BIRDCHAT for Monday, April 28, 2008

Messages are displayed in the order they were received.  Subject  From  Time   Birds in the News, plus more (links)   Devorah Bennu    9:30am   Hilton Pond 04/15/08   Research at Hilton P   1:42pm   Manu National Park   Bill Saur    2:32pm   Re: Editorial in PENNSYLVANIA BIRDS on state journals   Ber Carr   6:45pm

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Subject: Birds in the News, plus more (links)
From: Devorah Bennu <birdologist(AT)yahoo.com>
Date: 28 Apr 2008 9:30am

Hello everyone,

this week's issue of Birds in the News is now available for you to enjoy. This
issue includes a story about the T. rex-chicken connection, and a features
stunning image -- perhaps one of my favorite images of a bird -- by one of my
favorite photographers, John del Rio;

http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2008/04/birds_in_the_news_128.php

This week's issue of Ian Paulsen's Birdbooker Report is also available. I am
pleased to say that the BbR is becoming quite popular and several of my readers
have written to thank me for sharing this book list with them since it assists
them to wisely spend their "economic stimulus package" that will soon be
arriving in their bank accounts;

http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2008/04/birdbooker_report_11.php

I also would like to point out that the Image of the Day is again returning to
share more of John del Rio's glorious pictures. This time, I am running a series
 of his photos depicting a variety of passerines. The Image of the Day is
scheduled to pop up daily at 3pm ET, so be sure to look in on that! If any of
you have a nature image (or images) that you would like to share with a large
and appreciative audience, please contact me.

GrrlScientist
Devorah
http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/
Roosting high up a tree somewhere in Central Park, NYC

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Subject: Hilton Pond 04/15/08
From: Research at Hilton Pond <research(AT)hiltonpond.org>
Date: 28 Apr 2008 1:42pm

Sometimes nature shows up where we least expect it, which was the 
case "This Week at Hilton Pond" when we encountered a new snail 
species for the Center's checklist--in a five-gallon bucket.

For a essay about this unexpected mollusc--including some interesting 
close-up views--please visit the 15-21 April 2008 installment at 
http://www.hiltonpond.org/ThisWeek080415.html

As always we include list of all birds banded or recaptured--and 
there were lots in both categories--along with miscellaneous nature 
notes.

Happy (Spring) Nature Watching!

BILL
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c/o BILL HILTON JR. Executive Director
Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History
1432 DeVinney Road, York, South Carolina 29745 USA
research(AT)hiltonpond.org, (803) 684-5852, eFax: (503) 218-0845

Please visit our web sites (courtesy of Comporium.net):
Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History at http://www.hiltonpond.org
"Operation RubyThroat: The Hummingbird Project" at http://www.rubythroat.org

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Subject: Manu National Park
From: Bill Saur <bsaur(AT)earthlink.net>
Date: 28 Apr 2008 2:32pm

Folks:

I did some research and wrote an article on the spectacular Manu National Park
in Peru. As I said in the article, I cannot hope to do justice to this place,
only
put it on your radar screen if it wasn't there already. I was fortunate to get a
 little localized information from Birdchat listserv member Paulo Boute, who
runs
a guide service down there in South America - thanks again Paulo.

I put a link to a video of the park, and one to a birding trip description in
the Resources section of the post so as to permit a little "armchair traveling".
 Internet videos can be fun.

If you are interested, the article is found here:

http://thepassionatebirder.blogspot.com

Regards,
Bill Saur

De Forest, Wisconsin
USA

mailto:bsaur(AT)earthlink.net

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Subject: Re: Editorial in PENNSYLVANIA BIRDS on state journals
From: "Ber Carr" <mycocarex(AT)hotmail.com>
Date: 28 Apr 2008 6:45pm

A few years ago our local Audubon chapter invited Ben Burtt to speak.  He 
had started a birding column in the local newspaper 30 or more years ago.  
He asked readers to send in records at their feeders during a set period 
each month during the winter and then he printed their results.  His talk at 
the meeting was the very first time he presented his data.  His efforts 
preceded the Lab of Ornithology Project Feeder Watch and may have been the 
inspiration for Project Feeder Watch.  However, all of this great data has 
NEVER  been published.  His data was fantastic and you could see the years 
of winter finch irruptions.  You could also see the rise and fall of Evening 
Grosbeak numbers.  The Central/Western NY Chapter of the Nature Conservancy 
did a multiyear project that documented songbird migration along the 
shoreline of Lake Ontario.  I recently tried to get a copy of that data but 
it has been lost.

Two years of records from over a hundred competent volunteers - completely 
LOST.  I think it is terribly important to publish bird distribution data in 
local journals.  I agree that we need to do more of it.  Likewise, I hope 
that folks are members of their state ornithological organizations and 
submit records.  I guess this is a reminder to myself to finish a NYS Avian 
Record form for a winter rarity.

Bernie Carr
mycocarex(AT)hotmail.com

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