USGS Multimedia Gallery for Set: Birds

http://gallery.usgs.gov/images/logos/usgs_only.jpg USGS Multimedia Gallery for Set: Birds http://gallery.usgs.gov/ en-us OC_Web@usgs.gov (Office of Communications Web Group) http://gallery.usgs.gov/images/USGS.gif USGS http://gallery.usgs.gov/ <![CDATA[Ring-billed Gulls ]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/04_01_2013_aEuh8KJ876_04_01_2013_0 Ring-billed gulls line a sand bar along the Missouri River to watch USGS boats fish for sturgeon.

]]> <![CDATA[Wild Turkey]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/04_01_2013_aEuh8KJ876_04_01_2013_1 A wild turkey perches on a rock dike in the Missouri River to get a closer look at USGS boats fishing for sturgeon.

]]> <![CDATA[Double-crested Cormorant]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/09_19_2012_q7Mx50Bon3_09_19_2012_0 USGS scientists examine a Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus) and measure the length of its tarsus.

]]> <![CDATA[Double-crested Cormorant]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/09_19_2012_uy5Csg1RRm_09_19_2012_0 USGS scientists examine a Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus) and measure the length of its wing chord.

]]> <![CDATA[Scientist Respond to Wildlife Disease Events]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/09_19_2012_dIYk05Nba7_09_19_2012_0 USGS scientists from the National Wildlife Health Center respond to wildlife disease events in the field.

]]> <![CDATA[Double-crested Cormorant]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/09_19_2012_dIYk05Nba7_09_19_2012_1 USGS scientists examine a Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus) and measure the length of its tarsus.

]]> <![CDATA[Double-crested Cormorant]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/09_19_2012_dIYk05Nba7_09_19_2012_2 USGS scientists examine a Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus) and measure the length of its wing chord.

]]> <![CDATA[Disappearing Shorebird Habitat ]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/09_10_2012_fKam1QP108_09_10_2012_0 Shorebirds feeding on a diked-off area of former intertidal mudflats at a reclamation project in Bohai Bay, Yellow Sea, China. The substrate the birds are feeding on is mud and sand that has been pumped into the impoundment from beyond the levee (dredge in background). Ironically, shorebirds are feeding on the same sediments that they likely fed on when the material was seaward of the dikes. The opportunity, however, is fleeting since the area behind the dikes is no longer tidal and it will eventually dry out, killing everything (small clams and worms) within.

]]> <![CDATA['Akiapōlā'au]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/06_20_2012_s85Are1QPl_06_20_2012_0 Endangered Hawai'i forest bird, 'Akiapōlā‘au (Hemignathus munroi).

]]> <![CDATA['Akepa]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/06_20_2012_s85Are1QPl_06_20_2012_1 Endangered Hawaiʻi forest bird, 'Akepa (Loxops coccineus) (male).

]]> <![CDATA[Hawai'i Creeper]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/06_20_2012_s85Are1QPl_06_20_2012_2 Endangered forest bird, Hawai'i Creeper (Oreomystis mana).

]]> <![CDATA[Translocating Laysan Teal]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/06_11_2012_chx3BNm08U_06_11_2012_3 John Klavitter of the US Fish and Wildlife Service, left, and USGS biologist Michelle Reynolds attach transmitters to critically endangered Laysan teal that were translocated from Laysan to Midway Island to expand the species' population and range.

]]> <![CDATA[Black Noddy with Chick ]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/06_11_2012_chx3BNm08U_06_11_2012_0 The Black Noddy (with a chick) is one of eight seabird species whose population density was studied on the French Frigate Shoals' Tern Island by biologists with the USGS Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Center's Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Climate Change Project.

]]> <![CDATA[Laysan Teal and Brood]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/06_11_2012_chx3BNm08U_06_11_2012_1 USGS biologists translocated critically endangered Laysan Teal, such as this adult with brood, from Laysan Island to Midway Island in the Northwest Hawaiian Islands to expand the species' population and range and help guard against extinction.

]]> <![CDATA[Laysan Teal]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/06_11_2012_chx3BNm08U_06_11_2012_2

USGS biologists translocated critically endangered Laysan Teal, such as this one, from Laysan Island to Midway Island in the Northwest Hawaiian Islands to expand the species' population and range and help guard against extinction.

