Issue 06

When
Icarus
Didn’t
Fall

For this study, Myles Menz uses a cloth to capture a death’s-head hawkmoth at the Col de Bretolet, an alpine pass at an altitude of over a mile, providing evidence of long-distance migration at high elevations.

↑ For this study, Myles Menz uses a cloth to capture a death’s-head hawkmoth at the Col de Bretolet, an alpine pass at an altitude of over a mile, providing evidence of long-distance migration at high elevations.

Tracking Winged Animals on the Fly

Words by Carla Avolio and Christian Ziegler; Images by Christian/Max Planck Institute for Animal Behavior

In life, the simplest questions are usually the hardest to answer. Consider these questions: Where do wild animals go? Where do they die and where do they give birth? What do they need to survive? And the trickiest question of them all is how can scientists find answers?

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Wild Eye Magazine Cover: Issue 06, January 2026

Issue 06

Contents

  1. Nature's Synchrony of Lights in the Great Smoky Mountains
  2. Tracking Winged Animals on the Fly
  3. How I Photographed Yılkı Horses of Cappadocia
  4. How Photographers Impact Conservation Campaigns
  5. Protecting What Can Still Be Saved
  6. Interview with Thomas D. Mangelsen on Framing Nature’s Portrait
  7. Taking Responsibility When Danger Strikes
  8. Organic Underwater Reflections with Kelp
  9. The March Return of Sandhill Cranes
  10. The Final Raccooning