Birds, beetles, and woodland research
August 26, 2024
August 26, 2024
ITHACA, New York, Aug. 26 -- Cornell University issued the following news:
Under the watchful eye of Kim Savides, a veteran bird handler at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, undergraduate researcher Tasos Stefanou '26 carefully untangles a red-bellied woodpecker from a net hanging between trees in Sapsucker Woods.
Stefanou gently places the bird in a wooden box affectionately known as the "outhouse." They wait, hoping for a woodpecker fecal sample. After 10 . . .
Under the watchful eye of Kim Savides, a veteran bird handler at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, undergraduate researcher Tasos Stefanou '26 carefully untangles a red-bellied woodpecker from a net hanging between trees in Sapsucker Woods.
Stefanou gently places the bird in a wooden box affectionately known as the "outhouse." They wait, hoping for a woodpecker fecal sample. After 10 . . .