How Can You Stop a Disease-Carrying Mosquito?
How Can You Stop a Disease-Carrying Mosquito?
Extreme Birding: How To Do A Big Year On A Budget
Whether you’re new to birding or a grizzled veteran, you’ve likely heard of a Big Year, where birders compete with themselves — and one another — to see the most…
The Trials and Rewards of Offshore Seabird Research
The boat emerges from a wall of fog into a magical scene. Pods of dolphins swim in our wake. Several humpback whales spout nearby. Flocks of Wilson’s storm petrels –…
Extreme Birding: The Strange Magic of Pelagics
I arrive at the marina before dawn. Fumbling in the darkness for my bag and packed lunch, I make my way down to the dock, where a small crowd waits…
Want Resilient Coral Reefs? Bring Back Seabirds
Seabirds are ecosystem engineers, contributing valuable nutrients to reef ecosystems offshore of breeding colonies. New research, published in Science Advances, suggests eradicating rats and restoring seabird populations could increase coral…