Anna and I have been working here in Idaho since April 4th. It has been a wonderful and bird-packed three and a half months, but … Read More
MAPS Banding at Lucky Peak 6/5/11
This morning Idaho Bird Observatory had its first MAPS (Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship) banding session of the year up at Lucky Peak. The purpose … Read More
IBO Hummingbird Banding Demo
This morning Jessica Pollock, Jay Carlisle, Heidi Ware, and I went up to Jennifer Alban’s famous front yard to do a hummingbird banding demonstration for … Read More
First Week of Flammulated Owl Surveys!
This past week instead of searching for curlew nests, my coworker Oly Olson and I went to southeastern Idaho to begin the first week of … Read More
They can’t all spend the night..
And so we learned with a recent saw-whet that we attempted to track. She was released from the banding station at around 10pm and we … Read More
What does a saw-whet do at night?
Well, let me tell you… We have now been tracking Isra for over 2 weeks now, with a lot of good data coming from our … Read More
Field season summary
Image via Wikipedia My third and final field season for the 2nd Pennsylvania Breeding Bird Atlas is over. This last season I covered quite a … Read More
Feeding actually beneficial to birds
As seen on the front page of Nature.com, feeding birds during the winter is not only fun for the people feeding them. According to a … Read More
The fickle females of the bird world
A recent paper published at nature.com revealed how fickle the female Lark Buntings are when it comes to picking a mate each spring. It is … Read More
Far flying Godwits
Here is an exciting news clip from New Zealand. It’s nice to see birds making the news. Bar-tailed Godwits, a shorebird that breeds in Alaska … Read More