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Dr. Jeff Wells is the Senior Scientist for the Boreal Songbird Initiative. During his time at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and as the Audubon Society's National Conservation Director, Dr. Wells earned a reputation as one of the nation's leading bird experts and conservation biologists. He is now dedicated to understanding and protecting the land where North America's birds are born and raised, the Boreal Forest of Canada and Alaska. Check back regularly to read Dr. Wells' perspectives on the conservation, migration and interesting habits of Boreal birds.

Archive for July, 2005

Boreals of Summer

Wednesday, July 20th, 2005

Short-billed Dowitcher
Credit: Jeff Nadler

Bonaparte’s Gull
Credit: Glen Tepke

It’s hard to believe, when many of us in the U.S. are in the middle of summer heat waves, but even now there are Canadian Boreal birds around us. Already the first wave of southbound shorebirds has arrived from their Canadian breeding grounds. Short-billed Dowitchers, Solitary Sandpipers, and Lesser [...]


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