One North American tern species resides solely in Alaska: the Aleutian Tern, Onychophrion aleuticus. Terns have always been one of my favorite photography subjects and upon reaching the Seward Peninsula of northwest Alaska to study Gyrfalcons, I was excited to ...

Another month, another raptor: the Peregrine Falcon, Falco peregrinus. We've been learning a lot about Gyrfalcons recently because of my work with the Gyrfalcon Conservation Project, but there are many other raptor species on the Seward Peninsula of Alaska. Golden ...

Anyone who attended this year’s North American Bluebird Society conference in Boise, ID a few weeks back is likely to have met my mom Candy. My mom traveled all the way out to Boise from her home in the mountains ...

***The following is a guest blog post from biologist and researcher Matt Adams. Matt is asking some fascinating research questions about a group of animals that are often unfairly demonized: spiders! Read on to learn more about spiders that can ...

***The following is our second post from Wild Lens volunteer Rachel Granberg, who is studying the Texas Horned Lizard as a part of her Master's research at Texas Tech University. Rachel will be working with us throughout her field season ...

*** I am 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 entries *** Gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus) ...

The helicopter lifted off, disappearing into the thick, oppressive fog just as quickly as it had arrived. My colleague and I were thus left alone on the tundra, 85 miles from Nome and 25 miles beyond the nearest dirt road ...

If you keep up on the Wild Lens blog, this months raptor photograph will come as no surprise: the Gyrfalcon. For the better part of four weeks I have been studying the worlds largest falcon for The Peregrine Fund and ...

This past Friday I accompanied Bluebird Man Al Larson on a monitoring trip to his Owyhee Bluebird Trail. The Owyhee Mountains are spectacular and remote despite their ease of access from Boise, and I was looking for an excuse to ...