21 targets · 5 carrying a caution · 1 never recorded here
The conservation-target species that were searched for in the occurrence record, from the eagle you will certainly see to the plover you should not approach.
The number on each card is how many public observation records exist for the archipelago. It is not an abundance and not a probability of seeing one: a record means somebody reported the species and filed it publicly, so conspicuous animals and well-watched places both score high — and a zero can mean the animal is absent, or only that nobody looked.
5 of these carry a caution. Those species are protected, rare or colonial nesters: photograph from distance with a long lens, or not at all. A failed nest is not worth a frame.
The most-reported animal in the whole archipelago record. Watch the shoreline treeline and the harbor - eagles perch where they can see water.
Protected. Nests are not to be approached, though the birds themselves are the easiest big raptor here to photograph.
967 observation records·GBIF public human observations, retrieved by retrieve_gbif_archipelago_observations.py
872 records, and the sound is the giveaway before the bird is. Inland lakes at dawn, flat calm, from a kayak at water level.
872 observation records·GBIF public human observations, retrieved by retrieve_gbif_archipelago_observations.py
Colonial nester. Same rule as Caspian tern.
606 observation records·GBIF public human observations, retrieved by retrieve_gbif_archipelago_observations.py
Colonial nester on the refuge islands. Approaching a colony flushes the whole thing; shoot from a hull at distance.
572 observation records·GBIF public human observations, retrieved by retrieve_gbif_archipelago_observations.py
Big, slow, and photogenic in low side light on a two-track.
484 observation records·GBIF public human observations, retrieved by retrieve_gbif_archipelago_observations.py
319 records. A small fast falcon that hunts the open edges - airstrip margins, dune grass, cut-over ground.
319 observation records·GBIF public human observations, retrieved by retrieve_gbif_archipelago_observations.py
It will explode out of the leaf litter a metre from your boot and you will not get the shot. Walk two-tracks slowly with the camera already up.
304 observation records·GBIF public human observations, retrieved by retrieve_gbif_archipelago_observations.py
223 observation records·GBIF public human observations, retrieved by retrieve_gbif_archipelago_observations.py
Open ground with perches - fence lines, the golf course edges, the airport margins.
208 observation records·GBIF public human observations, retrieved by retrieve_gbif_archipelago_observations.py
A marsh bird that freezes and points its bill straight up and becomes reeds. Miller's Marsh, patiently.
139 observation records·GBIF public human observations, retrieved by retrieve_gbif_archipelago_observations.py
Displays at dusk over open ground in spring. The archive holds a whole High Island woodcock-habitat crosswalk.
106 observation records·GBIF public human observations, retrieved by retrieve_gbif_archipelago_observations.py
104 observation records·GBIF public human observations, retrieved by retrieve_gbif_archipelago_observations.py
56 observation records·GBIF public human observations, retrieved by retrieve_gbif_archipelago_observations.py
46 observation records·GBIF public human observations, retrieved by retrieve_gbif_archipelago_observations.py
20 observation records·GBIF public human observations, retrieved by retrieve_gbif_archipelago_observations.py
Federally protected. The LTBB Natural Resource Department posts a 15 April - 15 August closure on the High Island spit. Photograph from well back, with a long lens, or not at all.
18 observation records·GBIF public human observations, retrieved by retrieve_gbif_archipelago_observations.py
Rare here - 11 records. Do not approach a nest site.
11 observation records·GBIF public human observations, retrieved by retrieve_gbif_archipelago_observations.py
6 observation records·GBIF public human observations, retrieved by retrieve_gbif_archipelago_observations.py
2 observation records·GBIF public human observations, retrieved by retrieve_gbif_archipelago_observations.py
2 observation records·GBIF public human observations, retrieved by retrieve_gbif_archipelago_observations.py
no observation records retrieved·queried in the GBIF retrieval and returned nothing - the species is documented for the region, not confirmed here
