February 19, 2011 – 10:17 am
You could argue a case for the Ivory Gull, but as far as immaculate whiteness goes, I adore the Snow Petrel. Made all the whiter by its big black eye, black bill, and black feet, this is a bird that belongs in front of icebergs, coursing on the cold black waves of gales. In big [...]
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January 7, 2011 – 11:40 am
One of the birds I didn’t get to see during my travels in Belize was the endangered Yellow-headed Parrot. Today Katie Blake describes a close encounter with two of these delightful birds—orphans from an encounter with poachers. Katie was in Belize last summer as a research assistant studying Mangrove Swallows on the Golondrinas de las [...]
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Also tagged Belize, birding, Birds, birdwatching, conservation, endangered species, fieldwork, Katie Blake, tropical fieldwork, tropics
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January 4, 2011 – 12:44 pm
Over the holidays I went to Belize, Central America, for a week. I didn’t take a camera, but I brought my phone. And though I’m not an expert iPhoniscoper by any stretch, the tropics offer enough large, colorful birds that even I was able to nab a few pics through my Nikon Monarchs. It was [...]
December 9, 2010 – 4:59 pm
Great news for the Short-tailed Albatross, a bird once so endangered by feather hunting that its population plummeted from an estimated million individuals to 10 pairs nesting on a single island in Japan in the 1950s. Since then, the long-lived species has slowly improved its numbers to about 3,000 birds. Today, the American Bird Conservancy [...]
November 3, 2010 – 5:58 pm
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 [...]
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Also tagged birding, Birds, birdwatching, citizen science, conservation, great backyard bird count, photos, science meetings
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October 18, 2010 – 5:43 pm
Biologists Peter Wrege and Liz Rowland, of our Elephant Listening Project, are spending night after night on a tree platform in the rainforest of Gabon. They’re learning about forest elephants, and their night-vision binoculars are a key piece of equipment. Here’s Liz with a first-hand description: A change of plan As so often happens with [...]
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Also tagged Africa, conservation, elephants, fieldwork, Liz Rowland, photos, tropical fieldwork, tropics
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August 18, 2010 – 11:22 am
You’ve got until September 6 to enter at least one checklist into our eBird project—and that will enter you in a drawing to win an iPod Touch loaded with the innovative BirdsEye app. There will be one drawing for new users who sign up to eBird and enter data by September 6, and a separate [...]
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Also tagged birding, Birds, birdwatching, citizen science, conservation, eBird, identification, sharing, World Series of Birding
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Jon Erickson is still roaming Mauritius with his microphone, making recordings of the tropic island’s unusual species. That’s him above, installing a microphone to record sounds at a Mauritius Kestrel nest in January. Here’s his story of the day’s work, including an alarming surprise encounter: I’d spent so much time out among the seabirds of [...]
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Also tagged birding, Birds, conservation, endangered species, fieldwork, Jon Erickson, kestrel, Mauritius, sound, sound recording, tropical fieldwork
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January 18, 2010 – 12:04 pm
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 [...]
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Also tagged banding, Birds, conservation, fieldwork, Hudsonian Godwit, migration, Nathan Senner, shorebirds, Whimbrel
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