arid habitat

Great Horned Owl In Desert Habitat

By Mia McPherson|November 28th, 2019|Categories: Birds, Great Horned Owls, Mt. Moriah Wilderness Area, Nevada, White Pine County|Tags: adult, arid, arid habitat, autumn, Bubo virginianus, camouflaged, cliff, desert, desert habitat, fall, Great Horned Owl, outcropping, owl, owls, rocks, rocky, side lit, wildflowers|

I reached back into my archives and found this photo of a side lit Great Horned Owl in desert habitat that I spotted from one of the dirt access roads that lead to the Mt. Moriah Wilderness of eastern Nevada in 2012.

The State of North American Birds and its Not Good News

By Mia McPherson|July 1st, 2016|Categories: American Oystercatchers, Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Davis County, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Greater Sage-Grouse, Mountain Plovers, Pinellas County, Reddish Egrets, Utah, Wayne County|Tags: American Oystercatcher, Anarhynchus montanus, arid habitat, Centrocercus urophasianus, coast, decline, egrets, Egretta rufescens, extinction, grasslands, Greater Sage-Grouse, Haematopus palliatus, Mountain Plover, oceans, Reddish Egret, sage-grouse, sagebrush steppe, shorebirds, state of the birds, upland terrestrial birds, wading birds|

These four birds, an American Oystercatcher, a Greater Sage-Grouse, a Reddish Egret and a Mountain Plover are all facing the risk of extinction without serious conservation measures to reduce declines in populations and habitat destruction.