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Q: Hi Thom, you probably told us about this already, but I missed it. On Tuesday, while hiking in Williamstown, we saw literally millions and millions of these little tiny black jumping dots everywhere. Can you please tell us about their life cycle? Do they hatch in trees and fall to the ground, or do they come up through the snow? How long do they live and what do they eat, and how do they reproduce? — Sandy, Adams A: Springtails are fun to watch, especially when you disturb them and t...

Mornings are quiet now. Gone is the loud chorus of bird song outside my window that I awoke to in spring and summer. While we brave the cold, snow, and

Arthur Allen and toad Documenting bird behavior has been a central goal of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology since its inception. It was a major focus of the Lab’s founders and from the earliest days played a crucial role in its outreach and educational missions. Naturally, technological abilities have evolved dramatically over the last century. The Lab has been a key agent in adopting and promoting, and in many cases developing, new technologies for the documentation of animal behavior and natu...

The Macaulay Library is the world’s premier scientific archive of natural history audio, video, and photographs. Although the Macaulay Library’s history is rooted in birds, the collection includes amphibians, fishes, and mammals, and the collection preserves recordings of each species’ behavior and natural history. Our mission is to facilitate the ability of others to collect and preserve such recordings and to actively promote the use of these recordings for diverse purposes spanning sci...

students and postdocs to join the Macaulay Library to pursue questions in  behavioral and evolutionary ecology. Are you interested in animal behavior? The evolution of animal signals? The ecological and evolutionary underpinnings of reproductive strategies? The micro- and macroevolutionary consequences of sexual selection? These questions and others can be answered with the archived media in Macaulay Library and other museum collections, and in some cases by field work on birds and other anim...

Program Manager Jessie helps lead the Macaulay Library and Merlin Bird ID. She joined the Lab in 2008 as the Assistant Curator of Audio in the Macaulay Library, then went on to lead Merlin, and is now back in the Macaulay Library as the program manager. Communications Coordinator Kathi is the Communications Coordinator for the Macaulay Library and loves writing and talking about all things bird. Kathi has traveled throughout the Americas tracking down birds, making eBird checklists, and contr...

Future dates to be determined. Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York Learn sound recording techniques from top-notch sound recordists in the heart of the Finger Lakes. The workshop will be based at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Each day begins in the field, listening to the dawn chorus and learning how to capture the incredible diversity of bird sounds. From grasslands to hemlock-filled hollows, the Ithaca area offers many beautiful locations that host a range of species and habitat di...

 

Ask a Master Gardener: An imported delicacy for the bird feeder When nyjer seed is imported into the United States as birdseed, U.S. law requires that it be sterilized with heat. Written By: U of M Extension Master Gardeners in St. Louis County | 10:00 am, Jan. 1, 2021 × A redpoll takes advantage of a winter nyjer seed feeder. (Getty Images) Q: I’ve been feeding nyjer to birds in my yard. Do I need to worry that the seeds that fall to the ground around the feeder will ...

30 Oct 2018 eBird has a million ways to help your birding—and we bet you don’t know them all. Whether you’re just starting out or have been eBirding for years, we’re confident that our new free eBird Essentials course has at least one tip, trick, or piece of key info that you haven’t seen before. With so many different aspects of eBird to know about, we’ve worked over the years to give you the best tools to learn how eBird works and can help you. Although the eBird Help Center hold...