Maeve Mbele
Maeve Mbele joined The Ornithologist's Oracle after Maeve's birding apprenticeship. As The Ornithologist's Oracle's field recorder, Maeve Mbele follows birding claims into their logged results.
Articles by Maeve Mbele
Ornithologist's PowerPoint Contains 340 Slides of Nearly Identical Warblers
The audience was informed that 'the differences are subtle but crucial' and was then shown 340 photographs in which no differences were visible to anyone except the presenter.
Birdwatcher Divorces Spouse Over Disputed Sighting of Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
He says he saw it. She says it was a great spotted woodpecker at a bad angle. Twenty-three years of marriage could not survive the disagreement.
Migration Tracking Data Reveals One Specific Arctic Tern Has Been Deliberately Avoiding Ohio
GPS data from a 12-year tracking study shows the Sterna paradisaea consistently adds 340 kilometers to its annual migration route specifically to circumnavigate the state.