During migration, sandpipers typically gather insects, spiders, & worms along beaches, mudflats, & shorelines in order to fuel up. But the Western Sandpiper has an additional dining technique and menu item during spring migration—biofilm. #BirdsNeedWater https://t.co/xStMTzFmHl
Happy #NationalSiblingsDay! Have you visited a park with a sibling? Share your favorite park memories!
Image: Three bear cubs play at Silver Salmon Creek at Lake Clark National Park & Preserve, Alaska. NPS/K.Ilgunas
Timeline of the bison comeback described with stadiums: 1800s- if bison could attend baseball games, they'd have pack 500 Yankee Stadiums - 1900s (early) - so many bison had died they couldn't fill 1 stadium's outfield section - 2019 bison could now fill 10 stadiums ⚾❤️️
The most beautiful photo of an Andean cat I have ever seen! *adds to list of cats to do genetic work on*
Seen thru @pumapix initiative Cat in Thin Air.
96 Kemp’s ridley sea turtles hatchlings made their way to sea late last week. This summer, a female came ashore at Gateway National Recreation Area in New York to lay her clutch – the first recorded case of a nesting female in New York.
I’m so tired of seeing half-time and non-benefited positions in the wildlife field. How are we to adequately fight the onslaught against the environment and conserve biodiversity when literally no one seems to value the highly-qualified scientists ready to do so? Smh.