The Urban Interface

🐾The Urban Interface is a 501(c)3 nonprofit in Central #Texas. We are dedicated to the education & conservation of local wildlife.🐾|| 'Best of Twitter' @TetZoo

[The Urban Interface @TUIWildlife]

One of our ambassadors wrote a blog post! See what Pandora has to say about events @TUIWildlife this week including her job helping people leanr about nature, #EarthOptimism2018, and our #Patreon Launch! BLOG: https://t.co/f9MQPg2iDp PATREON: https://t.co/oTD5QwVwM2

[The Urban Interface @TUIWildlife]

Hope everyone had a great Earth day! We celebrate Earth day every day by caring for our ambassador animals and educating people about their importance. What did you do to celebrate today?

[The Urban Interface @TUIWildlife]

This photo is a great example of ways that birds keep themselves warm: they fluff their feathers out to increase insulation, and often tuck one foot up to reduce heat loss and exposure to the cold air.

[Jim Pottkotter @HappyPixr]

It was a cold and overcast early morning when I came upon this Red-tailed Hawk in the desert. I felt like I was in the presence of greatness and chiseled wisdom as I approached, stopping at a respectful distance. I took a couple of shots and quietly left, grateful. #birds #nature

[Heidi @heidicleven]

The Red-tailed Hawk was very floofy today, and looked like it was enjoying the warm sunshine. Prospect Park this afternoon.

[The Urban Interface @TUIWildlife]

@heidicleven Gorgeous!

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Owlets! 😍
These pictures also give a great view of how powerful (and feathered!) great horned owls’ talons are.

[Shannon Skalos, PhD 🪶🐦 @ShannonSkalos]

I don’t just study harriers! We also monitor movement and provisioning of other rapture in #SuisunMarsh relative to waterfowl nest success. Here’s a mama owl we marked with a transmitter last year that we recently removed. You can see her being a good mama owl to her two owlets.

[The Urban Interface @TUIWildlife]

Andrea was our communications lead while she was a student at A&M and we’re so proud of and excited for her!

[Andrea Lloyd is not here @AdAstra_Andrea]

Whoop!👍

[Ryan Bourbour @talonDNA]

I showed someone this photo today and their response was: “why are Swainson’s Hawks so cute?”...a fair & important question. #SwainsonsHawk

[The Urban Interface @TUIWildlife]

It’s a beautiful evening for our interns and volunteers to practice handling more!

[david butcher @drbut11]

I will not pose anymore until i am paid 2 live Voles

[Ryan Bourbour @talonDNA]

Red-tailed Hawk working an alfalfa field in the rain today...with the look of “I thought it was spring already”. #YoloCounty #WildAg #redtailedhawk

[Janet Ng, Ph.D @janetngbio]

Swainson's Hawks migrate waaaaaay south. And then back! Sometimes all the way back up to Alaska even! 😍😍😍

[The Urban Interface @TUIWildlife]

Come to the VENI building at the Texas A&M Vet School from 5-8 tonight for Darwin Day! We’ll have our ambassadors Hermes (pictured), Pandora, and Oreo with us! There are lots of other booths you can visit to learn about all kinds of animals and nature-related topics.

[Ryan Bourbour @talonDNA]

It appears to be that Superb Owl time of year again...#SuperbOwl #burrowingowl

[Ryan Bourbour @talonDNA]

Red-tailed Hawks are integral to the land we use to grow food & wine grapes in California, where they provide pest control services. We are interested in how land use affects their winter distribution and exposure to rodenticides in the farmscape of the Central Valley. #WildAg

[The Urban Interface @TUIWildlife]

Raptors > cryptids 😤

[Audubon Society @audubonsociety]

A mythical creature sighted in West Virginia 52 years ago and dubbed "the Mothman" may, in fact, be an owl. https://t.co/yS0ljVdpI5

[The Urban Interface @TUIWildlife]

Good thing our pigeons can’t use twitter...! However, I’m sure a few of our ambassadors, especially the falcons, would love this video!

[Justin Hall @justincomics]

A female Cooper’s hawk took down a pigeon on my deck and consumed it in front of me! #urbanwilderness

[Murray & Friends @burrowingbolt]

Good morning twitterati “fed up” is a phrase from Falconry, when a bird of prey has eaten its fill it will no longer hunt & sits doing nothing, now when someone says they are “fed up” it means “annoyed, unhappy, or bored, especially with a situation that has lasted for some time”

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https://t.co/p55WO68JJW

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@LearnLoudly Yes! They get a bad rap, but I’m glad you changed your opinion once you learned a little more!

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This thread covers a lot of what we say when we do a presentation with one of our pigeon ambassadors!