Author: pelicanislandaudubon

  • Oslo Boat Ramp Algae News Center

    Oslo Boat Ramp Algae News Center

    News articles and photos documenting the potentially harmful algae at the Oslo Boat Ramp.

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  • VIDEO: Ospreys 2021 – The Revival of a Global Raptor with Alan Poole, Ph.D.

    VIDEO: Ospreys 2021 – The Revival of a Global Raptor with Alan Poole, Ph.D.

    Ospreys 2021 – The Revival of a Global Raptor with Alan Poole, Ph.D., Associate of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, recorded on Zoom for the May 17, 2021 Pelican Island Audubon Society general meeting.

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  • May 2021 Birds Need Plants Photo Contest

    May 2021 Birds Need Plants Photo Contest

    Wilson’s Snipe   Gallinago delicata by Juanita N. Baker, Ph.D. Wilson’s Snipe are so elusive that many practical jokes have been played on youth, leading them to go at night into the wilderness “Snipe Hunting” with instructions to crouch down and hold their bag to catch them as they are flushed their way. Duped again,…

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  • April 2021 Birds Need Plants Photo Contest

    April 2021 Birds Need Plants Photo Contest

    Exquisite! by Juanita N. Baker, Ph.D. Look how this male, with his characteristic white facial crescent identifying him as a Blue-winged Teal, stands proud and vigilant with a female. This photo was taken in March when these dabbling ducks begin to pair up.  Notice she has a ‘ghost’ of a crescent’…a lighter patch next to…

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