Tag: wildlife birds
EOC 033: The Golden-cheeked Warbler with Mike Marshall
Episode Summary: Today on the show we're talking with Mike Marshall from the Texas A&M Institute of Renewable Natural Resources. Mike spent five years working with the endangered Golden-cheeked warbler in Texas and has some fascinating insights into this bird's ...
EOC 022: Monitoring Seabirds in Extreme Isolation with Mikaela Howie
Episode Summary: Today's episode of the podcast is about seabird monitoring in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. This is a long term research and monitoring effort that has been going on for over 30 years, and continues to provide amazing ...
April Prey – Loggerhead Shrike and Spider
Despite their reputation for impaling reptiles on thorns and barbed-wire fences, in many parts of their range, the diet of the Loggerhead Shrike (Lanius ludovicianus) consists mainly of insects. Spiders, such as the one captured by this shrike in Tooele ...
March Prey – Northern Flicker and Ants
The warm spring weather has awoken many ant colonies, great news for ant-lovers like the Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus). This female Flicker was foraging on the ground, greedily tonguing up loads of ants, something I have seen numerous Flickers do over the ...
EOC 008: Bird Migration Research with Greg Kaltenecker
Episode Summary: In this episode of the podcast we're talking with the Executive Director of the Intermountain Bird Observatory, Greg Kaltenecker. The Intermountain Bird Observatory was our very first partner organization with our Eyes on Conservation series, and we just ...
The Rainforest Experience
****Another blog update from Wild Lens volunteer Virginia Schutte, who is working in Panama right now studying mangrove forest ecosystems.**** I saw a thing in the trees last night as I was walking home. Can you spot it? It’s a ...
Banding Songbirds of the Seward Peninsula Part 2: The Tundra
This is part 2 of a two-part series documenting a USGS Alaska Science Center landbird project looking into blood parasite loads in subarctic songbirds. Part 1 detailed our efforts in the Boreal Forest. Moving away from the close-confines 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 ...
June Raptor – Peregrine Falcon
Another month, another raptor: the Peregrine Falcon, Falco peregrinus. We've been learning a lot about Gyrfalcons recently because of my work with the Gyrfalcon Conservation Project, but there are many other raptor species on the Seward Peninsula of Alaska. Golden ...
