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Photo Study – Idaho Harlequin Duck
Whether floating along rocky ocean shorelines or navigating the raging rapids of a mountain stream, Harlequin Ducks are totally at home in rough water. The fast-flowing, high elevation rivers and...
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Piping Plovers – Beyond Cute
Many birders are familiar with this small migratory shorebird and some know of its endangered status. Not to mention the fact that they’re adorable. But there’s a lot more about Piping Plovers (PIPL)...
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Call for help for a fellow field biologist/birder
One of the many things I love about birding is the small community atmosphere and willingness of others to help in times of need. Even when a complete stranger is involved. I’ve been home sick for two...
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Weekend Digiscoping Spotlight 17
The Weekend Digiscoping Spotlight will highlight some of the fun shots we’ve gotten recently with a camera paired with a spotting scope. We welcome submissions of your favorite digiscoped shots to be...
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‘Puget Sound’ White-crowned Sparrows
Adult ‘Puget Sound’ White-crowned Sparrow from Fort Stevens State Park, Oregon (Photo by Alex Lamoreaux) Many species of sparrows vary considerably in appearance and vocalizations across their ranges...
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PA Grassland Bird Research
Like many of us here at NemesisBird.com, our friend Matt Sabatine has grown up birding the fields and forests of Pennsylvania. Recently Matt was able to work in northwestern PA with grasslands birds,...
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Florida Field Season Highlights
I’ve been in Florida for just about six months once again working for Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, and this is the first time I have ever spent an entire summer in Florida for an...
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Hawk Migration Up-Close and Awesome
This fall, I’m stationed atop Capilla Peak in the Manzano Mountains, about 25 miles southeast of Albuquerque. My purpose: count, identify, and band as many migrating raptors as possible. Myself and...
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Cape Henlopen Hawkwatch – September Highlights!
Osprey (Photo by Alex Lamoreaux) Ah…fall migration, my favorite time of the year! Warblers streaming through the trees, thrushes calling from the understory, and raptors filling the skies – all while...
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Rough day for catbirds
Throughout the northeast lots of Gray Catbirds are migrating south on a daily basis. It is also peak falcon migration right now. You can probably guess that this combination isn’t going to fair too...
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Eagle Madness
When it comes to raptors, eagles often come out on top in every category. And why not? They are massive, long-lived, fierce, majestic, and did I mention that they are very large? Whether it’s soaring...
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First day in Belize!
Hook-billed Kite – adult male, light type (Photo courtesy of the Belize Raptor Research Institute) I am taking a hiatus from field work in Florida for about two months, and working in Punta Gorda,...
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First day of hawk watching in Belize!
Woken up early thanks to some Howler Monkeys around 5 am, I hit the road early for birding. The road that my house is on is actually very productive for local species and also warblers; it is just one...
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American White Pelican – Prime Hook NWR, Delaware
American White Pelican with Canada Geese, Prime Hook NWR, DE (Photo by Alex Lamoreaux) During a DOS Local Patch field trip led by Tim Schreckengost on October 18th, local birder Julie McCall alerted...
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BRRI Hawkwatch: November 17, 2014 – Dragonflies and Bat Falcon!
Today started out with migrants trying to get lift into a low cloud ceiling with little wind and no thermals at the BRRI Cattle Landing Hawkwatch, run by Belize Raptor Research Institute. Thousands of...
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BRRI Hawkwatch: November 18, 2014
An adult King Vulture rises near the BRRI Hawkwatch Today was another tough day for migrant Hook-billed Kites at the Cattle Landing Hawkwatch, north of Punta Gorda, Belize (run by Belize Raptor...
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Coastal waterbird notes from southern Belize, Fall 2014
Sandwich Tern diving (Photo by Alex Lamoreaux) We are spoiled in the United States with many concentrated birding efforts taking place throughout fall and spring migration such as hawkwatches,...
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Gambel’s White-crowned Sparrows in PA
After having a great opportunity to study an adult Gambel’s White-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys gambelii) at Arlene Koch’s property last weekend near Easton, while also enjoying the immature...
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Gyrfalcon Invasion 2015
Second-year gray type Gyrfalcon, Old Fort Rd, Wallkill, New York (Photo by Alex Lamoreaux) Starting with the winter of 2012/2013, Snowy Owls staged a dramatic and widespread invasion into southern...
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Santa Rosa Island: Tour 1 Update
It’s been a busy month as I said goodbye to my work with Florida Scrub-Jays in Ocala National Forest and took a new position in California. I now work for the Institute for Wildlife Studies as a Raptor...
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