Tag: Dr. Karnovsky
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Sagehens at the Pacific Seabird Group meeting!
The 44th annual meeting in Tacoma is underway. Kyle’17 presented the results of three years of study at The Sea Ranch in a poster. Co-authors were Ellie’18, Jeffrey’17, Ramon’16 and Diane Hichwa from Madrone Audubon. Kyle’s parents came to see him present!
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Little trailer on the prairie
Yesterday Charlotte Chang’10, Max and I headed off to Northern Montana. Charlotte will be working on a project examining prairie bird diversity and productivity in the shortgrass prairie of northern Montana. This is the third summer a Pomona student has come out here to work on this project. Charlotte is following in the footsteps of…
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The Elusive Hypoleucus
Two subspecies of Xantus’s Murrelets are currently recognized; scrippsi and hypoleucus. These birds look different, make different calls, breed in different places, and recently a genetic test was done to prove they are genetically diverse. Whoever decided they were the same species was a little confused. The vast majority of the murrelets we saw were…
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Ashy Storm-Petrels
   One of the unique birds that nest on the Channel Islands is the Ashy storm-petrel. Their world wide population is estimated to be between 5,200 and 10,000 individuals and has been declining over the past 50 years due to predation, light from fishing boats, and pollution, and has earned these birds an endangered status.…
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Murrelets in the Spotlight
         After dark all the murrelets come back to the island to socialize and rest from a long day of feeding. Not only do they have to watch out for hungry sea lions, but also our fearless crew of bird-netters! We are collaborating with a research team that is working on a population study of…