Greetings from Ithaca,
As many of you know, I had the great fortune to do a big day in Colorado
with Jessie Barry, Marshall Iliff, Tim Lenz, Brian Sullivan, and Andrew
Farnsworth, colleagues and good friends who I’m privileged to work with at
the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. We had a tremendous day
Jessie and I spent a couple hours at Genesee Mountain Park this
afternoon. The birding was pretty typical for this time of year, with
flocks of Pygmy Nuthatches and Mountain Chickadees and not a lot of
other species. We only had a couple flyover Red Crossbills and no
other finches. The biggest surp
I agree with John's assessment on the age and sex -- first year male. Aging
terminology is fraught with challenges and errors--even in many field
guides. Note that juveniles have one generation of feathers. Once a bird
starts replacing feathers, I would not call a bird a juvenile. This is one
advan
Hi everyone,
I thought some of you may be interested in a paper that appears in
PLoS Biology, a peer-reviewed open-access journal published by the
Public Library of Science. Our hope is that this paper shows some of
the ways the birding community has shaped our thinking about citizen
science and h
Hi everyone . . .
We've developed a fun and fairly challenging fall photo quiz that I think
many of you will enjoy.
http://ebird.org/content/ebird/news/fall2011quiz
Thanks,
Chris Wood
eBird & Neotropical Birds Project Leader
Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York
http://ebird.org
http://n
For what it's worth, Rufous-collared Sparrows are quite common in
captivity. I have seen them numerous times in cages in Guatemala,
Costa Rica, Panama, and Mexico, including at markets in Oaxaca and in
the city of Veracruz far from where this species is found in the wild.
This is a bird that is of
Greetings,
Yesterday the third annual State of the Birds Report (2011) was
released in Washington, D.C. at an event featuring Secretary of the
Interior, Ken Salazar and Agriculture Under Secretary for Natural
Resources and Environment Harris Sherman. This year’s report
highlights the enormous impo
Hi all,
While heading up to Wray with my WINGS tour, we stopped at the cemetery on
the north side of Burlington. We experienced what was among my best thirty
minutes of sky watching in eastern Colorado including an early MISSISSIPPI
KITE, Broad-winged Hawk, Peregrine Falcon, and Prairie Falcon. No
My dad and I spent the last few hours not seeing any jaegers at Cherry
Creek Reservoir. We did see all the Colorado grebes including an adult
RED-NECKED GREBE and a Pacific Loon. The loon was some distance out
best viewed by standing on the large fallen tree at the creatively
named "observa
