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Watching migrations from home In the time of the pandemic, when most field biologists are working from their desks instead of out studying birds, the…

During the summer of 2019, scientists from the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center embarked on two expeditions to Alaska to study arctic-nesting birds as a part…

The ongoing mysteries of Mountain Plover migration In 2015, we fitted fourteen Mountain Plovers with ~2g GPS loggers with hopes that they would provide clues…

Spring break in Mexico, Mountain Plover style by Allison K. Pierce, Graduate Student at University of Colorado Denver With just two weeks notice, I was…

We are in the Alaskan tundra stalking a striking bird. He is as dapper as 007 and as skilled in the art of evasion.  He…

Any job working with birds guarantees you strange working hours. For most bird biologists, work starts before sunrise because most birds start singing at dawn.…

This summer the Migratory Connectivity Project and Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center joined forces with Erin Bayne’s lab at the University of Alberta in Edmonton to…

Mountain ranges with peaks reaching 14,000 feet elevation surround the expansive short grass prairie of South Park, Colorado. At an average elevation of 9,000 feet,…

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…

MIGRATORY CONNECTIVITY OF A NEOTROPICAL MIGRATORY SONGBIRD REVEALED BY ARCHIVAL LIGHT-LEVEL GEOLOCATORS New paper incorporates archival light-level geolocators and band recoveries to estimate Migratory Connectivity…