Gallery

An Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula arctica) fledgling awaits release after becoming stranded, captured, and spending the night in a safe spot.

A nice moment shared between Taylor and a puffin fledgling, just before release.

A puffin fledgling inside an experiment apparatus, seemingly feeling very relaxed.

Taylor puts a particularly docile Leach's storm-petrel (Hydrobates leucorhous) into one of her experiment apparatuses.

Two stranded Leach's storm-petrels hide under a fish bin at a fish processing plant. They were safely captured and released.

A bin full of stranded Leach's storm-petrels, as seen the morning after they were captured.

Taylor runs a behavioural experiment with Leach's storm-petrels in a shed on the wharf of a fish processing plant in Newfoundland.

An Atlantic Puffin fledgling inside a behavioural experiment apparatus.

Taylor releases a puffin fledgling on the Atlantic Ocean near Bay Bulls, Newfoundland.

An Arctic Fox (Vulpes lagopus) depredates an artificial nest in Churchill, MB.

Pipped Short-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus griseus) eggs in a nest in Churchill, MB.

A Parasitic Jaeger (Stercorarius parasiticus), a major shorebird egg predator, lands at an artificial nest in Churchill, MB.

Sandhill Cranes (Antigone canadensis) are common around Churchill in summer, but are rarely observed depredating shorebird nests.

Taylor checks the status of a Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus) nest on the sub-Arctic tundra near Churchill.

Tiny Tags can be used to monitor incubation and predation events at nests, like this one belonging to a pair of Dunlin (Calidris alpina), by measuring temperature at the egg level.