Hi Everyone: Please join us this coming Monday for the first Monday Night Seminar of the new year, featuring the indomitable Dr. David Bonter. As always, the seminars are held in the auditorium, and free and open to the public. The doors open at 7:00.
We will be streaming this seminar live. Bookmark http://dl.allaboutbirds.org/cornelllab-monday-night-seminars for quick access on Monday evening. Hope to see you there! -Marc Dr. David Bonter, Director, Citizen Science, Cornell Lab of Ornithology *Of Islands and Undergrads: A decade of bird study in the Isles of Shoals* The Isles of Shoals, a craggy archipelago in the Gulf of Maine, is an ideal place to immerse students in learning and research focused on birds. For the past decade, Dr. David Bonter has taught Field Ornithology and mentored research of Cornell undergraduate students studying the eiders, swallows, gulls and warblers that invade the islands during the breeding season. This presentation will virtually transport you to Appledore Island where you’ll learn about the students’ findings and experience their journey through the trials and tribulations of ornithological field work. ---------------------------------------------------- Upcoming Monday Night Seminars: March 6, 2017 Dr. Andrew Farnsworth, Research Associate, Cornell Lab of Ornithology *Perspectives** on Nocturnal Bird Migration: What we've learned from BirdCast* Bird migration is a spectacular global phenomenon that has long captured the attention of human observers. But it wasn’t until the turn of the 20th century that ornithologists realized the magnitude of migration that occurred at night. Now in the early 21st century, several technologies have advanced sufficiently far to allow us to achieve new understandings of the magnitude and characteristics of nocturnal bird migration across a broad range of scales in new and different ways. The BirdCast project is a collaborative effort between ornithologists and computer scientists to further our understanding of the biology of bird migration by using state of the art machine learning and computer science techniques in combination with data collected with remote sensing methods, like radar and acoustic monitoring, to achieve these understandings. Dr. Andrew Farnsworth will speak about some of the novel insights gleaned and results produced so far from this fascinating project. April 3, 2017 Juan Pablo Culasso *A World of Sound* A blind birdwatcher from Uruguay proves you don’t need sight to see. Through the sounds of nature he is able to envision the world that surrounds him. Juan Pablo Culasso is one of the best birdwatchers in the Americas by using his ears, not his eyes. He was born blind and as a child learned to identify the feathered creatures by their voices. As an adult, his career is recording the sounds of nature. Last year, he had the opportunity, as a guest of the Uruguayan government, to travel to Antarctica to learn the landscape of the world’s last wilderness through its sounds. Join us to hear from Juan Pablo about his travels to this remote place and what he discovered there. May 1, 2017 Dr. Christine Sheppard, Bird Collisions Campaign Manager, American Bird Conservancy *Bird Mortality From Collisions With Glass: What we’ve learned, what we need to know, what you can do* You probably think that you can see glass – but long ago, you learned a concept – glass is an invisible barrier or reflective illusion – that birds never understand. As many as a billion birds die each year in the U.S., nearly half of them on home windows. In the last decade, many scientists have contributed pieces to the puzzle of how birds really see the world. This has established a basis for developing new solutions for existing glass, as well as materials and design strategies for creating new, bird-friendly buildings. Most architects, urban planners – most people – don’t understand why birds are important and how big the collisions problem is. Virtually everyone has seen or heard a bird hit glass, but think of it as a rare occurrence. Dr. Christine Sheppard will discuss the tools we have to solve the problem and the big job ahead getting those solutions implemented. However, this is one conservation issue where individuals can take immediate action and see immediate results. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
