eBirder and photographer Pavel Parkhaev contributes the 10 millionth photo

By Team eBird 28 Jan 2019

It’s been just a little over three years since eBird and Macaulay Library partnered to give eBirders a place to permanently archive their photos and sounds. On 22 January 2019, eBirder and photographer Pavel Parkhaev from Moscow, Russia contributed the 10 millionth photo to the Macaulay Library! This is a huge milestone and a tribute…

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Recordings help unravel the mystery of mixed-species flock leadership

By Kathi Borgmann 9 Jan 2019

If you’ve spent any time birding in the winter in the United States and Canada you know that in quiet winter-laden forests, the sound of a chickadee is like striking gold; where there is one chickadee there are bound to be more birds tagging along. During the fall and winter in the temperate zone chickadees…

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The Cornell Lab Young Birders Event 2019

By Team eBird 8 Jan 2019

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is excited to host The Cornell Lab Young Birders Event, which will be held July 11-14, 2019 in Ithaca, New York. The Young Birders Event aims to bring together teenagers with a passion for birds and interested in pursing a career in the field. You’ll meet people who have successful…

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Macaulay Library 2018 Year in Review

By Kathi Borgmann 21 Dec 2018

This year has been a remarkable year for the Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology thanks to 61,407 contributors from around the globe. We have a lot of successes to celebrate together as we head into 2019—the Macaulay Library’s 90th year! The community of recordists and photographers who archive their media in the…

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Publications 2018

By Kathi Borgmann 17 Dec 2018

In 2018, scientists published 112 peer-reviewed papers using media from the Macaulay Library. Media in the Macaulay Library helped researchers discover a new species of grosbeak in the Amazon and helped us understand why birds-of-paradise not only have amazing plumage patterns, but dance moves and vocalizations as well. Researchers also used media in the Macaulay Library…

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Recordist of Note: Saurabh Sawant

By Kathi Borgmann 12 Dec 2018

Meet Saurabh Sawant, a Macaulay Library contributor. Saurabh tells us why he started recording bird sounds and what he loves about it. Thank you, Saurabh for joining our community and for archiving your photos and recordings with the Macaulay Library! Special thanks to Lauren Gabuzzi for creating the video.    

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A new species of grosbeak in the Amazon

By Kathi Borgmann 5 Dec 2018

Museum collections and our very own digital museum of sound at the Macaulay Library helped researchers uncover a new species of grosbeak in the Amazon. Read the full story about the Amazonian Grosbeak.

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A new era of eBird Science: Status and Trends

By Team eBird 4 Dec 2018

This month we are excited to announce a huge advance in the understanding of birds, only made possible with eBird data. The bird observations submitted by you and many others contribute to these exciting new results: your eBird checklists are now working even harder to advance science and our knowledge of birds. The result of…

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Birds-of-paradise have it all

By Kathi Borgmann 20 Nov 2018

You can’t have it all, is a phrase many of us have probably heard throughout our lives, but new research on birds-of-paradise suggests that maybe you can…at least if you are a bird-of-paradise. Russell Ligon, a postdoctoral researcher at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and his coauthors Christopher Diaz, Janelle Morano, Jolyon Troscianko, Martin Stevens,…

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Recordist of note: Mark Robbins

By Kathi Borgmann 12 Nov 2018

Mark Robbins, the Collection Manager at the University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute, has been recording bird sounds for 40 years, mounting an unparalleled collection of sounds all of which have been archived in the Macaulay Library. Robbins now has 11,055 recordings and counting in the library—that’s nearly 3% of all of the recordings in the…

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