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- BCR 186: BirdCallsRadio NEWS REEL
Today’s show is about what BirdCallsRadio and Podcast has been up to this year. This episode called “BCR News Reel” will reflect on our endeavors for 2019 and looks at what’s ahead for an exciting year in 2020!
Welcome back to BirdcallsRadio and season’s greetings to everybody. Hope you had a great holiday with your family and friends. I certainly did including finishing up my 32nd Christmas Bird Count this year as a participant and my 10th year as Co-compiler for the Westport CTWE CBC on Dec 16, 2019.
Show Notes:
- Thanks You’s to all our Guests, Sponsors and Donors.
- Guest Highlights.
- Attending Festival and Conferences.
- BCR Annouces NEW Opportunities & Coverage.
- The THRUSHY AWARD
- BCR attending & slated for 2020
- BCR Wish List
Mentioned In Episode:
BCR Events
Thrushy Award
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40 min - BCR 185: Holly Merker, Environmental Educator
Holly Merker is passionate about outdoor education, and the therapeutic value of connecting all people to the natural world, Holly Merker works with people of all ages towards that goal. In recent years, Holly has worked as a birding instructor and guide for National Audubon’s Hog Island Camp, Red Knot Outfitters Birding Guides, and the American Birding Association.
Holly recently co-founded the Crossley ID Boot Camp, with author Richard Crossley, to help people better learn bird identification.She has taught many workshops, classes, and programs on birds, bird identification, and citizen science. In addition to her bird-focused endeavors, Holly can also be found teaching watershed ecology to thousands of school students at a non-profit organization in South Eastern Pennsylvania.
Focused on bird distributions and populations, Holly serves as the Pennsylvania State Reviewer Coordinator for Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s eBird.org, and is the Chair and Voting Member of the Pennsylvania Ornithological Records Committee. A strong believer in giving back to her community, Holly currently serves on the Boards of Directors for: Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, Pennsylvania Society for Ornithology, the Delaware Ornithological Society, and is a Founding Member and Co-Chair of the annual Frontiers in Ornithology: A Symposium for Youth.
Show Notes:
- Art therapy. Using birds and nature therapeutically in your work.
- 2002 was a tough year and period in your life.for you and your family.
- toes in many endeavors; tell us about the professional organizations that you have worked with.
- You serve on the Board of Directors of multiple organizations. Why do you devote so much time giving back to the birding and conservation community through volunteer hours?
- Devote a lot of your time to working with young people.
- Co-founder, and current Co-Chair of the successful Frontiers in Ornithology: A Symposium for Youth.
- the role of Chair of your state bird records committee. Share with us some of your records committee’s challenges, goals, and why you think records committees remain a vital part of the birding community.
- Citizen science and why are you so keen on it?
- Your role with eBird, and how long have you been involved with the project?
- You have a new business and are the co-founder of ID Boot Camp, with noted bird guide author, Richard Crossley.
Mentioned In Episode:
BCR 187: Richard Crossley, The ID Boot Camp
The Crossley ID Boot Camp Website
Frontiers in Ornithology: A Symposium for Youth
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50 min - BCR 184: Geoff LeBaron, Director, Audubon Christmas Bird Count
Geoff LaBaron, is the Director of the Christmas Bird Count International for the National Audubon Society, a position Geoff has held since 1987. Geoff is an integral member of the Audubon Science Division, Geoff also works on the other Community Science projects including Climate Watch, Hummingbirds at Home, and the Great Backyard Bird Count, as well as ornithological and birding advisor on projects from the Conservation Science team.
The first CBCs were done on Christmas Day of 1900, as a program to count birds rather than hunt them during the Holidays. Beginning on Christmas Day in 1900, Dr. Frank M. Chapman, founder of Bird-Lore proposed a new holiday tradition that would count birds during the holidays rather than hunt them. Conservation was in its beginning stages in that era, and many observers and scientists were becoming concerned about declining bird populations. So began the Christmas Bird Count. 120 years later, the tradition continues and still manages to bring out the best in people and contribute valuable data to the worldwide scientific community.
Show Notes:
- When did the CBC start, and why?
- Who were the Founders and where was the first CBC?
- Basic notion of count circle and how is it determined?
