Robert Spaul

Wildlife Biologist | Birder | #RaptorResearch, monitoring & applied ecology | Board of Directors @hmanahawkwatch | He/him

[Robert Spaul @hawkowlR]

Excited to lead this effort for @hmanahawkwatch, partnering w/ @birdingtoronto, @ofobirds, @nphawkwatch, @HolidayBeachMO, Hawk Cliff Hawk Watch, @hawkwatchint, & @BirdsCanada. We're recruiting participants for a 2-day dispersed hawkwatch raising a voice for raptor conservation!

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

"Missouri House Republicans voted to defund all of the state’s public libraries, in a proposed $45.6 billion state budget that will soon move to a vote in the GOP-controlled state Senate"

https://t.co/1KyEcpKZgC

[Ben Goldfarb @ben_a_goldfarb]

For @hakaimagazine, I wrote about beach dogs, which are both shockingly harmful to coastal ecosystems *and* a wildly contentious political issue. Note: I am not w/out sin when it comes to letting my little killer roam free!

Let the angry emails commence.

https://t.co/qVv618bq38

[Robert Spaul @hawkowlR]

This basically sums up my entire economic and sustainability philosophy.

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

The obsession with GDP helps evade questions of distribution while promoting infinite expansion on a finite planet.

Only in the warped reality of our current growth obsessed economic model is expansion without end seen as a virtue. In biology, it's called a cancer.

[Robert Spaul @hawkowlR]

@raptornaturalst Awesome research too!

[Robert Spaul @hawkowlR]

@raptornaturalst Love the poop splats you can make in the article 😂

[Robert Spaul @hawkowlR]

Found an amazing family of Northern Saw-whet Owls this weekend in Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest! Here's 1 of 3 fledglings, photographed from the trail. #NorthernSawWhetOwl

[Robert Spaul @hawkowlR]

Hey #BirdTwitter! Just realized I’m running dangerously low on #bird tshirts & I want to support #research & #CommunityScience organizations featuring awesome artists with my purchases. Please suggest birdy attire! My 1st one will be from @hmanahawkwatch https://t.co/p9bLBrmhQP

[Robert Spaul @hawkowlR]

After feeling bad about a very muddy work week, NE Wyoming is now offering free* power car washes to all residents! Current WY residents don’t even need to move their cars!

*Clean cars guaranteed for 8 hours. NE Wyoming is not responsible for future muddy work weeks.

[Robert Spaul @hawkowlR]

Suddenly Swainson’s Hawks are trickling across WY’s sage-steppe! The last raptors to arrive in spring, they get the last pick of scarce nesting trees. In the next few weeks they’ll pack in b/w all the other tree nesters & cobble together flimsy little nests w/ amazing efficiency!

[Robert Spaul @hawkowlR]

Field biologists are lucky to enjoy the “field house”. The best thing is the random accessories striving to be homely…washcloths for oven mitts, the wrong size coffee filters & a shortage of quality pillows. Love ‘em & leave ‘em; but always leave ‘em cleaner than you found ‘em!

[Robert Spaul @hawkowlR]

@naturallywild__ Malheur NWR, Toronto Islands, Ponderosa Pine forests, and just about any solid hawkwatch.

[Robert Spaul @hawkowlR]

@missmaddylucas @ecologistash That’s awful. They should have been able to work with you to figure out accommodations.

[maddy mae 🫶🏼🪩🪻 @maddy__mae]

@ecologistash I had a job offer for a summer tech position revoked - I was told explicitly it was because of having a service dog. They claimed her presence would be too problematic even though the job was located in a national rec area where pet dogs are allowed. 🙃

[Robert Spaul @hawkowlR]

Learned first-hand today that #Graycrownedrosyfinch use #Cliffswallow nests for winter roost sites! 🤯 Birds truly never get boring.

[Robert Spaul @hawkowlR]

@AnEtchabear I was chased & treed by a female moose in B. Columbia. Though scary it was right out of a cartoon, & probably hilarious had anyone seen it 😂 2x around a tree, then I darted for another tree & climbed it a quickly as I could. Moose interrupted bird surveys more than 🐻 that year!

[Robert Spaul @hawkowlR]

@EvanBuechley @peregrinefund Congrats Evan!

[Robert Spaul @hawkowlR]

@ShannonSkalos Struggled w/ this in Toronto where only those selected for interviews were contacted; folks always leaned on the “busy HR line”. It’s so demoralizing & reduces transparency in hiring. Big fan of “all serious applicants get a response”; you’re basically doing part of HR’s job!

[Mitchell Serota @Mitch_Serota]

Show me your cutest camera trap photo! I'll start...

[Robert Spaul @hawkowlR]

@Mitch_Serota Adult GOEA sternly teaching HY bird how to scavenge. Sweden, 2011.

[Robert Spaul @hawkowlR]

@travis_devault @VultureVagabond We were just discussing this the other day, especially as it related to minute-by-minute estimates over variable terrain.