Tag: Arctic
In Between: A film review
In Between: A short film by wildlife cameraman Rolf Steinmann. The film takes us straight into a swirling, wind-whipped landscape, white with snow. Mountains rise formidably in the background and no trace of life is apparent in this inhospitable, frozen ...
EOC 001: Gyrfalcons on the Seward Peninsula and Wintering Raptors in the Snake River Valley of Idaho with Raptor Biologist Neil Paprocki
Episode Summary: In this, the very first episode of the Eyes on Conservation Podcast, we talk with Wild Lens co-founder and Raptor Biologist Neil Paprocki. Neil helped found Wild Lens back in 2011 and served as the producer/director of the ...
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 ...
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 ...