By Shailee Shah A chameleon’s tongue, a bee’s flight, a cheetah’s chase, a kingfisher’s dive, a manakin’s “singing” wings—many animals go about their lives doing things in the blink of an eye. There is a whole secret world of the fast-moving that remains to be explored and understood with the aid of high-speed videography. I [...]
September 4, 2012 – 2:54 pm
Two interns per year get to visit Appledore Island in Maine for a summer of sunrises, monitoring Herring Gull chicks, dodging protective gull parents, and learning every inch of an island you can walk across in 20 minutes. We’ve always wondered what it’s like—so we asked Cornell undergraduate Shailee Shah, who spent the 2012 field [...]
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Posted in Birds, ecology, field reports, science, slideshow, Uncategorized
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Also tagged Appledore Island, birding, Birds, birdwatching, fieldwork, photos, Shoals Marine Lab
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