Conservation of Birds Laboratory - NTRES 371

Instructor: Charles R. Smith
206C Fernow Hall
crs6@cornell.edu

Spring or Summer. 1 credit. Concurrent
Enrollment in NTRES370 required.

A field-oriented course designed to teach skill of bird observation and identification based on the integration of field marks, song and calls, and habitat cues. Topics covered include the choice and effective use of field guides, binoculars, and other tools for bird identification; procedures for taking and organizing field notes; the relationships of birds to their habitats and to other birds; and methods and procedures for censusing and surveying songbird populations.

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Click here to go to a listing of birds and their pictures. These illustrations are provided courtesy of the Department of the Interior, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, from their extensive collection of the works of Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1874-1927). Fuertes (pronounced "fewer-tees") was a prominent naturalist and painter of birds from the early Twentieth Century. He was a native of Ithaca, NY, and a graduate of Cornell University. His home and studio were in Cayuga Heights, near Thurston Avenue, within easy walking distance of the Cornell Campus. To learn more about Fuertes and view more of his illustrations, see the following Cornell web site: http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/Birds.