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☆ Opinion | When I Became a Birder, Almost Everything Else Fell Into Place
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-30 | by ( Ed Yong | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Last September, I drove to a protected wetland near my home in Oakland, Calif., walked to the end of a pier and started looking at birds. On that pier, for the first time, I had gone somewhere solely to watch birds. In some birding circles, people say that anyone who looks at birds is a birder — a kind, inclusive sentiment that also overlooks the forces that create and shape subcultures. I keep abreast of eBird’s rare bird alerts and have spent many days — some glorious, others frustrating — looking for said rare birds. I went out with experienced birders to learn how they move through a landscape and what cues they attend to.

Persons: I’ve, birders Organizations: Journalism Locations: Oakland, Calif, Sibley, United States, pish, owling

☆ We Asked Readers to Spend the Summer Watching Birds. Here’s What Happened.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-20 | by ( Emily Anthes | More About Emily Anthes | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

One Saturday morning in June, Amy Simmons spotted some sparrows flitting around a coastal marsh in Maine. She and her two companions, all dedicated bird-watchers, quickly identified one of the foraging birds as a Nelson’s sparrow, a small, round bird with a yellow stripe over its eye. The stripe over this sparrow’s eye had a more saturated, orange tint, and its breast was speckled with black and white. It was a saltmarsh sparrow, a species threatened by sea level rise. Without significant conservation action, climate change could render the species extinct by the middle of this century, some scientists predict.

Persons: Amy Simmons, ”, Simmons, Ms Organizations: National Audubon Society, Cornell, of Ornithology Locations: Maine

☆ For Migrating Birds, It’s the Flight of Their Lives
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-29 | by ( Emily Anthes | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +17 min

Simone NoronhaFor Migrating Birds, It’s the Flight of Their Lives Leer en españolAmerica’s birds are in trouble. If migrating birds lose their winter refuges, the consequences will ripple across the hemisphere. MissouriMissouri provides breeding habitats for many grassland bird species, which have been faring especially poorly in recent decades. “This is a classic Pacific Northwest to west Mexico species,” Mr. Jiang said. The birds breed at marshes and wetlands across the Western United States and Canada.

Persons: Simone Noronha, “, ”, Viviana Ruiz, Gutierrez, Jeremy Radachowsky, Ken Rosenberg, Deb Hahn, Hahn, Anna Lello, Smith, Sarah Kendrick, Nick Bayly, That’s, Andrew Stillman, Archie Jiang, Mr, Jiang, Dr, Stillman, Camila Gómez, ” Dr, Ruiz Organizations: Center, Avian, Cornell, of Ornithology, Wildlife Conservation Society, Partners, New, New York Metro Area, UNITED STATES, BERMUDA BAHAMAS MEXICO Maya, PERU Moderate, Forest, Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies, Southern Wings, The, Central, Mesoamerican Alliance for People, Forests Initiative, Forests Initiative . Missouri, CANADA UNITED STATES, BERMUDA CUBA MEXICO VENEZUELA COSTA RICA BRAZIL, U.S . Fish, Wildlife Service, Missouri Department of Conservation, Colorado Colorado, CANADA, ARGENTINA CANADA Colo, U.S, Bird Conservancy, Rockies, , Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability, UNITED STATES Calif, Western Locations: North America, United States, Canada, Costa Rican, Caribbean, U.S, eBird, New York, BERMUDA BAHAMAS MEXICO, BRAZIL, PERU, CHILE, ARGENTINA, PERU Moderate CHILE, Forest BRAZIL, CHILE ARGENTINA, Forest BRAZIL PERU, New York City, Bahamas, The New York, Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Central America, Central American, Forests Initiative ., Forests Initiative . Missouri Missouri, South America, BERMUDA MEXICO VENEZUELA COSTA RICA, Missouri, BERMUDA MEXICO VENEZUELA COSTA RICA BRAZIL, BERMUDA CUBA MEXICO VENEZUELA COSTA RICA, BERMUDA CUBA MEXICO VENEZUELA COSTA RICA BRAZIL PERU, Venezuela, Argentina, Cuba, Central, South, SELVA, Colombia, Costa Rica, Plains, UNITED STATES MEXICO ECUADOR, Colorado, UNITED STATES Colo, MEXICO ECUADOR BRAZIL, Northern Mexico, Texas, California, West Coast, Alaska, Pacific, MEXICO, URUGUAY ARGENTINA Alaska, Salt, CHILE URUGUAY ARGENTINA Alaska, BRAZIL PERU BOLIVIA, URUGUAY ARGENTINA, Sierra Nevada, Chile, Western United States

