January 5, 2011 – 4:59 pm
There’s been an immense amount of concern and confusion about what caused thousands of Red-winged Blackbirds in Arkansas to drop dead in the middle of the night on New Year’s Eve. The general public and media outlets have been calling us with questions, but it’s been very hard for anyone—even the biologists working on the [...]
April 27, 2010 – 12:12 pm
If you can make it to the Cornell Lab at noon on Friday, stop in for a brown-bag lunch seminar and hear Kevin McGowan recount his visit to Rota. He was there to help in a study of the endangered Mariana Crow (he has written a couple of popular posts about the work already.) But [...]
If you’re a researcher who has spent 30 years studying crows, you have to put up with your share of weird phone calls. Why is a flock called a murder? Are they really smarter than my dog? Why are there 10,000 of them in the trees outside my building? How do I get rid of [...]
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Also tagged banding, Birds, conservation, crows, endangered species, fieldwork, Mariana Crow, tropical fieldwork, tropics
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