From the New York Times, we have Rescue Flight: a story of helping Whooping Cranes along on their migration.
At 200 feet, the first pilot, Chris Gullikson, was perfectly visible in his trike’s open cockpit. He was wearing his whooping-crane costume, a white hooded helmet and white gown that looked like a cross between a beekeeping [...]
A few years ago, Steve and I attended several lectures about raptors by Alida Morzenti, in preparation for training to handle captive birds of prey. The lectures were fascinating, but one image stuck with me more than any other…the eagle hunters of western Mongolia.
Alida described how the hunters would travel out onto the steppe, [...]
The Marin Independent Journal published an article that follows a Double-crested Cormorant through the Cosco Busan oil spill in Oil spill disaster aftermath: A seabird struggles for survival. Don’t miss the excellent slide show with audio, Vinnie’s Odyssey.
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Yesterday I joined a group of five other people to count the birds present in the Tom’s Point area near Tomales, California.
The weather conditions were beautiful; foggy and not too cold. Good enough for hardy babies like 6-month old Lula to come out into the field with her [...]
Today I discovered (via Feathers of Hope, and that via Lisa at How’s Robb) that David Allen Sibley has a web site, and a blog. Yes, THAT Sibley, of the Sibley field guides.
Sibley has been experimenting with simple, novel ways of dealing with window strikes that are based on birds’ ability to see [...]
Click here to read part 1 of this story.
On Thursday evening I went back to International Bird Rescue Research Center (IBRRC), eager to see what jobs I’d be assigned. I’d been watching the IBRRC Blog as the numbers changed from day to day…more birds washed, more birds brought in, and more birds DOA or [...]
Through a combination of current and previous volunteering with birds and wildlife rescue, I had an opportunity to apply to become a volunteer with International Bird Rescue Research Center (IBRRC) and help with the response to the Cosco Busan oil spill. It’s been a while since I’ve worked with sick and injured wildlife, but [...]
An oil spill tragedy in San Francisco Bay will have have effects on local wildlife for years. But what can we do for affected wildlife now? As satisfying as it might be to head out to the beaches and pick up oiled birds, it’s not what you want to do.
The fuel that has [...]
Interesting footage of a Lyre Bird from Australia, a bird that mimics the sounds around it, similarly to our local Mockingbirds.
Thanks Steve!
No, it’s not used to observe Rhinos…it’s used to observe Rhinoceros Auklet nesting tunnels!
Learn more at Los Farallones, the weblog kept by Point Reyes Bird Observatory researchers happily marooned on the Farallon Islands west of San Francisco.
Speaking of sea birds and the Bay Area, there have been an unusual number of sightings of Horned Puffins [...]
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