Birding
« Older Entries |Bird song identification
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008Oh, I smell a product that would be very popular with birdwatchers.
Birdsong not just for the birds
Switch on the mike, start the recording, the stage is set for the local fauna! Computer scientists from the University of Bonn, in conjunction with the birdsong archives of Berlin’s Humboldt University, have developed a kind of ‘Big […]
Wikis and the collective intelligence
Thursday, July 24th, 2008Still thinking about where my research needs to go in the near future. I was trying to think about why some collaborative endeavours are more successful than others. For example, I use WoWWiki a lot. It’s my go-to source when I want to find out more about various aspects of World of Warcraft. I’ve never […]
The misremembrance of wines past
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008Ooh, cool study on verbal and perceptual expertise: The misremembrance of wines past: Verbal and perceptual expertise differentially mediate verbal overshadowing of taste memory, by Joseph M. Melcher and Jonathan W. Schooler, Journal of Memory and Language, volume 35, issue 2, pp. 231-245, 1996.
When participants generate a detailed, memory-based description of complex nonverbal stimuli (e.g., […]
Spring is in the air
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008Well, it may still look like the depths of winter here in Ottawa, but spring has sprung down south, and that can only mean one thing: birdcams! This one of a Barn Owl on a nest of eight (yes, eggs is pretty cool as it has streaming video and sound. Cornell has a […]
USB-powered owl
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008I collect bird-related things. I’ve got birding books, bird-related jewelry, plush birds, paintings of birds, bird sculptures, bird knick-knacks, cups with birds on them… Luckily, André is very tolerant of my obsession. Even so, I’m not sure I want this USB-powered owl. It’s a bit too plastic-y for my taste. Could it be? Something with […]
Oiseaux observés à la mangeoire jusqu’à maintenant
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008Pic chevelu (au moins deux individus)
Sittelle à poitrine blanche (au moins deux individus)
Mésanges à tète noire (plusieurs)
Cardinal rouge (màle et femelle)
Geais bleu (plusieurs individus)
Tourterelle triste (un seul)
Chardonnerets jaunes (plusieurs individus en plumage d’hiver - la photo qui est liée au nom de l’oiseau illustre bien ce plumage terne)
Ce qui m’a le plus surpris, c’est de […]
Birding at work
Thursday, November 22nd, 2007There are three birds eating from the fruits of the crabapple tree outside my window. (Our boss spotted them first.) They’re either Pine Grosbeaks or White-winged Crossbills. Or maybe something else that’s big and red and grey (definitely not Cardinals though). I can’t really tell, though, as I don’t have my binoculars so I can’t […]
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