Nesting Bald Eagle & attentive mate

I have been monitoring this nesting female and have often seen her mate nearby. Last year their nest and nest tree was destroyed in severe ...

Very bad times for Whooping Cranes in central flyway

I have extracted salient portions of the annual crane season at Aransas NWR in Texas: "The tenth aerial census of the 2008-09 crane sea...

Great Blue Herons engaged in breeding

Though I have continued taking some good bird pics, I have wanted to move to a higher level with a high quality and longer telephoto zoom. ...

More Greater Sage-Grouse video

I found that the researcher, Dr. Gail Patricelli, has a whole utube site for her labs videos of Greater Sage-Grouse. Below is one of their ...

Bird's eye view of life-at-the-lek

There is a cool research program in Wyoming using a robot version of a female Greater Sage Grouse to study mating behavior. This is most un...

Whooping Cranes had bad year

""Whooping Crane Census Flight March 15, 2009 The ninth aerial census of the 2008-09 crane season at Aransas was conducted March 1...

Birds buffer against virus

"18-02-2009 North American scientists studying West Nile virus have shown that more diverse bird populations can help to buffer people ...