Bird Skulls

Rachel at Women's Health News has made an off-topic but awesomely librarian-geeky discovery: the U.S. Geological Survey has a North American Bird Phenology Program, through which people (including you!) can log in and contribute to a database of valuable bird-related information by transcribing information on bird migrations from handwritten cards collected in the late 19th through the mid 20th centuries.

Also amusing: I initially read that as "Bird Phrenology Program," and idly wondered what sort of notes people collect about the shapes of bird skulls. Hey, you never know.

Anyway, that seems like a cool project and a nice way to take advantage of volunteers (for the program) and for people to contribute to an interesting project (for the volunteers).

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