October 13, 2011 – 11:39 pm
Yesterday we suggested a few good books about birding (and got many more from commenters and Facebook fans—thanks!). But you can’t read all the time—so here are a few moments of video to immerse you in the color, sound, behavior, and diversity of birds. These first five are our own multimedia productions (see more at [...]
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Also tagged BBC, Big Day, big year, birding, Birds, birdwatching, Common Loon, David Attenborough, duck, eider, falcon, hawk, Inside Birding, kingfisher, Mourning Dove, photos, Red-winged Blackbird, travel, video
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September 15, 2011 – 2:18 pm
Just a day after the news of Machi the Whimbrel’s shooting by hunters on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe (see previous post) comes the report that a second satellite-tracked bird also died in the same hunting area on the island. The second Whimbrel’s name was Goshen, a female that had been tracked since August 2010 [...]
September 13, 2011 – 9:37 pm
A migrating Whimbrel named Machi has been shot on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, French West Indies. The bird (pictured at left) had likely landed to rest up after detouring around Tropical Storm Maria. Machi became one of thousands of shorebirds that are hunted for sport each fall—but she stood out from the flock because [...]
Longtime readers of this blog may remember graduate student Nate Senner’s dispatches as he chased, “twinkled,” and banded Hudsonian Godwits in Chiloé, Chile. This time, we’re turning the blog over to one of his field assistants, who has spent the last two summers on the tundra and fens of Hudson Bay following godwits around. Andy [...]
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Also tagged Andy Johnson, birding, Birds, birdwatching, fieldwork, Hudsonian Godwit, Nate Senner, Nathan Senner
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It may not feel like the end of summer where you are, but in arctic Russia, where Gerrit Vyn has been watching endangered Spoon-billed Sandpipers, birds are already headed south. Here’s Gerrit’s description of the closing of the season, complete with a late, surprise encounter with a Spoon-billed Sandpiper and its newly hatched chicks: From [...]
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Also tagged arctic, birding, Birds, birdwatching, endangered species, fieldwork, Gerrit Vyn, photos, Russia, sightings, Spoon-billed Sandpiper, travel, tundra
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The emergency effort led by Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust to save Spoon-billed Sandpipers got off to a rousing start with a flurry of hatching in the last few days. In all, 17 tiny sandpiper chicks have hatched, right on schedule as the team were transporting eggs from the field site where they have been [...]
Gerrit Vyn, a producer in our Multimedia program, has been spending the summer in remote eastern Russia filming one of the world’s most endangered birds, the Spoon-billed Sandpiper. In the last post he sent us, he described the plight of this species as well as his first sighting of a Spoon-billed Sandpiper. Here’s his next [...]
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Also tagged birding, Birds, birdwatching, conservation, endangered species, fieldwork, Gerrit Vyn, photos, sightings, Spoon-billed Sandpiper, travel, Wildfowl Wetlands Trust
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In the arctic tundra of eastern Russia, a sparrow-sized shorebird with a one-of-a-kind beak is facing extinction—and a few scientists are doing all they can to save it. In recent years the Spoon-billed Sandpiper‘s population has dropped by a staggering 25 percent per year. Fewer than 200 pairs now remain. So this year, shorebird experts [...]
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Also tagged arctic, birding, Birds, birdwatching, conservation, endangered species, fieldwork, Gerrit Vyn, Russia, sightings, Spoon-billed Sandpiper, travel
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On an overcast and occasionally rainy day in Cape May, the Cornell Lab Redheads and Anti-Petrels found enough good “gets” to offset the painful misses from a slow day of songbird migration. Both teams won their divisions in the 2011 World Series of Birding: the Redheads won Cape May County with 163 species, and the [...]
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Also tagged Andy Johnson, Anti-Petrels, Big Day, birding, Birds, birdwatching, Charles Eldermire, conservation, France Dewaghe, Hope Batcheller, Jay McGowan, photos, Redheads, Scott Haber, sightings, travel, World Series of Birding
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Wednesday was the first full day of scouting for our two World Series of Birding teams, the Redheads and the Anti-Petrels. We’re doing what you do during scouting week—re-learning bird calls, re-finding birds we can count on, obsessing over which route we should take on Saturday, second guessing the route we took last year, and [...]
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Also tagged Big Day, birding, Birds, birdwatching, Charles Eldermire, fieldwork, France Dewaghe, Jay McGowan, photos, sightings, slideshow, travel, Whimbrel, World Series of Birding
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