Dipper hunting caddisflies
Hinyiklʼeix̱i, dancer in the water November 18, 2022 I love dippers but have had little luck filming them in their…
2022 | Richard Carstensen | 3 minute video
‘Songbird’ is a widely used but somewhat fuzzy category, corresponding loosely to passerine, any species in the order Passeriformes. Perhaps more meaningful is the term ‘perching bird,’ in reference to the arrangement of toes: 3 pointing forward and 1 back, making it easier to hang onto a branch. Largest of the North American Passeriformes (and actually not a bad songster either, once we’ve tuned our ears to the Northwestern symphony) is the creator: salmon-belcher, river-dribbler, cache-robber Raven.
“Songbirds” or passerines form the crown of the family tree.
Southeast Alaska is an uninviting place for most songbirds in winter. Most species, and a huge majority of individuals, head south in winter.
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Nature near the schools: Birds
Powerpoint & script for spring Nature Studies Rainforest is not the first place a birder gravitates to. In breeding season,…
1990 | Richard Carstensen | powerpoint & presenter's script
Decomposition on motion-cams: phases 1&2
How a deer dissolves Steve Merli and I have slightly refocused our motion-cam deer study from behavior of live deer…
2020, May | Richard Carstensen | 6 minute slideshow
Junco life history
Lentfer audio-visual dark-eyes My friend Hank (Henry) Lentfer is using a combination of high-quality sound recording and high-res remote-control telephotography…
2020 | Hank Lentfer | 4 minutes
Common birds of Southeast Alaska
This field-ID laminate introduces common land-&-sea birds of Southeast. Beginning birders can be overwhelmed by the number of species in…
1998 winter newsletter. “Our birds” in Mexico
Report from a visit to the mountains of central Mexico, in search of migrants who summer with us here in…
Evening grosbeaks
Bob Armstrong’s Guide to the birds of Alaska, 6th edition, lists evening grosbeak as ‘casual’ in SE, SC and Central…
2018 | Richard Carstensen | 1 page
2007 spring newsletter: Songsters by the streams
American dippers The Spring 2007 Discoveries includes a feature essay by Mary Willson on dippers, from many years of research…
Spring 2007 | Mary Willson | 12 pages