Birding

Late last year, the Northwest Arkansas Audubon Society utilized amateur bird watchers to gather vital local data for scientific analyses. The initiative is called a bird count. The count’s leader was ornithologist Mitchell Pruitt, who joined Ozarks at Large’s Jack Travis in the Bruce and Anne Applegate News Studio One after he finished compiling data to explain what these newly gathered statistics might mean for birds in our backyard- and across the nation.

On today's show, a group of hobbyists turned scientists help count birds in northwest Arkansas. Also, the oddities of celebrating an annual event every four years. Plus, a farewell from the chief.

On today's show, critical observations of birds from amateur birders and scientists can be shared on eBird, a real-time database. Also, the Springdale-based entrepreneurship support organization, Conexión de Negocios Latinos, starts its Entre Latinas program tomorrow. Plus, a preview of the fall symposium, "Good Medicine," and more.

Taylor Long, visual designer for the popular website called eBird, housed at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, explains how the richly illustrated free to use real-time database enables both amateur birders and scientists to share critical observations about Earth's bird distribution and abundance.

The ruby-throated hummingbird can now be spotted throughout Arkansas as the little birds make their migration route from Central America and Southern…

A flock of trumpeter swans suddenly appeared on Lake Sequoyah late this winter to the delight of bird enthusiasts. Flocks of snowy white trumpeter swans…

A reclusive scientist living in Fayetteville is the subject of a new documentary titled "Mike the Birdman." We meet the director and videographer. A…

Anant Deshwal and Pooja Panwar, graduate students at the University of Arkansas, are collaborating on testing ecoacoustic methods to assess bird…

Bird lovers can participate in this annual event by counting birds for 15 minutes one or more days this weekend. Collected data can then be submitted here.

A dedication of the Paige and Mary Bess Mulhollan Waterfowl Bird Blind at Lake Fayetteville Park is set for Wednesday, October 26th at 1:30-2:30. The bird…