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Golden Eagle Helicopter Survey
During the second week of March, I participated in a helicopter survey of golden eagles and their nests along the rugged, remote, and spectacular ridges and canyons of the Sierra de Juárez Mountains in...
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Condors: Quest for the Egg
Female condor #284 enters her nest. April has been a very busy and exciting month for the San Diego Zoo’s California condor project. Condor field managers and researchers have been using VHF and GPS...
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Measuring Wind beneath Condor Wings
A condor’s eye view? Flying over condor habitat in Baja California, Mexico. Last month, we conducted an expedition to install a series of meteorological stations on the remote and inaccessible eastern...
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Wild Condor Chick Gets Own TV Show
A California condor keeps his chick company in their Baja California nest cave. Recently, conservation scientists and managers from San Diego Zoo Global’s California Condor Recovery Team successfully...
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“Carrion” Research to the Next Level
James holds a California condor egg produced in the wild. I have been on the trail of the California condor for some years now. And what a trail it is, from shimmering cactus-studded deserts baking...
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Space, The Final Frontier for Conservation Research
Miniaturized and “ruggedized” field computers enable data to be collected accurately and consistently directly from the wild. Spatial ecology, the fastest-growing field of study in ecology, is a...
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Sharing Spatial Ecology
Spatial ecology is the study of how animals and plants interact with their environment through space and time. Spatial ecology is now the fastest growing field in ecology because rapid advances in...
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New Dimensions in Wildlife Research
A dugong grazes on the ocean floor. Photo credit: MarineThemes Space is a final frontier in animal ecology. I first became interested in 3-D models of animal movements back when I was conducting...
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