On Saturday, Owens Lake was designated a Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network site of international importance, joining an exclusive group of 104 areas between Alaska and the southern end ...

Georgia’s 100 miles of coastline recently became the 100th region designated as a “Landscape of Hemispheric Importance” by the Western Hemispheric Shorebird Reserve Network. The designation ...

More than half of the species analyzed in one study had declines of 50% or more over a four-decade period. As we mark Earth Day this weekend, I want to consider the plight of shorebirds ...

In the spring they return to the Arctic by way of western North America. ... We now know some shorebirds can cover almost 2,000 miles in less than two days.

Owens Lake is now a part of a group of such brine-y filling stations, including the Salton Sea and the Great Salt Lake, key sites identified for protection by the Western Hemisphere Shorebird ...

Shorebird enthusiasts scan flocks looking for a western sandpiper among the many semipalmated sandpipers, or an American golden-plover among the black-bellied plovers. It takes time and ...

Last year, fireworks off a boat was a likely cause of a massive nest abandonment at the California least tern reserve near ...

Natural selection causes early migration, shorter parental care for shorebirds Date: September 25, 2014 Source: De Gruyter Summary: All bird migrations are fraught with danger – from the risk of ...

It still feels like summer to people, but for some birds, autumn is well advanced. This is particularly true of the shorebirds, the branch of the avian world whose fall migration first reaches Marin.

As a recognized site in the Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network, Monomoy is renowned throughout the conservation world in the Americas. On this memorable day we just experienced, ...

HOQUIAM, Wash — The wonders of nature never cease to amaze. Take, for example, the journey that some breeds of shorebirds make each year. They migrate from Argentina all the way up to Alaska. At ...

Shorebird numbers were up in a survey in February on SA's Western Eyre Peninsula The area supports up to 21 of the 38 international migratory species that travel from the northern hemisphere annually ...