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Ducks Unlimited is opposed to the sale of public lands through reconciliation and without due process, and is actively engaged in the defense of America’s public estate. Our current efforts are particularly focused on protecting the National Wildlife Refuge System, the integrity of conservation easements, and the Prairie Potholes that generations of duck hunters have invested in.
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The loss is many and we are all left wondering what impacts it could have on our lands.
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My student Griffin just sent me this profoundly sad photo of a Great Bowerbird bower. The painting on the right depicts what the bower should look like, filled with pebbles, shells, and bones. Nowadays, the birds use what they can most easily find in their surroundings: garbage.
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We are recruiting students for the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology PhD program @UTEP across a wide variety of fields. Multiple funded RA positions tuition remission included for qualified applicants available starting in 2025.
For more information: lnkd.in/gknKrwps
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*Five* LSU faculty positions at any rank: 3 wildlife (1 waterfowl), 1 forestry, 1 aquaculture
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See our new paper on how to determine when you need to collect more data ... surprisingly, more data often has little value for decisions ... our paper unravels the mystery as to why "Value of Information Analyses" often yield surprising results doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14…
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Here's an overview of habitat conditions across North America’s most important waterfowl breeding areas. @DUConserve
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PhD productivity plan:
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I’m so proud to be a part of Team DU. An incredible milestone for an incredible organization. – at Memphis, TN
Milestone Alert: Ducks Unlimited has officially delivered ONE MILLION ACRES of conservation in fiscal year 2024, marking our first-ever million-acre year! Thanks to all of our staff, partners and all our on-the-ground supporters for making this possible. Let's keep leading the way for wetlands conservation! Learn more: bit.ly/3wZSaA2
#DucksUnlimited #DUThanksAMillion #DUConserve
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I'm excited to share that I published a first version of my Statistics 4 Ecologists book with University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing. You can now download a (FREE) pdf version of the book here:
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ATTENTION North American #shorebird(ers)! Thousands of Hudsonian godwits from #Chiloe are in flight over Pacific since last weekend... expected to land wherever TX/OK/KA/NE/SD/ND this weekend. Several hundreds with 3 letter red-flags. We´re looking forward to your resightings 👇
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Are you or someone you know looking for a postdoc? Consider joining my lab at University of Wyoming where we use imaging and computer vision to study animal behavior in complex natural ecosystems. Collective behavior, salmon, migration, machine learning! kogerlab.com
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📣New paper alert 📢
Super Excited to see our new paper out in @MethodsEcolEvol w @FiebergJohn @dwwolfson @eeb_dennis on modelling individual variability using step-selection
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#animalmovement #ecology @BES_Move_SIG @UMNFWCB @UMNews
A small thread...
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If you know @wildturkeydoc, you know this award is well deserved. Mike has truly revolutionized wild turkey science and communication.
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WE HAVE BREAKING SNAIL NEWS! Scientists found a living population of an assumed extinct Big Black rocksnail!
Photo of Big Black rocksnails in the river, courtesy of Calvin Rezac/Mississippi Museum of Natural Science.
ALT A group of snails sit on a bed of rocks in a river.
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We just released our Wetlands Status and Trends report, and our findings show that more than half of wetlands in the lower 48 states are gone, and losses continue. Loss rates have increased by 50 percent since 2009.
📷: Aroostook National Wildlife Refuge
ALT A sunset over a wetland and forest.
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Let's celebrate the 90th anniversary of the enactment of the Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp Act! 🦆✉️
Learn about Delta's connection to this incredible conservation tool by reading about unsung conservation pioneer Frederic Walcott.
deltawaterfowl.org/an-unsung…
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It’s also been detected in and the cause of mortality of a variety of terrestrial wildlife including pumas, martens, fishers, etc. we should prob be more worried and proactive about this 🙃
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The recent avian flu strain has adapted to spread between birds and marine mammals. Researchers in South America found the virus has become “a multi-species outbreak." @ucdavis hubs.li/Q02nHwwv0
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Lawmakers in TN are undermining state & federal wildlife officials by pushing a bill to ban the wildly successful Sandhill crane hunt.
Legal, regulated hunting poses no threat to the conservation of this species.
If you're a TN hunter, time to speak up. p2a.co/q2n6Em2