Some SCIENCE today: detecting mottled duck nesting attempts using geolocators mounted on leg bands! Those dark vertical areas indicate a hen sitting on a nest for a month = successful hatch!
@mgbrasher @DUSouthernNews @LSUAgCenter@LSUResearch
It’s that time of year again!
I’m hiring three 🦆 technicians to assist in data collection for my Master’s project on Black-bellied Whistling-Ducks. Please share!
@KateLaskowski Thanks for sharing. I was lucky to be *just* on the outside of this in grad school. Now that I'm back at Davis we should grab a coffee sometime. I have ideas about behavioral variation and plasticity in whistling-ducks I'd like to bounce off of you
Undergrad thesis from @KatieMiranda_ published today! Traditional monitoring methods dramatically underestimate duckling recruitment in cavity-nesting waterfowl @LSU_Honors@JonathanEarle2
https://t.co/Cx1uggs6bY
The most astounding part of this is the *decision* to forage at 10,000 ft where it feels like prey encounter and the energetic return on investment is unlikely. Or, maybe not.
Amazing evidence of dusk Peregrine attack on a Grey Plover, while the bird was flying at an altitude of 3000 metres (nearly 10,000 feet).
A short thread 1/5
Paper by Michiel P. Boom et al:
https://t.co/Lrb8Eq21G4
#ornithology#peregrine#waders#shorebirds
Please RT‼️ I'm recruiting an #ecology PhD student for a fully funded 4 year NSF assistantship to study species-environment relationships in North American birds using @Team_eBird#CitizenScience data. #BirdTwitter. DL 30 Sept. see: https://t.co/0HzChqFkgd
@evornithology Day 1 of receiving review: skim quickly get mad go outside and look at birds
Later that evening or that week: figure out what's real and what you've just explained poorly and have a bourbon about it
Later later: get to work, 90% of comments are legit
We're hiring staff to work on Desert Tortoise head-starting in the Mojave National Preserve. Duties include radio-telemetry and husbandry. Experience with the species is preferred, but you will receive training for permitting.
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