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September 13, 2013Special Forecast, Nocturnal listening in the Northeastern US: 13-14 September 2013
A strong cold front has moved off the Atlantic coast after a week of more summer-like conditions. Friday night will see temperatures drop in many areas, with winds from the North and Northwest, perfect for moderate to heavy movements in…
September 11, 2015Special forecast, New York City: 11 September 2015
For those in the greater New York City metropolitan area, the coming night brings the return of the Tribute in Light Memorial. The powerful, side-by-side beams of light aimed skyward are first and foremost a somber tribute to the lives lost…
September 17, 2013Special Forecast, Bering Sea: 18-23 September 2013
Team BirdCast continues to try to provide some insights on the comings and goings of vagrants in the Bering Sea! The coming days have some great potential for Asian strays to appear in the Alaskan island chains, particularly given pervasive…
October 1, 2013Special Forecast Update, Bering Sea: 3-6 October 2013
A strong low pressure system is forecast to move across northeastern Asia and the northern Bering Sea late on Thursday 3 October and early on Friday 4 October. Forecasts call for strong westerly winds with this system, which is quite…
September 1, 2013Special Bering Sea Forecast: 2-6 September 2013
From time to time Team BirdCast likes to wander a bit farther afield than usual, and this post is no exception. Several of our colleagues finds themselves on St. Paul and St. Lawrence, Alaskan islands in the middle of the…
September 12, 2013Special Analysis, Tribute in Light: 11-12 September 2013
With forecast conditions looking rather gloomy for observers watching at the Tribute in Light but rosy for avoiding any potential for hazardous conditions for migrating birds, Team BirdCast predicted local, light movements and perhaps tens of birds in the beams…
November 13, 2012Southern Great Plains Goose Flight: 11-12 November 2012
“Hindcasting” is something of great interest to team BirdCast, particularly as a means of improving (eventually) our modeling and thinking about where, when, and how birds appear when and where they do. In this case, let’s look at what happened…
April 30, 2021SongbirdSaver: protect birds from tower collisions with bird friendly lights in your community
Every year approximately 6.8 million migratory birds collide with communication towers in the United States and Canada. Non-flashing lighting is a primary factor in these collisions. Fortunately, there’s a unique opportunity for communications tower owners and birds to mitigate the hazards that such structures pose.
December 28, 2012Snow Cover and Winter Bird Movements
The National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center produces national snow analysis graphics. As of 28 December, as seen in the graphic below, approximately 64% of the United States is covered in snow! This is a dramatic change from the previous week, when…
September 9, 2015Short range forecast: Northeast floodgates to open
At BirdCast, we’ve been working towards real-time analyses of bird migration. We’re excited to bring to the web site next-day analyses of bird migration in the northeast United States, made possible by the National Weather Service’s network of Doppler weather radars and some…
September 10, 2012September and October 2012 media coverage of BirdCast
As part of the coverage of BirdCast that resulted from the journalist only event in Manhattan, a number of media outlets wrote, spoke, or covered stories on the project.

Cornell Daily Sun provided this coverage.

Cornell Chronicle wrote this piece.

University of Delaware…
August 18, 2023Seabirds in the desert (and the mountains): Hilary moves quickly through California and into Nevada
Hurricane Hilary may bring a significant diversity of entrained and displaced birds to California and Nevada, with impacts as far reaching as Oregon and Idaho.

Scientific Team