About Aerial Wildlife Surveys

About Aerial Wildlife Surveys - Bruce Conant banking N754 over wetland during aerial waterfowl survey. Photo USFWS
About Aerial Wildlife Surveys - Illustration of aerial transect corridor. Photo Tim Bowman
About Aerial Wildlife Surveys - Aerial view of snow geese and ducks. Photo Tim Bowman
Aerial perspective during waterfowl survey, Alaska. Video: Tim Bowman

Video: Waterfowl Survey 50 Years and Counting (2005; a celebration of the most expansive wildlife survey in the world, the North American Waterfowl Breeding and Habitat Survey)

Video: Americas Duck Chasers (about the pilots/biologists who conduct the North American Waterfowl Breeding and Habitat Survey)

About Aerial Waterfowl Surveys - Counting CAGOs
About Aerial Waterfowl Surveys - Identification photo NOPI
Conducting a Bald Eagle survey along the Alaska Peninsula in N754. Photo: USFWS
Mixed dabbling ducks and Snow Geese. Photo: Tim Bowman
Tim Bowman records observations of waterfowl during a survey in Alaska. Photo: Tim Bowman
Harlequin Ducks in flight. Photo: Tim Bowman

Career Opportunities for Pilot-biologists

Mission Unstoppable
Becoming a USFWS pilot biologist
Nate Olson interview

Books authored by N754 pilots

Attending Alaska’s Birds – A Wildlife Pilot’s Story by James G. King, Trafford Publishing

Above and Beyond – Life of an Alaskan Aviator and Voyager by John I. Hodges, Wild Meadow Publishing Co