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Rare Birds of California Now Available! Price $54.00 for WFO Members, $59.99 for Nonmembers
Volume 40, Number 3, 2009 The 33rd Report of the California Bird Records Committee: 2007 Records Daniel S. Singer and Scott B. Terrill .........................158 Distribution, Abundance, and Survival of Nesting American Dippers Near Juneau, Alaska Mary F. Willson, Grey W. Pendleton, and Katherine M. Hocker ........................................................191 Changes in the Winter Distribution of the Rough-legged Hawk in North America Edward R. Pandolfino and Kimberly Suedkamp Wells .....................................................210 Nesting Success of California Least Terns at the Guerrero Negro Saltworks, Baja California Sur, Mexico, 2005 Antonio Gutiérrez-Aguilar, Roberto Carmona, and Andrea Cuellar ..................................... 225 NOTES Sandwich Terns on Isla Rasa, Gulf of California, Mexico Enriqueta Velarde and Marisol Tordesillas ...............................230 Curve-billed Thrasher Reproductive Success after a Wet Winter in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona Carroll D. Littlefield ............234 First North American Records of the Rufous-tailed Robin (Luscinia sibilans) Lucas H. DeCicco, Steven C. Heinl, and David W. Sonneborn ........................................................237 Book Reviews Rich Hoyer and Alan Contreras ...........................242 Featured Photo: Juvenal Plumage of the Aztec Thrush Kurt A. Radamaker .................................................................247 Front cover photo by © Bob Lewis of Berkeley, California: Dusky Warbler (Phylloscopus fuscatus), Richmond, Contra Costa County, California, 9 October 2008, discovered by Emilie Strauss. Known in North America including Alaska from over 30 records, the Dusky is the Old World Warbler most frequent in western North America south of Alaska, with 13 records from California and 2 from Baja California. Back cover “Featured Photos” by © Kurt A. Radamaker of Fountain Hills, Arizona: Aztec Thrush (Ridgwayia pinicola), re- cently fledged juvenile, Mesa del Campanero, about 20 km west of Yecora, Sonora, Mexico, 1 September 2007. -
Ebird 101 What Ebird Can Do for You & Getting Started (This Is Not a Complete List of Everything You Can Do with Ebird, Nor Does It Answer Every Question You May Have
eBird 101 What eBird can do for you & getting started (This is not a complete list of everything you can do with eBird, nor does it answer every question you may have. If you have a question while using eBird just click HELP at the top of the page and put some key words in the ‘Have a Question?’ space. This HELP section is very easy to understand and follow.) TABLE OF CONTENTS Creating your personal eBird Account Submitting your first checklist and creating a new location Adding Data and Behavior information Uploading Pictures to Checklists Posting a Rarity Search Photo’s and Sounds Explore a Region (County) and locate hotspots Explore Hotspots Species Maps Exploring/Creating and Learning from Bar Charts o Explore Bar Charts: County o Explore Bar Charts: Hotspots Arrivals and Departures Species you need – Target Species and Rare Bird Alerts Exploring MY EBIRD – your personal data o County Life/Year/Month List o State Life/Year/Month List o Location List, o All locations where a single species was recorded o Life List for any location Sharing Checklists from MY EBIRD Using eBird Mobile on iPhone GETTING STARTED WITH eBIRD (on a computer) Creating your personal eBird Account Ready to join the eBird community and start submitting your checklists? Let’s get started. Go to www.ebird.org and select MY EBIRD and hit ENTER. On the right side find CREATE AN ACCOUNT Fill in the requested information then select CREATE ACCOUNT to complete the process. Regarding data privacy, everyone has their own viewpoint and eBird wants to honor your desires. -
Birds of the East Texas Baptist University Campus with Birds Observed Off-Campus During BIOL3400 Field Course
