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“With GPS you can know your location without looking out the window, he had said. You can know your location without knowing your location. You can know things without knowing anything.” - Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
As a fed, can confirm all of this, and will reiterate that we need to be very clear about the challenges. But pendulums swing back and forth and people continue to retire and will need to be replaced, and honestly we need the energy, expertise, and optimism that young people bring to the field.
Respectfully disagree. We do have some big wins to hang our hats on, and regardless I think we need to encourage young people to enter our field. We just need to be honest about the costs, both financial and otherwise, of pursuing a career in our field.
I'm hiring a postdoc to work with myself, Dr Jim Lyons and the entire NOAA Firebird team on the adaptive management part of our larger project focused on the impacts of prescribed fire on Gulf Coast wetlands
Accepting applications until Feb 15th
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One of the largest wildlife crossing projects in North America has finished in one year and under budget in Colorado.
Brought in the New Year with birds like this Pyrrhuloxia at Big Bend National Park. #birds
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This fellow is an endemic subspecies of the common ground dove, found only on the unpopulated island of Mona, Puerto Rico. Handsome! #birds
Mangrove cuckoo
Lot of great bird photography on here if you know where to look!
A least weasel. It fits in the palm of the hand.
If you’re wondering what a “least weasel” is, they absolutely live up to the name. This is the least amount of animal you can have that can still meet the bar for “is weasel”
Foraging gallinule
This young gallinule balanced like a gymnast on a slender branch to dine on its little fruits. #birds
I believe that these numbers only reflect losses in competitive areas that include unionized employees. Most competitive areas do not, and so actual overall force reductions will be substantially greater than what you have detailed.
Wood storks, spoonbills, ibis, egrets, and herons sharing a small and presumably fish-packed wetland at Shired Island, Florida today. #birds
Working on it.
Warblers are free therapy. Have a great weekend.
Testing out the new camera with a Sandhill Crane that could not be bothered to care that I was walking by. #birds
Blue-gray gnatcatcher focusing on what is important. #birds #backyardnature #feedclense #perspective
Gulf fritillary(?) on a slender blazing star, one of the native plants that has taken well to our dry, nutrient-poor soil (aka sand). #butterflies #flowers
We’ve planted quite a few native plants, only some of which thrive and reproduce on their own. Quite a bit of weeding takes place as well.
It is a Yellow Warbler. They do indeed occur in New England in the summer - we saw one in Maine in July.
This little ball of fire showed up in our yard today. Fall migration is really picking up. #birds #cleanseyourfeed
On a recent trip to Maine this bay-breasted warbler casually fed its recent fledgling with us no more than five feet away. It’s slightly out of focus bc I dropped our camera(!!!) but it will always be a wonderful memory. #birds #baxterstatepark
Lonesome Dove. The great American Novel, IMHO.
Good morning to you, too! #birds
I never feel the need to see a hermit thrush to appreciate it. #birds #acadianationalpark
From a sandhill to a blueberry farm to a cattle pasture to a development, back to a sandhill (at least a little bit). Apologies for the nonnative species at the end. #wildflowers #flowersofbluesky
ad to come, but I'm looking for an M.S. student to study the conservation genomics of swift foxes on the American Prairie Reserve in Montana beginning 9/1. this is a collaboration w/ Smithsonian & Justine Becker; strong candidates will have prior genomics experience and be up for remote fieldwork
This very trusting(!) ruffed grouse walked right up to us - this is an uncropped iPhone photo taken by my wife. #birds #baxterstatepark #maine
If i have to narrow it down to one I’d say the Loggerheadshrikemississippikiteswallowtailedkiteeasternkingbird
Where in the world is Jojo Rabbit?
For those in need of a smile, a reminder that one 19th-century name for a penguin was ‘arsefoot’.
