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Take Me out to the World Series...of Birding Full Text

A brutal test of brains, endurance, and the ability to make funny noises

We provide an inside look at this intense event, which draws more than 50 teams to New Jersey every year for a 24-hour contest of ornithological skill and daring.

Further Readings:

1999. Integrating Policy and Science in Conservation Biology. Society for Conservation Biology Meeting. June. College Park, Md.

Dhondt, A.A., D.L. Tessaglia, and R. Slothower. 1988. Epidemic mycoplasmal conjunctivitis in house finches from Eastern North America. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 34:265.

Dunn, E.H. 1995. Bias in Christmas bird counts for species that visit feeders. Wilson Bulletin 107:122.

Dunn, E.H., and D.L. Tessaglia. 1994. Predation of birds at feeders in winter. Journal of Field Ornithology 65:8.

Fischer, J.R., et al. 1997. Mycoplasmal conjunctivitis in wild songbirds: The contagious disease in a mobile host population. Emerging Infectious Diseases 3:69.

Hartup, B.K., et al. 1998. Risk factors associated with mycoplasmal conjunctivitis in house finches. Journal of Wildlife 34:281.

Hochachka, W., J.V. Wells, K.V. Rosenberg, et al. In press. Dynamics of an irruption of common redpolls (Carduelis flammea). Condor.

Rosenberg, K.V., J.D. Lowe, and A.A. Dhondt. 1999. Effects of a forest fragmentation on breeding tanagers: A continental perspective. Conservation Biology 13(June).

Wells, J.V., K.V. Rosenberg, et al. 1997. Feeder counts as indicators of spatial and temporal variation in winter abundance of resident birds. Journal of Field Ornithology 64:577.

Winn, M. 1992. Senior birdmen spend day finding feathered friends. Wall Street Journal. June 4.

Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology reports on citizen science projects, featured sound of the week, and birding information at http://www.ornith.cornell.edu/.

The New Jersey Audobon Society’s World Series of Birding homepage featuring a hall of fame, cumulative species list, and other sports statistics is available at http://www.nj.com/audubon/calmenu/wsb.html.

The Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology’s slide collection can be found at http://birds.cornell.edu/closlides/index.html.

Sources:

World Series of Birding
Cape May Bird Observatory
701 East Lake Drive
P.O. Box 3
Cape May Point, NJ 08212

Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
159 Sapsucker Woods Road
Ithaca, NY 14850-1999

From Science News, Vol. 156, No. 5, July 31, 1999, p. 72. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.