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Cornell Lab of Ornithology SUMMER 2010 LIVING BIRD Cornell Lab of Ornithology SUMMER 2010 Living Bird / Summer 2010 1 CRYSTAL CLEAR, RUGGED, ERGONOMIC SLC 42 HD. A CLASSIC PERFECTED The fluoride containing HD lenses guarantee bright, high contrast IVING IRD LSummer 2010 Volume 29 / Number 3 B images with maximum color fidelity. The SLC 42 HD also offers enhanced coating technology, a large field of view and a new focusing mechanism. Features 18 Albatross Island by Cliff Beittel In the vast North Pacifi c, halfway between San Francisco and Japan, Midway Atoll boasts the largest albatross colony in the world. 28 Flamingos of the Altiplano by Marita Davison and Jennifer Moslemi On a high, lonely plateau in the Andes, a little-known population of volcano fl amingos struggles to survive in a changing world. 34 Exploring the Falkland Islands by Gary Kramer Charles Darwin dropped in on these remote islands in 1833, during his epic voyage of discovery. Now, more than 175 years later, they are still a spectacular place to watch wildlife. Columns & Departments 4 Letters 42 Books for Birders by Stephen J. Bodio 8 Around the Lab NEW FOCUSING MECHANISM 18 for extremely quick and precise 46 A Naturalist’s 10 ScienceScope adjustment Cover: A young Laysan Albatross on Midway Atoll. See article on Notebook page 18. Photograph by Cliff Beittel. 12 Spotlight by John Schmitt Back cover: A Magellanic Penguin on the Falkland Islands. See article by David S. Wilcove on page 34. Photograph by Gary Kramer. HIGH-PERFORMANCE HD OPTICS for maximum color fidelity, perfect contrast and impressive transmission COMPACT and RUGGED thanks to an ergonomically optimized design and lightweight magnesium housing SEE THE UNSEEN WWW.SWAROVSKIOPTIK.COM 12 SWAROVSKI OPTIK NORTH AMERICA LTD 2 Slater Road, Cranston, RI 02920 Tel. 800-426-3089, Fax 401-734-5888 2 Living Bird / Summer 2010 Living Bird / Summer 2010 3 [email protected] LIVING BIRD Letters Summer 2010 Volume 29 / Number 3 Editorial Staff Editor-in-Chief: Tim Gallagher a specimen. This is truly the statement of Terry Morgan articulates the view of many Design Director: Kat Dalton Overkill? Assistant Editor: Miyoko Chu the taxonomist at play. (“Scientists learn Technical Editors: Kevin J. McGowan nature enthusiasts who question the utility From the Editor Kenneth V. Rosenberg I read with dismay the article by Hugh the boundaries that defi ne a species as Science Editor: Hugh Powell and morality of collecting bird specimens. Staff Writer: Pat Leonard Powell chronicling the adventures of four well as the way the species varies from No responsible scientist would condone hen I heard about the oil leak gushing from the seafl oor in the Gulf of Publications Assistant: Jennifer Smith young ornithologists surveying the Peru- one individual to another.”) It simply is Contributing Editors: Stephen J. Bodio collecting an Ivory-billed Woodpecker to- Mexico, it seemed like déjà vu, bringing back haunting memories of an oil Jack Connor vian wilderness (“Stretching the Canvas,” not important at this stage of the world Pete Dunne day, for any reason whatsoever. " e most Mel White Spring 2010). What started out as the sto- to place a newly discovered species in the spill I witnessed two decades ago in California. An oil tanker had ripped David S. Wilcove important principle followed by all modern Advertising Manager: Susanna Lawson ry of the commendable efforts of youth to proper phylogenetic sequence using this Wa hole in its hull, and more than 400,000 gallons of Alaska crude escaped into the sensitive scientists who collect birds for study is to sac- Administrative Staff inventory the birdlife of a remote moun- approach. Nor do we need to learn that waters just off Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve—my favorite place to go birding. barbets “eat largely fruit” by examining rifi ce no more than a few individuals of any Louis Agassiz Fuertes Director tain range soon turned into an apology for Nothing could have prepared me for the grim nightmare world I walked through the next John W. Fitzpatrick collecting birds in the fi eld. Although the the contents of their stomachs; we already one species, and only when doing so has no Senior Director, Development & Philanthropy day. Vast swaths of beach sand were covered in oil, and the whole place reeked of petroleum. Sean Scanlon exuberance of discovering a potential new know it from the most casual observation. chance of jeopardizing a local population of Birds were already dying, washing up on the shore, covered in oil and gasping for air. Director, Individual Giving species perhaps justifi es the collecting of Perhaps it is time to examine the com- that species. Numerous studies confi rm that Scott Sutcliffe the type specimen, there is no excuse for monality of interests between biologists, I volunteered as a bird cleaner, helping to wash the stricken birds in hot, soapy water until Director, Program