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Wild Alaskan Grizzly Bears, photographed by Max Goldberg

Grizzly Bears Catching Clams in Alaska

September 16, 2015April 20, 2021 Science ConnectedAlaska, grizzly bears, wildlife photography

This is a continuation of our Photographer’s Adventures in Alaska series. Previously from wildlife photographer Max Goldberg: Adventures with Grizzly Bears and Grazing Grizzly Bears By Max Goldberg After some much needed rest, my group of photographers got back into the dinghy, and headed back towards shore. At this point, the tide had gone out and there were approximately 200 yards of beach that we had never seen before. We jumped out of the dinghy, and started to walk up the beach. Once we put all our gear down, and set up our bucket…

Zoology

Photographer in Alaska: Grazing Grizzly Bears

August 18, 2015April 20, 2021 Science ConnectedAlaska, animals, bears, grizzly bears, wild alaska, wildlife photography

Did you know that grizzlies eat grass? Grazing Grizzly Bears is the second installment of wildlife photographer Max Goldberg’s latest Alaskan Adventure. By Max Goldberg After spending a few days at Brooks Lodge, my father and I went back to Anchorage, Alaska, and took three flights to our next destination: the Natural Habitat Ursus. The Ursus is an old crab-fishing boat converted into a floating home-from-home, and our base for the next week. Every morning, we would eat breakfast, put on our waders, get into a skiff, and go to…

Science and Art Zoology

Photographer’s Adventures with Grizzly Bears

July 29, 2015April 20, 2021 Science ConnectedAlaska, bears, natural habitat, nature photography, wildlife photography

Up and coming wildlife photographer Max Goldberg describes his visit to Katmai National Park in Alaska to photograph grizzly bears. Writing and Photography by Max Goldberg After an eight-hour plane ride from Chicago, and a day to get over the jet lag, the first stop for my father and I on our week-and-a-half trip to Alaska was Brooks Lodge. Brooks Lodge is a camp in the heart of the Katmai National Park, and it is famous for two things: fishing and bears. Upon getting off the float plane that got…

Male and female European green woodpeckers (Steven Spence)

Environment Zoology

Yaffle: Meet the European Green Woodpecker

April 13, 2015April 28, 2022 Science Connectedbiology, birds, nature photography, wildlife photography, woodpecker

By Steven Spence “Yaffle” was one of the English folk names given to the European green woodpecker (German Grünspecht; Latin Picus viridis) due to its distinctive, laughing call. The European green woodpecker spends most of its time foraging on the ground instead of pecking holes in trees as most other woodpecker species do. The bird primarily eats ants because its tongue is well adapted for this, being 10cm long and sticky (see this short video for a view of the bird’s impressive tongue). This woodpecker’s tongue is so long, in…