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Virginia Rail added to BFS Bird List

We have a new addition to the BFS Bird List! On Saturday, November 14, and Monday, November 16, a Virginia Rail (Rallus limicola) was seen among the cattails on the south side of pHake Lake. This small, chicken-like shore bird frequents freshwater marshes, where it most often remains hidden in dense vegetation. [...]

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Sage Thrasher added to BFS Bird List

We have a new addition to the BFS Bird List! On Sunday, October 25, a Sage Thrasher (Orescoptes montanus) was seen hopping down the road on the eastern side of pHake Lake (photo below).
The Sage Thrasher is the smallest thrasher. It has a brownish-gray back, prominent dark streaking on white underparts, thin white [...]

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Live BFS News on BFS Home Page

The BFS website now has an embedded feed from this blog, so new posts will now automatically appear on the BFS Home Page (www.bfs.claremont.edu).

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BFS Bird Survey data now on eBird

Monthly bird survey records for the Bernard Field Station (2001-present) are now available on eBird!
‘eBird’ is an online checklist program launched in 2002 by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society. eBird is free and available to anyone, although to get the most out eBird’s features, you may want to register [...]

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BFS invertebrate list now available!

Worms and snails and butterflies, oh my! We now have a first draft of a BFS Invertebrate List available on the website. Many, many thanks to Prof. Jonathan Wright, BFS web intern Maya Nakamura, and Research Assistant Connor Smith for all their hard work in this massive undertaking. The list currently contains 169 taxa, [...]

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New additions to BFS Lichen list

In April, Kerry Knudsen, Curator of Lichens for the UC Riverside Herbarium, came out to the BFS to conduct further study of some lichens he had previously observed. While he was there, he did some additional surveying, and as a result we’ve added ten more lichen species to our BFS Lichen List. The [...]

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BFS Mammals list updated

Our annual update to the BFS Mammal List has been completed. Many thanks to our BFS Web Intern Maya Nakamura for checking and updating links, and to Paul Stapp, Cal State Fullerton, and Nina Karnovsky, Pomona College, for help with the taxonomy. Here is a summary of the revisions:

All links have been checked and updated [...]

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RSS: an easy way to keep tabs on BFS Blog posts

Do you want to be sure you’re up to date on the latest posts on the BFS News Blog?
We do have headline links on the BFS Home page (bfs.claremont.edu), but I add those links manually, so if I’m busy or I don’t know a post has been made, you may not see the latest entry [...]

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BFS Bird List updated

Our annual update to the BFS Bird List been completed. Many thanks to our BFS Web Intern Maya Nakamura for doing the update! Here is a summary of the revisions:

All links have been checked and updated as needed.
There are a few taxonomic changes:

California Quail (Callipepla californica): Formerly in Phasianidae, Callipepla is now placed in Odontophoridae.
Blue-gray [...]

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Reptile and Amphibian page updated

Our annual update to the BFS Reptile & Amphibians page has been completed. Many thanks to our BFS Web Intern Maya Nakamura for doing the update! The revisions this year were minimal.
Note: Additional corrections made 10 June 2009. Many thanks to Marion Preest for spotting the errors!

All links have been checked and corrected if [...]

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