BY KATIE VALENTINE ON MARCH 28, 2014 AT 11:59 AM A lesser scaup is held for cleaning at a wildlife rescue site, Tuesday, March 25, 2014, in Baytown, Texas. CREDIT: AP PHOTO/PAT SULLIVAN Ship traffic may have reopened on Galveston Bay after a collision … Continue reading →
Though smaller than the 2010 Gulf spill, this oil spill could still harm birds. An oil containment boom cuts across a sandbar covered with birds on Pelican Island near Galveston, Texas. PHOTOGRAPH BY SMILEY N. POOL, HOUSTON … Continue reading →
It shouldn’t be so hard to make a bald eagle sound like a bald eagle. By Nicholas Lund Courtesy of Dreamfly Productions/Screen Media Films When Top Gun was released in 1986, the U.S. Navy saw a 500 percent increase in pilot recruits. The Karate … Continue reading →
Snow geese, Canada geese most numerous species Posted: March 22, 2014 – 5:02pm By Marc Murrell Special to the Capital-Journal A new record was broken in the birding world, according to officials at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the National … Continue reading →
Black-tailed trainbearer, female (left) and male Join me for a photography workshop in Ecuador With over 1,600 species in an area smaller than the state of Arizona, Ecuador’s diversity of birds is among the highest in the world. The country’s … Continue reading →
Big Red’s secret surprise: the first egg of 2014! Watch the highlight. Big Red and Ezra Return! Big Red laid her first egg this year, March 19, 2014, just after1:00 P.M. EDT (watch the highlight). Nesting on the same light pole as … Continue reading →
BY MARY BATES 03.17.14 Photo: pam’s pics via Flickr. Distributed under a CC BY-NC 2.0 license. It’s that time of year: despite the still-freezing temperatures and lack of greenery, birds are beginning to think it’s spring. And in spring male birds’ … Continue reading →
Be a good beach goer this nesting season The Snowy Plover is one cute beach chick. Unfortunately, the Western Snowy Plover’s population numbers are anything but adorable. There are only about 2,300 birds remaining on our Pacific Coast and we … Continue reading →
Young Albatrosses Practice Their Courtship Moves on Camera On a recent afternoon on Kauai, Hawaii, our Laysan Albatross cam caught an amazing moment of natural history when three young-adult albatrosses visited the month-old chick (named Kaloakulua). The young birds are between about … Continue reading →
Researchers will study the effects of artificial light on the pace of life. Barn Swallows by Anne Elliott via Birdshare. NestWatchers Needed For New Barn Swallow Study We live in an incredibly well-lit world. All that wattage in heavily-populated areas creates … Continue reading →