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BIOL 427 Lab David Toews Lab: BioDiversity Room 060 Introduc)on, “Birdingbyear” and the Birds of the World Office: BioDiversity Room 116 No office hours, but email to setup 6mes [email protected]
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BIOL 427 Lab
David ToewsLab: BioDiversity Room 060
Introduc)on, “Birding-‐by-‐ear” and the Birds of the World
Office: BioDiversity Room 116
No office hours, but e-‐mail to setup 6mes
Introduc2on
MSc:Pacific /
Winter wrenMSc/PhD:
Townsend’s / black-‐throated green warblers
PhD:Yellow-‐rumped
warblers
Introduc2onSept. 24/26 Field trip 2 (banding?)
Oct. 1/3 IdenSficaSon 1: orders Anseriformes, Galliformes, Gaviiformes, Podicipediformes Procellariiformes, Pelecaniformes, and Ciconiiformes (pp. 14-‐122, NatGeo Birds V6)
Oct. 8/10 Anatomy, and IntroducSon to specimen preparaSon (Ildiko Szabo)
Oct. 15/17 IdenSficaSon 2: orders Accipitriformes, Falconiformes, Gruiformes, Charadriiformes, and Columbiformes (pp. 124-‐270, NatGeo Birds V6)
Oct. 22/24 IntroducSon to song and call analysis
Oct. 29/31 LAB QUIZ; IdenSficaSon 3: orders Strigiformes, Caprimulgiformes, Apodiformes, Coraciiformes, Piciformes, and Passeriformes, families Tyrannidae to TroglodySdae (pp. 282-‐386, NatGeo Birds V6)
Nov. 5/7 IdenSficaSon 4: order Passeriformes, families Cinclidae to Passeridae (pp. 386-‐528, NatGeo Birds V6)
Nov. 12/14 review session
Nov. 19/21 LAB EXAM
Need to know:
common names
orders
songs (mostly songbirds)
some disSnguishing characterisScs (mostly of orders)
(similar course at Louisiana State “iden3fy any bird to family”!)
“Birding-‐by-‐Ear” (by Request)
learning vocaliza3ons can be difficult, but very rewarding!
a different type of memoriza3on
use phone3cs; your own will be the best!
“iBird” is helpful. For iPhone, iPod or iPad -‐ Canadian version only
$4.99
Dendroica:http://www.natureinstruct.org/dendroica/
Top Birds You Will Likely Hear But Not See:
red-‐breasted nuthatch
brown creeperruby-‐crowned kingletgolden-‐crowned kinglet
cedar waxwing
song sparrow
black-‐capped chickadee
chestnut-‐backed chickadee
Steller’s jay
varied thrush
pine siskinnorthern flickerpacific wren
american robin (just good to know!)
northwestern crowcommon raven
login: [email protected]: warbler
BIRDS OF THE WORLD!
a taste of
crimson-‐rumped toucanet
Jetz et al. 2012
Avian Diversity Centered Around Tropics
(Hawkins et al. 2012)
Avian Diversity Centered Around Tropics
(Hawkins et al. 2012)
# Orders -‐ 30# Families -‐ 193#Species -‐ 9702
(Dickinson 2003)
(Hacke' et al. 2008)
-‐ families we will cover for BC’s representa)ves
Paleognathae
NeognathaeNeoaves(95% of species)
Galloanserae
“land birds”
“shorebirds”
“water birds”
“ra3tes”
http://bcs.whfreeman.com/gill/
An Excellent Resource:
“The Birds of the World” Online Appendix
Regional Special2es
Plate-‐billed mountain toucan
Superb Fairywren
(Australia; socially monogamous but
sexually promiscuous)(neotropics)
Evolu2onarily Dis2nct
HoatzinOilbird
(only nocturnal fruit eaSng bird)“arguably the most
enigmaSc living bird in terms of phylogeneSc
posiSon” (both South American)
Island Radia2ons
Wilson’s Bird-‐of-‐paradise
‘I’iwi(Hawaiian
honeycreeper; very endangered)
(New Guinea)
Polar Ambassadors
Emperor Penguin
http://seaworldparks.com/en/seaworld-sandiego/Animals/
Webcams/Penguin-Cam
Flightless Friends
Kiwi Elegant-‐crested 6namou
(Chile and ArgenSna)(New Zealand)
Coraciiformes
Hoopoe Green bee-‐eater
(Africa and Asia)(Eurasia)
(this is the same order as our kingfishers)
Other Oddi2es
American Flamingo Roseate spoonbill
(South and Central America)
(Caribbean; related to grebes)
Blackburnian warbler Willow warbler
(Eurasia)(Eastern North America)
New World versus Old World
(beau8ful) (bland)
Handling Specimens:try not to hold them by the s)ck
support the head of some of the longer necked birds
when handling the birds: both hands on the wing, move your hands with the feathers, don’t try and
open the wing
avoid geMng any grease on the feathers
take good notes and drawings ... and have fun!
(Hoatzin, Flamingo, Tinamou)
