The first large groups of swans have reached patches of open water in the Yukon’s Southern Lakes, a critical stop on their ...

Continental Divide The park is more than seven million acres of wilderness that rolls out of the ice fields, mountains, alpine tundra ... mountain caribou, trumpeter swans, and upland sandpipers ...

Norman Smith has caught and released into the wild more than 900 snowy owls that decided Logan Airport was a good place for a ...

Each spring, as winter reluctantly exits from the scene, we experience a snow melt along with the ice giving way to the chilly water. The daylight quickly lengthens from 11 hours in early March and is ...

Boston’s airport has the highest known concentration of snowy owls in New England. Raptor researcher Norman Smith has removed more than 900 of the Arctic birds.

Canada geese and trumpeter swans are here to take advantage ... other aquatic birds arrive. The smaller tundra swans come by in flocks, as do the goldeneyes and mallards. During my walks at ...

Despite the name, these invasive birds are not actually sparrows but weaver finches, related to other weavers in Africa and elsewhere. European Starling Starlings, which are from Europe and Asia, ...

But Smith said the terrain resembles the Arctic tundra. It’s open ... brown and white pelicans, trumpeter swans, American kestrels, bald eagles, and snowy owls. Among birds, the FAA said ...

Attending birders will be shuttled by bus to Salt Lake WMA and other nearby WMAs, and likely will peer through binoculars and spotting scopes to see tundra and trumpeter swans, red-necked ...

I stopped at Forster’s Bridge to watch a swan in the flooded field there, which was either a tundra or trumpeter swan. I find it very difficult to determine the difference between tundra and trumpeter ...

It appears that the main waterfowl migration is over. The tundra swans have headed back to their nesting grounds in the Arctic tundra country. The swans we're seeing in the marshes now are ...