☆ The Eternal Search for the ‘Nemesis Bird’
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-26 | by ( Joe Trezza | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In the world of birding, Peter Kaestner stands alone. No one has seen and identified more birds than Mr. Kaestner, a retired U.S. diplomat who aspires to become the first birder to spot 10,000 of the planet’s roughly 11,000 avian species. With 9,697 on his eBird list so far, he is getting close. Yet for all the birds he has looked for and found, there remain a few that he has looked for and not found. “I made four 10-hour trips to twitch it, to no avail,” Mr. Kaester wrote in an email.

Persons: Peter Kaestner, Kaestner, Kaestner’s, “, Mr, Kaester Locations: U.S, Congo, Central, Frankfurt

☆ In New York City, the Odds of Spotting a Rare Bird are Rising
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-26 | by ( Lola Fadulu | More About Lola Fadulu | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Birds that were once rare in New York City have been making more frequent appearances in recent years, to the thrill of local bird-watchers. Birders have also noticed a reduction in the number of birds passing through New York City, said Marshall Iliff, the project leader for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s eBird project. Many birders love to watch warblers on their southward migration in mid-August, but Mr. Iliff noted that the wildfires in Canada caused many birds to leave earlier than expected. “It’s those kind of things that sort of raise the question of whether birds are going to be able to adapt to these changing environments,” Mr. Iliff said. He said that as the forests dry out and as fires increase, birds that are expected to be seen passing through Central Park in spring could become “these really rare, rare events.”

Persons: ”, Heather Wolf, Marshall Iliff, Iliff, “, Mr Organizations: Cornell, of Ornithology Locations: New York City, Canada, Central

☆ We're losing the battle against bird loss. Scientists estimate North America's bird population is down 3 billion and dropping fast in other countries worldwide.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Emily Sohn | Knowable Magazine | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

In North America, more than half of 529 bird species have declined, according to one study. Another study of 378 European bird species estimates numbers fell by as much as 19% from 1980-2017. There are birds on mountains, birds in cities, birds in deserts, birds in oceans, birds on farm fields and birds in parking lots. Bird numbers are falling across a broad range of habitats, as these graphs from Europe and North America show. A recovery program has boosted the species' numbers to more than 500, with several hundred living once more in the wild.

Persons: —, Peter Marra, It's, Alexander Lees, Lees, Christopher Michel, Marra, we're, Lees et, Philip McGowan, Glenn Simmons, McGowan Organizations: Service, Penguins, Earth Commons, Manchester Metropolitan University, Cornell, of Ornithology, National Audubon Society, Survey, US Geological Survey, Environment Canada, European Union, International Union for Conservation, Environment, Resources, Newcastle University, IUCN, California condor, Recovery Initiative Locations: North America, Antarctica, ptarmigan, Everest, Georgetown, England, Canada, United Kingdom, Gould Bay, eBird, United States, Science, Costa, India, Europe, California, Arizona, Brazil

☆ This Summer We’re Helping Scientists Track Birds. Join In.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( The New York Times | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +21 min

This Summer We’re Helping Scientists Track Birds. This data will help scientists understand better how birds are affected by forces like climate change and habitat loss. We’re obviously a little bit biased here, so I’m going to recommend the Merlin Bird ID app. Nearly half of all bird species worldwide are known or suspected to be in decline, and climate change could accelerate this trend. Look up past reports of that species on the eBird Species Map and zoom in on your city.

Persons: Mike McQuade, We’ll, Michelle Mildenberg Daryln Brewer Hoffstot, phoebe, Hoffstot, Indigo Goodson, “, Kirsten Luce, Alli Smith, Merlin, —, It’s, That’s, Andrew Spear, ”, Tom Auer, Mr, Auer, birders, James T, Tanner, Steven C, Latta, Chris Elphick, . Latta, Michaels, et, Christine Schuldheisz, Richard O ., Ivory, they’d, Mark, Elphick, there’s, ” Dr, eBird, I’m Organizations: Birds, Cornell, of Ornithology, The New York Times, New York Times, University of Connecticut, Credit, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Yale, Times, Cornell Lab, Walmart Locations: Pennsylvania, North America, Virginia, South America, Canada, Alaska, Louisiana, Pittsburgh, United States, Cuba, Arkansas, eBird

