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A Bird’s Eye View: Drones Search...
I’m standing on a dirt road in the middle of hayfields on a nature preserve in northwest Colorado, staring at a palm-sized screen on a remote controller, wondering if I’m looking at a bird nest or a puddle of water. The sun is low, about an hour before it will set, and I’m sweating from
Festive greetings and seasonal summary –...
Posted by Brydon Thomason on Friday 20th December 2024 | News Hello and welcome to our end of season blog which we are delighted to begin wishing you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year! Tour group with Orca (Tour leader, James Rogerson) Otter, James Rogerson Puffins, photo-tour client, Jerry Hughes
Step into serenity with forest bathing
Guest post by Kim Mikus This article appears in the summer 2025 issue of Horizons, the award-winning quarterly magazine of the Lake County Forest Preserves in northern Illinois. Photographer Dahai Zang snapped a fairytale scene at Buffalo Creek in Long Grove. These two white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) fawns sport hundreds of white spots on their rusty-brown coats. The markings
A Sisterly Bond | Explore
By Mike Fitz Mother bears experience extraordinary energetic demands to feed their ravenous cubs. Bear families navigate a gauntlet of threats to remain safe. Cubs experience a short apprenticeship with their mothers, and they must absorb her lessons if they are to survive life as independent bears. Although sibling bears can be closely bonded as
Guest blog – Walshaw Turbine 29...
John Page. Photo: Author John Page was born in the West Riding, a proud Yorkshireman and was taught to play cricket left-handed “ ’cos it flummoxes t’ bowler, and buggers up t’ field.” He went to university in London and Leeds, and enjoyed (most of the time) attempting to teach young people that there’s a
Looming Federal Cuts Threaten the Bird...
The following article was written by the National Audubon Society. It describes the state of the Bird Banding Lab, a highly important program for bird conservation that is at risk of being eliminated by federal budget cuts. For 105 years, a small team of biologists near Washington, D.C., has honed and supported the single most
Protecting People to Protect the Planet...
This piece comes to us from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). To honor Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, WCS and Nature are sharing stories of nature and conservation. Visiting remote villages in Makira National Park, with WCS Madagascar team, to assess zoning and community use. Photo: WCS. For a little girl born