan Senner is back on Chiloé Island, Chile, this month to study shorebirds he last saw in his home state of Alaska. As you may remember from stories he posted last year, he’s trying to learn how Hudsonian Godwits and Whimbrels survive their 8,000-mile migrations from the top of the world to [...]
