Surveys for a rare North American songbird are shedding light on illegal forest clearing in the Dominican Republic, according to researchers from the Vermont Center for Ecostudies and Grupo Jaragua. The ongoing cutting in Sierra de Bahoruco National Park threatens some of Hispaniola’s last remaining undisturbed cloud forest. The park’s forests are a winter home [...]
By Hugh
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Posted in Birds, conservation, News
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Also tagged Bicknell's Thrush, Birds, cloud forest, conservation, deforestation, Dominican Republic, endangered species, Grupo Jaragua, Hispaniola, Sierra de Bahoruco, Vermont Center for Ecostudies
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October 9, 2012 – 11:50 am
Imagine you walk into the neighborhood coffee house for your morning cup of joe, and on the counter is a tip jar with a sign reading, “$ for wintering warblers” with a photo of a Chestnut-sided Warbler in a tropical forest. You’d drop your change in, right? Any proud bird watcher would do their part [...]
By Hugh
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Posted in Birds, conservation, ecology, Uncategorized, what you can do
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Also tagged Bird Friendly, birding, Birds, birdwatching, coffee, conservation, migration, organic, science, shade-grown, songbirds
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A colorful, fruit-eating bird with a black mask, pale belly, and scarlet breast—never before described by science—has been discovered and named by Cornell University graduates following an expedition to the remote Peruvian Andes. The Sira Barbet (Capito fitzpatricki) is described in a paper published in the July 2012 issue of The Auk, the official publication of [...]
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Posted in Birds, News, science, Uncategorized
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Also tagged Ben Winger, birding, Birds, birdwatching, Capito fitzpatricki, fieldwork, Glenn Seeholzer, Michael Harvey, Peru, Sira Barbet, tropical fieldwork
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This is Part 1 of an account—for any of you who love tales of unusual birds in unusual places—of a recent trip to Australia’s Wet Tropics region near Cairns, Queensland. In this Part we will discuss: Macleay’s Honeyeater, Victoria’s Riflebird, Pied Monarch, Golden Bowerbird, Tooth-billed Bowerbird, and the abominable Fernwren. Read Part Two here. Birders love [...]
By Hugh
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Posted in Birds, field reports, slideshow, sounds, travel, Uncategorized
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Also tagged Australia, birding, Birds, birdwatching, Far Northern Queensland, Fernwren, Golden Bowerbird, Macleay's Honeyeater, photos, Pied Monarch, sound, Tooth-billed Bowerbird, travel, Victoria's Riflebird, Wet Tropics
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January 13, 2012 – 10:14 pm
Scientists working in Haiti have obtained the first-ever photos of an endangered Black-capped Petrel chick—a little ball of gray fluff that was discovered at its nest inside a mountaintop cave. The finding helps answer questions about this secretive species’ life cycle. These crow-sized seabirds nest only in the Caribbean and feed as far away as [...]
September 22, 2011 – 8:42 pm
Here at the Cornell Lab we’ve been lucky to have a close relationship with legendary bird tour operator Victor Emanuel for many years. He’s a longtime board member, and several of our staff have served as guides on his expeditions, including our director, John Fitzpatrick, eBird co-project leaders Chris Wood and Brian Sullivan, and Merlin [...]
We’re still reeling from the news of the huge earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan on Friday and whose aftereffects continue to threaten Japan’s people. As if the human catastrophe weren’t enough, the tsunami that crossed the Pacific Ocean has swept over most of Midway Atoll, where it has washed away tens of thousands of [...]
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Posted in Birds, conservation, News
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Also tagged albatross, birding, Birds, conservation, endangered species, fieldwork, Japan earthquake, laysan, Midway, seabirds, tsunami
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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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Posted in Birds, conservation, field reports, News, travel
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Also tagged Belize, birding, Birds, birdwatching, conservation, endangered species, fieldwork, Katie Blake, sightings, tropical fieldwork
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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 [...]
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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Posted in conservation, elephants, field reports, News, travel
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Also tagged Africa, conservation, elephants, fieldwork, Liz Rowland, photos, sightings, tropical fieldwork
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