10. How and Why Some Birds are Better at Coping with Climate Change

 Morgan Tingley, from UCLA

This is a draft, under construction. 

This presentation begins at the 3 hours 10 minutes mark of the video recording of the conference:  COA's Birds and the Environment Science Conference - Online - YouTube

11. Nocturnal Migration and Arrival Dates

Nocturnal Migration and Arrival Dates: Recordings, Methods, Results

Preston Lust.    Princeton University. 

prestonlust@yahoo.com

Nocturnal migration is a fruitful, relatively unexplored area of ornithology which is peculiarly situated to benefit from modern technology. Automated recording extraction software, state-of-the-art microphone hardware, and an increasingly niched understanding of bird life history combine to yield fresh data as to the nature of avian nocturnal movement, including arrival dates, population dynamics, and the occurrence of under reported species. My own forays into this phenomenon have produced exciting results, which I hope to share in this presentation.

This presentation begins at the 3 hours 26 minutes mark on the video recording of the conference:  COA's Birds and the Environment Science Conference - Online - YouTube

WOULD YOU LIKE TO LEARN MORE?

This full presentation can be viewed at:  Nocturnal Migration - Google Slides

Radar: https://weather.ral.ucar.edu/radar/ 

Microphone Set-up: http://www.oldbird.org/21c.htm 

Analyzing Calls: http://www.oldbird.org/recording_gear.htm 

Spectrogram Examples I: http://pjdeye.blogspot.com/ 

Spectrogram Examples II: Flight Calls of Migrating Birds

Other:  http://www.oldbird.org/pubs/EvansOBrien2002.html 

http://oldbird.org/pubs/fcmb/start.htm 

12. Summer Bird Counts: Origins and History

Tom Robben

COA  Connecticut Ornithological Association

robben99@gmail.com

This is a working DRAFT, under construction...

This presentation begins at 3hours 41 minutes on the video recording:  COA's Birds and the Environment Science Conference - Online - YouTube

Patrick Comins and I decided to divide our single-segment joint talk into two brief talks, starting with the history and origins of Summer Bird Counts, and what led up to them...

In the 1960s, after Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring", many bird observers and ornithologists were looking for better ways to track and measure long-term changes in bird populations, especially at their breeding locations. Several long-term methods were developed to address that, including Chandler Robbins "Breeding Bird Surveys" which began in 1966 (which Andrew Dasinger talked about today), and the Summer Bird Counts which began in June 1972 at Captree, Long Island, NY (it used the same 15-mile circle as the Captree christmas bird count, which had been running since 1962, with many of the same people). 

Christmas Bird Counts as Breeding Bird Censuses  https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/nab/v027n03/p00566-p00570.pdf 

13. Summer Bird Counts: Recently

 Patrick Comins, from CAS and COA

pcomins@ctaudubon.org 

This presentation begins at 3 hours 50 minutes on the video recording:  COA's Birds and the Environment Science Conference - Online - YouTube

This is a working draft, under construction. 

Patrick:  Please send me your slide deck, as PDF or other format, so I can show higher-resolution images below.....