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Dr. Jeff Wells is the Senior Scientist for the Boreal Songbird Initiative. During his time at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and as the Audubon Society's National Conservation Director, Dr. Wells earned a reputation as one of the nation's leading bird experts and conservation biologists. He is now dedicated to understanding and protecting the land where North America's birds are born and raised, the Boreal Forest of Canada and Alaska. Check back regularly to read Dr. Wells' perspectives on the conservation, migration and interesting habits of Boreal birds. |
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Credit: Kevin T. Karlson
I noticed a funny thing yesterday here in Gardiner, Maine. I pay some attention to bird migration within the confines of my work and family commitments. I even run an automated nocturnal migration audio monitoring station at my house though I often don’t have time to sift through the results to see [...]
This week here in Maine we had a major push of Boreal migrants through the state. On Wednesday night a friend and I listened as nocturnal calls of southbound migrants rang out from above the house at a rate of six per minute. That’s about 360 bird calls per hour or about 2800 over the [...]
Some of you may remember the quest by artist Susan Beebe to paint, sculpt, or otherwise artistically depict all 300 of the regularly occurring Boreal birds. She has labored several years on this amazing project and now wants to show the world some of these beautiful and striking creations in a new show opening Wednesday [...]
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