Author: wildlens
Bluebird Man and Outdoor Idaho
Since Bluebird Man aired on Idaho Public Television for the first time this past May I’ve been approached countless times by folks expressing their excitement over seeing the broadcast of the film. Establishing this collaboration with Idaho Public Television has ...
Fledgling Gyrfalcons
*** Wild Lens Scientific Director Neil Paprocki is currently in Nome, Alaska working on The Peregrine Fund’s Gyrfalcon Conservation Project with Boise State University graduate student Bryce Robinson. You can read more about this project on previous Wild Lens blog ...
Last trip of the season to the Owyhees
Yesterday I accompanied Al, his niece Barbara and bluebird trail volunteer Cathy Eels on the final trip of the season to the Owyhee Bluebird Trail. Although we often refer to Al’s bluebird trails in the Owyhee Mountains as simply, “The ...
July Raptor – Rough-legged Hawk
These roughly 30-day old Rough-legged Hawk nestlings stand stoically in the stick nest constructed by their dutiful parents. They would be due to fledge from this cliff around 36 to 45 days of age. I observed this particular nest from ...
Banding Songbirds of the Seward Peninsula Part 2: The Tundra
This is part 2 of a two-part series documenting a USGS Alaska Science Center landbird project looking into blood parasite loads in subarctic songbirds. Part 1 detailed our efforts in the Boreal Forest. Moving away from the close-confines of the ...
The Importance of Bird Banding
Now is the time of year when many bird observatories begin their fall banding season, placing sometimes thousands of uniquely numbered aluminum bands on birds all across the continent. Why do scientists band birds? What is the importance? And don't ...
Banding Songbirds of the Seward Peninsula Part 1: The Boreal Forest
The U.S. Geological Service (USGS) of Anchorage has been conducting land-bird research on the Seward Peninsula of northwestern Alaska for over two decades. One of the current research projects seeks to understand how shifting vegetation communities driven by climate change ...
Harvester Ants and the Texas Horned Lizard
***The following is another blog post in our ongoing series about the Texas Horned Lizard. Rachel Granberg studies this fascinating species as a part of her master's research at Texas Tech University and is shooting video for a short doc ...
The Great Barrier Reef from a Larva’s Perspective
***The following is a guest post from Stanford University PhD student Tom Hata. In his research of biomechanics, Tom has been forced to develop novel methods for measuring ocean flows in the field on an almost microscopic level. We hope ...
