THE CROSSBILL PROJECT
A Research Collaborative
Purpose is to provide a stable, long-term home for Red Crossbill research over a broad front: field observations, recordings, assortative mating and call type delineation by sound and range. Provide information to the scientific community on the validity of call types and potential full-species separations for flight call types, geographically isolated populations (old world versus new world) etc. One purpose would be to serve as arbiters of flight call determination via audiospectrographic analysis and machine learning/AI for this worldwide complex.
227
Finch Species
Worldwide
60
Red Listed
Finch Species
41
Endangered or Extinct Finch Species
ABOUT FiRN
We want FiRN to be about you, and about the community and network of people that might want to be involved in a global research network interested in observing and studying finches. We hope to fund student projects in time. “The Crossbill Project” will be the flagship project of FiRN. We officially launched FiRN around Tyler Hoar’s Winter Finch Forecast September 20, 2020, and we hope to have as many of you, finch enthusiasts, hop on board and join in on the fun. It’s all about engaging with nature and the network!
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CROSSBILL RECOGNITION MODEL
FiRN PROJECTS
HOW YOU CAN HELP
GET TO KNOW US
SUPPORT & COLLABORATION
- Tyler Hoar and Ron Pittaway | Finch Forecast
- Weston Barker |FiRN Art
- Amur Bird Project
- Lillian Stokes | Stokes Field Guides
- Nathan Pieplow | Earbirding
- Lance Benner | Pasadena Audubon
- Cornell Lab of Ornithology
- Jeff Groth | American Museum of Natural History
- Jamie Cornelius | Oregon State
- Thomas P. Hahn | UC Davis
- Mark Robbins | U. Kansas
- David Lindo | The Urban Birder
- David Hines, M.D.
- Craig Benkman | University of Wyoming
SCIENCE AND CONSERVATION NEWS.
@BirdLife_News
👀🦅 While eye color isn’t tied to one group of birds or another, there is a common pattern is a change in eye color as immature #birds grow to adulthood... want to know more? Listen to this @BirdNoteRadio
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🆘 New study confirms that a Cinerous Vulture born in 2020 in the Boumort National Hunting Reserve has been the first victim of a #vulture species to die from poisoning by veterinary diclofenac in Europe! @BirdLifeEurope
Read the full story here ➡️ https://t.co/ok72RreDaF
Now these are the kind of good weeds to get into; making sure #naturerestoration is real! https://t.co/Nwgn9Ou2sa
How can companies, governments & others quantify their potential and actual contributions to a global goal of saving nature? Our new paper led by @MairLouise proposes a novel metric - STAR - to help with this. https://t.co/dThow73izu @IUCNscience @IUCNRedList #BirdLifeScience https://t.co/B7NftMnUXT
@IBIS_journal
Extinction-in-progress in Indonesia - a unique population on the island of Simeulue is already extinct in the wild https://t.co/dFiRC29Bro
Based on this award-winning @IBIS_journal paper
https://t.co/WbGKMwILVi
#ornithology #theBOUblog https://t.co/szp6HZnmuW
Looking for some interesting Eastern reading material? Here is a sneak peek of the April cover treating energetic trade-offs in a long distance migrant.
Gold Open Access paper: https://t.co/oMTHsEPkjZ #migration #birds #ornithology https://t.co/Vt6i7pkqQ4
Changes in the Montagu’s Harrier Circus pygargus diet in Eastern Poland across decades promote insects and reptilians, but not birds and rodents https://t.co/VAECoIwlIx Open Access Ecology and Evution #ornithology
@mongabay
Lamkani has restored its grasslands through watershed management and traditional practices of ban on grazing and ban on felling trees, @MongabayIndia reports. https://t.co/gK6rwjFb42 https://t.co/kyDgV6gMRR
Author @chelseawald exposes human sanitation's impacts on the climate, ecosystems & each other--from rural to urban--in her new book, “Pipe Dreams," here's her conversation with our @johnccannon ~ https://t.co/Q8qdGxTJHQ https://t.co/vZ5qIe42fK
3D printing of beaks, legs, feet & tails holds promise for disabled wildlife ranging from toucans to elephants. It may even help rare species at risk of extinction, as @LaurelNeme reports: https://t.co/wm7U3E3fnS https://t.co/zyInZs7wW5
If you want to get in touch please feel free to email info@finchnetwork.org or call 607-345-7713.