Birder, physiologist, and reluctant lipid biochemist. 🐦🐕🦇🐊
Evansville, IN
Joined February 2018
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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.
Peregrine Falcons hunting at 10,000 feet 🤝 People going to a restaurant at the top of a skyscraper.
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Dice snakes fake their own gory deaths ow.ly/exww50TSvMN | #HappyHalloween #SpookyScience #BiologyLetters
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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Here's what the buzz is about—we're now an affiliate of Bee Campus USA! 🐝
Read more about the distinction and how campus will be utilitized here: bit.ly/40eImOW.
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You’re telling me there’s a whole company named “Panda Express” and when it’s time to actually transport and deliver pandas another company does it
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Telling stories about rare bird sightings isn’t something unique to modern birders. Here’s an incredible account from some Cherokee elders in Georgia, circa 1902, who were still talking about the visit of a vagrant scissor-tailed flycatcher from forty years earlier.
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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So I thought I'd cover some "funny" bird names to explain why they're called what they are.
Starting with tits.
And it's a really simple answer
a "tit" in old english is essentially just something small. So smol birds
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MSU researchers reveal lakes in communities of color receive less water quality monitoring, raising health risks. go.msu.edu/xbC5
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Woah! New research shows how vital biodiversity is to thriving humanity: In US counties where bats declined from white-nose syndrome, insect numbers surged, leading to a 31% rise in pesticide use and subsequently *an 8% increase in infant mortality*! #Biodiversity #Conservation
This must make Christmas Bird Counts so much more fun.
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Was on iNaturalist looking for reference photos for drawing practice and OH my god the picture on this observation, I howled.
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ALT An iNaturalist observation with a tan kitty cat being bitten by an alligator lizard and the cat is yelling
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Turkey vultures successfully fly at high altitude despite the challenge of generating lift in thin air, but how? @RaderStudios & Ty Hedrick discovered that they fly 1m/s faster at 2200m than at sea level to generate sufficient lift to remain aloft
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ALT A turkey vulture (Cathartes aura) flying through the sky. Photo credit: Jonathan Rader.
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Fun fact: When a Cuckoo finds a suitable host nest she removes one of their eggs and lays her own egg in its place. Then, when the Cuckoo chicks hatch they push the host eggs or babies out of the nest, allowing it to eat all food brought by their new mom. 🐣🪺🥞
