Author: wildlens
Shorebird Explosion
Well it's official: the shorebirds have arrived in Nome, Alaska. We had been seeing a scattering of shorebirds for a few weeks now but on the evenings of May 21st and 22nd they had arrived en-mass. The water level at ...
Gyrfalcons, Ptarmigan and Climate Change
One of the key goals of The Peregine Fund’s Gyrfalcon Conservation Project is to study the effects of climate change on the arctic and subarctic ecosystems by using the Gyrfalcon and their prey, namely Ptarmigan, as a microcosm of the ...
Fieldwork Begins on the Texas Horned Lizard Project
***The following is a post from Wild Lens volunteer Rachel Granberg. Rachel is pursuing her Master's Degree at Texas Tech University with a research project focusing on conservation of the Texas horned lizard. She will be working with Wild Lens ...
Bluebirds in a post-wildfire landscape
A few weeks ago fellow Bluebird Man producer/director Neil Paprocki wrote a blog article about the installation of almost 40 new nestboxes along the Prairie Bluebird Trail. Much of this area burned last August in the Elk-complex fire and these ...
Arctic Tern Courtship
Yesterday my buddy Bryce and I took a day off from Gyrfalcon nest searching to do some birding around Nome. The weather was extremely dreary and foggy, making it near-impossible for us to locate Gyrfalcon nests. The visibility around Nome ...
Studying Gyrfalcons in Alaska
This summer I have the privilege of working with the largest species of falcon in the world: the Gyrfalcon. Latin name, Falco rusticolus. Gyrfalcons are a circumpolar raptor, breeding in the northern reaches of our planet and rarely venturing south ...
New Nestboxes for Bluebirds in Prairie
Yesterday was our first trip of the year to Al's Prairie Bluebird Trail along the South Fork of the Boise River. A good section of this trail was burned last August in the Elk-Complex fire resulting in the loss of ...
April Raptor – Great-gray Owl
I don't think I've ever been more excited to see a life-bird than I was last week after seeing my first Great-gray Owl. Standing a whopping 3-feet in height, the tallest owl in North America inhabits the northern boreal forests ...
Rare Capture at Hakalau NWR
Check out Hawaii Forest Bird Demographic Project's rare capture of the ‘Akiapola'au (rare endemic Honeycreeper of Hawai'i). Learn more about the remarkable 'Akiapola'au Hawai'i Forest Bird Demographic Project (HFBDP) is a long-term demographic study at Hakalau Forest NWR, focusing on ...
