Expedition Blog

The Long-billed Curlews we are tracking have picked their breeding spots! Watch their spring migration from the Texas Gulf Coast to their prairie breeding habitats…

Laguna Madre: a shorebird spectacle  A needle in a haystack is defined as something that is very hard or impossible to find. As you may…

Have you ever tried to find a needle in a haystack? Well that is exactly what I am trying to do this week. Sort of.…

The Long-billed Curlew migration has started! Curlew 141775 is leading the pack near Abilene, TX. Who is next?  Follow the migration here!…

Follow the (almost) real-time movements of eight Long-billed Curlews tagged with Argos Satellite Transmitters October, 2014 through January 2015 along the Texas Coast. Each colored…

Fall is my favorite time of year and it’s the eve of Halloween! This year I’m creating a Long-billed Curlew costume. It’s perfect—the bird is…

It’s the end of a weekend of field work and our expedition is coming to a close. We have successfully deployed transmitters on 11 Black-bellied…

After a full day on the beach, faces burned by sun and wind, we were winding down outside on the hotel patio when Lynyrd Skynyrd’s…

If there’s one thing I’ve learned in all the years I have been doing wildlife biology, it’s that things don’t always work out the way…