Late last year, I did a series of posts on the endangered Kirtland’s Warbler, with an emphasis on the pros and cons of using cowbird control as an open-ended management technique (posts in the series listed after the jump). One…
Birds
I know you are not supposed to click your own Google AdSense ads, but recently there were two ads for purveyors of bird’s nest soup, and I had to go see what that was all about. I knew that bird’s…
Saturday Cornell will be announcing the results of the winter 2005-2006 Ivory-billed Woodpecker search.
I’ve written before about Dark-eyed Juncos (Junco hyemalis), a common little sparrow throughout much of North America. This species generally breeds at high latitudes (e.g., across Canada), or further south at higher altitudes (usually over 1500 feet/460 m). There it…
There are only two families of birds found just in the West Indies. One is the Dulidae, consisting of one species, the Palmchat (Dulus dominicus) of Hispanolia. The other is the Todidae, or todies, of which there are five species….
The long-anticipated response [1] to the Cornell Ivory-billed Woodpecker paper [2] has been published in the Science, the journal that published the original paper, along with a response from some of the original authors [3]. The authors are well-known field…
I’ve been looking forward to reading Avian Conservation and Ecology, a new open-access electronic scientific journal sponsored by the Society of Canadian Ornithologists and Bird Studies Canada.
Over the weekend, an Ivory Gull (Pagophila eburnea) was found near Point Pelee, Ontario. The sighting of one of these birds in the United States always creates a sensation, because it is a bird of the high Arctic, and fewer…
crisp brown leaf, wind-blown flake of bark, falling from tree nope, wrong: brown creeper The diminutive Brown Creeper (Certhia americana) is notorious for being unobtrusive. Even the creeper’s sweet, clear, musical song can be frustratingly difficult to hear due to…
The Auk is the journal of the American Ornithologists’ Union, and it publishes some pretty dense material. The last few years, it has featured an increasing number of papers on phylogeny, taxonomy, and genetics. This stuff tends to sail right over my head like a frigatebird on a stiff wind. A genetics paper by Edelaar […]