BIrds
There are so many unique and beautiful birds in this world. This portfolio focuses on North American birds, primarily those found in my home state of Minnesota.
Did you know that we have lost 2.9 billion birds since 1970? Habitat loss and degradation are the two biggest drivers in the decline of birds. Reversing this trend will take action on all fronts – from local and national land-use policies to individual actions we can all practice, such as planting native plants, keeping our cats indoors and making our windows safer. Check out 3 Billion Birds for ways you can help.
Female Pine Grosbeak
Scarlet Tanager
American Three-toed Woodpecker
Northern Hawk Owl sitting atop a spruce tree
Great Blue Heron with chicks
Swamp Sparrow
Black-throated Green Warbler
Redpoll
Red-eyed vireo found in early successional forest
Common Loon and Chicks
Barred Owl
Canada warbler
Great Gray Owl
Dark-morph rough-legged hawk in flight
Black-backed woodpecker
Pine Warbler gathering nest material
Northern Parula
Northern Hawk Owl
Black and white warbler
Black Tern
Sedge wren
Male Pine Grosbeak
White-crowned Sparrow
Barred Owl
Boreal Owl
Snow Bunting
Semi-palmated plover on sand beach on Lake Superior
Song Sparrow
White-winged crossbill
Golden-winged warbler
Common loon feeding it's chick
Great Gray Owl Landing
Blackburnian Warbler in the boreal forest
Golden-crowned kinglet
Pair of Ring-necked ducks
Northern Saw-whet Owl
Hooded warbler
Dickcissel
Male Spruce Grouse
Pair of sandhill cranes call together as part of their bonding ritural
White crowned sparrow
Western Grebes
American Golden Plover
Sora
Black & White Warbler
White-winged Crossbill
Horned lark in late spring snow
Sandhill cranes in flight
Barred Owl
Snowy Plover, Sanibel, Florida
Boreal Owl
Female pine Grosbeak
Great gray owl in flight
Red Crossbill found in the boreal forest
Common redpoll during snowfall
The young females are now larger than dad and just as big as their mom.
Pair of Ring-necked ducks
Boreal Owl
Common Merganser and her young
Male Spruce Grouse
Northern Harrier
American Woodcock
Piping Plover on Lake Superior Beach near Duluth, MN
American Three-toed Woodpecker
Juvenile peregrine flying over Lake Superior
Boreal Owl
Bobolink in the prairie
Tree Swallow
Rough-legged Hawk
Long-eared owl camouflaging himself by stretching to look like the tree trunk.
Pine warbler on branch of white pine tree
Bald eagle on snag with fall colors behind her
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Warbling Vireo
Peregrine Falcon
Peregrine Falcon in flight
Yellow-billed cuckoo
Red-breasted merganser on Lake Superior
Double-crested Cormorants in Rookery
Bohemian waxwing in mountain ash tree
Peregrine Falcon
Male Ruby-throated hummingbird drinking nectar from gooseberry bush
Great gray owl atop a spruce in winter
Peregrine Falcon with Split Rock Lighthouse in the background
Snowy Owl in Flight
Winter Wren