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June 02, 2020BCR 206: Paul Desjardins, Longtime Birder
Paul Desjardins, Photo Courtesy of Hartford Audubon Society
Paul Desjardins is a Connecticut birder, a meticulous record keeper of the birds he has seen worldwide. We will focus today on the life and times of this long time and serious birder.
Paul’s love affair with birding began when he was in elementary school. He joined what was then the Hartford Bird Study Club in 1959, when he was just twelve years old. His first recorded field trip was on February 21, 1959, when he visited Old Saybrook for the first time. Since then, he has made an astonishing 6445 recorded outings !! Paul has a North American Life List of 728 species, with 376 in Connecticut, and 236 in the South Windsor meadows.
Show Notes:
when you got serious about birding? What tools did you have, who were your mentors and where did you go?
In Air Force basic training what memorable bird did you see?
You once met Allan Cruickshank in Arizona, tell us the story, and remind our audience who he was.
What’s with you and the estimable ladybird Johnson?
You birded in two states in one day in 1989, what was so special about that?
on two different occasions and places you were able to scoop up two good state birds in one day.
You have been birding in much of the lower 48 states; tell us about your trip to Gambell Alaska.
What are some of the rarest birds that you have seen in U S?
Your thoughts on finding first state record for Townsend’s Warbler in CT this year 2020.
Tell us about your best one day warbler count, where it was, what species, species totals and the day.
Hartford Audubon Society trip to Jamaica Bay one year you saw 99 species
keeping records for each sighting, what system you use, what details are captured how do you use these records?
Favorite patch or area you revisit often?
One last thought on records, it would seem to me that such records in detail, over a long period of time would have some value to future generations. What is your view?
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May 19, 2020BCR 205: Bruce Beehler & Tim Laman, New Guinea
Dr. Bruce Beehler, a renowned author and expert on New Guinea, and award-winning National Geographic photographer Dr. Tim Laman joins BirdCallsRadio to talk about their lastest book and takes us on an unforgettable journey through the natural and cultural wonders of the world’s grandest island. Skillfully combining a wealth of information, a descriptive and story-filled narrative, and more than 200 stunning color photographs, the book unlocks New Guinea’s remarkable secrets like never before.
Rain forest covered mountains of the Sarawaget range, Huon Peninsula, Papua New Guinea. This is the region of the YUS Conservation Area. Photograph ©Tim Laman. All Rights Reserved.
Lying between the Equator and Australia’s north coast, and surrounded by the richest coral reefs on Earth, New Guinea is the world’s largest, highest, and most environmentally complex tropical island—home to rainforests with showy rhododendrons, strange and colorful orchids, tree-kangaroos, spiny anteaters, ingenious bowerbirds, and spectacular birds of paradise.
Male Blue Bird-of-Paradise (Paradisaea rudolphi) in a fruiting tree. Endangered Species (IUCN Red list: VU). Photograph ©Tim Laman. All Rights Reserved.
New Guinea is also home to more than a thousand traditional human societies, each with its own language and lifestyle, and many of these tribes still live in isolated villages and serve as stewards of the rainforests they inhabit.
Villagers at Payakona Village in a traditional singsing ceremony put on as part of a “compensation”. Feathers of multiple species of Birds of Paradise adorn their headdresses, which are famiy heirlooms. Traditional use of feathers such as this continues in New Guinea. Photograph ©Tim Laman All Rights Reserved.
Human population growth is a major underlying threat that looms on the horizon. When population density is low, subsistence agriculture an local forest and coastal resource extraction can be environmentally sustainable. With higherpopulationdensity, sustainability disappears.
View of Arfak Mountains across bay from outside town of Manokwari. ©Tim Laman. All Rights Reserved.
Accessible and authoritative, New Guinea provides a comprehensive introduction to the island’s environment, animals, plants, and traditional rainforest cultures. Individual chapters cover the island’s history of exploration; geology; climate and weather; biogeography; plantlife; insects, spiders, and other invertebrates; freshwater fishes; snakes, lizards, and frogs; birdlife; mammals; paleontology; paleoanthropology; cultural and linguistic diversity; surrounding islands and reefs; the pristine forest of the Foja Mountains; village life; and future sustainability.
Long-nosed Tree Frog (Litoria sp nov). New species discovered by Paul Oliver at 1200 m elevation in the Foja Mountains. Photograph ©Tim Laman. All Rights Reserved.
Complete with informative illustrations and a large, detailed map, New Guinea offers an enchanting account of the island’s unequalled natural and cultural treasures.
Very low tide reveals the coral reef from above the surface. Exploratory dive trip with Max Amar, Gerry and Mark Allen. Photograph ©Tim Laman. All Rights Reserved.
