The Great Indian Hornbill is such an important creature in the ecosystem. It can live for up to 70 years, and everything it does in its life has a purpose.

Great Indian Hornbills have a strong sense of family. Once they choose a partner, they'll stay with that partner for the rest of their lives. Wherever one hornbill goes, the other follows. They always stay together, and if you see one, you're sure to see its mate not far away.

They also rely on each other. Once the female finds a spot to lay her eggs, she goes inside a tree, and the male seals up the nest with mud, leaving only a small hole. This helps hide the nest from predators. Every day, the male brings 200 to 300 fruits to the nest and feeds them to his mate. This is why if one hornbill dies, an entire family is at risk.

Sometimes, it’s the tiniest creatures that make the biggest difference. We often think power comes from size or strength, but in nature, that's not always true. One of the smallest insects on Earth—one we usually ignore or even fear—is actually keeping our entire world alive. I’m talking about bees, the ones who uphold our ecosystem.

Spring is in the air! The birds are chirping, the flowers are blooming, the bees are buzzing. The Hummingbirds are coming back! Every spring, we see these tiny birds zooming around our yards, collecting nectar and pollinating the flowers. But why are Hummingbirds important to our ecosystem? In this blog, we will talk about Hummingbirds and how they uphold the ecosystem.

The next day, still riding the high of our incredible owl sightings, I couldn’t stop thinking about one feathered friend—the elusive Snowy Owl. We had already seen three of the four legendary owls of the bog: the Great Gray Owl, the Northern Hawk-Owl, and the tiny but unforgettable Boreal Owl. Only one remained.

Determined, I asked my mom if I could borrow her phone and look into eBird, scanning recent sightings with hopeful anticipation. I held my breath as I clicked through the reports—and then, there it was. A Snowy Owl had been spotted… not in the bog, but two hours away, across Lake Superior, in Wisconsin. Two hours was a long drive and it had been spotted weeks ago. It was quite the dilemma - two hours drive and coming in empty handed. Do we try it?

Did you know that there are 19 different types of owls in North America? And I have seen eleven of them. Of those 11, six were on a trip to the adventurous winter land Sax - Zim Bog, the “Undiscovered Country” in Meadowlands, Minneapolis.

Many photographers talk a lot about their trips and photographs they take. But not many people talk about the thing that gets them their photo; a camera. In this article, we are going to explore the types of cameras, their differences, and the pros and cons of each - Nikon D90 and Sony Alpha A1.