Tag: breeding and nesting
August Raptor – Gyrfalcon
*** Wild Lens Scientific Director Neil Paprocki worked during the 2014 summer in Nome, Alaska on The Peregrine Fund’s Gyrfalcon Conservation Project with Boise State University graduate student Bryce Robinson. You can learn more about this project via previous Wild ...
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 ...
Bluebirding in Maine
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 ...
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 ...
Mirounga Mania!
This is one of the most spectacular times of the year and one of my favorites because the Northern elephant seal (Mirounga angustirostris) breeding season is underway. Thousands of elephant seals emerge from the ocean to fill selected beaches along ...
Documenting Bluebird Copulation
In order to tell the story of the complete nesting-cycle of bluebirds in Bluebird Man, one of the critical scenes we needed to capture was bluebird copulation. At this early stage in the breeding cycle, male and female bluebirds pair ...