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Show Notes:
Natural history of New Guinea
Documenting the natural history of the region through photography
Island’s geographic history
Theory of island biogeography
Current geography of bird distribution
Estimated 10,000 species of moths, photo of collection tray of moths caught in just one might.
Broad look at New Guinea bird families and why they are so diverse.
bird photos in this book are simply extraordinary.
Importance of this region
First impressions upon being immersed in this pristine forest
What does the future look like for New Guinea?
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Addendum: BCR 198: Bruce Beehler, Ph.D., Natural Encounters
Bruce Beehler
Huon Tree Kangaroo (Dendrolagus matschiei) female and joey peer over branch. Endangered species from the Huon Peninsula, Papua New Guinea. Photograph ©Tim Laman All Rights Reserved.
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1 hr 5 min
May 12, 2020BCR 204: Jeffrey Ward, Science Communicator, NYC Birder
Jeffrey Ward, a self-described science communicator who works to educate people on what they can do to protect birds and their habitats. Loves leading walks with children. Been into animals his whole life and started birding in 2014 after his spark bird moment in 2013.
Show Notes:
Proudly proclaims to be born and raised in the Bronx.
Your interests in animals.
What spark your interest in birds?
What qualities and skills are necessary to be successful as bird guide.
Your presence on social media is apparent.
Birding competitions, Instagram live sessions.
Strengths in birding.
Leading walks with children.
Champion the notion that cats should be kept indoors.
Birder of color gives you a unique lens.
Advice do you have for young people who are interested in nature birding conserervation.
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Twitter: JeffreyMWard
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26 min
May 05, 2020BCR 203: Lynn Barber, Big Years, Biggest States Birding in Texas and Alaska
Lynn E. Barber is the 1st women to complete a North American Big Year & identify over 700+ species; Shares her experience in these two diverse landscapes of Texas and Alaska and explains how to plan & enjoy a Big Year of your own with over 100+ color photos along with illustrations in her latest book.
Lynn was born in Wisconsin, and has lived (in order) in Alaska, Oregon, North Carolina, Texas, South Dakota, and now again, Alaska. Her books, Extreme Birding: One Woman’s Big Year(2011);Birds in Trouble (2016); and Big Years, Biggest States: Birding in Texas and Alaska (2020) were published by Texas A&M University Press. Other avocations include painting birds, bird-photography, giving bird-related talks, church volunteer activities, playing the hammered dulcimer, and baking cookies. She is married to David Barber, a meteorologist with the US Weather Service in Anchorage.
Show Notes:
You have done several biggest years in addition to the two mentioned in this book, tell us about the others.
Tell us about the Texas Big Year.
Next big year was Alaska, what was the plan for this vast state with few roads?
What was the best and hardest bird in Texas and Alaska?
Tell us about the illustrations both photos and art found in the text?
Devote considerable space in the book to include an extensive write up of each species seen listed by state.
Doing a big year may be expensive, break this down for us.
Essential kit for a big year type travel either by auto or by planes, clothes, equipment, note taking and such.
Final statistics for each portion.
Describe your vision for the outrageous biggest year.
What were your concerns as a sometimes solo traveler about your safety?
What advice do you have for someone considering a biggest year?
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Purchase Book directly Click link here ➨ Lynn E. Barber Email: [email protected] Call: 682-365-6531
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35 min
April 28, 2020BCR 202: Lauren McGough, Falconer
Lauren McGough, Falconer. Golden Eagle on the glove. Photo Courtsey ©Rob Palmer All Rights Reserved.
Dr. Lauren McGough is a licensed and practicing falconer since age 14. Lauren has been particularly enamored with golden eagles as hunting partners – a unique branch of falconry that has only a handful of practitioners in the United States. After spending two years as an exchange student in the United Kingdom and learning the strong European tradition of eagle falconry, she graduated from the University of Oklahoma with dual degrees in Zoology and International Studies. In 2009, she was a Fulbright Scholar to Mongolia, where she apprenticed herself to local eagle masters and trained eagles for hunting foxes off of horseback. She loved Kazakh eagle culture so much, that she earned a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of St Andrews in Scotland on the subject.
Show Notes:
Early days, what was the spark for an interest in falconry?
You became a licensed and practicing falconer when you were 14.
Expand on the notion, that falconers in the United States hunt with falcons and hawks, almost nobody hunted with eagles.
Fulbright Scholar in the Altai Mountains of Mongolia a reality.
Studying the traditional cultural practices and folkways of Kazakh eagle hunters. apprenticed to local eagle masters, trained eagles for hunting foxes off of horseback lived with a family of nomadic herders.
