July 17, 2009 | Dr. Jeff Wells
Ivory-billed Woodpecker
Credit: US Fish and Wildlife Service
I got to see an advance copy of this film and it is incredibly well done. Takes you from laughing to crying to reflection while exploring...
July 15, 2009 | Dr. Jeff Wells
This just out from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Reminds me of the simple analysis we did a few years ago that suggested that migrant and wintering Boreal birds contributed as much to the U.S....
July 14, 2009 | Dr. Jeff Wells
I heard on the news that there had been a rare tornado in northwestern Ontario last week and emailed Matt to ask if it had been anywhere near where he was located on his bird trip to Whitewater Lake ...
July 13, 2009 | Dr. Jeff Wells
More follow-up (read first entry here) from Cornell's Matt Medler who sent this note on Saturday fromWilderness North's Striker's Point Lodge on Whitewater Lake in northern Ontario:
July 12, 2009 | Dr. Jeff Wells
While I was on vacation last week, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, one of our Boreal Songbird Network partners, dispatched one of its own to Ontario's Boreal. Last summer I traveled to Ontario's Far...
July 3, 2009 | Dr. Jeff Wells
Great news for wildlife was announced a couple of weeks ago when World Wildlife Fund reported a massive new park was recently established in Russia.
Here's an excerpt from the WWF press release:
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July 2, 2009 | Dr. Jeff Wells
Just saw this AP story about a recently released IUCN report that again highlights the contrast between working to protect and maintain intact ecosystems and healthy populations of birds, mammals,...
July 1, 2009 | Dr. Jeff Wells
Water seems to have been a predominant theme here the last week or two and in keeping with that theme I thought I would share with you a cool website called Freshwater Ecoregions of the World that I...
June 29, 2009 | Dr. Jeff Wells
Ed Reeves from Deline recently sent me this link to a very cool CBC North radio project that was done by the kids of Deline, Northwest Territories. The kids interviewed the Elders of Deline to learn...
June 28, 2009 | Dr. Jeff Wells
Just got this comment on Friday, June 26, about spring conditions from NWT biologist Richard Popko who is stationed in Norman Wells:
"Local situations varied during spring migrations. Few whimbrels...
