Hello everyone,
I was leading the 7 AM group today (Sunday) on the Spring Field Ornithology
trip to the banding station at Braddock Bay. While not strictly speaking an
all-birding trip (many uncountable birds in the hand...but really nice looks as
a result), it was a very enjoyable time
Hello all,
I just happened to glance out my window a minute ago and saw a white large
gull-like bird fly off of the pond near the white barn in Sapsucker Woods and
into a tree about 40m west northwest of the platform. Through binoculars I
think that it's a juvenile LITTLE BLUE HERON (white
Hello all,
Yes, American Goldfinches can be infected with the same bacterium that
causes conjunctivitis in House Finches, and infections can lead to the same
sort of conjunctivitis disease. However, it appears that a much smaller
proportion of goldfinches that are infected will actually
Hi everyone,
Eduardo Inigo kindly invited my along for an around-the-lake trip with
himself and Maikel Canizares (visiting PhD student, now at the Lab of
Ornithology), and while filling out my eBird checklists from the trip I noticed
that we seem to have found the first COMMON REDPOLL for
Hi everyone,
On my way in to work this morning I heard a NORTHERN SAW-WHET OWL calling in
the western part of Sapsucker Woods. I only heard and did not see the bird
calling from near the top of a tall white pine located south across the path
from the shelter that is at the intersection of
Hi all,
I have been fortunate enough to have some experience comparing Western and
Clark's Grebes side by side, both in the breeding season and winter. Relevant
to this thread, my experience is that:
- At a distance or first glance the most obvious difference between
the species
Hello,
The only relevant research paper that I can think of using bird club-related
data is this one:
Butler, C. J. 2003. The disproportionate effect of global warming on the
arrival dates of short-distance migratory birds in North America. Ibis
145:484–495.
that made use of the weekly
Hi everyone,
I know that everyone's exuberantly welcoming the return of all of the spring
migrant species this week, but has anyone else noticed Red-breasted Nuthatches
in places where they normally are not? I'm asking because I did a long walk
through Sapsucker Woods this morning on my
Hi everyone,
Somehow Mark and I didn't run into each other in Sapsucker Woods today, so
maybe we were visiting different areas? Anyway, I did find a few different
migrants than Mark, with both BLACKPOLL WARBLER (Podell boardwalk) and
BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER (Woodleton boardwalk) singing, but
Hello everyone,
I spent some quality time with the DICKISSELs at Seneca Meadows yesterday,
mostly watching the nest-building pair near the large oak tree, and only
occasionally hearing the second male that Jay McGowan wrote about yesterday. I
finally saw a second male to the southwest of
it was to locate the
known birds. I did a series of eBird point counts around the preserve to
document that impression for posterity.
Wesley Hochachka
From: Kevin J. McGowan
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 9:45 AM
To: Wesley M Hochachka; CAYUGABIRDS-L
Subject: RE: how many Dickcissels are at Seneca
With the regular Barred Owl these last few months just on the west side of
Sapsucker Woods Rd, I had expected that a nest and nestlings might be in the
area. So I was a bit surprised this morning to find at least one and maybe two
juvenile BARRED OWLs in the forest just northeast of the
There must be a lot of NELSON'S SPARROWs around, because this morning I has
one pop up in the wetland to the north of the Lab of Ornithology this morning.
