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

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.

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,…

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…