Birds

When I first became interested in using Utah birds as a core theme for teaching my 2nd-graders I had no idea how it would revolutionize my teaching career and connect me and my students with so many different natural and human communities.

Falconry is an ancient sport going back thousands of years. In Shakespeare’s time, it was a way of putting food on the dinner table.

The southern ground hornbill is a large charismatic bird that really stands out in the savanna. Though their population within Kruger is stable, the same cannot be said for most of their range.

Kruger boasts remarkable high bird diversity, with more than 500 bird species listed. But the relative parasite count within those birds was unknown until a new study revealed that their diversity is also quite high.

Five needle pines- I love them! It was the stately eastern white pine that introduced me to these trees of the five needle clan in my early years in Wisconsin & Michigan.

Researchers and volunteers are conducting a snowy plover population survey to look at the effects of a changing Great Salt Lake on these migratory birds.

A new trail and viewing platform at the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Wildlife Education Center honor Bob Hasenyager, a longtime Utah wildlife advocate who worked to protect Farmington Bay.

I sit on the front swivel seat of a drift boat gliding across the smooth water of Newton Reservoir. The sun begins to send morning rays of brilliance over the Cache Mountains.

Spring is a critical time for reproduction in many animals, the Utah Department of Wildlife Resources uses that time to conduct their annual spring surveys of lekking sage-grouse.

A bird of the prairie and countryside, the western meadowlark releases songs synonymous with spring grasslands flush with balsam root, lupine, death camas, larkspur, prairie smoke, and wind tossed grasses that shimmer in morning sun.