Just last week was the North American Ornithological Conference, a major gathering of ornithologists in Vancouver, British Columbia. Quite a few of our staff and scientists attended, and among them was Wes Hochachka, assistant director of our Bird Population Studies program. When last we heard from Wes, he was extolling the virtues of European warblers—but [...]
A quick update on the status of eBird’s supercomputing collaboration and their production of these cool animated occurrence maps. The team just released their latest five range maps, bringing the total now online to 15, and launched a dedicated page about the occurrence maps on their site. A recent post on our Facebook page really [...]
What does the future of conservation look like? According to Wesley Hochachka, it looks fast and young. We last heard from Wes on the island of Helgoland, and before that in Brazil, but this week he’s at a conference at the American Museum of Natural History. Here’s Wes with his impressions: Sure, I know that [...]
Congratulations to the winners of the 2010 Great Backyard Bird Count photo contest! Our judges have been hard at work classifying, appraising, and selecting winners and runners-up in the contest’s six categories: Overall, Composition, Group, Habitat, Behavior, and People. At left is the winner in the People category—Bernice Muir’s photo of a Chestnut-backed Chickadee that [...]
I’ll admit it, satellites boggle my mind. Even though I’m quite happy to listen to my phone tell me where to find the best Caribbean restaurant in Albany, I still can’t quite believe that our species has built machines that fly around our planet and tell us what they see. But the truth is that [...]
It’s time for another annual meeting of the American Ornithologists’ Union. Just like last year in Philadelphia and 2009 in Portland, we’ll be bringing you stories from the floor of the meeting, where hundreds of ornithologists have gathered for four days of intense science. First up is Living Bird editor Tim Gallagher to report on [...]
