The two ornithologists had just visited a Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus) eyrie and were motoring their way to another one. As their inflatable boat rose and fell in heavy swells along the northern Queen Charlotte Islands off Canada’s western coast they saw a flock of whirling Bald Eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus). By Rex Graham David H. [...]
The not-for-profit research organization Global Forest Watch Canada (GFWC) says whooping cranes regularly fly over and land within Alberta’s oil sands region and are increasingly threatened by development of the fossil fuel. The area in northeastern Alberta includes a surface-mineable area containing facilities, mine pits and toxic tailings ponds. Scientists estimate the avian mortality at [...]
Humans and birds are united thousands of times a day worldwide in an ornithological ritual. Researchers catch birds in mist nets, place metal or plastic bands around their legs or wings, make a few measurements and let them go. Since mist-netting became the preferred method to capture wild birds for banding studies in the 1950s, [...]