The EBL Project

The Ecology of Bird Loss Project

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Tåsi. Fledged 5-July-20. PC- Martin Kastner https://t.co/Oob8N9lBSA

[✨Tracy Simone @thetracysimone]

Professors, Graduate School Directors, Dept. Chairs, PIs, Postdocs and white graduate students.

Please take a few minutes to read stories from #BlackintheIvory

We are telling our stories. True allies should be willing to listen.

[Dr. Samniqueka Halsey @Samniqueka_H]

Our statement from the @ESA_org Black Ecologist Section

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We would like to belatedly thank McKayla Spencer for her work on the EBL team and Rogers Lab as the lab manager. McKayla was the glue that held us together and kept us running these last two years. We owe her a huge thanks for a job well done and best wishes for the future!

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Love this picture from EBL biologist, CareyJo Titus!

[Corina Newsome, M.Sc. @hood_naturalist]

BIRDS WIN PERIOD.

Baby birds in the heron family, like this Yellow Bittern, just give me all the Dino-feels.

📷: Carey Titus, Ecology of Bird Loss project (on the island of Guam)

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The EBL Project has 3 new members joining the team! Kayla Baker is the new Lead Field Biologist. CareyJo Titus is a new Biologist and Tomona Lapitan is also a new Biologist. Welcome to the team everyone!

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We have been getting some great videos from camera trapping on Rota. Here is one of a rodent eating a Nunu fruit (Ficus prolixa). https://t.co/EshR2esS9B

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Started camera trapping on Rota this week and recorded footage of Micronesian starling (Aplonis opaca) visiting a tree of Mapunao (Aglaia mariannensis)!
https://t.co/8xaSdqXEhD

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EBL would like to welcome it's newest fan... little baby Nora! Congratulations to EBL Project Manager, Martin Kastner, and his partner Melissa Gabriel, on the newest addition to their family. Adorable Sali hat and EBL shirt. Photo credit: Mildred Gabriel.

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@HugoCodesNature representing @TheEBLProject in South Africa this week talking about how to rewind Guam with birds and bats!

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Excited to be in south Africa to talk about #restoration and #rewilding. It's gonna be a fun week

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This week we said farewell to EBL member Joanna Scott. She brought an infectious curiosity and positive attitude to all the tasks she helped us tackle, whether it was transects or collecting pig scat. Thanks for all your hard work over the past few months, we'll miss you!

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Plant spotlight this week: Kafu (Pandanus tectorius). This is a native plant to the Marianas and it grows in limestone forest or clay. It has little spikes along the edges of its leaves that are not fun to rub the wrong way. Photo taken by EBL Postdoc @HernaniFMO on Rota.

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The EBL Project wants to welcome our new postdoc Hernani Fernandes Magalhães de Oliveira! During his PhD he worked on trophic interactions of frugivorous and insectivorous bats in dry forests of Costa Rica and he will now be working with Fanihi on Rota. Welcome to the team!

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Thank you to EBL crew member Adelynn-Renee Roces, who finished her last day on the project this week. She worked on vegetation surveys and nest checks. She became very proficient at ID'ing Guam's plant species. She'll be starting her second year of college. Many thanks, Adelynn!

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This past week our EBL crew on Rota was fortunate enough to see a rare nestling/ fledgling Totot (Mariana Fruit Dove; Ptilinopus roseicapilla). Fun fact: Totot only lay a single egg and both parents tend to it. EBL Biologist Zia Crytser was able to get some great photos.

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Plant highlight this week: Meiogyne cylindrocarpa (Formally: Guamia) known in CHamoru as Paipai. It is a common small tree native to the Mariana Islands. Photos credit to Zia Crytser.

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The EBL team is working on a project concerning gut passage time of seeds with the Marianas Fruit Bat on Rota. The project requires monitoring bats in the wild and taking care of a plant nursery where gut passed seeds are planted. Photos from Zia Crytser.

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EBL Project Manager Martin Kastner's photo of a fledgling Såli was picked for the cover of the latest issue of The Condor (American Ornithology)! Here is a link to the article: https://t.co/xFB7ifQWcz

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EBL Biologist Zia Crytser documented this interesting interaction on Rota between a Monitor Lizard (Veranus indicus) and a Kingfisher. #animalinteractions

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The EBL team is excited to welcome 3 more new members this summer: Adelynn-Renee Roces, Joanna Scott, and Juan-Carlos Mungaray! Welcome to the team!