Wild Turkey – Immature Male | Sheridan, Wyoming | June, 2011
This young turkey is a one year old male of the Merriam’s subspecies. One year old males are known as “jakes”. |MC48-0193
Read MoreBlue Grouse – Male | Yellowstone National Park | May, 2011
This bird is displaying in an attempt to attract a female. |MS39-0217
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Lesser Prairie-Chicken – Male | Roswell, New Mexico | April, 2011
This bird is displaying on a lek, or strutting ground, in an attempt to attract a female. |MC35-0037
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Pyrrhulaxia – Male | Carlsbad, New Mexico | April, 2011
This close cousin of the Northern Cardinal is only found in New Mexico in the spring and summer along our southern border with Mexico and Texas. |MC35-0147
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Northern Cardinal – Male | Lordsburg, New Mexico | June, 2009
Northern Cardinals are quite rare in New Mexico. We have found them only in a very few areas along our southern border where water is present year round. |MC10-0160
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Mew Gull | Anchorage, Alaska | June, 2011
This Mew Gull seems to have choosen a good location for a nest. We have seen these gulls nest on gravel bars beside small streams where they appear to be very vulnerable to predation. |MC45-0325
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Red-tailed Hawk | Bosque del Apache | September, 2009
This is a dark morph Red-tailed Hawk which seem to be fairly common at Bosque. | MC14-0031
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Turkey Vulture | Lordsburg, New Mexico | May, 2010
Turkey Vultures seem to love to turn their backs to the early morning sun and spread their wings, I assume to help them warm up after a chilly night. These birds find their food using a strongly developed sense of smell. At the end of summer they will migrate as far south as South America. |MC23-0177
Read MorePhainopepla – Male | Bosque del Apache | June, 2010
These birds are mostly found along our southern border. Bosque is as far north as we have ever seen them. |MC23-0281
Read MoreGreater Sage Grouse – Male | Walden, Colorado | April, 2009
This bird is displaying on a lek, or strutting ground, to attract a female. |MC3-0437
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Spectacled Eiders – Male and Female | Deadhorse, Alaska | June, 2011
These large sea ducks spend the majority of their lives far offshore, coming to wet coastal tundra areas to nest in the spring. As soon as the female finishes laying eggs, the male will leave for offshore molting areas. In early fall the female and young birds will join with large flocks that will move far offshore to spend the winter in openings in the nearly continuous sea ice. |MC44-0239
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Sharp-tailed Grouse – Male | Craig, Colorado | April, 2010
This bird is displaying on a lek in an attempt to attract a female. |MC21-0194
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Pied-billed Grebe | Bosque del Apache | April, 2011
These grebes are named for the black band around their bill, which is only present when they are in breeding plumage in the spring and summer. |MC35-0287
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Wild Turkey – Male | Carlsbad, New Mexico | April, 2011
This wild turkey is an adult gobbler of the Rio Grande subspecies. Most of the wild turkeys in New Mexico are Meriam’s subspecies, but we do have some Rio Grande’s and a very small number of the Gould’s subspecies. |MC35-0173
Read MoreSpectacled Eider – Male | Deadhorse, Alaska | June, 2011
This picture was taken on a snowy and very windy morning that was far from ideal for photography. It is still one of my favorite pictures of these truly amazing ducks which are experiencing a sharp decline in Alaska and are listed as Threatened under the Endangered Species Act. |MC44-0230
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