Author: wildlens

Author: wildlens

An adult male Mountain Bluebird eyes us closely as we investigate his nestbox.

Return to the Bluebird Trail

Yesterday Neil Paprocki and myself accompanied Al on his first trip of the season to the Owyhee Bluebird Trail. Cheryl Huizinga, a member of both the Southwestern Idaho Birder's Association and the Golden Eagle Audubon Society, joined us as well ...
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Conservation Career Day at the University of Hawaii

Wild Lens board member Joey Leibrecht recently attended a Conservation Career day event at University of Hawaii at Hilo. Joey helped run a booth representing the Hawaii Forest Bird Demographic Project. He created two excellent videos for the event to ...
Adult Ferruginous Hawk. Photograph by Neil Paprocki.

March Raptor – Ferruginous Hawk

While I was hoping to highlight a different raptor species every month for this 'raptor photograph of the month' 2014 project, this Ferruginous Hawk was just too cool to pass up (and quite honestly I didn't have anything better to ...
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The toad that is not a frog, but a lizard

Rachel Granberg is a second-year Master's student and Research Associate in the Natural Resources Management Department. Rachel's first visit to Texas was to begin a Research Assistantship studying the Texas Horned Lizard, aka, horny toad. Texas Horned Lizards (Phrynosma corutum) ...
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Bluebird Man DVD and VOD release

We are extremely excited to announce the official DVD and VOD release of Bluebird Man! Over the past couple of weeks we have been hard at work packaging and sending out DVDs and other reward items to all of the ...
English second language students hiking with a GK-12 fellow in the Boise Foothills.

Help Us Save the Boise State GK-12 Program!

During the 2012-2013 academic school year I had the privilege of participating in a truly unique educational program at Boise State University: the Graduate STEM Fellows in K-12 Education, or simply GK-12. For six years the National Science Foundation's (NSF) ...
Rough-legged Hawk portrait. Photograph by Neil Paprocki

February Raptor – Rough-legged Hawk

Our raptor for February 2014 is the Rough-legged Hawk. This time of year always makes me a bit sad as I know the Roughies are making their way poleward, back to their arctic breeding grounds. While some birds will stay ...
A view of the Chihuahuan Desert grasslands, a critically declining ecosystem. Photo by Erin Strasser.

Grassland Birds of the Chihuahuan Desert

The second season of filming is underway for an upcoming Wild Lens Eyes on Conservation Film. This 3-5 minute film will be used in conjunction with Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory (RMBO) to spread the word about the plight of North ...
Greetings from Hawaii

Greetings from Hawaii

I currently reside in Hawai'i working as a field biologist studying the native Hawaiian forest birds. My past projects have taken me to the remote Alaka'i Plateau of Kaua'i studying the endemic forest birds Akikiki, A'keke'e and Puaiohi, the Big ...