Long-billed curlew are shorebirds that spend their summers breeding in the grasslands of Montana. Smithsonian ecologists are equipping them with GPS trackers to learn more about their movements.
Long-billed curlews nest in large, flat expanses of short-grass prairie.
Guam kingfishers are incredibly rare and difficult to breed, so we are thrilled to be closing out the breeding season with four new chicks. This has been our biggest year to date — and one of our busiest!
In my last update, Guam kingfisher Giha (gee-ha) had just started a new nest.
Found in prairies, grasslands and fields, the grasshopper sparrow’s tan and brown coloration allows it to camouflage even in wide open areas.
They also, when leaving the nest, run a distance away before flying.
Migratory songbirds with distinct black-and-blue feathers, black-throated blue warblers prefer to live and hunt in dense, shady forests with lots of plant growth. They search the undersides of leaves and shrubs for arthropods and primarily feed caterpillars to their young.
This is most intensive during nest building and until incubation begins.
Simultaneously, she is starting to build a nest in her den and to eat less.
Simultaneously, she is starting to build a nest in her den and to eat less.
Though wild birds, black-crowned night herons are a common sight at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in the summer, where they have a breeding colony. This is their only rookery in Washington, D.C.
nest in one tree.
A striking and easy to identify bird, chickadees have a reputation for being chatty busybodies. They are frequent visitors to feeders and backyards and are one of the most studied and well-recognized wild songbirds in North America.
The pair works together to dig out a nest hollow in a dead tree, snag, a rotting
As we continue to watch Mei Xiang in hopes of a new addition to the David M. Rubenstein Family Giant Panda Habitat, we have noticed some behavioral changes in our female giant panda.
What Mei is interested in, however, is her nest.
These handsome diving ducks are a common sight in the northern prairies of the United States and Canada, where they fly each year to breed among semi-permanent ponds and wetlands. As pochards, or diving ducks, they are specially adapted for propelling themselves underwater in search of aquatic plants, small gastropods and mollusks to eat.
Reproduction and Development Many female redheads do not make a nest themselves.
Pumpkinseeds are North American freshwater fish that are very similar in appearance to their cousins, the bluegill.
Mating takes place when the pair circle the nest and release the eggs, which are
