Candice Gaukel Andrews

Halloween Video: Barn Owls, Hunters in the Night

With their piercing stares, heads that turn almost 360 degrees and nocturnal lives, owls have become a universal symbol for spookiness. A hoot is often the...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Watch as a Pelican in Africa Learns to Fly Again

It can be hard to be alone, hurt and abandoned by your own kind. How are you supposed to learn what you need to know in order to survive? Luckily, for one...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Crows Are as Intelligent as a Seven-Year-Old Child

We humans seem to have a penchant for studying wildlife. We tag them with satellite transmitters, outfit them with radio collars, spy on them with trail...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Videos: The Penguin Paths of New Zealand

Wildlife overpasses save the lives of hundreds of animals—such as deer, elk and pronghorn—every year. But if an overpass isn’t available and you’re a creature...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Audio Tale: Wolf Encounter in Glacier Bay National Park

One summer morning, while camping on an island far off the beaten path in Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska, naturalist Richard Nelson and a friend set off...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Esteeming Elephants: September 22 Is National Elephant Appreciation Day

More than 1,500 “national” days have been declared, according to the National Day Calendar. For example, January 2 is National Cream Puff Day. March 4 is...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Videos: The Tiny House Trend, Hummingbird-Style

The tiny house movement—which advocates living simply in small homes—may be a current trend for humans, but hummingbirds have been experts at the practice for...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

More Animals and More Biodiversity Mean More CO2 Storing

Forests are important in our warming world. As we burn fossil fuels—such as coal, gas and oil—and cut down and burn forests for agricultural fields, the...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

The Largest Migration on Earth Is Vertical

Every night on Earth, a great migration takes place. It’s bigger than the ones of caribou, wildebeest or zebras on land or Arctic terns in the air. But while...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: The New Zealand Wilds

New Zealand has always seemed to me to have a wild heart. Despite all of its domestic sheep and introduced birds and plants from Europe, it is still...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Will You Miss the Animals You Never Knew?

Because of ongoing and potential loss of their sea ice habitat resulting from climate change, polar bears were listed as a threatened species in the United...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Life in the Cold—Photographing Arctic Animals

Watch as one wildlife photographer confronts the cold across hundreds of miles to create captivating stills and video of Arctic wildlife!

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

“The Lorax”: Prophetic Warning or Poor Forest Management?

“Way back in the days when the grass was still green and the pond was still wet and the clouds were still clean … ." So starts the tale the “Once-ler” tells...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Videos: Summer Nights with In-Sync Fireflies

Fireflies (also known as “lightning bugs” in some parts of the country) were one of the bonuses I got when, several years ago, I traded my house in the city...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Halfway into the Year of the Bird, and Still in Trouble

We’re more than halfway into 2018, the Year of the Bird. When I wrote about this banner year back in December 2017, I wondered if by marking the 100th...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Our Best Public Land Defenders Have Feathers, Fins or Fur

Saving natural and wild areas from development and for the use of people like you and me is usually thought to be thanks to endeavors such as national park...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Cuteness Overload: A Scotland Puffins Photo Essay

Every time I see a puffin, the same thought comes to mind: They’re not real, right? They’re too impossibly cute. For me and for everyone else on the planet, I...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Identifying Birds—and Avoiding Awkward Captions

When I first picked up a camera several years ago, birds were some of my first wildlife subjects. They were readily available in my backyard and local gardens...

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