- Current talk about citizen science, in reality the CBC is the longest running wildlife census and relies almost entirely on volunteers. What is the impact of this data as a scientific tool?
- Why has CBC data been so vital to our understanding of birds and is it still relevant today?
- What are the drawbacks to CBC data?
- The CBC has long been aware of the vagaries of individual sightings, how do you ensure that sightings and counts are relatively accurate?
- The diversity of CBC’s, in terms of locations and countries.
- Starting a new CBC, what are the requirements?
- How does the CBC differ from eBird and why is it still relevant today?
- How can eBird and the CBC’s compliment each other or be used together for those who utilize eBird?
- If you were to start CBC count efforts from scratch, would there be a better time period, from the strictly science perspective, to do this?
Mentioned In Episode:
Audubon Christmas Bird Count
Audubon’s Christmas Bird Count told by Chan Robbins
Christmas Bird Count History
BCR 083: Chandler S. Robbins; 1st For The Record, Legacy Interview Series – BirdCallsRadio
National Audubon Society
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1 hr 3 min - BCR 183: Roger Pasquier, Author of Birds In Winter
On today’s show is our guest Roger F. Pasquier, Author of five books that includes his latest book “Birds In Winter, Surviving the Most Challenging Season”. Illustrations by Margaret La Farge; Published by Princeton University Press in August 2019.
Roger F. Pasquier, is currently Associate, Vertebrate Zoology, Ornithology, American Museum of Natural History. Prior to this he had experience at Wave Hill Center for Environmental Studies in the Bronx, then as a curatorial assistant in the Department of Ornithology at the American Museum of Natural History, on to the U.S. National Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. He then worked for the International Council for Bird Preservation, the World Wildlife Fund-U.S., the Environmental Defense Fund, and the National Audubon Society. He was also the treasurer of the Xerces Society (devoted to butterfly and other invertebrate conservation), a trustee and then chairman of RARE, a founder of the Friends of the Peruvian Rainforest, and a trustee of the Rainforest Trust.
Mr. Pasquier has written several books on birds and art. The birds of the Republic of Panama, Part 4, Alexander Wetmore, Roger F. Pasquier, Storrs L. Olson, Smithsonian Institution, 1984. Watching Birds – An Introduction to Ornithology, Houghton Mifflin, 1977, with a foreword by Roger Tory Peterson. This was also reviewed in the Journal of Wildlife Management by the late Chandler S. Robbins and in many other publications including the New York Times. Masterpieces of Bird Art: 700 Years of Ornithological Illustration, Abbevill Press, New York, 1991 with a foreword by Roger Tory Peterson. PAINTING CENTRAL PARK, Roger F. Pasquier, The Vendome Press (Oct 6, 2015), with a foreword by Amanda M. Burden. Amanda Burden is the former director of the New York City Department of City Planning and chair of the City Planning Commission. 100 masterpieces from 150 years of Central Park by the likes of Winslow Homer, George Bellows, Childe Hassam, and Marc Chagall.
Show Notes:
- You are a self-described lifelong birdwatcher, and spend time in Central Park through the years watching birds. At some point your career focus shifted from art to conservation, can you tell us about this transformation?
- The many black and white illustrations by Margaret La Farge in Birds in Winter, help amplify the rich content. How did the collaboration with Ms. La Farge come about and what was your goal for the art
- Approximately 10 thousand species birds in the world, how many of them actually experience winter?
- Winter brings bird’s cold weather, shorter days and the continual challenge to find food and shelter. What are some of the coping skills employed by various birds to meet the challenges?
- What are some adaptations specific to winter survival?
- What are the wintering patterns in other hemispheres?
- Territorial behaviors and foraging patterns employed by wintering shorebirds, swifts and songbirds.
- What behaviors signal the coming spring to wintering birds?
- How do birds know when winter is over and its time to move?
Mentioned In Episode:
Purchase Book at Princeton University Press. Click link here ➨ Birds In Winter, Surviving the Most Challenging Season
Roger F. Pasquier presentations:
- Connecticut Audubon Society – Tuesday, December 10, 2019.
