All posts from the 'FIELD WORK' category:
The book Seeking the Sacred Raven is the chronicle of conservation efforts for the Hawaiian Crow (or ‘Alalā) over several decades. The tale culminates in failure: the extinction of the crow in the wild.
The beetle pictured above is the Histerid beetle, Baeckmanniolus dimidiatipennis. It is an important clue in an an ongoing mystery regarding the meiofauna associated with horseshoe crab eggs.
I’ve spent the last month, tide in, tide out, on Delaware Bay beaches. With the help of a great team, I’ve been monitoring horseshoe crabs, their eggs and the shorebirds eating the eggs. The work continues, but here a some photo highlights so far.
For eleven days a little sand spit that hardly appears on maps was our whole world. It is breathtaking to comprehend that we only had a pinhole view of an immense coastal wilderness full of many more places like it.
Entrenching shovels are great for counting horseshoe crab egg clusters. They should also be in every zombie hunter’s toolkit.
(A tiger beetle, although this VW was also sighted on a Brazilian beach)
Despite the huge numbers of shorebirds using the area, Maranhão, Brazil has received only limited conservation and research attention outside of Brazil.
Much news is made about the changes to come to coastal landscapes from sea level rise, but there is less talk about what is already happening.
