Triplets?! Big Bear eagles welcome 3rd egg of 2024
Jackie, the matriarch of a much-celebrated eagle nest above Big Bear Lake, has delivered her third egg in a week — her first three-egg clutch, according to a nonprofit that …
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On Safari: A Hands-On With the New OM System OM-1 Mark II
With the announcement of the OM SYSTEM OM-1 Mark II and the M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 150-600 F5.0-6.3 IS Lens, wildlife photography has never been more accessible. Professional wildlife photographer Andy …
Big Bear’s famous eagles Jackie and Shadow reveal first egg of 2024
With thousands watching from their own perches, Jackie the Big Bear eagle delivered her first egg of 2024 late Thursday afternoon, Jan. 25. Jackie and her partner, Shadow, spent days …
Bird flu infects Petaluma’s poultry region, puts small farmers at risk
The Reichardt family has devoted the last 30 years to perfecting a line of ducks famed for succulent pink meat and well suited to the slower, less stressful husbandry of …
Millions of birds die in building collisions; effort aims to save them
Shani Kleinhaus can quickly recognize a window that kills birds. “Often, I can see the pattern of the collision on the window, like the bird’s outline and wing shape,” she …
Restoring San Francisco Bay wetlands, one industrial salt pond at a time
To the cheers of distant onlookers, a yellow excavator sliced through a dirt levee to open a long-captive 19th century industrial salt pond to the wild San Francisco Bay on …
Mesmerizing Photos Reveal the Complex Flight Paths of Birds
The flight path of a seagull shown by taking hundreds of photos and meticulously stacking them all together into a single image. | Raghuvamsh Chavali. A photographer created a series …
How one Napa vineyard might have saved millions
NAPA — On a damp and gray Friday at Bouchaine Vineyards, Rebecca Rosen looked up, noticed the handful of ravens circling above her and lobbed an insult. “Jerks!” she yelled. …
Bird Flu Reaches the Antarctic for the First Time
This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Avian flu has reached the Antarctic, raising concerns for isolated populations of penguins and seals …