Special Commentary: How wildlife photography helps the environment By Hope Rogers In wildlife photography, one final photo is worth a thousand minutes — or even hours — of waiting. Idaho-based wildlife photographer Ken Archer spends extensive time at a particular site, often with a specific animal, to find out what it’s like to live [...]
Journalist Alex Kuffner tagged along on a loon capture to check the translocated loon that has started a family on the APC.
A Tiny Bird Makes a Big Splash The last time a common loon hatched in southern Massachusetts, there were only 37 states in the U.S.; Ulysses S. Grant was President; and there was no such thing as a telephone. Yeah, it’s been a while. So imagine the excitement one charcoal ball-of-fluff bobbing between its protective parents near Fall River has caused among those who have been working to bring this bird back for years. By Lauri Munroe-Hultman Public Affairs/Congressional Affairs U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service North Atlantic-Appalachian Region
Biodiversity Research Institute (BRI) announces the successful results of its long-term loon translocation and restoration project Restore the Call: A male loon chick that was translocated in 2015 from the Adirondack Park Region of New York to the Assawompsett Pond Complex (APC) in southeastern Massachusetts returned in 2018 to the region from which it fledged, and now in 2020 has formed a territorial pair, nested, and successfully hatched a chick in Fall River, Massachusetts. The identification of this loon (through color bands) marks the first confirmed nesting pair in southern Massachusetts in more than a century.
Biodiversity Research Institute (BRI) announces the publication of Loon Landscapes. Authors David Evers and Kate Taylor chronicle the stories of the world’s five loon species.
BRI's research on oiling and birds was recently published in the journal, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. The article, Oiling of American white pelicans, common loons, and northern gannets in the winter following the Deepwater Horizon (MC252) oil spill, assesses the oiling of migratory bird species dependent on open water in the Gulf of Mexico following the Deepwater [...]
Team Member Spotlight: Evan Adams Evan is a quantitative ecologist at the Biodiversity Research Institute, a non-profit based out of Portland, ME that is focused on integrating science into policy-making. Evan sits on the GoMAMN Steering Committee, co-chairs the Seabirds Committee, and helps lead a post-hoc committee on data sharing and integration. Evan also [...]
BRI's research on oiling and birds was recently published in the journal, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. The article, Oiling of American white pelicans, common loons, and northern gannets in the winter following the Deepwater Horizon (MC252) oil spill, assesses the oiling of migratory bird species dependent on open water in the Gulf of Mexico following the Deepwater [...]
BRI research on Northern Gannets (Morus bassanus) and offshore wind farms was recently published in the journal, Wildlife Society Bulletin. The article, Assessing Cumulative Exposure of Northern Gannets to Offshore Wind Farms, examines whether wind‐farm siting decisions can reduce cumulative exposure of gannets. The study quantified exposure using three different wind-farm siting scenarios. Read the full [...]
BRI research on loon translocation was recently published in the journal, Zoo Biology. The article, A novel method for captive rearing and translocation of Common Loons, reports BRI's method for housing and captive rearing common loon chicks that was developed as part of the first‐ever loon translocation effort in southeast Massachusetts, from 2015 to 2017. The article [...]
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