A tiny Piping Plover chick wanders in the morning seaweed looking for breakfast.
Piping Plover, Dowes’s Beach, Osterville, Massachusetts. Piping Plovers are listed as threatened.
Piping plovers.Three of the four chicks pop out from safety under their mother. The fourth is still hiding.
All four are ready for another meal. Piping Plover chicks run as soon as they are born. They are not fed by their parents and must forage for themselves.
This little Piping Plover chick is finally big enough to catch a sand crab. When she was younger she tried to pick it up, but jumped back when it moved so she stuck to smaller food.
Whimbrels resting in the Wellfleet marshes on Cape Cod, Massachusetts during their flight from the Arctic to South America. Fiddler crabs are plentiful there so the Whimbrels gorge on them.
Fiddler crabs are an important source of protein for many migrating shorebirds.
Western Snowy Plovers are the smallest plover. They are losing their habitat to encroaching shoreline development.Dogs are a serious threat because when birds are chased they lose important energy stores which affect both their well-being and their ability to reproduce.
A Western Snowy Plover rests in a shallow hole at dawn on a beach in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, San Francisco, CA.
California Condors have been successfully reintroduced to the Grand Canyon. Condors became extinct in the wild in 1987. Captive bread condors have been reintroduced in California, Utah, and Arizona. There is an ongoing project to breed and restore these magnificent birds back to their native habitats.
This Condor has multiple satellite trackers and tags on him.
Northern Pintail, Llano Seco Preserve, CA
Tawny Eagle, Botswana, Africa
Little Bee Eaters in a papyrus reed. Okavango Delta, Botswana
Saddle-billed Stork, Okavango Delta, Botswana. These storks can reach five feet in height.
A scup breakfast for this Osprey family on Dowse’s Beach, Osterville, MA.
Willet finding breakfast in the seaweed. Dowse’s Beach, Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Osprey nest on a boat bow. This unfortunate owner put his boat in the water too early and the osprey were thrilled to find such a safe spot with no other boats near by. As the summer progressed and more boats were put on near by moorings they had to get used to the hustle and bustle of a busy summer harbor on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
Savannah Sparrow, Nome, Alaska
American Bald Eagle, Alaska
Great Blue Heron. San Francisco, California
Cranes reflected on Staten Island in the San Francisco-Bay Delta.
Greater Sandhill Cranes, Platte River, Nebraska.
Morning Flight. Greater Sandhill Cranes, Platte River, Nebraska.
Greater Sandhill Cranes, Kearney, Nebraska
Sunrise on the Platte River, Kearney, Nebraska
Standing Guard. Greater Sandhill Cranes, Staten Island, California.
Red-tailed hawk with an opossum breakfast. Sacramento Valley, CA.
Brandt’s Cormorant, Elkhorn Slough, California
Double-crested Cormants, Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
Brown Pelican in Elkhorn Slough, California. Elkhorn Slough has the most extensive salt marshes in California south of San Francisco. It was named a Wetland of International importance in 2018.
Great Blue Heron and Great Egrets in the Elkhorn Slough.
Long-billed Curlew, GGNRA, San Francisco, California
Red-breasted Merganser pair outside Nome, Alaska.
Bristle-thighed Curlew on a rainy Nome Day. Alaska.
Bristle-thighed Curlew calling. Outside Nome, Alaska.