- NYC Audubon – Monday, December 16, 7-8pm Parish House of Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church
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50 min - BCR 182: Keith Mueller, Bird Artist and Sculptor
Keith Mueller, a native New Englander, has been carving professionally for over forty years and author of his latest book just published called Half-Sized Great Horned Owl. He resides in Killingworth, Connecticut. Keith was originally educated as an engineer/draftsman, but his carving and painting skills are self-taught. Mr. Mueller has been awarded the celebrated title of World Champion bird carver seven times and is one of only two bird carvers world-wide to win four of five divisions at World Level Competition at the prestigious Ward World Championships also including two “People’s Choice” Awards. Keith has been honored and awarded the prestigious “Living Legends” title from the Ward Museum of Wildfowl Art as well as being honored three times as “Living Legend-Master Folk Artist” in decoy carving by the State of Connecticut sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts. Keith is also currently working on an innovative birding identification book and guide entitled “Identifying the Winter Alcids of New England”. He has also created his innovative Color System, Color Bar and Mixing Guide.
Show Notes:
- Costa Rica to see the birds and especially the Resplendent Quetzel.
- What was the Krausman’s Woodcarving Studio 2016 Costa Rica “Pura Vida” Bird carving Extravaganza!
- Difference between carving decoys and bird art?
- Steps in a bird carving walk us through them as they relate to a single bird.
- Teach classes in bird carving.
- Spending time in the field observing birds and gathering information for art projects.
- In the field, you are often capturing photos of birds and habitats, how does photography play into the art production?
- Pelagic trip and very realistic decoys of various seabirds in the water.
- Use of your decoys in a wide variety of conservation efforts.
- Conservation of birds is important to you.
Mentioned In Episode:
Contact Keith Mueller through Facebook
Purchase Book Half-Sized Great Horned Owl at Wildfowl Carving Magazine
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2019 Ward’s World bird carving competition
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49 min - BCR 181: Wildlife Telemetry
On todays show are my next guests, Michael Lanzone, CEO; Casey Halverson COO; David LaPuma, PhD., Director of Global Market Development from Cellular Tracking Technologies. This conversation will give you a deep dive into the world of wildlife Telemetry.
The founders of Cellular Tracking Technologies have over 40 years of telemetry research experience between them. In 2007, when not satisfied with the current products on the market, they created Cellular Tracking Technologies in order to bring the newest innovations and highest levels of service to the wildlife research market. Cellular Tracking Technologies is a small and nimble company that constantly strives to make improvements to our telemetry units and data visualization systems for both customer and our own satisfaction. In 2019, we are celebrating our 12th year as the world’s leading wildlife telemetry company.
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Show Notes:
- Explain telemetry for the lay person.
- Talk about the downside of all this technology.
- Who are the potential users of CTT telemetry products.
- It is one thing to track a critter around a particular area or region, but it is quiet another to track a small songbird that travels from Canada to South America and back in a year.
- What role does the Cornell Ornithology Lab have in the development of trackers?
- New LifeTag tracker can be deployed on songbirds.
- Walk us through the concepts of sensor stations, nodes and locators.
- The needs of the researchers in the field are paramount to you success, how do you work with researchers to develop solutions to real world problems?
- What is Argos and how does if differ from the similar service from Iridium?
- Difference between GPS and GNSS and which is better?
- Tell us about the preference for UHF for LifeTag and PowerTags.
- Give us some examples of positive results derived from use of your trackers.
- What is the internet of wildlife?
Mentioned In Episode:
Cellular Tracking Technologies (CTT)
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1 hr 35 min - BCR 180: Tom Reed, Visible Migration
With family roots that go back several generations, Tom Reed is one of few birders who truly calls Cape May County, NJ home. He discovered birds at a young age and was immediately captivated by the spectacle of migration visible from his Reed’s Beach backyard– be it Red Knots departing for the Arctic on late-May evenings, or Sharp-shinned Hawks bounding along the bayshore treeline after an October cold front. Tom started a hawk migration count along Delaware Bay at the age of 11 and has been actively involved in Cape May’s birding community ever since.
