Wildlife ecologist – photos from the field #WildAg #RaptorResearch

Joined May 2014
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One of the many urban #BarnOwl nestlings getting ready to fledge from the city’s nest box network…
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~ Coming in Hot with a Cold-blooded Meal 🦎 ~ Along with rodents, insects, and small birds, reptiles are on the menu for American Kestrels raising young in Napa 🍇 Valley #WildAg #AmericanKestrel #RaptorResearch *nest monitored with permits
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Mama kestrel bringing in a vole 🐭 to five hungry nestlings… #AmericanKestrel #WildAg
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Western Screech-Owls amidst Napa Valley grape 🍇 vines… #WildAg #WESO #WesternScreechOwl #RaptorResearch *handled with permits
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new Insights paper on the phenomenon of predatory birds flocking to flood irrigated alfalfa 🌱 fields to feast on rodents:
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Molt season… #BarnOwl 🪶
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<10 days left to order the 2024 Belize Hawk Watch shirt!!
The 2024 Belize Hawk Watch shirts are now available for a limited time! Funds go toward raptor research & conservation efforts in Belize. Our tribute bird this year: the Swallow-tailed Kite!!#BelizeBirdConservancy #RaptorResearch #BelizeHawkWatch LINK➡️bonfire.com/belize-hawk-watc…
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Ryan Bourbour retweeted
The 2024 Belize Hawk Watch shirts are now available for a limited time! Funds go toward raptor research & conservation efforts in Belize. Our tribute bird this year: the Swallow-tailed Kite!!#BelizeBirdConservancy #RaptorResearch #BelizeHawkWatch LINK➡️bonfire.com/belize-hawk-watc…
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Cool new paper on rough-legged hawk diet using DNA metabarcoding methods 🧬 🧬🧬
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Ryan Bourbour retweeted
A recently published research highlight found that integrating eDNA metabarcoding and citizen science enhances avian ecological research 🐦 ... buff.ly/3YPsD8l

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a Great Horned Owl at moon-rise tonight… hunting & hooting from an artificial raptor perch in an olive 🫒 orchard #WildAg #GreatHornedOwl
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a young Cooper’s Hawk learning to hunt 🐀 in the urban canopy 🌳 of downtown Davis…
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🪶New Paper🧬 Last chapter from my dissertation out in @AnimalEcology! We combined DNA metabarcoding and eBird data to investigate predator–prey interactions between a migrating raptor & co-occurring avian prey: doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.14… #RaptorResearch #Accipiter #OpenAccess
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It’s fledgling Red-tailed Hawk season on Yolo County farms… #WildAg #redtailedhawk
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Kestrel Weather Meter ®️
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Ash-throated Flycatcher with some home decor aka nest material…
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