Currently Audubon is working to band more of an elusive little forest owl known as the Northern Saw-whet to determine how large their population is and learn more about their migratory patterns. Pictured below, Hutchinson is using a technique he has dubbed "the snow-cone hold." He says that once you've got them in your hand, they're pretty chill.
If you watch this, I can almost guarantee that everyone near you will reach for their phone. It's a raven who was captured on video in Yellowstone National Park mimicking a smartphone ringtone.
The Wyoming Game and Fish Department recently announced that they are monitoring a national outbreak of "highly pathogenic avian influenza," otherwise known as bird flu.
This is a moment akin to something you might expect to find in The Jungle Book except instead of a jungle, it's Wyoming. And, instead of monkeys, it's magpies and moose. It's the moment when a magpie just maybe saved the life of his/her moose friend.