It's a new Sapsucker Woods bird for me and in eBird. I saw the bird for about
30 seconds while I was standing on the short boardwalk
Hi everyone,
Having watched a few winter irruptives over the last couple weeks, both
redpolls and Bohemian Waxwings, while in Alberta I've been forming my own
opinions about what these birds are doing. It's not just redpolls that are
behaving as Laura described but I was watching a flock
Hmm...the wording isn't terribly clear, but it sounds like the idea is that the
nest itself is below the tile and not entirely within the box: the box would
just provide the entrance. I'm guessing this based on the article says that
Birds often create nesting areas within the roofs of houses,
Donna,
My guess is that the bird has salmonellosis. Unfortunately, I think that
every year that there is a major redpoll irruption, some birds start dying of
salmonellosis: we see redpolls that are listless, sitting for long periods of
time motionless and with their feathers puffed up
Hi everyone,
After the seminar at the Lab of Ornithology tonight (Monday) I was walking
home through Sapsucker Woods when I heard the moderately high-pitched, repeated
tooting whistle of a NORTHERN SAW-WHET OWL (or alternatively someone doing a
good imitation of a Saw-whet...in which case
Hi all,
I've been away for the last while, and so I'm not sure if people have had
their fill chasing BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS, but at about 8 AM this morning I saw a
flock of 90 perched in the trees a bit to the west of the white barn (Kip's
Barn) in Sapsucker Woods. As far as I could tell with
Hello everyone,
I have to apologize for the very late nature of this posting, but on
Wednesday late afternoon, while touring a couple guests from the British Trust
for Ornithology around, we encountered a flock that I estimated to be at least
100 LAPLAND LONGSPURs at Carncross Road near the
Hi everyone,
On my way into the Lab of O this morning, I came in via the Podell Boardwalk
(the boardwalk that is along the trial system if you exit the Lab's public
entrance and head straight south parallel to Sapsucker Woods Rd. One of the
birds that I saw was what I'm almost essentially
Hi everyone,
I had a rather surprising first-parulid-of-year-in-Sapsucker Woods just now:
a PALM WARBLER. I saw the bird in the clump of alder shrubs/trees through
which the boardwalk cuts, leading to the platform over the water to the south
of Kip's Barn (the big white barn north of the
Hi everyone,
Apologies for my late posting, but I only now had a chance to scan through a
large number of recordings of singing warblers, and concluded that there was
either a Golden-winged or Brewster's Warbler on Hammond Hill this morning. The
bird was heard by me, Scott Haber, and Brad
would be on trail Yellow 6.
At least the notes that I scribbled for myself this morning knew what was
happening, even if my brain didn't...
Wesley
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Hello everyone,
The kittiwake was loafing with other gulls at the tip of Myer's Pt this
morning at about 6:30, although by 7 AM I'd list it after it and most of the
gulls flew up when a group of Canada Geese took flight. I was looking
elsewhere at the time, so I didn't see where the
Hi all,
The idea of identifying winter ranges from songs that are mimicked is neat,
and while it may not work for Northern Mockingbirds, it possibly could be used
for other species. I know of only a single person who ever tried doing this
(there could easily be more…I don’t know the song
Hi everyone,
I'm a bit slow in reporting this, because I saw the bird en route to Cornell
campus from the Lab of O and only recently got back to my office and computer.
The bird wasn't an in-your-face bird when I saw it, but I stopped at a location
that I often do when biking to campus
Hi everyone,
It's a bit strange, but not unprecedented: I heard a LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH
singing for about 5 minutes in a low area of vernal pools in Sapsucker Woods,
on the east side of Sapsucker Woods Road. While I first heard the bird from
the Woodleton boardwalk, I tracked the sound to
Hi all,
A (I’m assume the same) YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO was singing this morning at
about 7:30 AM to the west of the main pond at the Lab of O, somewhere to the
west of the intersection of Wilson Trail North (just south of where the trail
meets the side of the pond) and the West Trail (that
Thanks for posting the link to the Black Stork nest Dave! Nest locations often
seem to be closely guarded secrets in western Europe, and away from nests these
birds don’t forage in areas where they can be watched easily. As best I know,
with the exception of migrating birds (southern tip of
Hi,
As best I know, there's a functioning alpha-test version of the Android
eBird app that just appeared yesterday. So a beta test version is probably a
small number of weeks away, and a publically released version some larger
number of weeks (very small number of months?) away. Apologies
The best bird from my morning commute through Sapsucker Woods was a nice
male BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER near the western edge of the big pond, to the
southwest of the Sherwood Platform. See this eBird checklist for more specific
information:
Adding to Mark’s observations, I’ll add a potential Willow Flycatcher or
Eastern Wood-Pewee in the same general area as the Lincoln’s Sparrow. I only
saw the flycatcher for a handful of seconds in the shrubs along the edge of the
pond, but in that time I failed to see a partial or complete
There were three Tundra Swans just off Myer's Point this morning among a large
group of Canada Geese, likely a family group (2 adult and one juvenile).
