A research and participatory science project to understand how hunter provided offal (gut piles) affects wild food webs.
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Raccoons living their best life 📷🦝🥩😊
#offal #offal_watch #participatoryscience #cameratrap #Zooniverse #SciStarter #mnenrtf #mnextension #Browningtrailcams #mnmasternaturalist #natureismetal #tech4wildlife
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This looks like a fisher caching this offal ("caching" is a term for hiding or storing food for later). What do you think?
If that's what this fisher is doing, caching food on-site is a rarely-observed behavior!
#offal_watch #participatoryscience #Zooniverse #SciStarter #mnenrtf
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Did you know...?
Skunks are generally solitary animals but when they gather, they're typically called a a 'surfeit!' 🦨🦨🦨🦨 Other terms sometimes used are a 'stench' or an 'array.'
#offal_watch #participatoryscience #cameratrap #Zooniverse #SciStarter #mnenrtf #mnextension
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Same camera, different eagles 📷
These offal cam captures are a great representation of the impressive size difference between golden and bald eagles!
#offal_watch #participatoryscience #Zooniverse #SciStarter #mnenrtf #mnextension #Browningtrailcams #mnmasternaturalist
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#wildlifewednesday featuring the Barred owl/strix varia. Probably sitting on eggs this time of year and not scavenging gut piles! 📷
#offal_watch #participatoryscience #cameratrap #Zooniverse #SciStarter #mnenrtf #mnextension #Browningtrailcams #mnmasternaturalist #Tech4Wildlife
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As scavenger researchers, we get plenty of images of guts and gore but photos like this are equally captivating! Here's a beautiful and peaceful shot of a rough legged hawk in the snow
#offal_watch #participatoryscience #cameratrap #Zooniverse #SciStarter #mnenrtf #mnextension
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Hunters: please join us for another year of offal research!🖊️ Register as a hunter participant at offal.umn.edu
Our research wouldn't be possible without dedicated citizen scientists from all over MN- we appreciate your contributions!
#Zooniverse #mnenrtf #mnextension
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These interspecies interactions are always so interesting to see! 📷🦊🦝
The predators don't always get priority but this raccoon didn't look ready to stand its ground!
#offal_watch #participatoryscience #cameratrap #Zooniverse #SciStarter #mnenrtf #mnextension #Browningtrailcams
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More cool eagle footage 📷
These are more rare #goldeneagles and exciting to see as #offal visitors!
#offal #offal_watch #participatoryscience #cameratrap #Zooniverse #SciStarter #mnenrtf #mnextension #Browningtrailcams #mnmasternaturalist
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Attempted murder in the murder? 🐦⬛💀😲
#offal #offal_watch #participatoryscience #cameratrap #Zooniverse #SciStarter #mnenrtf #mnextension #Browningtrailcams #mnmasternaturalist
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We're looking for more bowhunters to contribute to our research to learn about scavengers eating gut piles! Sign up at offal.umn.edu and let us know if you need to borrow our project cameras.
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Enjoy #WildlifeWednesday with #CommonRavens a very frequent and maybe the smartest #offal visitor!
#offal #offal_watch #citizenscience #cameratrap #Zooniverse #SciStarter #mnenrtf #mnextension #Browningtrailcams #mnmasternaturalist
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Happy Independence Day weekend from our national scavenger! 🦅🎇
#offal #offal_watch #citizenscience #cameratrap #Zooniverse #SciStarter #mnenrtf #mnextension #Browningtrailcams #mnmasternaturalist
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OWW will be at the fair and we're looking for volunteers to help us do outreach about our research and other #Extension Natural Resource program offerings! Get in touch with Grace at offal@umn.edu if you'd like to help!
#offal_watch #mnenrtf #mnextension #mnmasternaturalist
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Curious about what Offal Wildlife Watching has been up to? Check out a recent webinar with @MyMNwoods we recorded!
#offal_watch #citizenscience #cameratrap #Zooniverse #SciStarter #mnenrtf #mnextension #Browningtrailcams #mnmasternaturalist
youtu.be/wa4VvIu1ho0?si=qBhR… via @YouTube
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We're celebrating #VolunteerWeek by saying thank you to our 7,358 (and counting) #Zooniverse volunteers who help us identify and classify offal visitors in project photos! Anyone can help with OWW at: zooniverse.org/.../offal-wil…
#SciStarter #mnenrtf #mnextension #mnmasternaturalist
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Happy #VolunteerWeek! Our research wouldn't be possible without our hunter volunteers. We are very grateful to all the hunters who have contributed offal data over the years!👏🦌🎯
#offal_watch #Zooniverse #SciStarter #mnenrtf #mnextension #Browningtrailcams #mnmasternaturalist
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