Almost every day I enjoy the company of a maleAnna’s Hummingbird(Calypte anna). He perches on a metal fence I put up to protect a bed of sunflowers we planted outside my home office window. Click on photos for full sized images. He is protecting a hummingbird feeder that hangs from the eves about 12 feet […]
Author: Larry Jordan
Larry Jordan is an avid birder and amateur photographer living on the Pacific Flyway near the Central Valley of Northern California. He is a board member of his local Audubon Society and is a bird and wildlife conservationist. Larry contributes to several wildlife conservation organizations and is a BirdLife International "Species Champion." He is also Habitat Manager for the Burrowing Owl Conservation Network, an organization dedicated to the protection and restoration of the Western Burrowing Owl population in the United States. Larry has been blogging about birds since September of 2007 at TheBirdersReport.com
Evening Grosbeaks Irrupt at the American Birding Association
Evening Grosbeak Pair (Coccothraustes vespertinus) photos by Larry Jordan That massive beak sported by the Evening Grosbeak (Coccothraustes vespertinus) turns from white to a pearly yellowish-green in breeding season (click on photos for full sized images). I was fortunate to have a flock of these beauties visit me last summer. Here you can see a […]
Burrowing Owls at Wildhorse Golf Club
Burrowing Owls(Athene cunicularia) are active both day and night but they nest in underground burrows making them sometimes difficult to spot. If you are out looking for thesecharismatic little owls you may expect to see something like this, just a head sticking above the rim of the burrow entrance(click on photos for full sized images). […]
Stop Apache Alaska from Launching Airgun Attack on Cook Inlet’s Endangered Beluga Whales
Beluga Whale (Delphinapterus leucas) photo by Brian J. Skerry The Beluga Whale, commonly called the White Whale, is a marine mammal living in the Arctic and Sub-Arctic areas of the world. From a conservation perspective, the beluga is considered “near threatened” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature; however the subpopulation from the Cook […]
House Sparrows Taking Over Cliff Swallow Nests
House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) Male photos by Larry Jordan Just the mention of the House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) in the world of Bluebird nest monitoring sends shivers down the back of some trail monitors, and rightfully so. There is plenty of documentation of House Sparrows attacking Bluebirds and other cavity nesting species, killing both young […]
Audubon President Comments on Arctic Lawsuit
Dateline: July 10, 2012 A coalition of conservation organizations filed a lawsuit in Alaska federal court Tuesday challenging the federal government’s approval of Shell Oil Company’s Chukchi and Beaufort Sea spill response plans. The plaintiffs in this case are Audubon, Alaska Wilderness League, Center for Biological Diversity, Greenpeace, Natural Resources Defense Council, Ocean Conservancy, Oceana, […]
Federal Government Doubles Critical Habitat for Pacific Coast Western Snowy Plover
Western Snowy Plover (Charadrius nivosus) photo courtesy USFWS Newsflash July 17, 2012, Chalk up one good decision for the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service! Approximately 24,527 acres of coastal habitat in Washington, Oregon, and California has been designated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as Critical Habitat for the Pacific Coast population of the […]
The Scarce Black-backed Woodpecker Drumming
Black-backed Woodpecker (Picoides arcticus) Male photos by Larry Jordan I arrived at Lassen Volcanic National Park around 7:00 a.m. It was a cool 48 degrees. I had taken the short drive to the park to search for a family of American Dippers sighted near the visitor center by a fellow birder a few days before. […]