FIELD ORNITHOLOGY:

BIOSM 3740/MEFB (ZOOL) 510

dates:               MAY 21 - JUNE 4, 2012

credit hours:    3 semester credits

total cost for CU/UNH students: $5,104 (includes room, board and tuition)
total cost for others: $5,932 (includes room, board and tuition)

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Prerequisites: One semester of college level biology or equivalent; background in ornithology or vertebrate biology is recommended, but not required. 

CORNELL students; this course fulfills the following requirements:
"Biology Foundation, Biological Diversity" requirement for Biology & Society majors

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Herring gull chick on Appledore Island

At the Appledore Island Migration Banding Station

Course description: Leave the classroom behind, get outside, and immerse yourself in the amazing world of birds. This field-based course uses the diverse and abundant birds of the Isles of Shoals as your primary lab material as you gain an understanding of avian ecology. Live among nesting eiders, Herring Gulls, and Great Black-backed Gulls. Travel to neighboring islands to see tern and cormorant nesting colonies (and see some baby seals along the way). Scan the horizon for diving gannets and soaring shearwaters and fulmars while on a whale watch off the Islands. Explore the differences between island and mainland birds during a field trip to the coast. Course topics include avian diversity, anatomy, ecology, physiology, and behavior. Field techniques include field identification, bird banding, and various census methods.

Faculty:
Dr. David Bonter, Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
READ Dr. Bonter's article about his time spent on Appledore teaching in summer 2007.  He says, "There's no better way to build class unity than to head into a colony of irritated Herring and Great Black-backed gulls."
SEE Dr. Bonter on TV 

Teaching Assistant:
Sarah MacLean

 

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