Nick Block

Evolutionary biologist, ornithologist, assistant professor, father, birder, dragonflier, butterflier, naturalist (list order varies by day)

[Nick Block @NLBbirder]

@KatySewall Enjoyed the piece today! I hate to say it, but Martyn's claim of recording Bachman's Warbler in 1999 is likely fraudulent. It was extinct long before then, and his recording is identical to this one by Stuart Keith from 1959: https://t.co/ewQdJ23jkc. 🙁

[Nick Block @NLBbirder]

@science_hitch I'm actually planning to introduce a course like this to our curriculum in Fall 2022. I'd love to hear of any recommendations and advice, too!

[Corina Newsome, M.Sc. @hood_naturalist]

Birds will change your life if you let em.

[Nick Block @NLBbirder]

Just posted a photo @ Stonehill College https://t.co/clItYYdxWl

[Nick Block @NLBbirder]

@atlm712 @ABA Yes, the 2020 AOS changes are included.

[𝕭𝖊𝖆𝖘𝖙 𝖔𝖋 𝕭𝖎𝖗𝖉𝖎𝖓 @GREGNEISE]

Version 8.0.7 of the ABA Checklist is now available.
The update includes 4 new species, AOS nomenclature and sequencing changes, and French names*.

*many thanks to @NLBbirder for that addition.

https://t.co/z0snNW70Ra

[Nick Block @NLBbirder]

I've spent the last two days practicing #naturetherapy and #physicaldistancing by chasing life dragonflies in Maine, and I ended both wading in the Mattawamkeag River at sunset. Not only is it an amazingly relaxing… https://t.co/gykAaYShQs

[Amer. Birding Assoc. @ABA]

On the American Birding Podcast, Dr Nick Block (@NLBbirder) returns to talk @AmOrnith proposals. Northwestern Crows, great White Herons, and messy duck genetics are on tap!

https://t.co/D4LlaHBKso

[Nick Block @NLBbirder]

@rees_page I think it's a citronella ant (Lasius sp.).

[Nick Block @NLBbirder]

@rees_page Yellow-crowned Night-Heron! 😀

[Nick Block @NLBbirder]

@Nick71182465 Welp, I spoke wayyyyy too soon. 😬 I should have checked guides instead of gone off memory. This is the much more expected Eastern Red-backed Salamander. I forgot the lead-backed morph can be blue-spotted like this. Here are the morphs: https://t.co/5ZktkAJnur

[Nick Block @NLBbirder]

@Nick71182465 LOL, yay?

[Nick Block @NLBbirder]

@paris_7815 Red-tailed Hawk! 😀

[Nick Block @NLBbirder]

@paris_7815 Cool! A juvenile eastern milk snake (Lampropeltis triangulum). Copperheads are browner (and quite rare in the region).

[Nick Block @NLBbirder]

@Katelin04976432 Winter Fireflies! https://t.co/1QXi12DYsQ

[Nick Block @NLBbirder]

So incredibly proud of my senior thesis student, @bryannanorden, for rocking her defense today! She was the first stonehillcollege biology student to have to present their thesis… https://t.co/UI3WZOBbZf

[Nick Block @NLBbirder]

@AdamBertherman Grapevine Epimenis! Very cool moth. https://t.co/EUIzQWOrkC

[Nick Block @NLBbirder]

@Maddie_McBroom Pretty sure it's a Common Eastern Bumblebee (Bombus impatiens), but there always seems to be some species I forget about with bees. 😀

[Nick Block @NLBbirder]

@MeghanHealy9 A Winter Firefly (Ellychnia corrusca)! 😀
https://t.co/1QXi12DYsQ