TR has traveled throughout much of North America since graduating from Rutgers University in 2011, with assignments ranging from wintering Piping Plover surveys in the Bahamas, to breeding bird atlas work in Wisconsin, to guidework in Alaska, and naturally, several fall seasons at Cape May. He has also appeared at various local and national birding events and represented CMBO in Israel’s Champions of the Flyway competition on three occasions. Tom is editor of the Cape May Annual Bird Report, founded and compiles the Mizpah Christmas Bird Count, and was a two-term member of the New Jersey Bird Records Committee.
Tom has invested well over 10,000 hours monitoring bird migration across all seasons at Cape May and was instrumental in the creation of CMBO’s Migration Count Coordinator position in 2015. Not surprisingly, his favorite birding takes place in wide-open spaces: oceans, grasslands, deserts, marshes, and anywhere visible migration occurs.
Show Notes:
- How and when did you get started in birding?
- What was it like to grow up birding in Cape May?
- You did a Big year in 2011, and had the top NJ List. Tell us about this please.
- Involvement with the Wisconsin Breeding Bird Atlas II from 2016-19.
- You are currently the Cape May Bird Observatory, Migration Count Coordinator.
- History of the Migration Count Coordinator position, and what your responsibilities as Migration Count Coordinator entail?
- You’re the Author of Cape May Annual Bird Report, a 60,000-word document that reviews and memorializes the area’s birdlife each year and is the only publication of its kind in North America.
- Your role with the electronic point data entry system at migration count sites.
- Projects that focus on non-avian migration monitoring?
- Monitor moths and bats?
- Visible migration (“vismig”) the importance of migration monitoring as a tool for studying bird populations?
- Biggest challenges in sustaining bird migration counts and related long-term projects?
- CMBO’s migration count data? Websites that bring together migration data from other places?
- Regional coordinator for the Cornell University Laboratory of Ornithology eBird Regional Data Coordinator for New Jersey.
- The new Cape May Spring watch.
- The 1st annual NJ Young Birders Conference this year
- What advice do you have for young people who are interested in birds and natural history?
Mentioned In Episode:
CMBO Migration Watches
Trektellen
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57 min - BCR 179: Nick Bonomo, Shorebirder
Nick Bonomo has been birding his home state of Connecticut since the age of thirteen. He works as an Orthopedic Physician Assistant and spends much of his free time in the field. Nick leads international tours for the Connecticut Audubon Society’s Eco Travel department, sits on the Avian Records Committee of Connecticut, and writes for the Connecticut Ornithological Association’s quarterly journal.
Show Notes:
- Shorebirder is informative and well documented with pithy sightings.
- Weekly contributor to Connecticut Audubon Society Bird Finder
- January 2019 you began a Self-Found Big Year in your home state of Connecticut.
- You often report birds from boats seen while fishing. Tell us more about the fishing.
- Shorebirds, Gull’s And You!
- Involved with the Connecticut Ornithological Association, articles for Connecticut Warbler.
- A trip to Alaska in 2019.
- Walk us through the seasons in Connecticut.
- Winter is an interesting season and brings a host of new birds in.
- Spring is the time of neo-tropical migrants and other birds passing through.
- Summer is the quiet post breeding time.
- Connecticut Breeding Bird Survey, CT Bird Atlas. why such studies are so important.
Mentioned In Episode:
Shorebirder
CT Bird Altas
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44 min - BCR 178: Julie Zickefoose, Saving Jemima
Julie Zickefoose lives and works quietly on an 80-acre wildlife sanctuary in the back country of Whipple, Ohio. She is a prolific writer and painter and Contributing Editor to Bird Watcher’s Digest. Among her other books are Natural Gardening for Birds, Letters from Eden,The Bluebird Effect, andBaby Birds: An Artist Looks Into the Nest are joined by Saving Jemima: Life and Love With a Hard-Luck Jay, the intimate story of how an orphaned bird can save a soul.
Listen in for a chance to win a copy of her newest book Saving Jemima: Life and Love With a Hard-Luck Jay in this episode!
Show Notes:
- Blue Jay egg, but it did not end there. Incubation attempt in 2016, what you hoped raising a young bird?
- Raising a wild bird is not advised for a variety of good reasons.
- In 2017 you were flat out with book tours and lectures and feeling in a creative funk.
- Facebook got you your Blue Jay.
- How did the very young jay get it’s name Jemima?
- Fledging is a significant growth step.
