Kelly Ball

How a sustainable artist is crowdsourcing 10,836 bird replicas to educate the public about preventing birds from deadly window strikes.

From my column "Sustainable Cape May": Why the Tidelands Initiative removes garbage from coastal wetlands.

For the birder who wants an all-purpose, lightweight scope, the TSN-88A delivers and then some.

From my column “Sustainable Cape May": Promoting area businesses dedicated to sustainable merchandise, packaging, and sourcing.

Here's a #TelemetryTuesday riddle: what's heard more than seen, sounds like a gremlin, AND lives a bicoastal lifestyle? Yellow-billed Cuckoo (YBCU), obvs. 😎

Bestselling author Amy Tan’s drawings and essays are a vehicle for studying her backyard birds. What distinguishes this from similar efforts is how Tan imbues those interpretations with her attentive, charming prose.

🦉Why so glum, chum? After all, you've made history with an EPIC DATA DUMP!🦉 Today we share a #FeelGoodFriday update that we promise will leave you feeling GREAT! Researcher Hannah Toutonghi of...

63 likes, 0 comments - September 10, 2024: "Not a bad way to spend a 🐉 🪰 festival! This #TinyTag #TelemetryTuesday, here's a cool project in which a researcher and educator used our #BlūSeries tech for a special

Historic hummingbird tagging event?🤯✔️ Deployment of cutting-edge 2.4 GHz transmitters?📶✔️ In support of conservation and avian ecology? 🌍✔️ We're thrilled to share this update on Project HUMMER:...

For 6 months I curated questions and answers about our technology from client email logs, organized them into 5 categories, and created a frequently asked questions page to aid clients and streamline customer inquiries.

🦅🐦Migratory Bird Madness 🌎🦉 As we enjoy May's migratory movement, let's catch up this #TelemetryTuesday with some birdy action courtesy of #Motus Wildlife Tracking System!

Science writer Rebecca Heisman’s engaging debut offers a lively narrative account of the various—and unorthodox—methodology used to understand the many unanswered questions of bird migration, and some of the scientists who have made it all possible.

Xerces Society Bee City USA Blog guest post featuring a community science project, Project Monarch, utilizing digitally coded radio tags that transmit at 2.4GHz—the same frequency as Bluetooth.

🦋🚀Aaaand we have liftoff! 🚀🦋 Enjoy some photos from today's inaugural Project Monarch tagging event at Cape May Point Science Center! A crew of CTT scientists deployed lightweight solar transmitters...

Since 2014, The Littoral Society team has been tagging horseshoe crabs in the Delaware Bay. By utilizing PowerTags, along with the requisite SensorStation and Node grid, researchers aim to understand the movement and site selection of female crabs.

Crested Caracaras, as biologist Dr. Joan Morrison describes this species, are "sedentary and smart, and nesting pairs occupy a well-defined home range." While such traits make a Caracara what it is, it also means the species is not especially well-st

This feature article explains why purchasing sustainably grown coffee aids habitat restoration for neotropical migratory birds. as well as a taste testing roundup of a few popular bird friendly coffee brands.

If you are a birder who has done the festival circuit, then you likely can appreciate my enthusiasm for these events. And if you are a birder who hasn’t attended festivals BUT you are curious to do so, there are all sorts of options!

What mighty force brought a myriad of agencies (US Fish and WIldlife, Ohio State Parks, Ohio Department of Natural Resources, and the US Department of Agriculture’s APHIS division, specifically) together? A single, solitarary Piping Plover nest.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year if you’re a birder! And the staff here at Bird Watcher’s Digest is spending every minute we can in between our work responsibilities trying to soak up all the migrants passing through our yards and patches and…