When Birds Are NearPub Date : 2020-10-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501750915.003.0005
Elizabeth Bradfield
{"title":"Buried Birds","authors":"Elizabeth Bradfield","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501750915.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501750915.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter begins by illustrating how the author saw a Sooty shearwater while standing on a boat with no land on the horizon. The bird reminds the author of the freedom a child-body has. Other pelagic species also move the author. Working as a naturalist aboard a small boat in the Gulf of California one winter, after hours on deck staring at water, the author spotted a Xantus's murrelet. The author loves sea birds because of their differences from “regular” land-based birds. But preference is for the many species of pelagic birds who hide their lives on land. The ones like prions who bury themselves to lay an egg, whose chicks hunker in the dark until fledging or trundle out to sea before they can even fly. These birds know how dangerous earth can be.","PeriodicalId":336135,"journal":{"name":"When Birds Are Near","volume":"129 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125461311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
When Birds Are NearPub Date : 2020-10-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501750915.003.0012
Alison Townsend
{"title":"Wild Swans","authors":"Alison Townsend","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501750915.003.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501750915.003.0012","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter looks at how tundra swans arrived the day before Thanksgiving in the town of Island Lake in Wisconsin. Navigating by the stars and their memory of earth's moonlit landscape, they came, traveling from their summer breeding grounds in shallow pools, lakes, and rivers in the Arctic toward their winter residence in Chesapeake Bay and the marshes of Virginia and North Carolina. Tundra swans, which used to be called whistling swans for the sounds their wings make in flight, often travel in groups of several hundred. According to an Audubon guide, “they present a spectacular sight” when they make mass landings in places like the Niagara River. Like adolescents not quite ready to leave home, cygnets remain with the parent flock for at least a year, learning the route and where to feed and rest.","PeriodicalId":336135,"journal":{"name":"When Birds Are Near","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125506317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
When Birds Are NearPub Date : 2020-10-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501750915.003.0003
R. Nixon
{"title":"Spotted Owls","authors":"R. Nixon","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501750915.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501750915.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter looks at the author's experience looking for Mexican spotted owls in Scheelite Canyon in the Huachucas. Like most people living in the United States during the late 1980s and early 1990s, the author had never heard a spotted owl's high-pitched four-note bark. The one-and-a-half pound owl became an inadvertent celebrity. The spotted owl emerged as an indicator species not just of forest health, but of a fevered nation's political temperature. The bird's fate provoked legal fisticuffs between two federal agencies, the Bureau of Land Management and the Fish and Wildlife Service. By the early 1990s, the spotted owl seemed to have migrated opportunistically from the ancient forests it had favored historically to a whole new ecological niche in the federal court system.","PeriodicalId":336135,"journal":{"name":"When Birds Are Near","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129869428","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
When Birds Are NearPub Date : 2020-10-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501750915.003.0026
Susan Cerulean
{"title":"Nest Watcher","authors":"Susan Cerulean","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501750915.003.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501750915.003.0026","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter details how the author began to watch over wild birds along the north Florida coast. The author was a volunteer steward, and her first assignment was on a bit of sand, a spoil island south of the Apalachicola bridge. There, the author was to keep track of nesting activity by least terns, black skimmers, certain small plovers, or American oystercatchers. The island had historically hosted a seasonal congregation of 700 nesting pairs of brown pelicans. But after a large quantity of spoil was dredged from the river channel and heaped onto the island one winter, the pelicans abandoned the site and had never returned. Another year, more than 200 least terns and a handful of gull-billed terns had nested on the fresh spoil. It was not clear whether pelicans would return, or the terns — or neither.","PeriodicalId":336135,"journal":{"name":"When Birds Are Near","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129790216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
When Birds Are NearPub Date : 2020-10-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501750915.003.0023
Alison Világ
{"title":"Extralimital","authors":"Alison Világ","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501750915.003.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501750915.003.0023","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter reflects on the author's experience as a guide of St. Paul Tour in Alaska's Pribilof Islands. During the two springs that the author guided there, he saw wood sandpipers — Eurasia's equivalent of America's lesser yellowlegs — on more days than he saw blue skies. But the wind, when it came from the right direction, blew in the good birds — the ones from Russia. For the serious North American birder, Alaska is some semblance of the final frontier. Soon, the islands — especially Attu, the outermost Aleutian, St. Lawrence Island, and St. Paul, in the Pribilofs — became revered vagrant traps: places where one could almost depend on encountering an aggregate of birds virtually never found on North America's mainland, such as common snipe and Siberian rubythroat. The St. Paul Tour is founded on the daily work of finding these out-of-place birds.","PeriodicalId":336135,"journal":{"name":"When Birds Are Near","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115446731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
When Birds Are NearPub Date : 2020-10-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501750915.003.0018
Jennifer Dean
{"title":"The Keepers of the Ghost Bird","authors":"Jennifer Dean","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501750915.003.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501750915.003.0018","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter focuses on the birds in Bermuda. Prior to 1600, it is estimated that half a million pairs of devil birds bred on Bermuda, making it, in essence, a gigantic seabird colony. The cedar trees that covered Bermuda were endemic and low-growing; they tilted in high winds, uprooting and leaving small cavities beneath. The birds used their black beaks, which ended in a graceful hook, to dig twelve-foot burrows beneath the trees, and used their webbed feet to push the dirt out behind them. The sailors called it the cahow after its sound. It would be centuries before it would emerge as a species of gadfly petrel — a sleek-bodied, hollow-boned soarer with three-foot-long, paddle-shaped wings. In 1906, Dr. Louis Mowbray, who would become the first director of the Bermuda Aquarium, found a live bird in a hole on one of the Castle Harbor Islands; he classified it as a Peale's petrel from New Zealand, blown off course. A decade elapsed before an ornithologist realized that Mowbray's live bird was actually the real thing: a Bermuda petrel.","PeriodicalId":336135,"journal":{"name":"When Birds Are Near","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121413552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"5. The Problem with Pretty Birds","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9781501750939-008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501750939-008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":336135,"journal":{"name":"When Birds Are Near","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114954088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"17. The Keepers of the Ghost Bird","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9781501750939-020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501750939-020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":336135,"journal":{"name":"When Birds Are Near","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123312358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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