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Here is News from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Jennifer Smith.


Shane Adams
East of Hamblen County
Morristown, TN.37813

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Subject: News from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology


October 5, 2006

Raven Viewer Internet Tool Earns National Award

Hearing a cricket chirp, a bird cheep, or a beluga bellow is one thing-­now you 
can also see it, via the new Raven Viewer player created by the Lab's Macaulay 
Library. This free tool allows anyone to do real-time audio visualization over 
the Internet by tapping into the Macaulay Library archives--the largest animal 
sounds archive in the world. Raven Viewer is featured in the September 22 issue 
of Science as runner-up in the magazine's competition for the best interactive 
tools for visualizing sounds in science. When you click on a specific recording 
and choose the "visualize" button, you will hear and see it in spectrogram and 
waveform panels with adjustable settings. Video clips with sound can also be 
played. Try it out at www.animalbehaviorarchive.org.

Evidence of Ivory-bills Collected in Florida

A group of researchers is reporting evidence gathered in Florida may indicate 
the presence of Ivory-billed Woodpeckers. Their findings were published in the 
journal Avian Conservation and Ecology, September 26, 2006. The search was 
initiated in May 2005 along the Choctawhatchee River in the Florida Panhandle 
after the announcement that at least one ivory-bill had been documented in 
Arkansas by the Ivory-billed Woodpecker Recovery Team partnership, including 
the Lab. Though the Florida team did not obtain definitive visual evidence of 
ivory-bills, they collected sound recordings and some sightings.  For more 
details visit http://www.birds.cornell.edu/ivory/current0607/florida. You can 
also read more about it on web sites posted by Auburn University in Alabama and 
the University of Windsor in Ontario, Canada, where the lead authors on the 
scientific paper are based. www.auburn.edu/ivorybill, www.uwindsor/ivorybill. 

Cornell Lab of Ornithology director John Fitzpatrick says the Florida 
announcement is a terrific boost. "This is the time to pull out all the stops. 
I think the Florida announcement renews the resolve of the birding and 
conservation communities at large to get out there and do the search that's 
required." 

Volunteers Needed for Ivory-bill Search

The call is out for volunteers willing to spend two weeks searching for the 
ivory-bill in Arkansas or South Carolina. Volunteers will be deployed to those 
areas beginning in January. To learn more about what's expected, and to file 
the necessary application, visit the Lab's ivory-bill pages at 
www.birds.cornell.edu/ivory. In the coming field season, the team in Arkansas 
will focus much of its attention on the White River National Wildlife Refuge, 
where much more habitat remains to be searched.

Building the Birders of Tomorrow

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is thrilled to announce the release of 
BirdSleuth, its new science curriculum targeted at elementary and middle-school 
students. The BirdSleuth curriculum is designed to give students experience 
with the entire scientific process: observing birds carefully, collecting data, 
asking their own  questions, drawing conclusions through research and 
observation, and publishing their results. In this way, students become 
practicing scientists. Each spring the Lab will publish the national edition of 
a newsletter called BirdSleuth Reports, which features student research and 
creative work­-that's real science by real kids! Find out more at 
www.birds.cornell.edu/birdsleuth.

Thank you for your ongoing interest and support!

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology


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