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• in Lifestyle
  Audubon's Holy Grail Discovered
  Audubon's missing paintings - the holy grail within bird-watching circles - has been discovered!
  by marly7 / on Aug 3, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “ornithology”

 

• Frontal Action Vectors Birds NE

  
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  National Overview Below is a snapshot of the national map with radar and weather fronts. Use this map to get an overall feel of migration and how weather affects nocturnal migration. A front is rolling across the Central Flyway and restricted migration behind its trail. Winds behind the front were not optimal for ...
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• Migrants Headed North

  
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  National Overview Below is a snapshot of the national map with radar and weather fronts. Use this map to get an overall feel of migration and how weather affects nocturnal migration. Another night of awesome migration! Birds were headed north in mass, winds form the E-ESE triggered widespread migration across the ...
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• More shots at the Photographer’s Arms

  
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  Photos by John FS, click on each to enlarge.
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• The Photographer’s Arms now open

  
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  These photos of birds drinking in his garden are from John FS, the black cap is the first seen in the garden: Click on photos to enlarge
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• Lookout! Migrants On The Go!

  
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  National Overview Below is a snapshot of the national map with radar and weather fronts. Use this map to get an overall feel of migration and how weather affects nocturnal migration. Winds continue to hold migrants up in S. FL, new arrivals are evident on radar and winds are set to change tonight. Get your birding ...
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• Dr. Robert Ridgely Receives Arthur A. Allen Award 5-7-2013

  
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      Cornell Lab of Ornithology bestows honor For release : May 7, 2013   Dr. Robert Ridgely with  a critically endangered northern brown howler monkey. Photo courtesy of  WLTUS.org   Ithaca, N.Y .—The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is presenting its prestigious Arthur A. ...
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• Migrants Stay Put

  
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  National Overview Below is a snapshot of the national map with radar and weather fronts. Use this map to get an overall feel of migration and how weather affects nocturnal migration. We will post a full analysis of radar and conditions later this morning. Sorry for the half post but we are both feeling under the ...
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• Birdbrains, in Canyonlands National Park

  
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  From Canyonlands NP Facebook page: “View from the Maze: A pair of Bewick’s Wrens makes a nest in the brain cavity of an old bull’s skull. Where bovine ruminations once roamed a quick feathered flickering now prevails. If your skull ended up in a tree what species of bird would you like your brain cavity to host? ...
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• Scientist Pitches Proposal to Curb Bird Deaths: A Tax On Cats

  
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  Kittens with nice mirrorring (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Birds in Germany are dying by the millions and Peter Berthold of the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Radolfzell, Germany, says that cats are to blame. By his calculation, cats kill approximately 50 million birds each year in Germany alone. The solution, ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Bird is the Word

  
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  Roseate Spoonbill from “The Birds of America.” 1836. Rare Book & Special Collections Division. “Bird” has been the word around my house lately. And, today, we celebrate Bird Day – a holiday established in 1894 by Charles Almanzo Babcock, a school superintendent in Oil City, Penn. Babcock hoped the ...
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• A day for birds, birds for a lifetime

  
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  By Thomas R. Dunlap Bird Day began in 1894 as part of the wildlife conservation movement that sprang up in response to the slaughter of the bison and the Passenger Pigeon. Birds always had a large role, for they were threatened but also familiar and fascinating. More than any other form of life they drew and held ...
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• Widespead Precipitation Persists

  
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  National Overview Below is a snapshot of the national map with radar and weather fronts. Use this map to get an overall feel of migration and how weather affects nocturnal migration. The low pressure system in the Southeastern Gulf continues to spark strong storms across the state. Yesterday this low produced ...
  2 weeks ago

• It’s Going to Be a Rainy One!

  
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  National Overview Below is a snapshot of the national map with radar and weather fronts. Use this map to get an overall feel of migration and how weather affects nocturnal migration. Not a whole lot of migration evident on radar last night. Some birds could have been migrating but if this is true, they were moving ...
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• Grosbeak!

  
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  Our goldfinches left several weeks ago.  The cedar waxwings came through in at least three big waves, starting in February (and the last just over a week ago).  House finches moulted, and the breeding males have bright red heads. Migrating robins left us by the end of January, but a lot more residents stayed with ...
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• Angel’s Birthday Radar; Fun Day!

  
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  National Overview Below is a snapshot of the national map with radar and weather fronts. Use this map to get an overall feel of migration and how weather affects nocturnal migration. Birds were on the move again last night. A few weather features should affect migration over the state especially in the eastern ...
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• New Grant Helps The Field Museum Digitize Rare and Interesting Books!

  
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  Title Page Image, v. 3, Onze vogels in huis en tuin One of the BHL partner institutions, The Field Museum Library , was recently awarded a small grant from the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI) to contribute titles to the growing BHL corpus. The proposal entitled "Empowering ...
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• The Birds of Paradise Project

  
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  My dear friend Denise sent me this clip from the Cornell University Lab of Ornithology.  It is beautiful, fascinating, weird and wonderful!  I hope you enjoy it as much as I have! And if your appetite is whetted and demands more, here is a 53 minute video with more of these spectacular and magical birds. More ...
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• Heavy Migration Over KW & the West Coast

  
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  National Overview Below is a snapshot of the national map with radar and weather fronts. Use this map to get an overall feel of migration and how weather affects nocturnal migration. A frontal system is rolling eastward over the next coming days, but for now High Pressure is still in effect. A high pressure system ...
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• Early Bird Gets the Worm

  
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  National Overview Below is a snapshot of the national map with radar and weather fronts. Use this map to get an overall feel of migration and how weather affects nocturnal migration. High pressure has taken hold once again and east winds are in place over the State. Birds continue to enjoy the favorable winds and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Guess Whose 228th Birthday is Today?

  
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  John Woodhouse Audubon , John James Audubon (1785-1851).  Oil on linen.  Its time to take a break from work and celebrate John James Audubon’s Birthday with the BHL! This was the man who is best remembered for his masterpiece Birds of America which is   arguably   the most prized Natural History work ...
  3 weeks ago

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