Just upstream, preening on a rock, was a female harlequin duck with a geolocator on her leg. If Bate could recapture that bird and retrieve the geolocator she and her team had placed the previous year ...

However, Welsh Harlequin ducks are gentle and friendly, given enough attention. They spend most of their time free-ranging ...

In general, the month of January is an excellent time to view bald eagles along the Mississippi River. These birds are abundant from Hastings all the way to the Iowa border. And trumpeter swans ...