While browsing the website of the USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center (which houses the bird banding laboratory), I came across the North American Bird Phenology Program. Phenology is the study between natural phenomena and seasonal or climatic changes.
This program seeks to catalog an almost-forgotten collection of six million hand-written notecards documenting bird migration observation from [...]
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The results are in, and here’s a list of participating blogs. Check them out for some really interesting finds and photos!
The Natural Capital
Fertanish Chatter
Roundrock Journal
Just Playin’ Around
What It’s like on the Inside
KrisAbel
BugSafari
Sofia_Alexandra
Growing with Science
ChickenSpaghetti
NaturalNotes
Yips and Howls
Rock, Paper, Lizard
Outside My Window
The dog geek
Dave Ingram’s Natural History Blog
Via Negativa
Unplug Your Kids
ORCA: Observar, Recordar, Crecer y Aprender
Will [...]
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It rained most of the day today, but in between showers I managed to get outside in the backyard at least to participate in IRFD. There wasn’t much to look at, really.
Mostly some wet dirt, fine roots and wormy-looking things.
A little burrow under this one…and lots of trails in the next two.
The most interesting find [...]
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This is decidedly different. I was doing some blog-hopping and came across several posts about International Rock Flipping Day (IRFD) which is Sunday, Sept. 20. OoooohhKaaaaay. I admit, this is a new one to me, but hey, after reading about it, I’m in!
The idea is simple: participants go out on 9/20 and carefully flip over [...]
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Well, I’ve made the decision not to travel back to RRBO this fall. Cailin received her master permit and has been doing a great job of running the banding program. She is capable and willing to continue with that, so there’s no reason for me to uproot myself each spring and fall and travel 800+ [...]
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We live about half a mile from part of Lake Cumberland, in the Daniel Boone National Forest. Lake Cumberland is a Tocks Island dam that happened. In the early part of the 1950s, the Army Corps of Engineers built the Wolf Creek Dam across the free-flowing Cumberland River, resulting in the 63,000 acre, long and [...]
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