Birder, physiologist, and reluctant lipid biochemist. 🐦🐕🦇🐊
Evansville, IN
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Skin lipids in desert bats suggest wing and tail membranes are important in evaporative cooling!
Excited about this new paper out in @CompBiochPhys in collaboration with @agustimg @EEOB_OSU @osumansfield and @mddeBGU!
🧵Below:
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The desire I now have to develop a literal Empidonax multiple choice question the next time I teach Ornithology.
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Peregrine Falcons hunting at 10,000 feet 🤝 People going to a restaurant at the top of a skyscraper.
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Soon, every individual Herring Gull will be its own species, and gulls will surpass beetles as the most species-rich taxon.
Sneak peak for our upcoming eBird/Clements Taxonomy update... 😉
The Herring Gull is going to split into four species, leading to the BIGGEST taxonomic revision in eBird history!!
Learn more what to expect on 22 October by visiting our blog!
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Seriously, cats can decimate bird populations. Please keep your pet cats indoors. They can join you on the couch while you watch your favorite team, whether their mascot is a bird, a cat, or whatever a Hoosier is.
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This must make Christmas Bird Counts so much more fun.
Many Americans are baffled by "Right to Roam."
It's a very different approach to the bundle of rights associated with landownership.
In the green countries you can basically walk around anywhere other than someone's yard.
Farms and woods are "owned" but not "private."
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Common and Hoary Redpolls lumped. A good decision, but I hate losing a bird off my life list!
A “wrenaissance” for House Wrens; species and genus splits for Barn Owls and Plovers; and lumping of Redpolls included in 2024 Check-list changes americanornithology.org/65th…
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Can’t wait for the next “Bring It On” sequel to feature Inca Doves.
Fun #ornithology fact: Inca Doves perform a behavior called “pyramid roosting" in which they sit on top of each other to keep warm.
More information in this paper: jstor.org/stable/1368776
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I wish I were as confident identifying gulls as they are in themselves.
Approaching this week with the supreme confidence of a gull riding a swan.
ALT A gull standing confidently, feet apart, on the back of a mute swan who seems placidly accepting of the situation. They are surrounded by other gulls, swans and ducks
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An excerpt from The Birds Audubon Missed by @KennKaufman. I will be calling the Bay-Breasted Warbler the Little Chocolate-breasted Titmouse from now on.
ALT An image from a book explaining that William Bartram first named the Bay-breasted Warbler the “Little Chocolate-breasted Titmouse” before it was given its current English name by Alexander Wilson in 1810.
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Happy World Croc Day! A reminder that comparing crocodilians and birds can help us predict anatomical and physiological traits in dinosaurs and pterosaurs (Like their skin composition)!
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Honestly, I would watch this.
Embarrassed David Attenborough Realizes He Spent 10 Minutes Describing Stillness Of Duck Decoy bit.ly/3VycTEG
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The first half of #BRIDGERTON has been a great watch, but it’s so sad to know that Lord Debling ultimately failed in his quest to save the Great Auk from extinction.
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One thing that very few discussions of grade inflation (Including this one) seem to consider is that there are increasingly better resources for effective teaching. Sometimes, grades go up because students are actually learning better!
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It warms my heart to read that even AI binoculars have trouble identifying gulls.
Review: Swarovski Optik AX Visio AI-supported binoculars
Marking a huge leap forward in the integration of optics with technology, Mike Alibone lifts the hood on the world’s first 'smart' binoculars: bit.ly/3QrJl8I
