SAINTCITYLOUNGE: May 2005

May highlights

Well, these are the highlight photos from this month. Some were taken on an excursion in Crete. Later my brother and his family stopped by in Vienna. Most bird pictures are taken during an ornithology course at the KLIVV (www.klivv.oeaw.ac.at), taught by Prof. Dr. Winkler. Finally, the pictures in Grünau were taken last weekend during a seminar on the future of social learning research. Ira held a great talk on mate choice, Swen told us about possible culture in Cetaceans and I talked about the neuronal base of imitation in Macaque Monkeys.

nut hatch babies

Waldkauz Baby (Strigiformes)

Mona can�t tell whether a bird or her uncle is taken a picture of her

My nephew L�on and Kermit having lunch

C�cile and Linus at the Wilhelminenberg aviary

Kermit is my best bird buddy

Urs and Kermit having fun

Urs, C�cile, L�on and Mona in front of the oldest research station for animal behavior in the world

Haven�t defined this bird species, that�s chilling with Ira

Eddie the halfwinged blackbird

A young crow at the Gr�nau Research Station

A Waldrapp in front of his nest in Gr�nau

A bird that´s been thought to be extinct found

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/ivory/#

the folks at cornell do great birding work, check out their gallery....
further reading
www.ornithology.com
www.bird.at
Today, we caught some tits (parus major and parus caeruleus), woodpeckers and other small birds and put rings on.... Pics will follow