Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Approximately 250 scientists, professors, staff, and students work in a variety of programs devoted to the Lab's mission: interpreting and conserving the Earth's biological diversity through research, education, and citizen science focused on birds.Lab founder Arthur Allen (along with colleagues Louis Agassiz Fuertes, James Gutsell, and Francis Harper) had dubbed the area “Sapsucker Woods” after discovering the first breeding pair of yellow-bellied sapsuckers ever reported in the Cayuga Lake Basin; this species of woodpecker is now common in the area and is part of the Cornell Lab's logo.Birdwatchers of all ages and skill levels help gather the data needed to capture the big picture about the distribution and abundance of birds.[18] Cornell Lab scientists, postdoctoral associates, students, and visiting scholars are carrying on much original research in behavioral ecology, conservation, education, evolutionary biology, information systems, and population genetics.In the Center for Biodiversity Studies & Higher Education, laboratory researchers are extracting DNA from living birds or specimens to uncover the relationships among species.[19] The Lab worked with Partners in Flight to identify rapidly declining species and produce the first North American Landbird Conservation Plan.Lab scientists are currently involved with partners from industry, government agencies, and non-governmental organizations in setting research priorities to better understand the impact of wind power facilities on birds and bats on land, and on whales and marine creatures offshore.[23] These mobile autonomous vehicles consist of a hard drive, housing, and microphone array[24] that can be mounted in a forest or anchored to the ocean floor.The Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates is also housed in the Johnson Center and holds 1,230,000 specimens of fish, 44,300 amphibians and reptiles, 45,000 birds, 3,200 eggs, and 15,000 mammals, some now extinct.
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