Bird Journal

This distinct slim spiral bound journal with its yellow cover is ideal for Pacific Northwest birding in real time rain and damp in the field. Low on embellishment (except for the American Birding Association (ABA) Birding Ethics and a summary of bird body terms in the inside covers) the pages contain date, location and weather cells, but are otherwise blank. The journal has no checklist so is meant to be used until filled, versus as a life list journal. Purchase online or at the Seattle Audubon Nature Shop.

It is said that the difference between a person who simply enjoys nature and a true naturalist is that a naturalist keeps a field journal. Amateur and professional bird watchers, artists, and philosophers have long kept such records of their thoughts and observations, but now an increasing number of regular folks are taking up the pastime of journaling.

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The only discoveries that matter in a journal are personal. Our journal entries, for example, document the behaviors that species exhibit in the spring versus the fall, because we want to know more about how they live and what their life experiences are like. We also have many entries describing how individual birds relate to us, the observers.

While the field note resides in the realm of the scientist, the nature journal is a way to tap into the creative flow, to generate a meditative tranquillity through a creative act. But one need not be a professional scientist, philosopher, writer, or artist to keep a bird-watching journal: The benefits are the same for anybody who takes the time to observe and ponder the wonders of nature.

Start your journaling journey by assembling your supplies, and have fun collecting them. Keeping a journal need not be expensive. In fact, all those blank pages may intimidate you less if you use a less expensive book. We recommend the following items:

Pens and pencils. Some journal devotees have special pens that they use only with their journals, to make the act feel more like a special ritual. Using the same ink color over time for the main body of your writing will provide some visual consistency from entry to entry. You can use colored pens and pencils to highlight dates, draw fanciful borders, or punch up areas of text as your whims dictate. Or if you prefer simplicity, a disposable pen is just fine.

Unique fonts and borders. Some people use colored markers or pencils to highlight the date or important passages. Try drawing in some of your text vertically or diagonally for variation. Some journal keepers draw fanciful borders around their pages or place text in circles. The key is to use your imagination.

Pressed leaves and flowers. Pressed leaves and flowers may be glued into your notebook with magical effect. If you prefer a journal that is a little less lumpy, scan flowers or leaves into your computer, print the results using a color printer, and glue the image onto your entry page. Try to use flowers or leaves that are important to the birds that you are observing, or that remind you of a particular moment.

This is a great article for someone interested in getting started with a birding journal. I love how you emphasized that keeping a journal is not about skill or even about being extremely precise, but instead its about documenting a personal experience. Very encouraging!

Colorado Birds is CFO's quarterly journal providing in-depth coverage of the identification, distribution, behavior, ecology and conservation of the state's avifauna. In each issue, you'll learn about notable bird occurrences throughout the state, practical field identification tips, interesting bird feeding behaviors, plus information on CFO activities. Many outstanding photographers publish in the journal and we're sure you will enjoy the many photos of Colorado birds in each issue.

If you are interested in purchasing an extra print copy of a journal, please contact us regarding availability. Journals are $15 per copy. Contact membership@cobirds.org with the issue(s) you would like.

CFO members have the option to receive a printed copy of the journal mailed to them. All members have unlimited access to current and past issues when logged in on this website. Non-members can access journals that were published more than two years ago.

Everyone is invited to submit articles for consideration for publication in Colorado Birds. If you are new to submitting to the journal, we suggest you contact the managing editor at editor@cobirds.org to ensure your proposal is aligned with the purpose of Colorado Birds.

The Photo Editor posts needs for specific photos on COBirds before each edition. If you have other photos, you are interested in contributing, please contact the Photo Editor, photos@cobirds.org, to ensure there is space for them before submitting the photos.

Back in 2001, Mark Cocker referred to "measuring life out in lists of bird names" in his seminal book on the hobby, Birders. How far the humble list has come in the last dozen or so years. Technology, particularly mobile technology, has changed the way that many of us keep our lists and our bird records. Running in parallel, the resurgence of interest in other taxa such as moths, insects, mammals and so on has presented other issues for the keen record-keeper and lister.

