Nathan Cooper is a behavioral ecologist and conservation biologist. He studies how migratory birds interact with each other and their environments throughout the annual cycle. His research integrates natural history observations with new technology, quantitative tools, and large-scale field experiments to advance the fundamental understanding of ecology and provide resource managers with the information needed to conserve migratory birds.
Forest Service, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, and the Bahamas National Trust.
https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/eastern-corn-snake
Corn snakes are slender, orange or brownish-yellow snakes with a pattern of large, red blotches down their backs. They are most abundant in Florida and throughout the southeastern U.S.
populations have been recorded on several islands in the Caribbean, with established populations in the Bahamas
https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/redhead
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.
Redheads winter on the Gulf Coast, on the southeastern coastline of the United States, and in the Bahamas
