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A Muse in the Night: The Northern Saw-whet Owl

Northern Saw-whet Owls have been called a “gateway drug to conservation” by ornithologist and author Scott Weidensaul. When the volunteers spot the little owl in...

Connecting People with Birds

Of course, this story is about more than just the journey of a single bird between its breeding and wintering grounds. In many ways, it...

Monitoring a Cryptic Species, the Black Swift

As I stumble out of my tent at 4 a.m. my eyes squint to a blanket of stars in the dark sky above me. My...

Fanning the Flames of Change

What do Mexican Spotted Owls tell us about restoring frequent-fire regimes in the southwestern U.S.? Well, quite a lot actually....

Getting on the Same Page for Bird Conservation

Have you ever wondered how bird conservation is coordinated across organizations and spatial scales? OK, maybe not, but imagine for a moment if it wasn’t....

Working to Understand Avian Communities

My journey toward a love for birds began in Central America during my Peace Corps years in Guatemala. Working as a volunteer, I was tasked...

Reflections from the 2023 IMBCR Field Season

As the summer slowly progresses towards fall many birds are finished nesting and feeding fledglings and are preparing for the next step in their annual...

Unmasking the Long-distance Migration of Flammulated Owls

By my students’ calculations, we had spent over 50 hours trying to capture this particular Flammulated Owl, dating back two summers. Make no mistake—there have...

Winter Grassland Bird Tagging in Far West Texas

Update from the field! Seasonal Bird Conservancy banders are working in the Chihuahuan Desert this winter to tag non-breeding grassland birds for our Motus project....

Rare Bird Alert! A Story of the Yellow Rail Detection in Colorado

Being a birder means a lot of different things to many different people. Some birders go out every week to count and list as many...

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