Jessica L Graham

physiological and behavioral ecologist | Assistant Professor | Black Hills State University| she/her/hers

[Kim Rosvall @rosvall_lab]

Important new paper from my friend @snappysparrowmh

[Jessica L Graham @DrJessGraham]

Banded my 100th junco of 2022 today!! 🐦

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@juncostink Did said paper have comments from 3 reviewers and 2 editors by chance?

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We. Have. EGGS!!!!! FINALLY!!

[Jessica L Graham @DrJessGraham]

It's June 2 and this morning at my field site it was 29F with frost on the ground. We saw our first female with nest material today!

In 2016, we had eggs May 10 and nestlings late May. My brain is struggling to comprehend this field season! 🤯

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Today I caught a male that we banded on May 4, 2016! He was already an adult (after 1st year) in 2016, so that's an 8+ year old junco!

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Had my site marker torn down and one of my traps stolen today while out in the field. I hate people.

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And of course, some binoculars to look at pictures of birds taped to the wall across the room!

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Excited to be talking about ornithology at the Women in Science conference at BHSU today! I've never set up a mist net in a classroom before, but my Audubon Stellars Jay is ready to show 7th and 8th graders from SD and WY how they work!

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I additionally have a Mallard to demonstrate how potter traps work!

[Jessica L Graham @DrJessGraham]

First day of 2022 field work!

Caught 6 juncos and about 12 chipmunks.

Started training 2 students who said they had a blast!

Oh, and it snowed. Overall, good start to the season!

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@_Marc_Gilles So cool! I would like to do some olfactory testing in the field. Would you mind sharing more information on how you built the maze?

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Visited my field site for the first time since 2016! Still snow on the ground, and deep mud on the roads, but juncos and junco song everywhere!! 🥰

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[Jessica L Graham @DrJessGraham]

Tested out some prototype potter traps this afternoon from @Trucatchtraps and actually caught myself a very handsome male junco! ❤️

(... and 3 house sparrows)

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It's kind of fun using slides from my dissertation in my lectures!

Hooray for annual cycles in birds! 🐦

[Jessica L Graham @DrJessGraham]

I had a raptor center come give a presentation for my ornithology students last week. This week one of the students came up and thanked me for having them come because she's decided to apply to volunteer with them. This makes my heart so happy! 🥰