[cayugabirds-l] Cayuga Bird Club December meeting and speaker dinner
Next Monday, December 12, will be the next monthly meeting of the Cayuga Bird Club. Speaker: David WinklerPushing the Limits for Tag Size and Life-Span: Tiny Solar Tags and Their Future in Following Bird Movements Dr. Winkler is a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell. He first came to Cornell in 1985 as a lecturer after obtaining his Ph.D. in 1983 at U. C. Berkeley while working with Frank Pitelka. In 1984, he was a Thord-Gray and Fulbright Fellow at the University of Gothenburg Sweden with Malte Andersson and in 1985 he attended Oxford University in England as a NATO Postdoctoral Fellow with John Krebs. From 1986-1988, he was a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in environmental biology with Paul Sherman. In 1988, Dr. Winkler joined the Cornell faculty in Ecology and Systematics, later renamed the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. The meeting will be held at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. Doors open at 7:00 pm and there will be cookies and conversation starting at 7:15. Bird club business begins at 7:30 pm followed by the presentation. All are welcome.Members are invited to join Dr. Winkler for dinner at the Taste of Thai Express (Rt. 13N downtown) just before the meeting at 5:30 p.m. Please RSVP to Colleen Richards at cl...@juno.com by noon Monday so reservations can be made. How To Fix Your Fatigue (Do This Everyday) gundrymd.com http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/584a2f39966642f39289dst01duc -- 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Cayuga BIrd Club Meeting, Monday Dec 12
Hi all, Next Monday the Cayuga Bird Club has a very exciting speaker! Dr. David Winkler will be giving a talk entitled "Pushing the Limits for Tag Size and Life-Span: Tiny Solar Tags and Their Future in Following Bird Movements." Mon, December 12, 7:30pm - 9:00pm Where: Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca, NY Speaker: David. W. Winkler, Professor, Cornell University, Dept of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Faculty Curator of Ornithology and Director, Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates Here is a preview of Dr. Winkler's talk: "Most birds are very small, and one of the standing engineering challenges for bird-tagging is developing useful devices that are less than 1 g in mass. In the TABER group (Technology for Animal Biology and Environmental Research) we have achieved this by developing a family of tags that have no battery: they rely entirely on a solar cell for the energy necessary to drive digitally encoded radio transmissions from the tags. Lacking a battery, we expect them to remain functional longer than the birds we place them on are expected to live. This has allowed us to produce "life-time" tags weighing 0.4 to 0.7 g with a range of 1.5 to 2 km that transmit a distinctive ID code every second or so whenever they are in sunlight. These tags are already opening up some very interesting new facets and possibilities in monitoring the movements of passerine birds." The meeting is free and open to the pubic. Laura Stenzler l...@cornell.edu -- 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] CBC Short-eared Owl trip
I am leading an afternoon field trip to look for Short-eared Owls on Saturday, 12/10. We will meet at the Lab of Ornithology parking lot (the closest lot to the building) at 3:00 and will carpool to Lake Road near Long Point to hopefully see some owls. Dress warmly. We will be there until 5:00 or so. Burr... Ann Sent from my iPhone -- 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/ --
