Lifer Say’s phoebe 🌿🪶 Ramona Grasslands Preserve, CA. Also saw my first canvasbacks and western meadowlarks today, definitely time for lifer pie 🥧

Lifer Ross’s geese! 🪿🪶🌿 Ramona, CA… not one of their common haunts!

This red-shouldered hawk treated me to a solid hour photo session this morning! Obsessed with this shot of the half deployed nictitating membrane 🤯🪶🌿

This week I completed a successful trip out to sea! This was my 8th trip so far & my 1st without my PI 🦑🧪 Between offshore work, my proposal defense, a Florida trip, presenting in Hawaii, NSF NRT work, & wrapping up the semester, it’s been a busy 1.5 months 😅 off to SoCal to relax (& go birding 🪶)!

These guys are so glam! One of my lifers from south Florida, a tricolored heron 🪶🌿

More monk seal cuteness! 🌿🦑🦊

Hot tip: you can visit Honolulu on a business trip and still do some awesome birding! 🪶🦑🌿

Come birding with me, a series! To begin, a few episodes from Florida (with more to come). I’m still figuring out IG Reels, particularly the auto-closed captions, so bear with me! South Florida, pt 1 🦑🌿🪶

"Mods are asleeep, post vent"

A red-vented bulbul 🪶🌿 photographed in Honolulu, Hawaii!

Thank you for not cussing here on bluesky

Come birding with me, a series! To begin, a few episodes from Florida (with more to come). I’m still figuring out IG Reels, particularly the auto-closed captions, so bear with me! South Florida, pt 1 🦑🌿🪶

This morning I got the best in flight surf scoter shots of my life thus far. Great weird duck season for in flight shots! A solid 20 other people near me, no one else ever tried. We must organize more bird photographers to be down with the clown. 🪶

Lifer snow buntings! 🚨 Also lifer red-necked grebes, horned grebes, and common goldeneyes! Plus 23 other species today 🪶🌿 made birding in snow and 8°F weather worth it! 😤

my default feed when I open the app is just photos of birds

Thank you to @whysharksmatter.bsky.social for bringing me along for the ride on this incredible trip tagging a bull shark and a nurse shark! Still over the moon about seeing these beauties 🦑🌿🧪

Guys, I saw not one but a group of FIVE Hawaiian monk seals! Trip made! 🥹 taken with a zoom lens to maintain a respectful distance 🦑🌿🦊

The white tern content continues! 🦑🪶🌿

Beer, ocean view, monk seal photo editing… doesn’t get much better than this! 🦑🌿😎

She’s covered in sunscreen, she’s salty as hell, and she’s loving it! 🦑🌿

Early results, only 1 of 4 species, & only Ch 1... but the dissertation is finally giving me results I can share! 🥳🐳 I presented a promising acoustic+visual species distribution model for the North Atlantic right whale & discussed the role of bottom temp & silicate as important predictors! 🦑🧪🔊 #ASA

🎧 #PhDOpportunity🌿🐟 Fully funded PhD using AI and acoustic technologies to track freshwater biodiversity recovery — from chalk stream restoration in Hampshire to ghost pond resurrection in Norfolk. 💧 Apply now 👉 www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/lis... 📅 Deadline: 5pm (UK time), 17th December 2025

PSA!!!!!! 🚨 White tern chick!!!!!! 🪶

White tern chick alert!!!! 🚨🥹🪶🌿

We made it to O’ahu! If you either have birding recs or are here for the ASA conference (or both!), please hit me up! 🪶🔊🧪

@banditelli.org on a recent trek I saw this nest off Pozo Rd, in the middle of nowhere. The opening was 3-4 feet wide and a few hundred feet in the air on the side of a cliff. Any ideas what might live there? Some type of Owl? I'd like to hear the #birds community chirp in. @daryllmarie.bsky.social

Here it is!! My very first Osprey (Pandion haliaetus)!! I've been meaning to try this for years!! 🤘💙 These guys fly around our house all the time and I never get tired of watching them. 🤙🪶 #Osprey #raptor #birdofprey #bird #birdart #nature #wildlife #sciart #ArtYear #bskyart #Arizona

Birdsong is not only beautiful, it’s also full of information. This is where Acoustic Monitoring comes in. Will you support the development of this new and important work? Find out more and donate today ➡️ www.bto.org/acoustic... #bioacoustics #ornithology

Happy to share our new paper is now published! 🎉 We developed a non-invasive method to model animal hearing using 3D photogrammetry and showed it on bats 🦇 and a pig. It even allowed us to capture the 3D mesh of an alive and awake bat and model its hearing! 🔉 Article: doi.org/10.1111/2041... 🧪

📢 JOB ALERT! Interested in #Bioacoustics, #Linguistics and the #Evolution of #Language? We are seeking a #ResearchAssistant to join our project 'Convergent Evolution of Vocal Communication: Exploring the Parallels between #Birdsong and Human Speech'.👇 www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

🔊 New volume covering oceanic dolphin species Ridgway & Harrison’s Handbook of Marine Mammals: An expert-written review & fantastic resource for anyone working with/ fascinated by marine mammals 🌊🐬 Our Anders Galatius has contributed the chapters on white-beaked & Atlantic white-sided dolphins 🧪🌏

📢Two fully-funded #PhD opportunities to work with us: Topic: Social monitoring & manipulation UK-domiciled black-heritage scheme: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6 NERC DLTP: tinyurl.com/4jfy47pp Cosupervisors: #PatrickKennedy @ljnbrent.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social #bioacoustics #mammals #fieldwork

I wanted to learn about Coatimundi... So, I illustrated my notes 🤷🏻‍♂️🐹 Maybe I should convert my notes into a series of books 😬 The final illustration can be seen on the next post!

Top 5 Science Feeds according to blueskyfeeds.com/feeds/top: 🧪Science 🦉Birds 🔭Astronomy 🐡SciArt 🟢GreenSky

Top Science Feeds on Bluesky: #2 🦉Birds! by @daryllmarie.bsky.social

I spent my final evening in Florida at Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park watching royal terns hunt at sunset 🪶🌞🦑🌿

Should I ask him for a kayak? 🪶🌿

The raptor obsession continues! An osprey photographed on Windley Key 🪶🌿

“I’m ready for my close-up, Mr DeMille!”

A handsome guy at the Mystic, Connecticut aquarium.

Everything at the Georgia Aquarium was wonderful! 🦑

At the Georgia Aquarium. I ❤️🐙 and of course 🦈!

That is so exciting that you got to join them in their shark research. Here's a weedy sea dragon at the Birch Aquarium. #SeaCritter #Seahorse 📸 Weedy sea dragon: Phyllopteryx taeniolatus

Back in my hotel for the evening and feeling like this calls for some celebratory sea critter posting! 🦑 Friends, share your sea crits (seabirds count 🪶). Here’s my favorite fin whale photo! 🌿

The crossover episode you didn’t know you needed! Thank you again @whysharksmatter.bsky.social, I had a blast! 🦑🧪

Today @daryllmarie.bsky.social , who runs the bluesky marine life feed 🦑, joined us for a day of shark research!

I was fully unaware of the raptor game that the Florida Keys delivers, holy hell! 🌿🪶

It was a raptor-y day in the keys 🌿🪶 Turkey vulture, bald eagle, merlin, American kestrel, Cooper’s hawk, osprey, and northern harrier!

Can’t resist posting this cutie! American kestrel, Everglades National Park 🪶🌿

Loggerhead shrike alert today in the Everglades! 1 of my 10 lifers from the day 🪶🌿