VCE Breaks New Ground (Literally) in Cuba
…cloud forest seemed like our best bet. So it was that on 24 January, five of us shouldered heavy backpacks, laden with a week’s worth of food, camping and field…
A Field Guide to December 2018
…freeze tolerant. Instead, they rely on extreme supercooling, the process of lowering liquid temperatures to below the freezing point without becoming a solid. How do they do this? Overwintering willow…
Gifts for the Conservation-minded Person Who Has Everything
…and help spread the word for mountain bird conservation in these unique shirts. Check out our nice selection of styles, colors, and sizes at: https://www.bonfire.com/mountain-birdwatch-swag/ Bird and Chocolate Lover’s…
Mansfield Update: A Bird in the Bag is Worth Two in the Net
…free-flying juveniles Black-capped Chickadee – 1 adult Golden-crowned Kinglet – 2 free-flying juveniles Red-breasted Nuthatch – 9 free-flying juveniles Winter Wren – 2 free-flying juveniles Bicknell’s Thrush – 10 (5…
Shining A Light on VCE’s Citizen Scientists
…manages as part of ongoing research and monitoring projects. Others participate in more targeted research and monitoring projects (e.g., Mountain Birdwatch or Loonwatch) by signing up directly with VCE, working…
iNaturalist Vermont Becomes Biodiversity Big Data in 2016
…coordinates, photos or sounds of the observation, and the community agrees on the identification to species level. We have nearly 82,500 research grade observations comprising 3,577 species in the iNaturalist…
Field Guide to September 2022
Ready for take-off: Common Green Darners are headed south By Michael T. Hallworth, conservation biologist Right now, many Common Green Darners (Anax junius) are stretching their wings for the first…
VCE Kicks Off Year of the Bird with eBird Workshop
…sightings to Vermont eBird. A real-time, free online checklist program, eBird has revolutionized the way that the birding community reports and accesses information about birds. Launched in 2002 by the…
New Study Reveals Population Estimate and Abundance Map for Rare Bicknell’s Thrush in the U.S.
…Abundance estimate map for the Mount Washington, New Hampshire area created at databasin.org. The new map can be downloaded or viewed online at Data Basin: a free and open portal…
After Two Decades of Searching, Biologist Discovers Rare Butterfly in Vermont
…June. Complicating the search are hoards of biting black flies. Pfeiffer’s fateful discovery coincides with the launch this spring of the second Vermont Butterfly Atlas, which enlists experts and novices…
