Highlights from the 40th Vermont Bird Records Committee Report
Vermont’s first Common Ringed Plover. © Richard Littauer The Vermont Bird Records Committee (VBRC) held its 40th annual meeting in November 2020. Each year, this panel of experienced birders meets…
Global Launch of eButterfly
…diversity of butterflies in the world, which is essential for research. Ultimately, global, crowd-sourced community science projects like eButterfly give scientists access to more data than they alone could collect…
A Field Guide to April 2017
…composed primarily of volatile compounds known as thiols, and their derivatives. (A thiol is a compound distinguished by its sulfur-hydrogen bond.) Most of us immediately recognize the smell of ethanethiol…
Discover the Bees in Your Backyard this Spring
…common names get standardized, we will use a combination of Latin and common names. While it may be daunting at first, it is helpful to familiarize yourself with at least…
Birdathon 2014: By foot and float yields over 100 species
…Duck Mallard Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Ruffed Grouse Wild Turkey Common Loon Double-crested Cormorant Great Blue Heron Green Heron Turkey Vulture Osprey Cooper’s Hawk Bald Eagle Broad-winged Hawk Red-tailed Hawk…
Meet Vermont’s Newest Endangered Species
…– Endangered This was once a common bumblebee in the Northeast, but it is now rare. Once a common species in the Champlain Valley, it has not been found since…
Embracing the Community: It’s time to take the “citizen” out of citizen science
…biologists serve as citizen scientists for other non-VCE research projects. At present, the term citizen is heavily politicized. Continuing to use “citizen science” instead of the more inclusive term “community…
A Field Guide to July 2018
…only places you find this are areas that were mowed in early July. Research in New York found that manipulating Common Milkweed phenology through mowing could be used to increase…
Field Guide to November 2017
…– will be arriving in good numbers – we hope. Learn more in our Field Guide to November. Redpoll Invasion Common Redpoll / © Bryan Pfeiffer The redpolls are coming!…
Upper Valley Backyard Tick Project
…we can’t wait to complete the full analysis of the data. Stay tuned. Our research goal is to understand if commercially-applied tick chemical control measures have unintended consequences for beneficial…
