wildlife ethics – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Yellow-bellied Marmot Pup In A Crack In Some Rocks

By Mia McPherson|2022-04-04T04:59:21-05:00April 4th, 2022|Categories: Box Elder County, Utah, Yellow-bellied Marmots|Tags: baby, crack, crevice, desert, lichen, lichen covered, mammals, marmot, Marmota flaviventris, marmots, mobile blind, pup, rock, rocks, shelter, spring, wildlife ethics, Yellow-bellied Marmot, young|

I was delighted to find and photograph a Yellow-bellied Marmot pup peeking out of a crack in some lichen-covered rocks on the 1st of April in northern Utah.

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Photograph but don’t touch – Wildlife Ethics

By Mia McPherson|2024-03-13T15:16:18-05:00March 20th, 2013|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Davis County, Long-billed Curlews, Red Foxes, Utah, Wildlife Ethics|Tags: Antigone canadensis, chick, ethics, immature, juvenile, Long-billed Curlew, Migratory Bird Treaty Act, nature photography, Numenius americanus, Red Fox, red fox kits, Vulpes vulpes, wildlife ethics, wildlife photography|

I do hope that non-photographers and the general public know that behavior like this is an exception and that ethical photographers would not have gone up and petted the Sandhill Cranes.

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More on Escaped Falconry Birds

By Mia McPherson|2022-12-10T10:05:57-06:00December 23rd, 2012|Categories: American Kestrels, Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Peregrine Falcons, Utah|Tags: American Kestrel, anklets, escaped falconry birds, Falco peregrinus, Falco sparverius, falcon, falconry, falcons, female, hardwear, jesses, kestrel, kestrels, male, NAFA, North American Falconers Association, Peregrine Falcon, reporting lost falconry birds, rogue falconers, wildlife ethics|

Throughout these three experiences in finding escaped falconry birds what I have learned is that falconry is for experts not for people who just think it is cool to have a pet raptor.

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Burrowing Owls – Loved to Death?

By Mia McPherson|2021-11-27T17:05:17-06:00March 14th, 2011|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Burrowing Owls, Davis County, Harassment, Nesting Birds, Utah, Wildlife Ethics & Etiquette|Tags: adult, Athene cunicularia, Burrowing Owl, flight, juveniles, nature, owl, owls, perched, wildlife ethics|

What made me sick was that there were three of those people tromping around the owl's burrow. I mean RIGHT up on it. They had no need to be that close but they were.

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Nesting American Oystercatchers

By Mia McPherson|2023-03-03T13:10:23-06:00August 14th, 2010|Categories: American Oystercatchers, Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Nesting Birds, Pinellas County, Wildlife Ethics|Tags: adult, American Oystercatcher, bird ID, brooding, coastal habitat, eggs, ethics, Haematopus palliatus, nest, nesting, nesting behavior, nesting ethics, oystercatcher, oystercatchers, saltwater, sand dune, scrape, Sea Purslane, settling, shorebirds, wildlife ethics|

Nesting American Oystercatchers create simple scrapes on coastal beaches, dunes and salt marshes to lay their eggs in. They usually lay between 2-3 eggs around April to May.

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