Eskimo Volunteers Helping with Banding
Two Yupik Eskimo students from Chevak, Alaska holding a tundra swan cygnet. These student volunteers were helping with an annual USGS waterfowl banding program along the Kashunuk River near the Bering Sea coast in western Alaska....
Location: Kashunuk River, AK, USA

Flock of birds
A large flock of birds, mostly egrets, resting and flying along a canal on Highway 833 (a short drive north off of I-75 (Alligator Alley))....
Location: FL, USA

Akiapolaau Honeycreeper
While the susceptibility of endangered akiapolaau honeycreepers to avian malaria is unknown, it is likely very high given their current restriction to the highest elevation forests on the island of Hawaii....
Location: USA

Amakihi Honeycreeper
During the past decade populations of this honeycreeper have begun to rebound at lower elevations on most of the main Hawaiian Islands, in spite of high prevalence of infection with avian malaria. Natural selection for resistance to avian malaria is the leading explanation for this rebound and rece...
Location: USA

Akepa Honeycreeper
While the susceptibility of endangered akepa honeycreepers to avian malaria is unknown, it is likely very high given their current restriction to the highest elevation forests on the island of Hawaii....
Location: USA

Iiwi Honeycreeper
While still common at higher elevations, iiwi are extremely susceptible to avian malaria. Mortality is as high as 90% after exposure to a single infective mosquito bite under laboratory conditions....
Location: USA

Bird Migration Card - 1937
Image scan of a historical bird migration card. This is just an example of the more than 6 million handwritten cards stored in government files, in the North American Bird Phenology Progam, with more than a century of information about bird migration, a veritable treasure trove for climate-change re...
Location: McMillan, MI, USA

Bird Migration Card - 1939
Image scan of a historical bird migration card. This is just an example of the more than 6 million handwritten cards stored in government files, in the North American Bird Phenology Progam, with more than a century of information about bird migration, a veritable treasure trove for climate-change re...
Location: USA

Bird Migration Card - 1933
Image scan of a historical bird migration card. This is just an example of the more than 6 million handwritten cards stored in government files, in the North American Bird Phenology Progam, with more than a century of information about bird migration, a veritable treasure trove for climate-change re...
Location: USA

Bird Migration Card - 1921
Image scan of a historical bird migration card. This is just an example of the more than 6 million handwritten cards stored in government files, in the North American Bird Phenology Progam, with more than a century of information about bird migration, a veritable treasure trove for climate-change re...
Location: USA

Bird Migration Card - 1933
Image scan of a historical bird migration card. This is just an example of the more than 6 million handwritten cards stored in government files, in the North American Bird Phenology Progam, with more than a century of information about bird migration, a veritable treasure trove for climate-change re...
Location: USA

Bird Migration Card - 1922
Image scan of a historical bird migration card. This is just an example of the more than 6 million handwritten cards stored in government files, in the North American Bird Phenology Progam, with more than a century of information about bird migration, a veritable treasure trove for climate-change re...
Location: USA

Bird Migration Card - 1939
Image scan of a historical bird migration card. This is just an example of the more than 6 million handwritten cards stored in government files, in the North American Bird Phenology Progam, with more than a century of information about bird migration, a veritable treasure trove for climate-change re...
Location: USA

Female Broad-Tailed Hummingbird
A female broad-tailed hummingbird visiting a flower near the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Colorado....
Location: CO, USA

Little Blue Heron Siblings
Little blue herons are a species recorded in the historical bird phenology cards....
Location: USA

Yellow-Headed Blackbird Fledgling.
Yellow-headed blackbird fledgling. This species is also recorded in the Bird Phenology Program cards....
Location: USA

Bird Migration Cards
Volunteers Derek Smith (white shirt) and Reuben Anderson sort through migration cards in the Bird Phenology Program Office....
Location: USA

Bird Migration Cards
North American Bird Phenology Program Coordinator Jessica Zelt working with old migration bird cards....
Location: USA

Bird-Banding Oystercatcher
Alaska Unit master's student Julie Morse bands a black oystercatcher....
Location: Kenai Fjords National Park, AK, USA

Sage-Grouse Population Model
Changes to greater sage-grouse distribution in the American West predicted by a new scientific model based on extensive study of sage-grouse range contraction. "Likely secure populations" indicates areas where sage-grouse are present and currently stable. "Currently extirpated" indicates areas ...
Location: USA