Birds of the East Texas Baptist University Campus with birds observed off-campus during BIOL3400 Field course Photo Credit: Talton Cooper Species Descriptions and Photos by students of BIOL3400 Edited by Troy A. Ladine Photo Credit: Kenneth Anding Links to Tables, Figures, and Species accounts for birds observed during May-term course or winter bird counts. Figure 1. Location of Environmental Studies Area Table. 1. Number of species and number of days observing birds during the field course from 2005 to 2016 and annual statistics. Table 2. Compilation of species observed during May 2005 - 2016 on campus and off-campus. Table 3. Number of days, by year, species have been observed on the campus of ETBU. Table 4. Number of days, by year, species have been observed during the off-campus trips. Table 5. Number of days, by year, species have been observed during a winter count of birds on the Environmental Studies Area of ETBU. Table 6. Species observed from 1 September to 1 October 2009 on the Environmental Studies Area of ETBU. Alphabetical Listing of Birds with authors of accounts and photographers . A Acadian Flycatcher B Anhinga B Belted Kingfisher Alder Flycatcher Bald Eagle Travis W. Sammons American Bittern Shane Kelehan Bewick's Wren Lynlea Hansen Rusty Collier Black Phoebe American Coot Leslie Fletcher Black-throated Blue Warbler Jordan Bartlett Jovana Nieto Jacob Stone American Crow Baltimore Oriole Black Vulture Zane Gruznina Pete Fitzsimmons Jeremy Alexander Darius Roberts George Plumlee Blair Brown Rachel Hastie Janae Wineland Brent Lewis American Goldfinch Barn Swallow Keely Schlabs Kathleen Santanello Katy Gifford Black-and-white Warbler Matthew Armendarez Jordan Brewer Sheridan A. -
L O U I S I a N A
L O U I S I A N A SPARROWS L O U I S I A N A SPARROWS Written by Bill Fontenot and Richard DeMay Photography by Greg Lavaty and Richard DeMay Designed and Illustrated by Diane K. Baker What is a Sparrow? Generally, sparrows are characterized as New World sparrows belong to the bird small, gray or brown-streaked, conical-billed family Emberizidae. Here in North America, birds that live on or near the ground. The sparrows are divided into 13 genera, which also cryptic blend of gray, white, black, and brown includes the towhees (genus Pipilo), longspurs hues which comprise a typical sparrow’s color (genus Calcarius), juncos (genus Junco), and pattern is the result of tens of thousands of Lark Bunting (genus Calamospiza) – all of sparrow generations living in grassland and which are technically sparrows. Emberizidae is brushland habitats. The triangular or cone- a large family, containing well over 300 species shaped bills inherent to most all sparrow species are perfectly adapted for a life of granivory – of crushing and husking seeds. “Of Louisiana’s 33 recorded sparrows, Sparrows possess well-developed claws on their toes, the evolutionary result of so much time spent on the ground, scratching for seeds only seven species breed here...” through leaf litter and other duff. Additionally, worldwide, 50 of which occur in the United most species incorporate a substantial amount States on a regular basis, and 33 of which have of insect, spider, snail, and other invertebrate been recorded for Louisiana. food items into their diets, especially during Of Louisiana’s 33 recorded sparrows, Opposite page: Bachman Sparrow the spring and summer months. -
Ebird: a Human/Computer Learning Network for Biodiversity Conservation and Research
Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Innovative Appications of Artificial Intelligence Conference eBird: A Human/Computer Learning Network for Biodiversity Conservation and Research Steve Kelling, Jeff Gerbracht, and Daniel Fink Carl Lagoze Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University Information Science, Cornell University [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] [email protected] Weng-Keen Wong and Jun Yu Theodoros Damoulas and Carla Gomes School of EECS, Oregon State University Department of Computer Science, Cornell University [email protected], [email protected] [email protected], [email protected] Abstract solve [2]. Now the World Wide Web provides the In this paper we describe eBird, a citizen science project that opportunity to engage large numbers of humans to solve takes advantage of human observational capacity and machine these problems. For example, engagement can be game- learning methods to explore the synergies between human based such as FoldIt, which attempts to predict the computation and mechanical computation. We call this model a structure of a protein by taking advantage of humans’ Human/Computer Learning Network, whose core is an active puzzle solving abilities [3]; or Galaxy Zoo, which has learning feedback loop between humans and machines that engaged more than 200,000 participants to classify more dramatically improves the quality of both, and thereby than 100 million galaxies [4]. Alternatively, the Web can continually improves the effectiveness of the network as a whole. be used to engage large numbers of participants to actively Human/Computer Learning Networks leverage the contributions collect data and submit it to central data repositories. -
