Michael (Mike) C. Mahoney

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New article alert 🚨 for the #FireEcology Journal! "A post-fire reforestation assessment and prioritization tool for the Western United States" #SNFECO🔥
Read it here: https://ow.ly/mtot50XJWmr

Lessons from the Caldor Fire’s Christmas Valley ‘Miracle’ The Lake Tahoe communities of Christmas Valley and Meyers were spared during 2021's Caldor Fire. A UC Davis study reveals which pre-fire fuel treatments worked best to bring about the Christmas Valley...

Some called it the "Christmas Valley miracle" when that Tahoe community and Meyers were spared during 2021's Caldor Fire. A @ucdavis.bsky.social study reveals which pre-fire treatments worked best to ⬇️ the fire damage. Also: Unburned fuel piles are a big problem. www.ucdavis.edu/climate/news...

グリーン系で描いたキクイタダキ2羽の平面イラスト。 Flat illustration of two Goldcrests painted in green tones.

日本の一般的カラ類混群メンツ：非シジュウカラ科
・キクイタダキ科
（ほかにもまだいるかな？）

キクイタダキ
Goldcrest / Regulus regulus
エナガより小さいこのこたちも、カラの混群に混ざっていることがあります。
ヒガラと似たようなところでチョコチョコ。

Mixed flocks of tit birds in Japan: non-tit birds

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New study finds Pacific Northwest birds are becoming more common in the mountains as the climate warms A new study provides a clear picture of how birds are responding to climate change in the mountains near Vancouver.

Your Friday #ornithology read: A snapshot of how birds populations in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest are responding to climate change.

Three Sandhill Cranes descending in flight with a sunset hue background.

I had a lovely time at Staten Island this weekend watching the Sandhill Cranes return to their overnight roost. Winter birding in the Central Valley is magical!

It’s awesome to read about the field research my advisor, lab mates, and I conducted this summer in California’s high Sierra. It’s giving me motivation as I wrap up proposals to fund my 🤞🏻 field research on Clark’s Nutcrackers!

Acorn Woodpecker?

Warning. ⚠️ If you are writing an NSF GRFP, new this year, you need official transcripts to apply. Beware. They will not review applications without official transcripts. ‼️

old-timey hand-drawn diagram from the linked paper. It shows a bird's head and neck muscles. Under the bird's beak hangs a pouch of muscles. In the top diagram, A, the pouch is not full of food. Below that, in B, shows the pouch expanded with food.

According to @corvidresearch.bsky.social on a reddit post about it from years ago, they have a expandable sublingual pouch to hold food. I can't find a jay diagram, but here's one from a Clark's Nutcracker paper, guessing it's similar: digitalcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcont...

🔥🐦🌎🧪Can fire boost bird populations!? A new study found that population density of some #bird species grew rapidly in burned areas. While high-intensity megafires threaten birds, low to moderate intensity #prescribedburns may have benefits. Learn more: shorturl.at/coEC6 #GoodFire #FireEcology

A photo of two Black-necked Stilts by Michelle MacKenzie. The bird in the foreground is a juvenile and the background bird is an adult.

🪶 IBP is proud to be a Founding Partner of California Bird Atlas (@californiabirdatlas) — a new nonprofit launching the first-ever statewide effort to map CA's breeding birds. (1/2)

I am hoping to use this account as a platform to share my research with a wider audience, and I am
hoping to connect with others from a variety of disciplines. Do you have advice for a fresh grad student? I’d love to hear it!

Pics 1 + 3 are from my field work this summer censusing high elevation trees with new lab. Pic 2 is a closeup of an Anna’s Hummingbird - one of the last birds I banded at @pointblue.bsky.social where I worked for several yrs. Pic 4 is of a prescribed burn I was a part of in Sonoma County, CA

The writer of the post, laying on the ground behind a small Jeffrey Pine Seedling growing from rocky soil.

An upclose photo of a female Anna’s Hummingbird face.

A Mountain View with pink skies and tents in the foreground.

Time for an intro! Hi everyone, my name is Mike, and I recently started grad school in the Safford Lab at UC Davis where I’ll be working towards a PhD in the Grad Group in Ecology researching avian ecology for improved conservation efforts and ecosystem management, primarily in forested systems.

New article alert 🚨 for the #FireEcology Journal! By Chris Ray, Rodney B. Siegel, Robert L. Wilkerson, Lynn Schofield, Morgan W. Tingley, Sonia Aronson, Sylvia Haultain, Sarah Stock, and Kent van Wagtendonk #SNFECO 🔥
Read it here: ow.ly/RFjr50XazhK

New paper out today led by Prof. @dskarp.bsky.social

Marketing birds: The traits birdwatching tourism companies highlight in Costa Rican tour itineraries

Cover of the October 2025 issue of Ecosphere

Alpine lakes among the dramatic peaks of Kings Canyon Nat'l Park grace Ecosphere's October cover. New research shows how introduced trout have impacts that ripple through the food web and reshape bird communities

Browse the full #OpenAccess issue: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/21508925...

🌊🦑🦉Check it out! Our Farallon Islands-inspired apparel collaboration with #BirdCollective is here! Rock threads featuring Farallones favorites like the #CommonMurre, #RhinocerosAuklet, #TuftedPuffin, & more! Shop: shorturl.at/mhIZQ #seabirds #marinelife