Birders: Here is News from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Jennifer Smith. Shane Adams East of Hamblen County Morristown, TN.37813 ----- Original Message ----- From: jennifer Smith To: 1085007061000 Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 11:04 AM 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! 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