The Non-Market Value of Birding Sites and the Marginal Value of Additional Species: Biodiversity in a Random Utility Model of Site Choice by Ebird Members
Ecological Economics 137 (2017) 1–12 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Ecological Economics journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/ecolecon ANALYSIS The Non-market Value of Birding Sites and the Marginal Value of Additional Species: Biodiversity in a Random Utility Model of Site Choice by eBird Members Sonja Kolstoe a,⁎,TrudyAnnCameronb a Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics and Finance, Salisbury University, United States b Mikesell Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics, Department of Economics, University of Oregon, United States article info abstract Article history: The eBird database is the product of a huge citizen science project at the Cornell University Laboratory of Orni- Received 4 August 2016 thology. Members report their birding excursions both their destinations and the numbers and types of birds Received in revised form 4 December 2016 they observe on each trip. Based on home address information, we calculate travel costs for each birder for Accepted 12 February 2017 trips to alternative birding hotspots. We focus on the Pacific Northwest U.S. (Washington and Oregon states). Available online xxxx Many birders are “listers” who seek to maximize the cumulative number of species they have been able to see, JEL Classification: and each hotspot is characterized by the number of bird species expected to be present. In a random utility Q57 model of destination site choice, we allow for seasonal as well as random heterogeneity in the marginal utility Q51 per bird species. For this population of birders, marginal WTP for an additional bird species is highest in June Q54 when birds are in their mating-season plumage (at more than $3 per species per trip). -
Field Checklist (PDF)
Surf Scoter Marbled Godwit OWLS (Strigidae) Common Raven White-winged Scoter Ruddy Turnstone Eastern Screech Owl CHICKADEES (Paridae) Common Goldeneye Red Knot Great Horned Owl Black-capped Chickadee Barrow’s Goldeneye Sanderling Snowy Owl Boreal Chickadee Bufflehead Semipalmated Sandpiper Northern Hawk-Owl Tufted Titmouse Hooded Merganser Western Sandpiper Barred Owl NUTHATCHES (Sittidae) Common Merganser Least Sandpiper Great Gray Owl Red-breasted Nuthatch Red-breasted Merganser White-rumped Sandpiper Long-eared Owl White-breasted Nuthatch Ruddy Duck Baird’s Sandpiper Short-eared Owl CREEPERS (Certhiidae) VULTURES (Cathartidae) Pectoral Sandpiper Northern Saw-Whet Owl Brown Creeper Turkey Vulture Purple Sandpiper NIGHTJARS (Caprimulgidae) WRENS (Troglodytidae) HAWKS & EAGLES (Accipitridae) Dunlin Common Nighthawk Carolina Wren Osprey Stilt Sandpiper Whip-poor-will House Wren Bald Eagle Buff-breasted Sandpiper SWIFTS (Apodidae) Winter Wren Northern Harrier Ruff Chimney Swift Marsh Wren Sharp-shinned Hawk Short-billed Dowitcher HUMMINGBIRDS (Trochilidae) THRUSHES (Muscicapidae) Cooper’s Hawk Wilson’s Snipe Ruby-throated Hummingbird Golden-crowned Kinglet Northern Goshawk American Woodcock KINGFISHERS (Alcedinidae) Ruby-crowned Kinglet Red-shouldered Hawk Wilson’s Phalarope Belted Kingfisher Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Broad-winged Hawk Red-necked Phalarope WOODPECKERS (Picidae) Eastern Bluebird Red-tailed Hawk Red Phalarope Red-headed Woodpecker Veery Rough-legged Hawk GULLS & TERNS (Laridae) Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Gray-cheeked Thrush Golden -
Early- to Mid-Succession Birds Guild
