Hello everyone! This is Katie, and I am back for the summer! I am super excited to be working with our birds (old & new) and with our amazing volunteers once again (and Melissa and Brandon, of course)! I am going to try to help with the blogs again this summer (although we are already […]
The Order of owls (Strigiformes) is a well loved group of birds. In fact, it is the owls that we humans have tagged as wise. Why is that? The main theory is that, unlike other birds, owl’s eyes are on the front of their faces. Their faces are also more rounded, giving them a somewhat […]
10 June, 2011: First entry in the 2011 Golden Eagle Journal…Headed out into Bighorn Basin to check on a few eagle nests and follow up a lead on a Burrowing Owl nest I’d heard about. Finally a good day for fieldwork, with temperatures in the 60s F, and relatively calm winds. High clouds, but mostly […]