Bird Journal isn't new to the market, but it offers a sound platform for recording both birds and many other areas of interest. Recognising the diversity of technology we use, developer Bluebird Technology offers multiple solutions from iOS and Android apps to desktop-based versions for home entry.

The latest version allows the user to sync records seamlessly across all devices, including worldwide and wildlife observations. Bird Journal may have started life as a bird-recording tool, but the inclusion of taxonomies and checklists in this latest version now covers a huge range, from the amphibians of Europe to the water bugs and allies of the UK.

The apps themselves are free to download and install, and local bird observations can be kept using a free account. A premium subscription is available offering full library access and analysis features. These 'bells and whistles' range from time-based summaries, a range of graphs, bar charts and pie charts analysing entries, location mapping and a linked photo gallery. Simple user-friendly layouts with clear instructions add value without over-complication.

Counts are entered on scrolling columns of numbers; the option to switch to simple keyboard entry would be useful. Currently the biggest issue with the iOS app is that the desktop-based software isn't Mac-compatible, so syncing the desktop and app data and the full benefits of the premium features aren't available. Bluebird says it plans a Mac version.

The following is a list of notable journals and magazines relating to birding and ornithology. The continent and country columns give the location where the journal or magazine is published and may not correspond with its scope or content.

My name is Liv Cohen and I have one semester left at Middlebury College (I refuse to use the term super-senior Feb; I am sorry, it just makes me squirm, but that is beside the present point). The point is that I remember Middlebury in the fall of 2019 with all of the startling clarity of a terrified freshman. It was the last semester before the shit hit the fan, if you will, and one of the last semesters that Blackbird Literary and Visual Arts Journal was a vital part of campus life.

Reviving Blackbird is a testament to the legacy of student creativity and art that once shaped the Middlebury community. As I begin my last semester, I want to leave a legacy that nurtures the arts that have been so integral to the shaping of my studies and myself. Picking up Blackbird from a two-year hiatus has been challenging. Yet, there is also a great opportunity for the journal to evolve and shift to reflect the current student body. The Board is exploring the ways in which the journal can be more accessible and fresh, whether that be with Zines, sharable PDFS or new forms of art. Blackbird is in a period of exciting evolution and rebirth that will provide new members with an unprecedented moment for creative license.

To get involved with the crafting of the journal you can be a reader for the poetry, prose or visual arts boards, a layout editor, or help with spreading the word. If you are interested, reach out to blackbird@middlebury.edu to be added to the email list. Or, if you want to be featured, submit your work! We are accepting submissions now for the fall issue, looking for short-form visual and literary art. You can anonymize your document and send all writing as a Word doc. Eternalize that poem, strange cartoon, self-portrait, essay, etc., and submit your work to blackbird@middlebury.edu

Rapid climatic change poses a threat to global biodiversity. There is extensive evidence that recent climatic change has affected animal and plant populations, but no indicators exist that summarise impacts over many species and large areas. We use data on long-term population trends of European birds to develop such an indicator. We find a significant relationship between interspecific variation in population trend and the change in potential range extent between the late 20th and late 21st centuries, forecasted by climatic envelope models. Our indicator measures divergence in population trend between bird species predicted by climatic envelope models to be favourably affected by climatic change and those adversely affected. The indicator shows a rapid increase in the past twenty years, coinciding with a period of rapid warming.

Variation among species of European and other birds in the rate of recent population change has been reported to be correlated with anthropogenic and non-anthropogenic factors, other than climatic change, associated with their breeding habitat [16], migratory behaviour [23] and life history characteristics (for which we use body mass as a proxy) [24]. For this reason, we examined the relationship of population trend to CLIM, both on its own and against the background of these potentially confounding variables, using model averaging [25]. e24fc04721