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A very cool Red-tailed Hawk
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Tagged aberration, birding, environment, leucism, Oklahoma, ornithology, plumage, raptor, science
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Emily Griffith reflects on Alexander Wilson’s brand for the Wilson Ornithological Society
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Tagged birding, history, natural history, ornithology, science, Wilson Ornithological Society
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Lindsey Walters’ reflections on Alexander Wilson, his legacy, and his namesake society
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Tagged history, mentoring, ornithology, Wilson Ornithological Society
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A New Effort to Reduce Bird-Window Collisions on Campus
This was the inaugural post on the blog I started 7 September, 2009: Bird-Window Collisions at OK State. I didn’t think that 14 years later we’d finally have an opportunity to assess the efficacy of window treatments to reduce collisions … Continue reading
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Tagged American Bird Conservancy, architecture, biodiversity, bird-window collisions, birding, conservation, environment, Feather Friendly, glass, mitigation, mortality, Oklahoma State University, ornithology, science
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Celebrating Sopy Peale – Matthew Halley
Alexander Wilson was but an erstwhile weaver and provocative poet trying to stay out of debtor’s prison before he met Sophonisba Peale. Matthew Halley reacquaints ornithologists with a remarkable woman we should have never forgotten.
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Tagged history, Matthew R. Halley, ornithology, Peale Museum, Sophonisba Peale, Sopy Peale
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Bird Names For Birds
It’s long past time to consider, learn, care about, and correct a problem in our nomenclature for birds. via Historical Bios
Posted in academics, animal behavior, bird banding, bird evolution, birding, birds/nature, career, environment, evolution, history, IUCN, mentoring, National Audubon Society, nature deficit disorder, No Child Left Inside, ornithological newsletter, professional development, skepticism and science, wildlife
Tagged #AOS, #BirdNamesForBirds, #nomenclature, EDI, environment, history, ornithology, science, URM
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One to watch: Nick Russo’s Ecology of Bird Movement and Dispersal
via Research Follow the link above to the Nick Russo’s website Ecology of Bird Movement and Dispersal. Interesting work and a lot more to come I’d wager!
007 — History of Ornithology
BY: Bob Montgomerie, Queen’s University | 7 January 2019 A couple of years ago, my family and I had an early morning stopover in Frankfurt, Germany, en route to our spring bolthole in the French Pyrenees. As we stumbled bleary-eyed … Continue reading
Posted in academics, bird evolution, birding, birds/nature, environment, evolution, history, wildlife
Tagged Bob Montgomerie, David Lack, Ian Fleming, James Bond, ornithology, Queen's University, West Indies
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Binocular advice for birders
I’m frequently asked about my recommendations for binoculars. My first recommendation is yes, you should get a pair. Sure, you can do a lot of birding without binoculars – and 90% or more of the birds I encounter I detect … Continue reading
Posted in BIRDATHON, birding, birds/nature, Christmas Bird Count, editorial, environment, life, National Audubon Society, nature deficit disorder, No Child Left Inside, Partners in Flight, wildlife
Tagged #binocs, #binoculars, #Bird Watchers' Digest, #bird watching, #British Trust for Ornithology, #European Breeding Bird Atlas, American Birding Association, birding, BirdWatch Ireland, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Countryside Bird Survey, National Audubon Society, nature, ornithology
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Handbook of the Birds of the World newsletter #50
The August newsletter of HBW Birds Alive– a milestone as the 50th in this series – has just been released. I’ve already lost track of how many new things I just learned in a few minutes’ browsing. Highlights:
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Tagged biogeography, Golden Masked-owl, HBW Alive, Internet Bird Collection, ornithology, phylogenetics, Rain Quail, Siwa Reed Warbler, Southern Dark Newtonia, systematics, taxonomy, Torrent Tyrannulet
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A conversation about grad school
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had this conversation. I plan to keep having it, too. But if this example can help answer some questions pre-emptively, I reckon this will have been a good use of my time. … Continue reading
Violent storms and violet skies on the Oklahoma prairie
Though it’s not easy to orchestrate given my other commitments, a singular joy of mine is to head west each June for a whirlwind investment of about 24 hours in conducting the Lookout, OK Breeding Bird Survey route. … Continue reading
Posted in birding, birding community e-bulletin, birds/nature, editorial, Endangered Species Act, environment, life, population monitoring, weather, wildlife, wind power
Tagged birding, Breeding Bird Survey, citizen science, Lookout, North American Breeding Bird Survey, Oklahoma, ornithology
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HBW Alive – newsletter #45
I’m always excited when I see the notice in my inbox of a new newsletter from Handbook of the Birds of the World. Here’s the first thing that caught my eye in this one: Okay. First, I am going to … Continue reading
Posted in animal behavior, bird evolution, birding, birds/nature, environment, HBW Alive, hummingbirds, IUCN, life, population estimates, population monitoring, wildlife
Tagged biodiversity, Black-chinned Whistler, Gould's Inca, HBW Alive, Internet Bird Collection, natural history, ornithology, Rusty-breasted Whistler, Western Quail-thrush, Western Shrike-tit
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AUTHOR BLOG: To the Grasshopper Sparrow, the Grass May Be Greener on the Other Side — Auk & Condor Updates
Emily Williams Linked paper: Patterns and correlates of within-season breeding dispersal: A common strategy in a declining grassland songbird by E.J. Williams and W.A. Boyle, The Auk: Ornithological Advances 135:1, January 2018. Late in the summer of 2013, when Alice … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Boyle, dispersal, Emily Williams, Flint Hills, Grasshopper Sparrow, grassland birds, Kansas State University, Konza Prairie, Ornithological Advances, ornithology, territoriality
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Handbook of the Birds of the World – newsletter #37
So much exciting new material in the latest update from HBW Alive! Here’s a teaser: Nº37, July 2017 Analytics: the new powerful tool with all your stats, graphs and maps! My Birding started out by offering a bird sighting recording … Continue reading
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Tagged conservation, HBW Alive, ornithology
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Functional diversity assessment – traits!
Post provided by Samuel RP-J Ross Our newly-developed method simulates intraspecific trait variation when measuring biodiversity. This gives us an understanding of how individual variation affects ecosystem processes and functioning. We were able to show that accounting for within-species variation … Continue reading
2017 AOS/SCO meeting announcement
Two venerable ornithological societies, the American Ornithologists’ Union and Cooper Ornithological Society, merged in 2016 following protracted discussions on the topic over the last several years. Next summer will be the first meeting of the newly merged society, the American … Continue reading
HBW Alive Newsletter – September 2016
The latest news from the Handbook of the Birds of the World has been released, and it’s again a power-pack of ornithological information. For just a taste . . . A new study using electroencephalogram recordings of Great Frigatebirds (Fregata … Continue reading
OSNA monthly news update
Here’s the latest from Ornithological Societies of North America: NAOC VI MEETING REPORTS The reports of the meetings of the OSNA-member societies (i.e., AOU, AFO, COS, WOS) held at NAOC VI will be published in the October Ornithological Newsletter. 129TH … Continue reading
eBird News – September 2016 newsletter
In this issue: eBird Profile Pages are here! 2016 eBird Taxonomy update Your historic eBird sightings make a difference Free trial of the newly updated Birds of North America Get early access to new features in eBird as an eBird Partner … Continue reading
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Tagged biodiversity, birding, BirdWatch Ireland, citizen science, conservation, eBird, eBird News, eBird Profiles, ornithology
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