The Common Loon swims underwater to catch fish, propelling itself with its feet. It swallows most of its prey underwater. The loon has sharp, rearward-pointing projections on the roof of its mouth and tongue that help it keep a firm hold on slippery fish. Migrating Common Loons occasionally...

A screen shot of inside the Barn Owl nest during the daylight glare into the nest on Monday, July 28th. http://watch.birds.cornell.edu/nestcams/camera/view?cameraID=C100016 - The first of seven eggs hatched on July 20th and there's still one or two still to hatch as at this day the 28th. Marked...

Watch and hear the egg cracking - Truly Incredible! A Cardinal hatching, caught on video June 2008 by Doug Mitchell - http://www.mitchgroup.com/2008/06/cardinal-hatchi.html "Having grown up in Southern California, unless we went to the mountains camping, our exposure to "nature" was pretty...