Wildlife Biologist and Applied Ecologist. Core Faculty at Antioch University New England. Research Affiliate at UMass Amherst.
Joined May 2020
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Mike Akresh, Ph.D. retweeted
O2/02 Exploring the misty mountains of St. Vincent 🇻🇨, home to the rare Whistling Warbler. After the 2021 La Soufrière eruptions 🌋, a research team began studying how the eruptions impacted this bird & others. Two years later, this is what they found: bit.ly/Whistling-Warbler-Fie…
Mike Akresh, Ph.D. retweeted
01/02 Exploring the misty mountains of St. Vincent 🇻🇨, home to the rare Whistling Warbler. After the 2021 La Soufrière eruptions 🌋, a research team began studying how the eruptions impacted this bird & others. Two years later, this is what they found: bit.ly/Whistling-Warbler-Fie…
Mike Akresh, Ph.D. retweeted
If you’re interested in research about avian reproduction and nest success, you cannot miss this paper by @MikeAkresh et. al.
Read it for free on the JFO website: journal.afonet.org/vol95/iss…
#JournalofFieldOrnithology #birdnest #nestling #nestpredation #ornithology
Mike Akresh, Ph.D. retweeted
The transboundary Grenadines were hit by Hurricane Beryl with such ferocity that these islands experienced unparalleled destruction. Today Orisha Joseph of @sus_gren recounts her experience.
Read the blog & find out how to support recovery efforts
👉🏽 bit.ly/Support-Union-Island
Mike Akresh, Ph.D. retweeted
02/02 Have YOU🫵🏾 joined a team for #GlobalBigDay yet??givebutter.com/BCGBD2024
Birders throughout the Caribbean will be heading to their favorite birding spots to watch #birds for #conservation! Swipe for national teams 🙌🏽 or use link to create your own team🤩
@CornellBirds
Mike Akresh, Ph.D. retweeted
The wait is finally over!🎉
In collaboration with @grupojaragua we're delighted to announce that registration for the BirdsCaribbean 24th International #Conference is OPEN! Get more info & #register at🦩bit.ly/BCDR24-Registration
📹️: Cúa Conservation Agency
#BirdsCarib2024DR
Mike Akresh, Ph.D. retweeted
2nd ad posted!
I am SUPER excited to share this *new* @VTEcostudies #CommunityScience Postdoc Fellowship!
It is a 1-2 year funded, open-topic postdoc opportunity to work with VCE scientists on large, community-sourced datasets. See the ad here!
vtecostudies.org/wp-content/…
Keep an eye on our @VTEcostudies employment page folks! In the next few weeks we'll have job ads posted for a lead bird bander, seasonal internships, and an open-topic postdoc opportunity!! 👀🤩👀
vtecostudies.org/about-us/em…
#ornithology #entomology #ecology #montanebirds
Mike Akresh, Ph.D. retweeted
Karan Odom’s lab at University of the Pacific is seeking Master's students interested in studying the hormonal and genetic regulation of female song and evolutionary drivers of sexual dimorphism in birdsong. See karanodom.com for more information!
Mike Akresh, Ph.D. retweeted
See our recent blog post about gall identifiers here: inaturalist.org/blog/83909-i…
Mike Akresh, Ph.D. retweeted
Naturalist hike.
birdandmoon.com/comic/natura…
ALT A four-panel comic. In panel 1, Two people are standing in a nature setting, wearing backpacks, ready for a hike. The first person says to the second: I've never hiked with a naturalist before! I'm excited. I hope I brought enough water. Person 2 replies: I'm sure you did. Let's go! In panel 2, there's a collage of things they've seen, and Person 2 explains: Look, a red eft! It's a teenaged form of the Eastern Newt. Ooh, wintergreen! Wanna smell it? I hear a Chestnut-sided warbler. Glacial till. Rubble of the last ice age! Panel 3 is a similar collage: This forest seems early successional. Aw, a leafcutter bee with a piece of leaf! Wow, deer poop! Wow, fungi growing out of the deer poop!! And the first person says Okay, but... In panel 4, the two people are in the same scene but they've moved forward a tiny bit. The first person, frowning, says: It's been an hour and we've walked three feet. Person 2, fist-pumping: Three amazing feet!
Mike Akresh, Ph.D. retweeted
Record bird songs to WIN BIG! 💥
You’re invited to participate in the first-ever ✨Sound Recording Challenge ✨ for Latin America & the #Caribbean! ℹ️bit.ly/SRC-23
The #challenge runs until 🗓️ August 31st!
🏆️: SOUND RECORDING KIT 🎶
@Team_eBird @EPICislands
Mike Akresh, Ph.D. retweeted
Our wildland firefighters literally fight fire with fire in the form of "prescribed fire" -commonly known as a "controlled burn". By burning up dried branches, needles, leaves & debris in a controlled way, it reduces the risk of an accidental wildfire raging out of control.
Mike Akresh, Ph.D. retweeted
Today we’re giving you 5️⃣ reasons to celebrate 🎉 —the Caribbean has five new #endemic bird species! Learn more about these ‘Caribbean to the bone’ #birds and what it means for some lucky #islands 🏝️ and the region. bit.ly/NewCaribEndemics
@loopnewscarib @Petchary @AmOrnith
Mike Akresh, Ph.D. retweeted
Another #capacitybuilding #workshop for the books ✅! Check out our new blog post on our Landbird Monitoring Training Workshop held in St Vincent 🇻🇨 (St Vincent and the Grenadines)! bit.ly/SVGMonitoringWorkshop
#CaribLandbirdMonitoring #ChangingLivesSavingBirds
Mike Akresh, Ph.D. retweeted
Nestled near the top of a sugar maple tree was a magpie nest that resembled a cyberpunk porcupine, with thin metal rods sticking out in every direction. “I couldn’t believe my eyes,” a biologist said. “These are birds making a nest with anti-bird spikes.” nyti.ms/3NIRS4I
Mike Akresh, Ph.D. retweeted
EXCITING NEWS! #MassWildlife staff recently discovered a frosted elfin caterpillar at Montague Plains WMA. Along with other promising findings, this is further evidence that restoration at this site benefits a host of common and rare species.
mass.gov/news/rare-caterpill…
ALT Frosted elfin butterfly resting on branch.
Mike Akresh, Ph.D. retweeted
Yet another reason to thin your forests! Not only will you improve overall #foresthealth, but you'll also (potentially) improve human health! Nice study by the folks at @RutgersU who found fewer ticks in thinned pine stands: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Mike Akresh, Ph.D. retweeted
Join our Natural Heritage and Endangered Species Program as their GIS manager! The person in this position will be based in #MAssWildlife's Westborough office.
massanf.taleo.net/careersect…
ALT View of lake with blue sky and puffy white clouds.
Mike Akresh, Ph.D. retweeted
❗️It’s NOT too late to join a team for #GlobalBigDay2023 ❗️
Join one of the 1️⃣6️⃣ teams on our Givebutter page & you could be one of five lucky #birders to win a prize! 🤩
#BirdsCaribbean #GlobalBigDayBirdsCarib #BandingTogetherForCaribbeanBirds #CaribLandbirdMonitoring
Mike Akresh, Ph.D. retweeted
One focus of my research at @vtecostudies is investigating effects of global change on species interactions, & variation over space & time.
We're investing how @inaturalist can be used to fill data gaps! If you 💚#caterpillars, contribute to our project! inaturalist.org/projects/cat…
