Vermont Atlas of Life BioBlitz Discovers New Species for Park
…is labeled as “research grade”. We have 339 research grade observations identified to species to date. Incredible but perhaps not unexpected, this effort added 96 species from the park that…
Ghosts from the Arctic
…search of food. Intensive research now shows this may not be the case. Norm Smith, director of Massachusetts Audubon’s Blue Hills Trailside Museum, has been monitoring snowy owls for more…
West Hill Pond- Fishing Line Loon
…West Hill Pond in Cabot yesterday and noticed it habitually shaking its head in one direction. Fishing line was coming out of its mouth. She knew who to call. This…
A VCE Online Science Fair
…by professionals, but by alert community members? The Vermont Urban and Community Forestry Program is offering a free on-line Forest Pest First Detectors course. This introductory course will train participants…
After 90 Percent Decline, Federal Protection Sought for Monarch Butterfly
…more than 90 percent in under 20 years. During the same period it is estimated that these once-common iconic orange and black butterflies may have lost more than 165 million…
Join Our Spring Wildflower Phenology Annotation Blitz!
…iNaturalist. Use this link so that the filters are set for you to start your work on spring wildflowers – https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?reviewed=any&quality_grade=needs_id%2Cresearch&list_id=111820&month=3%2C4%2C5%2C6%2C7&without_term_id=12 or you can go big and work on all…
A Field Guide to January
…38 blocks) with the greatest decrease in Taconic Mountains. If you hear an agitated group of cawing American Crows, they may be mobbing a Great Horned Owl. Crows may gather…
Memories of a Summer Bird Banding on Mt. Mansfield
…to be relatively short and quiet, with only a couple hours of netting, before we close the nets at dusk. We then reopen them a few hours later in the…
A Lifetime of Birding Passion and Service: Sue Wetmore Receives VCE’s 2019 Julie Nicholson Citizen Scientist Award
…outgoing personality are embodied in these words: “While a passion for birds opened my eyes to the need to protect all of Vermont’s flora and fauna, by far, the greatest…
Mansfield Wrap-up: Bountiful Migrants and a Venerable Thrush
…another 9 birds before darkness settled in two hours later. Three of these were BITH, including 2 males we had banded back in June; all had completed their post-breeding molt…