☆ How a former Goldman Sachs whiz kid living in Puerto Rico exploited a generational shift in investing to become one of Millennium's most profitable traders
▼ + stars: | 2022-01-24 | by ( Alex Morrell | Bradley Saacks | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Millennium has dominated the index-rebalance trade thanks to Glen Scheinberg, 35, and his SRBL team. One of the hottest trading strategies in recent years has required an intense fixation on some of Wall Street's supposedly dullest financial products: index funds and exchange-traded funds. The SRBL team was born from a Goldman Sachs trading deskIn 2014, Millennium poached 27-year-old Scheinberg from Goldman Sachs' program-trading desk — the team at Wall Street banks that trades baskets of stocks using algorithms. For Scheinberg's team, 2020 wasn't a one-off. Millennium's prodigy decamps to paradise for tax savings and bird-watchingDespite its success, much about the SRBL team remains shrouded in mystery.

☆ Численность птиц на Земле превысила общее число всех людей
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-18 | by ( Mld Media Srl | ) noi.md time to read: +1 min

Сотрудники Университета Нового Южного Уэльса в Австралии установили общую численность птиц на Земле. Всего в мире насчитывается около 50 млрд птиц различных видов, что в шесть раз превышает общее число людей. По словам исследователей, численность различных видов существенно отличается друг от друга. Далее специалисты разработали специальный алгоритм, с помощью которого сумели определить численность птиц в мире. В Австралии численность многих видов, таких, как радужный лорикет, большой желтохохлый какаду и других, исчисляется несколькими миллионами.

Persons: — Organizations: Guardian, Университет Locations: Новый Южный Уэльс, Австралия, Земля

☆ Pământul găzduiește circa 50 de miliarde de păsări care fac parte din 9 700 de specii cunoscute, estimează un studiu australian
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-18 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +1 min

Pământul găzduiește circa 50 de miliarde de păsări care fac parte din 9 700 de specii cunoscute, estimează un studiu australianTerra găzduieşte circa 50 de miliarde de păsări, aproape de şase ori mai mult decât numărul oamenilor, potrivit unei estimări realizate de oameni de ştiinţă australieni şi publicată în revista Proceedings of the US National Academy of Sciences. Cercetătorii au asociat sondaje ştiinţifice ale unor specii individuale care trăiesc în anumite zone de distribuţie cu cele aproape un miliard de înregistrări din baza de date ornitologică online eBird. Cercetătorii au ajuns la concluzia că există relativ puţine specii comune şi multe specii rare. Printre cele mai răspândire 10 specii de păsări din lume se numără vrabia de casă (1,6 miliarde), graurul (1,3 miliarde), pescăruşul cu inel (1,2 miliarde) şi rândunica (1,1 miliarde). „Există un număr considerabil de exemplare de păsări în lume (50 de miliarde), dar a înţelege pe deplin de ce şi cum fiecare populaţie a ajuns la mărimea actuală va fi primordial pentru studiul viitor al evoluţiei, ecologiei şi conservării”, au menţionat cercetătorii.

Persons: William Cornwell Organizations: Academy, Sciences, University Locations: New South Wales, Sydney, Noua Zeelandă, Madagascar

☆ A furat doi pinguini de la Zoo și...
▼ + stars: | 2020-10-31 | by ( ) www.realitatea.md time to read: 1 min

Un fost angajat de la o grădină zoologică din Marea Britanie a fost condamnat la 32 de luni de închisoare (2 ani şi 8 luni), după ce a furat doi pinguini de la Zoo şi i-a scos apoi la vânzare pe Facebook, informează Digi24. Foto simbol: ebird.orgConform procurorilor britanici, bărbatul în vârstă de 25 de ani a furat în 2018 o pereche de pinguini din specia Humboldt, botezaţi Pablo şi Penny, de la grădina zoologică Lakes Safari Zoo din nord-vestul Angliei, unde acesta lucrase anterior. Pe lângă pinguini, bărbatul a mai furat şi lopătari, egrete ori papagli Macaw. Hoţul a fost arestat după ce un colecţionar de animale, care cumpărase perechea de pinguini pentru 11.600 de euro, a luat legătura cu un medic veterinar, deoarece animalele se aflau într-o stare de sănătate precară. Ulterior, cumpărătorul a raportat cazul la poliţie.

Persons: Digi24, Pablo, Penny, Hoţul Organizations: Facebook, Humboldt, Facebook Locations: Angliei

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