Karnolab

Category: Prairie

  • To Paula Deen

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    Since Amy’s arrival, I have been eating much better. I’m not the world’s best cook–far from it–but Amy is both creative and skilled at making some delicious meals. We’ve had curry (tasty), baked ziti (great), cheese pasta (fantastic), and home-made granola (amazing). Finally our stove and oven are getting some good use! You may be…

  • banding, etc.

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    Charlotte and I have  been working hard and getting out to our study site almost every day. We went out banding two days ago, and caught lots of birds, including yellow warblers, robins, and brown thrashers. We also recaptured a male house wren that sabrina banded two years ago (exciting!).  Here are some of the…

  • little bitty birdies

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    As charlotte just mentioned in her post, we have been very busy doing veg surveys and some low tech bird censusing around our site. A few days ago we were strolling around in the Ash forest part of our site, near net 2, and we noticed a couple of house wrens getting very annoyed with…

  • Nest sitings

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    Amy and I have been conducting various habitat assessments and multiple avian community censuses in the past week. Our habitat assessments entail the following: we go to a 12 x 12 foot plot in a predetermined location in one of the four distinct habitat types and identify all of the plants that we see. It…

  • update from glasgow

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    Hi all, Amy here. Charlotte and I have been working hard doing our very exciting vegetation surveys out at our study site at canyon creek on the cornwall ranch (valley county, MT). If you read that and thought “vegetation? Boring.” You were wrong! We have seen lots of very cool plants thus far, and lots…

  • Estimating diversity and productivity

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    The area where we are banding birds is along a creek surrounded by shortgrass prairie. Some of the birds we catch are associated with the riparian vegetation (growing along streams) and some are associated with the grasslands. We are interesting in knowing the numbers of species breeding in the area (diversity) and the well as…

  • Before Banding Birds

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    Even though there have been banding sessions since I was there, I thought I would post about setting up the MAPs station. Getting the MAPs station up and running took a lot of work. First, all of the old locations of nets had to be found. We searched the area for nails with tags on…

  • What would Grinnell do?

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    As Amy just posted, she arrived in Glasgow on Saturday, and we’ve had quite a fun time introducing her to the sights, sounds, and folks out here! There’s some great people, and we really appreciate all of their kindness and hospitality. On another note, this blog is headed “What would Grinnell do?” because Amy and…

  • New arrival

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    Amy here. just arrived in montana two days ago. on the night I arrived, all of the other vaguely college age people in our trailer park were having a white trash party, which charlotte told me on the way in but i forgot. so i got out of the car and saw a bunch of…

  • A tale of two chicks

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    Last Friday, Lauren, Marisa, Matt, and I all went out to do some maintenance work on our MAPS station. We straightened, and in some cases, re-staked net poles, and Matt bravely used the cantankerous weed whacker to clear out vegetation beneath the nets. It is important to keep the area under a net free of…