Category: Birdwatching

How Can Puffins Fly Both in the Air and Underwater? Wild Birds Revealed

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This YouTube video was produced by The Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

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Atlantic Puffins are a delight to watch, with their tuxedo-like plumage, waddling gait, and enormous, colorful bills. But behind those adorable looks lies a rare set of skills. Puffins are adept at living in two worlds: flying through the air and then diving deep underwater to catch fish.
In this episode of Wild Birds Revealed, nature photographers Tim and Russell Laman visit a Maine puffin colony with the goal of filming these mercurial birds not just in the air but underwater as well.
Using high-definition

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Hawaiʻi ʻĀkepa: Nimble Native

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This YouTube video was produced by the American Bird Conservancy.

The Hawaiian word ʻākepa means “quick” or “nimble,” words which describe this small, finch-like bird perfectly. The Hawaiʻi ʻĀkepa, which is endemic to the island of Hawaiʻi, was once considered part of a larger species that included other ʻākepas found on Oʻahu and Maui. In 2015, the three were split into separate species on the basis of differences in vocalizations, genetics, and behavior. Unfortunately, the Oʻahu ʻĀkepa and Maui ʻĀkepa are now considered extinct, additional casualties of the ongoing conservation and extinction crisis in the Hawaiian Islands.

Another close relative

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ʻAlalā (Hawaiian Crow): Hanging on in Hawaiʻi

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This YouTube video was produced by the American Bird Conservancy.

Although at least five crow species historically occurred throughout the Hawaiian Island archipelago, the ʻAlalā, or Hawaiian Crow, is the only one that still exists today. One of the rarest corvids in the world, the ʻAlalā was declared Extinct in the Wild by the International Union for Conservation of Nature in 2002, after researchers had taken the last wild individuals into captivity in order to save the species. The ʻAlalā is also federally and state-listed as Endangered.

Like other members of its family, which includes the American Crow and the

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