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Category Archives: Pining for the Field
Southward on tireless wings..
So while I’m headed southward, I don’t have the advantage of tireless wings. Or any wings for that matter. Rather I’m talking about the tiny songbirds flying ever-southward, primarily under cover of darkness to evade daytime predators like hawks and falcons. … Continue reading
Posted in BirdJob, Costa Rica, Pining for the Field
Tagged bay of fundy, biology, birds, canada, fall, fall migration, field job, migration, passerines, perching birds, puerto rico, seabirds, songbirds, warblers
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Pining for the Field: Burrowing Owls of the West
This is the only field job that I can say I’ve ever held a lap full of baby burrowing owlets. How does one happen to find oneself in such a predicament? It was 2007 and I had applied to a field … Continue reading
Posted in BirdJob, field biology, Pining for the Field
Tagged 2007, arizona, bands, bird of prey, burrowing owls, california, colorado, conservation, field biology, fledglings, idaho, intern, nature, owls, raptor, research, university of arizona, utah, western united states
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Project Puffin video short!
*update: the video should work now! So I’ll be keeping up with my Pining for the Field series now that I’m not in the field. It details my various bird jobs in locations including Puerto Rico and Canada. My upcoming post … Continue reading
Posted in BirdJob, Pining for the Field, Project Puffin, video
Tagged audubon, cards, Journalism, maine, maine coast, online store, photography, Project Puffin, puffins, research, seal island, seal island nwr, terns, video
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Pining for the Field: Bay of Fundy
My first bird job out of college (after having two seasons of Project Puffin under my belt), I traveled north to New Brunswick, Canada to do warbler studies in and around Bay of Fundy National Park. It was the summer … Continue reading
Posted in BirdJob, conservation, field biology, Pining for the Field
Tagged 2006, banding, bands, bay of fundy, bay of fundy national park, binoculars, bird banding, birding, birds, canada, conservation, deforestation, forests, gps, logging, measurements, migration, mistnets, moose, mosquitoes, new brunswick, photography, plumage, research, resighting, showshoe hare, timber industry, warblers
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Pining for the Field: Puerto Rico
So while I’m back to reality, much removed from the hidden world of birds, I’ll take a look back at other field jobs I’ve taken part in over the years. We’ll harken back to 2006 when I travelled to Cabo … Continue reading
Posted in BirdJob, birds, conservation, Pining for the Field
Tagged bird banding, birds, blood samples, Cabo Rojo NWR, chicks, communal nesting, conservation, eggs, field biology, field job, field research, hierarchy, measurements, mistnets, nests, ornithology, puerto rico, radiotelemetry, research, smooth billed ani, subtropical dry forest, territorial birds, territorial groups, wildlife refuge
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