To quote the greatest show of all time, "I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them". As this internship winds up, I have often taken time to reflect on the amount of people I...
Where has the time gone? The start of summer means a lot of things at Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area. The park gets more visitors, the tides are lower, the weather gets warmer (Some would say hot, if you're a coastie), and nesting season is...
With World Migratory Bird Day having come and gone, priorities have officially shifted to monitoring nesting seabirds! That means moving forward until the end of my internship I will monitor nesting seabirds alongside Oregon State University's Seabird Oceanography Lab. The birds of focus are Common...
First and foremost, happy belated World Migratory Bird Day! This years theme, Shared Spaces, holds a special place in my heart. The very first research project I participated in was during my undergrad, investigating the impact of window collisions on migrating bird populations. I saw...
These last few weeks have been a whirlwind of events. After embarking on a roughly 6 hour road trip and moving all our belongings from Eastern Washington to Newport, OR, April 7th would become a pivotal day for my family and I. Every single one...
Hey guys! My name is David Cancino and I am this year's Environment for the Americas intern stationed at Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area, working with the Bureau of Land Management. During the extent of this internship I will have several duties which include working...