Supplemental Volume: Species of Conservation Concern SC SWAP 2015 Early- to Mid-Succession Birds Guild Bewick's Wren Thryomanes bewickii Blue Grosbeak Guiraca caerulea Blue-winged Warbler Vermivora pinus Brown Thrasher Toxostoma rufum Chestnut-sided Warbler Dendroica pensylvanic Dickcissel Spiza americana Eastern Kingbird Tyrannus tyrannus Eastern Towhee Pipilo erythrophthalmus Golden-winged Warbler Vermivora chrysoptera Gray Kingbird Tyrannus dominicensis Indigo Bunting Passerina cyanea Orchard Oriole Icterus spurius Prairie Warbler Dendroica discolor White-eyed Vireo Vireo griseus Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus Yellow-breasted Chat Icteria virens NOTE: The Yellow-billed Cuckoo is also discussed in the Deciduous Forest Interior Birds Guild. Contributors (2005): Elizabeth Ciuzio (KYDNR), Anna Huckabee Smith (NCWRC), and Dennis Forsythe (The Citadel) Reviewed and Edited: (2012) John Kilgo (USFS), Nick Wallover (SCDNR); (2013) Lisa Smith (SCDNR) and Anna Huckabee Smith (SCDNR) DESCRIPTION Taxonomy and Basic Description All bird species in this guild belong to the taxonomic order Passeriformes (perching birds) and they are grouped in 9 different families. The Blue-winged, Chestnut-sided, Golden-winged, and Prairie Warblers are in the family Parulidae (the wood warblers). The Eastern and Gray Kingbirds are in the flycatcher family, Tyrannidae. The Blue Grosbeak, Dickcissel, and Indigo Bunting are in the family Cardinalidae. The Bewick’s Wren is in the wren family, Troglodytidae. The orchard oriole belongs to the family Icteridae. The Brown Thrasher is in the family Mimidae, the Yellow-billed Cuckoo belongs to the family Cuculidae, the Eastern Towhee is in the family Emberizidae, and the White-eyed Vireo is in the family Vireonidae. All are small Blue-winged Warbler birds and can be distinguished by song, appearance, and habitat preference. -
Ebird 101: Just the Basics (Sort Of!)
eBird 101: just the basics (sort of!) Introduction to eBird Many club members will by now have heard talk of eBird (www.ebird.ca). For those of you who haven’t, eBird is an online checklist program where anyone is free to join and submit their observations. Everything that is submitted is added to this permanent database and archived for use now and in the future. eBird provides a great tool for individuals, organizations, researchers, conservations, and land managers to access a huge amount of information about the distribution and abundance of the world’s birds. Before we get going, a bit of history is in order. eBird was launched in 2002 by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology with the hypothesis that everyday observations by birders could make a big difference to our understanding about birds. Initially, take-up was slow by birders because there wasn’t much in the way of incentives for people to contribute. However, when eBird began to offer incentives (more on those later) participation grew steadily and in the last several years growth has been amazing, growing exponentially in many places. Beginning in 2006, Bird Studies Canada partnered with Cornell to launch eBird Canada, which is a Canadian-specific “portal” to the site which features Canadian news and features. In Canada, as of November 2015, we had seen over 20 million observations submitted! Ontario leads the way accounting for just under half of the Canadian total. In fact, only California, New York, and California have submitted more data to eBird than Ontario! In this, the first instalment of a three part series, we’ll give you all the information you need to understand how to not just participate but to make the most out of eBird. -
Blue Grosbeak Passerina Caerulea Lush, Low Plants, Growing in Damp Swales, Offer Prime Habitat for the Blue Grosbeak. the Grosbe
Cardinals, Grosbeaks, and Buntings — Family Cardinalidae 549 Blue Grosbeak Passerina caerulea Lush, low plants, growing in damp swales, offer prime habitat for the Blue Grosbeak. The grosbeak is primarily a summer visitor to San Diego County, locally common at the edges of riparian woodland and in riparian scrub like young willows and mule- fat. Blue Grosbeaks can also be common in grassy uplands with scattered shrubs. Migrants are rarely seen away from breeding habitat, and in winter the species is extremely rare. Breeding distribution: The Blue Grosbeak has a distri- bution in San Diego County that is wide but patchy. Areas of concentration correspond to riparian corridors and Photo by Anthony Mercieca stands of grassland; gaps correspond to unbroken chap- arral, forest, waterless desert, and extensive development. breeds up to 4100 feet elevation north of Julian (J20; up Largely insectivorous in summer, the Blue Grosbeak to nine on 1 July 1999, M. B. Stowe) and to 4600 feet at forages primarily among low herbaceous plants, native Lake Cuyamaca (M20; up to five on 10 July 2001, M. B. or exotic. So valley bottoms, where the water necessary Mulrooney). A male near the Palomar Observatory (D15) for the vegetation accumulates, provide the best habitat. 