]]> <![CDATA[White Tern]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/06_11_2012_chx3BNm08U_06_11_2012_4

The White Tern is one of eight seabird species whose population density and susceptibility to sea-level rise was studied on the French Frigate Shoals' Tern Island by biologists with the USGS Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Center's Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Climate Change Project.

]]> <![CDATA[A Red-Faced Warbler in Arizona ]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/01_06_2012_mri7LXw33E_01_06_2012_0 Red-faced warblers are one of the species affected by climate change in the form of reduced snowpack in the Arizona Mountains, according to a USGS Montana Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit study.

]]> <![CDATA[A Hermit Thrush on the Nest in Arizona]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/01_06_2012_mri7LXw33E_01_06_2012_1 Hermit thrushes are a songbird species that was strongly affected by plant community changes in mountains because of reduced snowpack and cascading ecological effects, according to a USGS Montana Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit study.

]]> <![CDATA[Spectacled Eiders Wintering in Northern Bering Sea]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/01_05_2012_x1Sf73Iuu5_01_05_2012_0 Large flock of Spectacled Eiders aggregated in a sea ice lead in the northern Bering Sea, south of St. Lawrence Island, Alaska. Aerial photograph from a helicopter deployed from the USCG Cutter Polar Sea.

]]> <![CDATA[Spectacled Eiders Wintering in Northern Bering Sea]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/01_05_2012_x1Sf73Iuu5_01_05_2012_1 Large flock of Spectacled Eiders aggregated in a sea ice lead in the northern Bering Sea, south of St. Lawrence Island, Alaska. Aerial photograph from a helicopter deployed from the USCG Cutter Polar Sea.

]]> <![CDATA[Spectacled Eiders Wintering in Northern Bering Sea]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/01_05_2012_x1Sf73Iuu5_01_05_2012_2 Large flock of Spectacled Eiders aggregated in a sea ice lead at sunset in the northern Bering Sea, south of St. Lawrence Island, Alaska. Aerial photograph from a helicopter deployed from the USCG Cutter Polar Sea.

]]> <![CDATA[Spectacled Eiders Wintering in Northern Bering Sea]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/01_05_2012_x1Sf73Iuu5_01_05_2012_3 Large flock of Spectacled Eiders aggregated in a sea ice lead and on sea ice in the northern Bering Sea, south of St. Lawrence Island, Alaska. Aerial photograph from a helicopter deployed from the USCG Cutter Polar Sea.

]]> <![CDATA[Murre Colony on Prince Island]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/07_29_2011_bfv2YLk88S_07_29_2011_0 A breeding colony of California common murres (Uria aalge californica) on Prince Island off San Miguel Island off Southern California. Ecologists Josh Adams and Jonathan Felis of the USGS Western Ecological Research Center shot this and other high-resolution digital telephotos from a research vessel, and used the photos to identify nesting and feeding behavior. The photographs provide evidence of the first California common murre breeding colony in the Channel Islands in 100 years. Red box shows range of associated inset photo.

]]> <![CDATA[Murre Colony, Inset Detail]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/07_29_2011_bfv2YLk88S_07_29_2011_1 This inset of the associated murre colony photo shows evidence of nesting and chick-feeding in a California common murre colony on Prince Island off San Miguel Island off Southern California. Ecologists Josh Adams and Jonathan Felis of the USGS Western Ecological Research Center shot this and other high-resolution digital telephotos from a research vessel, and used the photos to identify nesting and feeding behavior. The photographs provide evidence of the first California common murre breeding colony in the Channel Islands in 100 years. The left red circle highlights an adult murre holding a fish in its bill. The center circle highlights a murre egg fragment, with the yellowish interior of the eggshell visible. The right circle highlights another adult murre also holding a fish, possibly attempting to feed the prey to a chick.

]]> <![CDATA[Thousands of Horseshoe Crabs on Slaughter Beach, Delaware]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/07_04_2011_ine5HtsGFA_07_04_2011_0 The morning after a full moon high tide spawn, thousands of horseshoe crabs wait on the mud flats for the high tide to return.

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