Annual bird counts give scientists climate clues
Monday, December 31, 2012 - 11:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
MAD ISLAND, Texas (AP) -- Armed with flashlights, recordings of bird calls, a small notebook and a stash of candy bars, scientist Rich Kostecke embarked on an annual 24-hour Christmastime count of birds along the Texas Gulf Coast. Yellow rail. Barn owl. Bittern. Crested Cara-Cara. Kostecke rattled off the names and scribbled them in his notebook....