Here’s a report on how crow researcher Kevin McGowan did with endangered Mariana Crows in the South Pacific a few weeks ago. He was helping out in a study led by researchers from the University of Washington, in an attempt to understand why this unique species is declining. Here’s Kevin: It’s an hour before dawn [...]
Jon Erickson is still roaming Mauritius with his microphone, making recordings of the tropic island’s unusual species. That’s him above, installing a microphone to record sounds at a Mauritius Kestrel nest in January. Here’s his story of the day’s work, including an alarming surprise encounter: I’d spent so much time out among the seabirds of [...]
Yesterday, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced the 2010 State of the Birds Report in Austin, Texas. Our communications director, Miyoko Chu, was there too (that’s Miyoko at far right, above). The threats that climate change poses to birds are unsettling, but Miyoko was heartened by an unlikely sight: thousands of bats flying up [...]
This afternoon, in Austin, Texas, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced the completion of the 2010 State of the Birds report. This is the second major report, following last year’s comprehensive analysis of North America’s bird life and its conservation needs (read the 2009 report or watch a video summary.) Last year’s report looked [...]
Here’s Nate Senner to tell you how the last two stops in the survey of Peru’s coastline went. And we hope you’ll enjoy the slideshow, above, from eBird project leader Marshall Iliff, another member of the survey team. Here’s Nate: We were expecting great things—spectacular desert scenery and thousands of shorebirds—from our workshops around Lima, [...]
