Shearwaters are a part of a group of birds known as pelagic species. They spend all their lives, except during breeding, on the open ocean.
Originally found in the northern climes of eastern Canada, the great cormorant’s distribution has changed.
The green heron makes a habit of crouching as it waits for dinner, sometimes moving like a cat, placing one foot gently down and then the other.
So, that handsome orange and black bird that sings a musical song from high in a tree is indeed a Baltimore oriole.
I will tell you about our trip to an island in the Pacific Ocean that is the shape, and almost the same size, as the Vineyard. Easter Island.
Rob Bierregaard was introduced to the Vineyard’s osprey population by Gus Ben David and has been studying the Vineyard’s ospreys since the 1960s.