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The third episode in the New Guinea series of Mongabay Explores covers the island’s unique birds-of-paradise, and their symbolism as ambassadors for both the island’s beautiful landscape, and also the culture of the people who live there: Listen here: The provinces of Papua and West Papua contain roughly half of Indonesia’s remaining tropical forests. Comprised […]
Events Mid-Coast Audubon presents talk on finch irruptions Mid-Coast Audubon and Camden Public Library will host a free online birding presentation on finch irruptions with Matthew Young at 6 p.m. on Thursday. Young worked at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology as project lead on the first Finch Irruptive Bird Survey for Bird Source to launch the Finch Research Network (FiRN) in fall 2020. He will discuss what an irruption is, and highlight Redpolls, Pine Grosbeaks, Evening Grosbeaks, and the distribution and ecology of different Red Crossbill flight calls. He will also introduce FiRN and its citi...
Portsmouth Herald KENNEBUNKPORT - Among the most amazing creatures in the world, more than 40 species of birds-of-paradise live in New Guinea’s Indo-Pacific rainforest, one of the largest intact tropical forested areas on Earth. The stars of the show in National Geographic and PBS Nature TV documentaries, the birds-of-paradise have become icons of New Guinea’s rainforests. Their extraordinary beauty is unlike that of any other bird on Earth, but it’s their wide range of bizarre breeding behaviors that captivates audiences—from elaborate dancing and flaring their elegant plumes to s...