Important Notice
GoShoals | 5:36 pm | January 29, 2009 | Uncategorized
THE SHOALS APPLICATION DEADLINE IS COMING UP FEB. 15.
IT’S A “DROP DEAD” DEADLINE FOR FINANCIAL AID – GIVEN THE FINANCIAL TIMES THERE MAY BE NO FINANCIAL AID LEFT AFTER FEB. 15!
Your Favorite Painting?
GoShoals | 3:42 pm | | Photos
The Metropolitan Museum of Art likes Shoals artwork – learn more!
A few Shoals Critters…
GoShoals | 2:59 pm | | Uncategorized
… show up in a Lab of Ornithology Macaulay Library video. Remember this guy?
Shoals Gull Seen in Florida!
GoShoals | 10:07 am | January 24, 2009 | Uncategorized
From Julie Ellis -
The Lesser Black-backed Gull that I banded last summer on Appledore Island, ME was just spotted yesterday at a beach in FLORIDA! The bird was seen by Alvaro Jaramillo, Bob Wallace, and Michael Brothers who were leading a birding field trip down there. I pasted their observation below, and attached the photo taken by Michael Brothers. It’s really interesting that the LBBG went all the way to Florida to overwinter – my banding data and the literature suggest that adult HERGs and GBBGs tend to overwinter near their breeding island rather than wandering so far.
Observation and Photo by Michael Brothers:
What a day! Today, 1/21, Alvaro Jaramillo, Bob Wallace and I led a field trip for the Space Coast Birding festival to the Tomoka Landfill, Daytona Beach, Volusia County. The birds were difficult to see, but we did find Thayer’s and Kumlien’s Gulls. Later, we took most of the group to Daytona Beach Shores for the evening fly-in. We were not disappointed. First, we found a banded adult Lesser Black-backed Gull. Alvaro did some research this evening and it turns out that this bird was banded on an island off of New Hampshire and is the second known breeding Lesser Black-backed Gull found in North America outside of Greenland. A celebrity bird on our beach!
Shoals in the Winter
GoShoals | 3:40 pm | January 18, 2009 | Uncategorized
Lovely winter snow coats the island:
Live white shark necropsy streamed on the internet
GoShoals | 2:23 pm | January 8, 2009 | Uncategorized
Check out this necropsy of a white shark broadcast yesterday.
The female large Great White Shark was retrieved in the Kaipara Harbour on Monday last week, entangled and dead in a gill net. The fisherman notified the Department of Conservation Auckland Area staff who recovered the shark. The operation will examine the shark’s stomach contents, take measurements of internal organs, as well as investigating the gills and removing the jaws.
But why experience sharks only via the web? Did you know that the Shoals Marine Lab has a summer course exclusively devoted to the study of sharks and their close relatives?
See the full course description at: http://www.sml.cornell.edu/sml_cc_sharks.html
Dates: AUGUST 10 – AUGUST 19, 2009
Credit hours: 3 semester credits
Total cost: $3,276 (includes room, board and tuition)