The Lookers Go Green!
October 23, 2014
Recently, Palo’s Rich Stallcup Bird-A-Thon team took Bolinas by storm when we trekked 14.5 miles on foot and in style for our first-ever carbon free Bird-A-Thon! Our team, The Lookers, continued our annual tradition of wearing our finest threads while counting birds and raising funds for Point Blue and Palo. This year’s Lookers were made up of
Where are they now? Fifty alumni attend major ornithological conference in Colorado last week!
October 19, 2014
Taking the Long View: An inside look at the goings-on at the longest running avian ecology field station west of the Mississippi.
Monthly Banding Summary, July 2014
August 20, 2014
This summary was compiled by Palomarin banding interns Brian Cole and Janelle Chojnacki with help from Renée Cormier, Banding Supervisor. Exciting Captures and Observations: What a whirlwind the month of July proved to be! At the field station, we banding interns saw a dramatic uptick in the number of birds caught each day. This flurry of birds
Monthly Banding Summary, June 2014
July 21, 2014
This summary was compiled by Palomarin banding interns Janelle Chojnacki and Asya Rahlin with help from Renée Cormier, Banding Supervisor. Exciting Captures and Observations: June is a busy month, with high capture rates and many banding days. There are lots of young birds around, and this month, they made up 38% of all birds captured!
Monthly Banding Summary, May 2014
June 24, 2014
This summary was compiled by Palomarin banding interns Kim Geissler and Brian Cole with help from Renée Cormier, Banding Supervisor. Exciting Captures and Observations: The breeding season continues with vigor! In May, the banding interns were busy catching fledglings of multiple species, and visiting two additional banding sites, Lagunitas Creek and Redwood Creek. Neither site
Where are they Now? A Diamond in the Rough
June 6, 2014
I was doing a Google Search that included the key word, “Palomarin Field Station” and luckily stumbled upon this heart-warming post on another blog by a former intern (“Laura Goes Birding“). This post exemplifies the kind of long-lasting impact our intern training program at the Palomarin (Palo) can and often has on a young person. Laura now lives in Portland, Oregon,
Monthly Banding Summary, April 2014
May 22, 2014
This summary was compiled by Palomarin banding interns Janelle Chojnacki and Asya Rahlin with help from Renée Cormier, Banding Supervisor. Exciting Captures and Observations: April is an exciting time at the field station, with the later spring migrants returning from southern winter grounds for the breeding season, including Olive-sided Flycatchers and Swainson’s Thrushes. A few
Monthly Banding Summary, March 2014
April 14, 2014
This summary was compiled by Palomarin banding interns Brian Cole and Kim Geissler with help from Renée Cormier, Banding Supervisor. Exciting Captures and Observations: March is perennially an exciting time at the Palomarin Field Station, as it is the time of year when migrants begin arriving from their southern wintering grounds. March also brought the
Where Are They Now? Featuring 1983 Palomarin Intern Sophie Webb
March 26, 2014
Taking the Long View: An inside look at the goings-on at the longest running avian ecology field station west of the Mississippi.
Monthly Banding Summary, February 2014
March 21, 2014
This summary was compiled by Palomarin banding interns Danielle Aubé and Lindsay Wagner with help from Mark Dettling, Banding Supervisor. Exciting Captures and Observations: On the 22nd of February, we captured our first Red-breasted Nuthatch of the winter season! Red-breasted Nuthatches are common around the Palomarin field station and a few are captured here each year;
