...hunting in shallow waters along the side of a road. ... Ardea herodias, Great Blue Heron, hunting, marsh, B-roll, Nature, Bird, Waterbird, water, heron, ... Jamie Currie...
...oduced every year. So the fertilizer used to grow the chicken feed (corn and soy) and the chicken manure from 600 million birds was causing water quality degradation. When the Eastern Shore counties found out that they were in almost as bad a shape...
... clicking 'buttons' to turn on data layers containing information about average wingspan and migration distance for three bird species. Later that evening, we attended a book panel discussion featuring three authors of recently published books: Cit...
... the shifting mosaic of wetland and submerged aquatic vegetation communities, and the health and behavior of wading birds , oysters , alligators and crocodiles . History of Everglades monitoring on display at the South Florida Water Managemen...
...omplex phenomena. Credit: jcpag2012 Why are these models important? Last week we discussed nature and culture, but from a bird’s eye view. This week we discussed how certain groups of people relate to specific natural phenomena and environmen...
...derately to heavily oiled coastal marshes and mangroves, including the insects, crabs, shrimp, and fish that inhabit them Birds, sea turtles and dolphins exposed to oil slicks While a settlement was made for the criminal activities that led to the...
...roup conservation efforts. Edith showed us the resident nēnē geese ( Branta sandvicensis ), the iconic Hawaiian bird which is the rarest goose on the planet. When Captain Cook arrived in the ' Sandwich Islands ' in 1778, there were an est...
...the workshop, we enjoyed sitting outside at the campus pub, drinking local Kona Longboard beer and listening to the mynah birds in the trees. The sound of the mynahs and the sight of pandanus trees made me recall my stint at the University of Queen...
...e Poplar Island, giving industry a cheap place to dispose of dredge material and creating robust nesting areas for native birds3. A dump truck moves around material on Poplar Island. (Photo: Chesapeake Bay Program) However, most environmental manag...
...roves and a bit of interior rainforest to the heron rookery. We saw saltwater crocodiles (largest being around 3 meters), birds and, although I didn't see it personally, a King Cobra. Our boat and skilled pilot. The national park has been managed v...
...nicopterus ruber (American Flamingo) 3 ... The American flamingo is found in tropical wetlands. A migratory shallow water bird that gets its distinctive color from the pink crustaceans it feeds on. It also consumes algae. ... bird, migratory, wetla...
...nicopterus ruber (American Flamingo) 1 ... The American flamingo is found in tropical wetlands. A migratory shallow water bird that gets its distinctive color from the pink crustaceans it feeds on. It also consumes algae. ... bird, migratory, wetla...
...nicopterus ruber (American Flamingo) 2 ... The American flamingo is found in tropical wetlands. A migratory shallow water bird that gets its distinctive color from the pink crustaceans it feeds on. It also consumes algae. ... bird, migratory, wetla...
...6, which makes it comparable to books written by Charles Darwin a century earlier but less engaging than To Kill a Mockingbird , the popular novel from the same time (NI 24). It also falls short of the NI of ~20 that appears to be the lower limit f...
...s) nested in a broken glass block on the exterior of this brick building in spite of a busy sidewalk right next door. ... bird, nest, habitat, suburban ... Jane Hawkey...
...here there had recently been an oil spill. Large oil company operation (left), and recent oil spill orange booms (right). Birds such as cormorants are plentiful in Guanabara Bay. After one oil spill in the Bay that caused a lot of pollution, the co...
...y areas) as nesting areas. Although other issues were discussed, it was decided that marsh habitat for all colonial water birds was the overarching value that we would pursue in this exercise. The first afternoon was spent really trying to figure o...
