Regardless of the number of us, this is the coolest list out there, and on a subject that NEEDS more attention. So many good birds to be detected, and probably will help learn about the "true" migration paths of many species.
Still looking for someone to create a Pacific CD resource of flight calls out this way. :-) Jay Keller San Diego -----Original Message----- >From: David La Puma <[email protected]> >Sent: Sep 2, 2009 9:47 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [nfc-l] Interesting early papers on moonwatching > >Since we're on the topic of moonwatching, I thought I'd send a link to the >Lowery and Newman paper that Andrew mentioned a few weeks ago. >Here's a direct link to the paper: >http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Auk/v083n04/p0547-p0586.pdf > >and here you can search the ornithological literature for more papers that >might be of interest: >http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/search.php > >You could search for George Lowery (in the Author box) and Migration (in the >keyword box) and find the above paper, plus a few others. > >Note that nearly 1400 bird students and astronomers participated in the >study by moon-watching over four nights in October of 1952!! Hey Chris, >what's the NFC list membership up to? We may need to do a little recruiting- >but I bet we could round up enough folks to make a go of it! > >Good Birding and Reading > >David >____________________________________________________ >David A. La Puma, Ph.D. >Dept. of Ecology, Evolution, & Natural Resources > >Online Teaching Portfolio: >http://www.woodcreeper.com/teaching > >Lockwood lab: >http://rci.rutgers.edu/~jlockwoo > >Websites: >http://www.woodcreeper.com >http://badbirdz2.wordpress.com > >Photos: >http://www.flickr.com/photos/woodcreeper > > > > > > >On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Andrew Farnsworth < >[email protected]> wrote: > >> FYI - I think there was a 1950 paper too, though I cannot remember. . .When >> everyone is ready, it is high time that we replicate Lowery and Newman >> (1966). With today's technology for synthesizing information, we could do >> it in a much more timely and large scale manner, AND we could combine it >> with FC and radar data in a way not possible in the 60s. . . >> >> Best, >> Andrew >> >> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 07:20, Ted Floyd <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi, all. >>> >>> I was recently contacted by somebody who's preparing an obituary for >>> William A. Rense, a leading solar physicist of the 20th century. Here's >>> one of his publications: >>> >>> Rense, W.A. 1946. Astronomy and ornithology. Popular Astronomy >>> 54(2):55-73. >>> >>> The article presents all the calculations necessary for "moonwatching," >>> that is, for determining the number of birds on nocturnal migration >>> within a given volume of sky. And, interestingly, this article precedes >>> by several month's George Lowery's famous 1946 paper on the same topic >>> (Auk 63:175-211). Lowery and Rense were colleagues, actually, so this >>> isn't a disputed-priority thing. But it's interesting how we remember >>> the famous Lowery paper, not the original Rense article. (Even though >>> Rense's appeared in a relatively high-profile venue. Auk... Popular >>> Astronomy... Please.) In a sense, this is also a tribute to Lowery's >>> commendable interdisciplinary outlook on science and nature. >>> >>> What's also cool about the Rense article is that it reminds us that all >>> of this had basically been worked out 40+ years earlier, during a >>> brief--and virtually completely forgotten--"golden age" of research on >>> nocturnal migration. Moonwatching techniques are well described in >>> papers published in 1902 (Bull. Wisc. Nat. Hist. Soc.), 1906 (Popular >>> Astronomy), and again in 1906 (Auk). >>> >>> (During that brief period of serious professional interest in the topic, >>> there is an intriguing paper--by one Henry H. Kopman--on, among other >>> things, the flight calls of wood-warblers. Farnsworth in a previous >>> life...) >>> >>> Anyhow, I thought some folks would be interested. I'll let y'all know >>> when the Rense obit. is published. >>> >>> Best, >>> Ted >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> >>> Ted Floyd >>> Editor, Birding >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> >>> Please support the American Birding Association: Click on >>> http://www.goodsearch.com/?charityid=884482 to search the internet. >>> >>> Check out the American Birding Association on FaceBook: >>> http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=22934255714 >>> >>> Check out the American Birding Association on Twitter: >>> http://twitter.com/abaoutreach >>> >>> Please visit the website of the American Birding Association: >>> http://www.aba.org >>> >>> -- >>> NFC-L List Info: >>> http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_WELCOME >>> http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_RULES >>> -- >>> >> >> > >-- >NFC-L List Info: >http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_WELCOME >http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_RULES > >http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html >-- -- NFC-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_WELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_RULES http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html --
