Biology and natural history

1. Butterflies. Download a postscript file for a field checklist of Tri-state butterflies, a text version of the same file, or see my personal list of sightings for 1995-98. Or practice your scientific names of Ohio Butterflies and Skippers using javascript practice files
2. Birding in the Tri-state. For information about birds, you should visit Ned Keller's page about birding in Cincinnati. This includes listing of field trips and programs, reports of recent sightings, descriptions of places to go birding, and a list of birds with codes indicating how easy each species is to find at different times of the year. Recently, Ned's put his entire database of local bird sightings online with an interface that will let you search it. Very nice.
3. Bird census data. Together with Charlie Saunders and David Styer, I conduct annual winter and breeding bird census in a plot of old growth forest in Hamilton County. This data appears in the Journal of Field Ornithology, but you can obtain ascii versions of our data here. The breeding bird census reports the total number of breeding territories detected on the plot, the winter bird census gives the total number of sightings of each species detected on each census trip.
4. A list of plants of the Tri-state region will be available here real soon.
5. Burnet Woods is an urban park adjacent to the University of Cincinnati. We've done spring censuses of migrant birds in Burnet Woods for 7 consecutive years. On these census trips the locations of each migrant are plotted on a map. We use the data to study interactions between migrants and the ways in which migrants use the resources in the park. The park is also a popular destination for area birdwatchers.