And a nice picture of the kingfisher 🪶

A Belted Kingfisher telling me what it thinks about me hiking near its fishing spot 🪶

Saw a bunch of eagles this morning, including this one landing on a frozen lake in Kansas 🪶

An acrobatic Northern Cardinal 🪶

Northern Shoveler on West Texas ice 🪶

A very fabulous looking Great Blue Heron, with a snowy backdrop 🪶

Lincoln's Sparrow in the snow 🪶

What is takes to be a snipe during a snowstorm 🪶

Hermit Thrush during this afternoon's snow in West Texas 🪶

House finch floofed up in the snow. You can see a few snow flakes streaking by in the photo. 🪶

Robins in West Texas snow 🪶

Not a common winter visitor here, a January American Redstart 🪶

A hybrid or admixed red-shafted x yellow shafted Northern Flicker 🪶

This Great Blue Heron was fishing and didn't mind me so I waited to get a nice headshot. 🪶

Northern Shoveler in flight 🪶

Great Blue Heron keeping an eye on me while fishing 🪶

Two different angles of a Great Blue Heron in a spillway🪶

Red-Winged Blackbird in the typical pose 🪶

Two Greater Yellowlegs in shallow water. 🪶

Green-Winged Teal walking in the mud. 🪶

Saw a Williamson's Sapsucker today, rare here in Lubbock, TX. 🪶

Look at the feet of this American Coot walking on the side of the playa lake 🪶

Red-Breasted Nuthatches in classic upside down poses. 🪶

Meadowlark marching through the short, dry grass 🪶

Two Pied-Billed Grebes in conversation. 🪶

A Red-Eared Slider performing a balancing act #wildlife #photography

West Texas Brown Creeper 🪶

A couple Black-Crested Titmice in early January. 🪶

First bird photographed of 2026: A White-Crowned Sparrow on a windy day in Lubbock 🪶

A Hooded Merganser showing off its crest. 🪶

A good day when you can get a decent photo of a Brown Creeper #birds #photography 🪶

A long-necked Dark-Eyed Junco in Lubbock, TX #birds #photography 🪶

This Ruby-Crowned Kinglet took a moment to look at me in between hopping around looking for food. Taken in West Texas. #birds #photography 🪶

Yellow-headed Blackbird staring back at me #birds #photography 🪶

Christmas Eve kingfisher seen today in Lubbock, Texas 🪶 #birds #photography

"Rediscovery of the greater chestnut #weevil highlights the power of digital platforms in biodiversity research and conservation" spkl.io/63326Ad07u#weevil @Michael A. Charles & colleagues @currentbiology.bsky.social

I have a new preprint demonstrating a genome-architecture-aware approach to inferring species trees and introgression landscapes from a small number of genomes. If you are interested in phylogenomics, birds, or hybridization, this is for you! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I believe I carved a decent Brown Creeper pumpkin. 🪶

My lab is hiring a 2-yr hummingbird evolution and genomics postdoc and a 1-yr salaried research and lab tech. Both with full U. Wyoming benefits. Please spread the word! Info below. Best consideration date Nov 1, start dates early Spring 2026.

Our paper on the temporal genomics of Ethiopian birds has been highlighted (and gotten the cover) in @genomebiolevol.bsky.social Article: doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf163 Highlight: doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf175 w/ @bourgeoisyann.bsky.social, @lcampillo.bsky.social, and others not on bsky

The October cover of Genome Biology and Evolution features the work of @jdmanthey.bsky.social et al., who evaluated changes in genetic diversity of Ethiopian birds using genome data from contemporary and historical samples. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf163 #genome #evolution #birds

Gettin' wild www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/s...

Hahaha... #botanists

Bird species #134 photographed of 2025: Ruby-throated Hummingbird in St. Louis, Missouri 🪶

Bird species #133 photographed of 2025: House Sparrow in St. Louis, Missouri 🪶

Bird species #132 photographed of 2025: Rock Pigeon in St. Louis, Missouri 🪶

Bird species #131 photographed of 2025: European Starling in St. Louis, Missouri 🪶

The latest paper on Ethiopian birds, led by @jdmanthey.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...

Bird species #130 photographed of 2025: Purple Martin in Lubbock, Texas 🪶

Bird species #129 photographed of 2025: Common Myna in Florida Keys 🪶