Links to sites featuring campus birds and Science Art

NEW 2016 update  Birds of Stanford website

-- based on The Birder's Handbook (Paul R. Ehrlich, David S. Dobkin, and Darryl Wheye. 1988. Simon & Schuster, New York) and includes125 species seen many years on the academic reserve and 150 related essays
--printable Checklist of Campus Birds
-- featured artists whose work is presented as Science Art
-- gallery of instructive photographs and artwork
-- maps and walks for four avian-rich campus areas and their birds: the Arboretum (including, the Mausoleum, Cactus Garden and Memorial Marsh), the Central Campus, Dish and Lake Lagunita
-- forms for submitting campus bird sightings and observations that will help annotate species coverage, images for the gallery and comments

NEW 2016 update  Art at Exits: Seeing Stanford Species website

--The exhibit--and its web coverage--began with ten works by Audubon featuring birds found on Stanford's main campus. The Audubons have been installed near building exits opening toward areas the featured birds might be seen. Captions provide a science lens, campus locations for the species portrayed, any sustainability issues, and submitted artwork.
-- A digital display was posted in Y2E2 in November--making it the 10th campus building to participate and the first to display the exhibit as a a slide show. The show concentrates on the Western Fence Lizard as the Y2E2 local species and five other speces involved in Y2E2 (and JRBP) research. It was sponsored by Jasper Ridge Biologial Preserve(JRBP).

Green Library Bird Art Installation at the East Portal (opening toward Coupa Cafe and Meyer Green)

--dedicated to Stanford President emeritus Donald Kennedy "to honor his support of Stanford and the natural world"
--includes nine paintings and drawings of campus birds by Darryl Wheye features
--Science Art captions are posted online.

A short paper on mimicry relevant to bird predation: Do some marks on butterfly wings mimic caterpillars?

--Prof. Paul Ehrlich and Darryl Wheye ask: If they do, what effect might this form of mimicry have on birds and other predators? Thta is, would the markings on a chemically-defended larvae that appear on the wings of a butterfly, deter a predator that won't touch the larvae?
--A Citizen Scince project has been poste through iNaturalist to find more examples of butterflys with larva-like patterns on its wing (see the example to the right.)

Hummingbird Garden planted at Green Library

--The garden, planted in Fall, 2015, is located behind the half wall at the Library's East portal, near Coupa Cafe.
--the garden is an outgrowth of the Art at Exits (above) installation at Green Library, which presents Audubon's Anna's Hummingbird.
--is designed to provide year-round nectar for the three species of hummingbirds seen on campus (Anna's Allen's and Rufous Hummingbirds).

Birds of Stanford: 30 Species Seen on the Main Campus.

Registry of Aird Artists

--a registry of more than 100 international artists designed as an aid for writers seeking original art to accompany their publications
--seeks to encourage the creation of great, biologically informative bird art (Science Art) to expand the publication and exhibition of high-end images and broaden the audience interested in learning about advances in bird biology and challenges to conservation efforts
--Access the Registry's Science Art Exhibit

Science Art

Please send questions or comments to: darrylw@stanford.edu