Development & Evaluation removal of a few individuals from a healthy Richard E. Bonney, Jr. collecting another seven. What measures birders, and conservationists. Too often bird population has no lasting impact on every last vestige of oil was gone. We did release a large number of cleaned birds, though it’s Director, Multimedia John Bowman were taken to assure that “the barbets were birders assume that there is a unity of population size. Even adult territory hold- diffi cult to say how many ultimately survived or how much damage was done to the habitat. Director, Communications numerous here”? We are not told. What goals. Yet atavism runs deep. Apparently ers are quickly replaced by juveniles or non- Of course, the ecological effects of the 1990 Bolsa Chica oil spill pale in comparison with the Miyoko Chu is more likely is that the enthusiasts col- there is yet an institutionalized philosophy Director, Bioacoustics Research Program breeding “fl oaters,” just as they are routinely Deepwater Horizon leak, which is unprecedented in size and scope. The Lab of Ornithology has Christopher W. Clark lected every bird they could fi nd. of collecting among the biologist commu- replaced after being taken by a predator. Director, Bird Population Studies After acknowledging that “cameras nity that harkens back to the expeditions a team in place documenting the effects of the oil and has also begun deploying underwater André A. Dhondt Scientifi c collecting of birds by trained pro- Director, Citizen Science can now capture plumage details by the of old, the glory days of natural history recorders to determine how marine animals are responding to the leak. And eBird participants Janis Dickinson megapixel, and PCR machines can assay museums. Those of us who are not steeped fessionals and students produces absolutely Director, Marketing are submitting Gulf Coast bird-sighting reports, providing important data. To learn more about Mary Guthrie DNA from just a fl ake of tissue,” Powell in so hoary a tradition can make protest no net “loss to the ecosystem,” while yielding these efforts, see page 8. Director, Information Science extremely useful information about the biol- Steve Kelling postulates that “it is only by making speci- by refraining from funding programs that Director, Fuller Evolutionary Biology mens that scientists gain a full record of harbor such perspectives and urging na- ogy of the species under study. Irby J. Lovette an animal or plant for the future.” What tions and conservation land managers to Director, Conservation Science Although the total population size of the Kenneth V. Rosenberg about the present? The students could not deny access to institutional researchers new barbet was not estimated in detail, it Director, Education possibly have determined the status of the until they are willing to commit to a set Nancy M. Trautmann could reasonably be assumed to number in of years humans have been accumulating readers interested in a more in-depth discus- barbet in just three weeks. What they did of lay-developed guidelines defi ning truly Director, Macaulay Library the thousands. Barbets of the genus Capito knowledge about how the natural world is sion should read the articles listed below. Michael S. Webster was follow the maxim of their institution- responsible, noninvasive fi eld techniques. are territorial and distributed more or less constituted, and how it got that way. We Administrative Board al predecessors of the last century: a bird It is unfortunate that the considerable John Fitzpatrick Edward W. Rose III, Chair continuously across the forest canopy in ap- think these are still worthwhile endeavors, Louis Agassiz Fuertes Director Ellen G. Adelson Kathryn M. Kiplinger in the hand is worth two in the bush. accomplishments of the Peruvian expedi- Andrew H. Bass David S. Litman propriate habitat. " e students did ascertain and today’s many threats to global biodiver- James R. Carpenter Linda R. Macaulay The “full record” of birds collected in tion are overshadowed by the eulogy to a Cornell Lab of Ornithology Scott V. Edwards Claudia Madrazo that the forest occupied by this species on sity make understanding details of the natu- Alexander Ellis III William K. Michener the past is nowhere near as complete as to- practice whose times has passed, but that William T. Ellison Edwin H. Morgens this mountain ridge extended unbroken for ral world all the more crucial. Videos, pho- Remsen, J.V. 1995. The importance of continued col- Victor L. Emanuel Wendy J. Paulson day’s living records of birds’ behavior cap- is indeed the slant the author chose to lecting of bird specimens to ornithology and bird con- Russell B. Faucett Leigh H. Perkins, Jr. John H. Foote Elizabeth T. Rawlings tured by video and audio in the fi eld. The impart. A modest proposal here: the Lab many miles north and south of their camp- tographs, and sound recordings are indeed servation.
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