Wesley Hochachka
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Hi Geo,
No, breeding-code information is a standard part of the most widely-used
pre-packaged distribution of eBird data, the eBird Basic Dataset (EBD). You
can't call up this information on the eBird website, if I'm not mistaken, but
then I wouldn't recommend using website output to do
Pete,
Would that be research done by locally-based researchers, or research based
on data from this general area regardless of the physical location of the
researcher(s)?
Wesley
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Hello Judith,
Yes, there have been a number of people seeing Warbling Vireos in the last
several days. You can see a representative sample of this by looking at a map
of the reports in eBird here:
https://ebird.org/map/warvir?neg=true=false=false=Z=on=5=12=cur=2018=2018
. You will
For anyone who is really curious the original article’s URL is here:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-02088-w It looks like it’s an
open-access paper, so anyone should be able to view it at no cost. There’s a
photo of the gold-coated feather (that still looks black) at part of the
Hi everyone,
On my way in to work this morning, I encountered a Bohemian Waxwing with a
small flock of Cedar Waxwings at the base of the boardwalk leading to the
Sherwood Platform in Sapsucker Woods (for more information see this eBird
checklist: https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S42834831).
Regarding the young, strangely behaving Double-crested Cormorant that was at
the doors of the Lab of Ornithology about a week ago, I stumbled on a news item
(http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/cormorants-toronto-disease-1.4795873)
that describes very similar behaviour of cormorants in
I doubt that there is any such thing as the “perfect” all-purpose spotting
scope…regardless of price. So I think that it’s important to decide how a
scope will typically be used, and then buy a style of scope that maximizes
utility for the most likely use cases, without eliminating the
Hi everyone,
As one of the people at the Lab of O who regularly works with data from
eBird, I’ll give you my take on answering Deb’s question, from the perspective
of someone who is interested in using the data from eBird for research, both
for basic science, and applied conservation and
I have a small amount of first-hand experience of searching for Bobolink nests
during a study of the effects of habitat fragmentation on nesting success. My
impression is that Bobolink nests can be extremely difficult to find, and I
would discourage attempts to find a Bobolink nest for the
Hi,
I work at the Lab of O, and I suppose that I could be labelled a "disease
ecologist", but I want to make clear that I'm not speaking for the Lab of
Ornithology here.
Anyway, in terms of spread in NYS, I've heard informally that whatever this
disease is, it's seems to have started to
From my yard, it’s been seeming that most of the Merlin activity has been
concentrated around the row of White Pine trees behind the dumpsters of the two
apartment buildings on Tareyton, in the area that there was a crow nest 2 years
ago (I think 2 years ago…). When I’ve been watching a
If the dead birds were siskins, redpolls, or goldfinches, my first reaction is
that the birds died from salmonellosis, and potentially you might have observed
these birds sitting motionless and incredibly puffed up near the bird feeder at
some point before you found the dead bird on the ground.
I believe that the reason is that so far the eBird reviewers for that region
have not confirmed any of the sightings reported in eBird. The eBird outputs
--- at least the maps --- will only directly display these flagged rarities
after they have been given a status of "confirmed" by regional
The only Blue Jay-like bird that I saw outside of the Lab of O yesterday, which
was flashing a lot of white, was a Northern Mockingbird.
Wesley
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Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2022 19:27
I'll second Kevin's recommendation of that field guide, which Princeton
University Press publishes in the U.S. I'm not suggesting buying from here,
but here's the cover picture and other information:
https://www.amazon.com/Birds-Europe-Second-Princeton-Guides/dp/0691143927. As
far as I know,
Hi all,
I have been doing a little bit of reading about Red-crested Pochards in
Europe, and it seems that they have histories of both: (1) natural colonization
based on long-distance mass movement, and (2) becoming established due to
introductions. According to the text in the second
Based on my understanding about how Merlin Sound ID works, in my opinion the
answer to your question is "no". You are wise to not blindly trust that Merlin
Sound ID found a real Cackling Goose in the flock of geese that you had near
your house. There are two aspects of how Merlin Sound ID
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