11 June–21 July 1983 (R. Higson, AB 37:1028, 1983) was Grassland is also often good habitat, as can be seen on exceptional—and in an exceptionally wet El Niño year. In Camp Pendleton (the species’ center of abundance in the Anza–Borrego Desert the Blue Grosbeak is confined San Diego County) and from Warner Valley south over as a breeding bird to natural riparian oases. -
Biology 2 Lab Packet for Practical 4 Birds
Bio 2 – Lab Practicum 4 1 Biology 2 Lab Packet For Practical 4 Birds Bio 2 – Lab Practicum 4 2 CLASSIFICATION: Domain: Eukarya Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata – Chordates Class: Aves – Birds Order: Struthioniformes - Ostriches Order: Galliformes - Quail Order: Rheiformes – Rheas Order: Gruiformes – Coots Order: Casuariiformes – Cassowaries Order: Charadriiformes – Gulls and Allies Order: Apterygiformes – Kiwis Order: Columbiformes – Pigeons Order: Sphenisciformes - Penguins Order: Psittaciformes – Parrots Order: Gaviiformes - Loons Order: Cuculiformes – Roadrunners Order: Podicipediformes – Grebes Order: Strigiformes - Owls Order: Procellariiformes – Tube noses Order: Caprimulgiformes – Nighthawks Order: Pelicaniformes – Pelicans Order: Apodiformes – Hummingbirds Order: Ciconiiformes – Herons/Egrets Order: Trogonifomes – Trogons Order: Phoenicopteriformes - Flamingos Order: Coraciformes – Kingfishers Order: Anseriformes – Ducks Order: Piciformes – Woodpeckers Order: Falconiformes – Raptors Order: Passeriformes - Songbirds Introduction – Birds Although chordates vary widely in appearance, they are distinguished as a phylum by the presence of four anatomical features that appear sometime during their life time. They exhibit deuterostome development and bilateral symmetry. Chordates only comprise 5% of the animal species but may be the most commonly known phylum. Birds are endothermic homeotherms which have adapted to many different ecosystems in the world. Station 1 – Class: Aves 1. What three adaptations do birds have for flight? 2. What do all species of birds have? 3. What dinosaurs did birds emerge within? When did they show up? 4. Where are birds found? Bio 2 – Lab Practicum 4 3 Station 2 – Evolutionary History - Archaeopteryx 1. What characteristics are seen in Archaeopteryx that are bird-like? 2. What characteristics are seen in Archaeopteryx that are reptile-like? Station 3 – General Characteristics - Feathers 1. What are feathers made of? 2. -
Worcester County Birdlist
BIRD LIST OF WORCESTER COUNTY, MASSACUSETTS 1931-2019 This list is a revised version of Robert C. Bradbury’s Bird List of Worcester County, Massachusetts (1992) . It contains bird species recorded in Worcester County since the Forbush Bird Club began publishing The Chickadee in 1931. Included in Appendix A, and indicated in bold face on the Master List are bird Species which have been accepted by the Editorial Committee of The Chickadee, and have occurred 10 times or fewer overall, or have appeared fewer than 5 times in the last 20 years in Worcester County. The Editorial Committee has established the following qualifying criteria for any records to be considered of any record not accepted on the Master List: 1) a recognizable specimen 2) a recognizable photograph or video 3) a sight record corroborated by 3 experienced observers In addition, any Review Species with at least one accepted record must pass review of the Editorial Committee of the Chicka dee. Any problematic records which pass review by the Chickadee Editorial Committee, but not meeting the three first record rules above, will be carried into the accepted records of the given species. Included in Appendix B are records considered problematic. Problematic species either do not meet at least one of the qualifying criteria listed above, are considered likely escaped captive birds, have arrived in Worcester County by other than self-powered means, or are species not yet recognized as a count able species by the Editorial Committee of The Chickadee . Species names in English and Latin follow the American Ornithologists’ Union Checklist of North American Birds, 7 th edition, 59th supplement, rev.