Tag: conservation
Harvester Ants and the Texas Horned Lizard
***The following is another blog post in our ongoing series about the Texas Horned Lizard. Rachel Granberg studies this fascinating species as a part of her master's research at Texas Tech University and is shooting video for a short doc ...
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 ...
The spider that jumped at me…
***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 ...
An Update from the Texas Horned Lizard Project
***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 ...
118 Bluebird Nestlings Banded on the Owyhee Trail
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
