Ornithology 2A&B Summary (Spring 2009)

If you miss a class, please check this page and study the listed topics in your field guide. Click here for last year's calendar.

Note: We have moved to room 139!
Class notes by Elisabeth Koster are
here.


May 6

We completed and reviewed the hummingbirds on page 272. Click here and here for my photos of Green Violetear (note change in spelling) in Costa Rica. Terrible photo of a Green Violetear in California is here. My photos of Green-breasted Mango from Costa Rica are here and here. Click here for a photo of Violet-crowned Hummingbird in Humboldt County.

This was the last class for the semester. We resume September 16, 2009. Registration is available starting July 1st. Thank you for your interest and support.


May 6

We completed and reviewed the swifts on page 270. Click here for a recent Vaux's Swift photo by Kris Olson which I edited for her. Click here for a pdf of the article I wrote about the White-collared Swift in California. Les Chibana's photos of White-throated Swifts mating in mid-air are here.

Click here for the New Yorker article about Richard Meinertzhagen.


April 22

We completed and reviewed the nightjars on pages 266 & 268. Click here for discussion with photo of Lesser Nighthawk. Click here for discussion with photo of Common Nighthawk. Click here for a photo of a Chuck-will's-widow from Crescent City, California. Click here for a photo of Buff-collared Nightjar from Oxnard.


April 15

We completed and reviewed the owls on page 262. Click here for my photo of Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl from Texas and here for my photo of Northern Pygmy-Owl from Gazos Creek.


April 1

We completed and reviewed the owls on page 260. Click here and here for my photos of Eastern Screech-Owls in Texas.


March 25

We completed and reviewed the owls on page 258. Click here and here for Barred Owl photos. My photo of a Spotted Owl in Southern California is here. Details and my photos of the Snowy Owl at Grizzly Bay are here. Additional Snowy Owl photos are here, here, here and here.


March 18

We completed and reviewed the owls on page 256. Click here for a Long-eared Owl photo and here for a discussion of another Long-eared Owl photo.


March 11

We completed and reviewed the cuckoos on pages 254 and started the owls on page 256. Click here and here for my Smooth-billed Ani photos from Tobago.


March 4

We completed and reviewed the parrots and cuckoos on pages 248, 250 & 252. Yellow-billed Cuckoo photos are here,and here; and a Black-billed Cuckoo photo is here.


February 25

We completed and reviewed the doves on page 246 and started the parrots on page 248. Click here for a Common Ground-Dove in Santa Cruz. My Ruddy Ground-Dove notes and photos are here, here and here. Ruddy Ground-Dove photos are here, here, here, here, here and here (Trinidad). My photo of Inca Dove from Texas is here and White-tipped Dove from Tobago is here. Click here for information on feral parrots in San Francisco.


February 18

We completed and reviewed the doves on page 244 and started the gound-doves on page 246. A photo of the Bolinas Oriental Turtle-Dove is here.


February 11

We completed and reviewed the pigeons on page 242 and started the doves on page 244. Click here for my photos and analysis of Eurasian Collared-Doves in the Imperial Valley. Click here and here for additional Eurasian Collared-Dove photos.

Per class discussion: A study in Finland found that E. coli isolates from birds differed from human pathogenic strains by the lack of EHEC-hlyA and bfp/EAF as well as distribution of O-serogroups. Thus, birds cannot be regarded as important carriers of zoonotic stx or eae E. coli in Finland.


February 4

We completed and reviewed the alcids on page 240. Click here for a photo of Rhinoceros Auklets in Alaska. My Horned Puffin photo from Moss Beach is here. Additional photos from California are here and here. A Horned Puffin photo from Alaska is here. Click here for a Tufted Puffin photo from Alaska. For the puffin poem, click here. For an explanation of how puffin's hold so many fish, click here.