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  • The Cornell Lab’s Macaulay Library is the world’s largest and oldest archive of natural sounds and video, and you can browse its holdings online. Though it’s best known for its bird recordings, the Macaulay Library also features insects, fish, amphibians, reptiles, and mammals—including a recent addition: gibbons recorded in the wild in Thailand. They’re the [...]
  • The Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Black Swamp Bird Observatory are excited to introduce the Young Birders Network. This new website offers a wealth of resources geared toward birders of high-school age. This site enables young birders to connect with peers, find clubs in their area, discover conferences and events, and find information on colleges [...]
  • To a computer, it’s just a complex combination of ones and zeros. Decoded for our ears, it becomes wondrous sound—a symphony, or the song of a lark. Thanks to digital technology, recordings of bird, insect, mammal, fish, and amphibian voices in the Lab’s Macaulay Library will last virtually forever. It’s taken more than 12 years, [...]
  • The new National Geographic documentary chronicling the Birds-of-Paradise Project will air on Thanksgiving evening at 10 P.M. Eastern time, perfect timing for post-turkey viewing. (The documentary is also available on DVD.) Staff writer Pat Leonard took an early look and has this review for you: Scientific discovery is thrilling—but sometimes difficult and messy, too. Nowhere is [...]

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