- What is imprinting and how did this effect Jemima?
- Young bird as a housemate, what routines developed.
- Letting the bird go, but Jemima really did not go.
- enchanted with Jemima’s socialization.
- Jemima fame spread.
- Who was Peg and what revelations on jays unfolded from your association?
- Blue Jay migration and Jem, what did you learn?
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Mentioned In Episode:
Purchase Book at Redstart Birding Click link here ➨ Saving Jemima: Life and Love With a Hard-Luck Jay.
Julie Zickefoose Website
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42 min - BCR 177: Arthur Singer, American Master
Paul Singer is one of the two co-author of the truly wonderful book about their father’s Wildlife Art. The book, a biography with illustrations in fact, is titled Arthur Singer, The Wildlife Art of an American Master, by Paul and Alan Singer, RIT Press (Rochester Institute of Technology), 2017. The book is simply stunning, you must hold it in your lap, and page through it and read any section of this book to appreciate the artist and the depth and beauty.
Paul Singer is a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Art (1968) with a BFA in graphic design. Interested in nature and the outdoors, he has focused on designs for zoos, museums, and botanic gardens. He has also worked as an interpretive sign designer for the National Park Service, state park systems, and greenways in California, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, and Vermont. His illustrations are included in The Knopf Nature Guide series for Audubon, The Audubon Master Guides to Birding, The Knopf Collector Guides to American Antiques and other publications. In his leisure time, he paints seascapes, studies history, and collects antiques. Paul and his wife, Janet, reside in Brooklyn, NY.
Alan Singer is a graduate of the Cooper Union School of Art with a BFA in Fine Art (1972), and an MFA from Cornell University (1975). For nine years, Alan worked with his father, Arthur, on revisions to both of Singer’s field guides to birds, and helped illustrate the State Bird & Flower Stamps for the Postal Service. Alan illustrated the State Bird & Flower first day covers for Unicover Corp. Alan has also illustrated books which include The Total Book of Houseplants and State Birds. Since 1988, he has been an art educator and professor at Rochester Institute of Technology. A painter, printmaker, and author, he has had 27 solo exhibitions and blogs at The Visual Artworker. Alan and his wife, Anna, reside in Rochester, New York.
Show Notes:
- Trips to the Bronx Zoo and the American Museum of Natural History,
- A student at the Cooper Union Art School in New York City.
- Singer produced the caricatures of jazz greats and politicians? What was the fascination with jazz?
- U.S. Army during World War II and the 603rd Camouflage Engineers.
- Singer’s watercolors painted during his army years have appeared in the documentary and book entitled, The Ghost Army of World War II, some of the art from this period has been included.
- 1950s Singer got assignments from Sports Illustrated, World Book Encyclopedia, Reader’s Digest and from The American Home magazine that launched his career as a full time wildlife artist.
- The idea of painting all species of North American birds began with John James Audubon.
- The Golden Years saw the creation and publication of Birds of the World.
- The field Guide to Birds of North America that he illustrated by Chan Robbins and Bertel Bruun.
- In 1969 author Dr. Bertel Bruun and Arthur Singer published the Birds of Europe, following year the Hamlyn Guide to Birds or Britain and Europe came out.
- Paintings of state birds which were seen by millions when the U.S. Postal Service issued the State Birds & Flowers stamps in 1982.
- Singer’s talent was honored when he was issued the Hal Borland Award from the National Audubon Society in 1985 upon the 200th anniversary of Audubon’s birth.
- Arthur recieves The Augustus St. Gaudens Medal in 1962.
- Arthur fascination with big cats and what art resulted from this fascination.
- Vineyard Books and The Life of the Hummingbirds came after Golden. The Birds of the Ocean and Birds of the Seven Continents were planned and started, never published.
- Since Singer’s death in 1990, where has his artwork been shown including retrospective exhibitions?
- Millpond Press had Peterson’s and Frame House had Arthur Singer.
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Mentioned In Episode:
Purchase Book: Click link here ➨ Arthur Singer, The Wildlife Art of an American Master, by Paul and Alan Singer. Publisher: RIT Press July 2017 ISBN-13: 9781939125392. Call 585-475-5819 Contact: [email protected]
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