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Rosy-Finch
Sagebrush Birds and Gas Development
New York Breeding Bird Atlas
Birds and Climate
Pesticides and Loggerhead Shrike
Snapshot USA
Salamanders in Pacific Northwest Forests
Songbirds in West Virginia
Seabirds in the Salish Sea
American Kestrel
Selenium Risk to Yuma Ridgway’s Rails
Birds in Coastal Louisiana
Florida Scrub Jay
Nesting Birds in Maine
Duck Hunting
Bird Biodiversity and Exotic Conifer Plantations
Louisiana Waterthrush and Energy Development
Brown Pelicans in the South Atlantic Bight
Pheasant Habitat Simulator
Golden-Winged Warbler
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Graphic for Chesapeake Bay Activities Coastal Habitats and Waterbirds theme
Graphic for Chesapeake Bay Activities Coastal Habitats and Waterbirds theme from USGS Chesapeake Science Strategy 2021-2025
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Red-winged blackbirds flying out of a marsh in Huron Wildlife Management District.
Repeat photograph of a beach along the Colorado River taken in 1983 that is a match to an EC LaRue USGS 1923 Birdseye Expedition image
A USGS repeat photograph that is a match to an E.C. LaRue USGS image from 1923, taken during the Birdseye Expedition, prior to Glen Canyon Dam. Note the increase in vegetation in this image. The 1923 image was taken along the Colorado River, at River Mile 197, from the left bank, and repeat images were taken by the USGS in 1972, 1983, 1994, and 2016.
Cinnamon teal locations from GPS-GSM tracked birds
Locations of GPS-GSM tracked cinnamon teal between April 2017 and August 2021.
Since 2017, USGS scientists have tagged more than 200 cinnamon teal with lightweight, solar-powered GPS-GSM transmitters, which the ducks wear like backpacks. The GPS transmitters produce near real-time data on where the birds go and what kinds of habitats they use.
Shorebirds on Gunn Island
Black Skimmer adults with young, Gunn Island. Gunn Island is dredge material island constructed in the Baptiste Collette Bayou near Venice, Louisiana.
A Yellow-bellied Sapsucker's wing and the "Identifiation Guide to North American Birds" by Peter Pyle
A bander examine's the wing of a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, using Peter Pyle's book "Identification Guide to North American Birds" to age and sex the individual.
Shorebirds on Gunn Island
Caspian Tern adult with young on Gunn Island. Gunn Island is dredge material island constructed in the Baptiste Collette Bayou near Venice, Louisiana.
Graham birds from a duckie.
Graham birds from a duckie. USGS isn't only geology and Graham isn't only a geologist!
The State of the Birds Report 2011
Each year the State of the Birds report focuses attention on conservation issues that impact bird populations in the United States.
Example tracks of breeding Hawaiian seabirds
Example GPS tracks of breeding Hawaiian seabirds from breeding colonies in main Hawaiian Islands. Inset map shows close up of example tracks from colonies on Kauʻi.