Tag: falcons
Three Nests in Two Days
The helicopter lifted off, disappearing into the thick, oppressive fog just as quickly as it had arrived. My colleague and I were thus left alone on the tundra, 85 miles from Nome and 25 miles beyond the nearest dirt road ...
May Raptor – Gyrfalcon
If you keep up on the Wild Lens blog, this months raptor photograph will come as no surprise: the Gyrfalcon. For the better part of four weeks I have been studying the worlds largest falcon for The Peregrine Fund and ...
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 ...
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 ...
Week 43 – Merlin
I feel like I'm cheating... almost. For the last three weeks now I have posted photographs of wild-caught raptors either in the hand, or just leaving the hand. Now some may say these photographs lack the true purity of a ...
Week 6 – Prairie Falcon
Sunday I took a drive out to my old stomping grounds in the Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area (NCA). I had spent the past two winters here conducting point counts for raptors as part of ...
Wildfires: Revisiting the Birds of Prey Area
A few weeks ago I went to visit the Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area where I conducted my Boise State University thesis research on wintering raptors. While there was unfortunately little chance of encountering a ...
Idaho Bird Observatory: Part 6
As the trapping season at Lucky Peak winds down for the year we can reflect on some of the trends we have seen. One thing that stands out is that 2011 has been a huge year for owls. IBO has ...
Idaho Bird Observatory: Part 5
Before heading up to Lucky Peak for my weekend fixin' of field work, I managed to convince fellow graduate student Rob Miller to let me accompany him on a day of trapping at Boise Peak. Boise Peak is another trapping ...