Mastery of hunting with eagles with the Kazakh Berkutchi means you had to catch an eagle.
Partnerships & Understanding Between Kazakh Pastoralists and Golden Eagles of the Altai Mountains
Using techniques also to rehabilitate African Crowned Eagles in South Africa.
Tell us about the eagle you are currently flying.
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51 min
April 21, 2020BCR 201: Eleanor Jones Harvey, Alexander von Humboldt and the United States
Dr. Eleanor Jones Harvey is senior curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, photo by ©Libby Weiler.
Eleanor Jones Harvey is senior curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. She earned her Ph.D. in the history of art from Yale University. Her last project was the award-winning exhibition and book from 2012, The Civil War and American Art. Her current exhibition and book project explores the considerable impact of Alexander von Humboldt on American art and culture in this newly anticipated book “Alexander von Humboldt and the United States Art, Nature, and Culture”. This book is in collaboration with Smithsonian American Art Museum within The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC; Published by Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford.
Book Cover Art: L. Back Cover; Friedrich Georg Weitsch, Portrait of Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859), 1806, oil on canvas, 49 5/8 x 36 3/8 in., Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Photo: bpk Bildagentur / Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen, Berlin, Germany / Klaus Goeken / Art Resource, NY. R. Front Cover Art: Frederic Edwin Church, The Natural Bridge, Virginia, 1852, oil on canvas, 28 x 23 in. The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia, Gift of Thomas Fortune Ryan.
Let me start off by saying that this is simply an astonishing book. The depth of research, the meticulous documentation and scope of the included art and first hand accounts, impress the reader at every page turn. This is not a quick read, it will have place of honor in our household and undoubtedly be revisited time and time again. The very foundations of American scientific thought are investigated here and our laid out for all to understand. I fear that our time spent here in our conversation today will only hint at the scope and hopefully whet one’s appetite to secure their copy and, when the exhibit that is based on this work finally opens, visit it too.
Cat. 91 Frederic Edwin Church, Cotopaxi, 1855, oil on canvas, 28 x 42 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Frank R. McCoy, 1965.12, Photo by Gene Young. Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Book Page above 336
Cat. 55 Albert Bierstadt, Valley of the Yosemite, 1864, oil on paperboard, 11 7/8 x 19 1/4 in., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Gift of Martha C. Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Paintings, 1815–1865, 47.1236, Photograph © 2020 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Book Page above 254
Cat. 63 Mató-Tópe, Battle with a Cheyenne Chief, 1834, watercolor and pencil on paper, 12 3/8 x 15 3/8 in., Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, Gift of the Enron Art Foundation, 1986.49.384, Photograph © Bruce M. White, 2019. Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Book Pages above 271 and below 140, 411
Cat. 26 Skeleton of the Mastodon, excavated 1801–2 by Charles Willson Peale, bone, wood, and papier mâché, approx. 118 × 177 × 65 in., Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, Germany, Photo: Wolfgang Fuhrmannek, © Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt. Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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Show Notes:
Who was Alexander von Humboldt and what training did he have prior to his voyage of discovery?
The work, “Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent during the Years 1799–1804”.
June of 1804, Humboldt met with President Thomas Jefferson in Washington, DC
The Long and Fremont expeditions, George Catlin and later Prince Maximilian and Bodmer.
Humboldt published the five-volume work Cosmos between 1845 and 1859.
Who were William Dunlap, John Trumbull and Samuel F. B. Morse and what did they discover in Thomas Cole?
Frederick Edwin Church and how did he channel Humboldt and the painting Heart of the Andes?
Concord Transcendentalists.
Humboldt and Agassiz were at odds over one fundamental issue based on “scientific racism”.
Humboldt influence Arnold Guyot’s interest in geology and meteorology.
Humboldt’s connection to the 1st transatlantic telegraph cable
Simon Bolivar considered Humboldt “the discoverer of the New World”.
Humboldt’s influence eventually reached Dr. Harvey and James Smithson in Europe
“Dusting for fingerprints to find his influence…”
The list of Lenders to the Exhibition and hence the book is impressive.
Tell us what is planned for the Humboldt exhibits.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
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1 hr 25 min
April 14, 2020BCR 200: John W. Fitzpatrick, Executive Director of Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Today’s show is one of BirdCallsRadio’s featured series called “For The Record, Legacy Interviews” with this series 10th guest Dr. John W. Fitzpatrick, Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Executive Director of Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Cornell University, and Professor for The Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. John still wears three hats, one as a leader of a prestigious institution, two as an educator and three as an active ornithologist.
Show Notes:
What early influences shaped your interest in birds and the natural world?
Tell us about your work with Tyrant Flycatchers and other Neotropical avifauna in Central and South America.
