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Blog: Round Robin

• From Brazil: Doing Fieldwork by Satellite
  I’ll admit it, satellites boggle my mind. Even though I’m quite happy to listen to my phone tell me where to find the best Caribbean restaurant in Albany, I still can’t quite believe that our species has built machines that fly around our planet and tell us what they see. But the truth is that [...]
• From Brazil: Round Table on Endangered Atlantic Forest Birds
  Several of our staff are spending the week in Brazil, at the 25th International Ornithological Congress. Kind of like a larger, more global AOU meeting, these conferences began in 1884 and are held every four years. Here’s an update from Dr. Martjan Lammertink, a research associate at the Cornell Lab, an expert on the world’s [...]
• Carolyn Jensen Chadwick, Radio Expeditions Creator
  It’s with great sadness that we have learned of the death of Carolyn Jensen Chadwick from cancer. Carolyn created the long-running NPR/National Geographic Radio Expeditions show and was a close collaborator with staff at the Cornell Lab and our Macaulay Library. The Cornell Lab’s director, John Fitzpatrick, remembers her as “a natural song in perfect, [...]
• eBird contest promotes BirdsEye Lite app
  You’ve got until September 6 to enter at least one checklist into our eBird project—and that will enter you in a drawing to win an iPod Touch loaded with the innovative BirdsEye app. There will be one drawing for new users who sign up to eBird and enter data by September 6, and a separate [...]
• Recording Mauritius: Echo Parakeets of Macchabee Forest
  Here’s another field report from Jon Erickson, the intrepid volunteer who has been recording (for the Macaulay Library) some of the world’s rarest birds during a 9-month stay in Mauritius. This post is from an April visit to a remote part of the Black River Gorges National Park. His visit to the Macchabee Forest, which [...]