Intern at the Archbold Biological Station, Studied the Florida Scrub Jay with Glen Wolfenden.
A stint as the curator for the Field Museum of Natural History.
Since 1995 you have been the Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Executive Director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Since you have been leading the lab, what has been the most significant milestones.
The role of Professor, Educator in ornithology and conservation biology at Cornell fit into the scheme?
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology
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41 min
April 07, 2020BCR 199: Christopher Leahy, Birds of Mongolia
Christopher Leahy was the first occupant of the Gerard A. Bertrand Chair of Natural History and Field Ornithology at the Massachusetts Audubon Society from 2001 to 2017. From 1985 to 2001 he was Director of Mass Audubon’s Center for Biological Conservation.
Chris retired from Mass Audubon in the spring of 2017, after a 45 year career as a professional naturalist and conservationist, but continues to work on selected conservation projects under the Bertrand Chair (emeritus). His comprehensive interest in natural history began in childhood, and he is a recognized authority on birds and insects.
Perhaps his deepest international involvement has been in Mongolia, which he first visited in 1982 and to which he has returned almost annually since the early 1990’s following the end of Soviet domination and the establishment of a parliamentary democracy and market economy. Between 2009 and 2011, he worked to create a conservation program within Nomadic Expeditions, the country’s premier travel operator to promote sustainable ecotourism though guide training, marketing, publications, and exploration of new itineraries. More recently he has played a significant role in an international project involving American, Mongolian and European scientists, naturalists, park administrators and others to improve the infrastructure and management of Mongolia’s national park system.
Show Notes:
Gombobaatar Sundev, Mongolia’s foremost ornithologist.
Mongolia almost defies imagination.
Describe the topography and climate of the region.
What are the main ecological zones and habitats?
Describe the climate of Mongolia.
Mongolian’s traditional resource conservation and the practice of sustainable use of resources.
Mongolia known as the last wilderness nation?
Mongolia’s best-kept secret is that it is one of the world’s greatest bird sanctuaries.
History of Ornithology in Mongolia.
What are the best places for a birder to visit when time is limited?
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1 hr 7 min
March 31, 2020BCR 198: Bruce Beehler, Ph.D., Natural Encounters
BRUCE M. BEEHLER, Ph.D. is an ornithologist, naturalist, conservationist, author, and lecturer. He is a research associate in the division of birds at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. He served as a scientist and conservationist for the Smithsonian Institution, Conservation International, U.S. Department of State, and Wildlife Conservation Society.
Bruce is best known for coleading a survey of biological diversity in the Foja Mountains of Papua New Guinea in 2005, during which the Wattled Smoky Honeyeater was discovered and the Bronze Parotia and Golden-fronted Bowerbird were photographed for the first time. He has published eleven books about nature that include, Lost Worlds: Adventures in the Tropical Rainforest and North on the Wing: Travels with the Songbird Migration of Spring; and Natural Encounters, biking, hiking and birding through the Seasons.
Show Notes:
Keeping field notes
Who was Louis Halle
Starting your natural year in the summer
Existential value of a pleasurable natural experience
Summer you visit favorite regional areas
Make longer road trips
Arrival of the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Storms 1962 and Sandy
Observe that leaves switch abruptly
Return of the beaver
Describe winter as having three stages
Who was William Vogt
Spring time run to Eastern North Carolina
May 1, is the opening season for birding in DC
The attraction of the Northeast Kingdom Vermont
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Addendum: BCR 205: Bruce Beehler & Tim Laman, New Guinea
Bruce Beehler
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1 hr 24 min
March 24, 2020BCR 197: Wenfei Tong Ph.D., Bird Love
Wenfei is a biologist with a passion for understanding and conserving the natural world. She has been a keen birder since the age of 12, and has gone on to share her love of birds through her paintings, photography, research, teaching, nature guiding and writing. Wenfei has just moved to New York City from Alaska, where she was a professor in the biology department, and where she wrote most of her first book, Bird Love, The Family Life Of Birds. She spends part of her summers in Montana, where she guides birding and nature tours on horseback.
Show Notes:
Many of us were lucky enough to have mentors at key points in our life.
Your latest book celebrates bird reproduction.
Birds are essentially living dinosaurs and most bird reproductive strategies have seen eons of evolution.
Dunocks and what they show us about the cooperation and conflict within a couple.
Flashy courtship displays and the Red Queen hypothesis.
Leks, what are they, and why do they exist?
Bird eggs, vary in size, design and the many uses of eggs shell colors.
Why does an adult Gentoo Penguin run away from its chick when it’s feeding time?
Cuckoos and Cowbirds.
You describe an evolutionary arms race by those birds in parasitic relationships.
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