Are you buried in work? Dreaming of the great outdoors? Here's a pic of a very big cat just for you! Have a great weekend, everyone! #flashbackfriday #fieldcamfriday

Out now in Movement Ecology: We used multi-sensor geolocators to track myrtle warblers breeding in Alaska and found that they migrated much farther than expected to the Gulf Coast—rather than to the closer Pacific Coast non-breeding area 🪶🧵 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Join us tomorrow, 2pm, at Sparks Marina, as we learn more about gulls, and why they aren't all Californias! Have a great weekend, everyone!

It's that time again! More gullwatching at Sparks Marina, this Saturday, at 2pm. Join us in learning more about gull identification, hang out with a fun group & take advantage of what is likely to (still) be absurdly nice weather.

How is it the latter half of January already?! We're prepping for the Pinyon Jay & desert thrasher field seasons (coming up fast!), & continuing to work on data/analyses from last year. In case you, too, need a Chukar in your life, we send you this - #TrailCamTuesday #HopeYoureHavingAGoodDay

Good Morning 🪶 Black-throated Sparrow perched on a cholla

It's January, and that means it's time to talk about all the unusual birds that made their way to Nevada in 2025! Come hang out with us at Pigeonhead Brewery next Monday as Ned shares the latest updates to the Nevada Bird Records Committee. If you're not in the Reno area,

For all you ebirders out there, here's an opportunity to bird and get complimentary access to a helpful (and endlessly fascinating!) resource -- have fun out there!

If you work on corvid ecology, behaviour, cognition, or conservation, this might be useful for you 👇 I’ve just published CORVIDATA in Scientific Data 🐦 doi.org/10.1038/s415... (1/4)

Turkey vulture flying over eastern Nevada #TrailCamTuesday

Anyone else boggling that it's 2026 already? Beautiful views of the Spring Mtns near Mt Potosi (near Vegas) for #MountainMonday, from May 2024. You don't get a good sense of the terrain from this photo, though. One of our few locations where we find Rufous-crowned Sparrows,

// sees Joshua tree post // sets aside data prep for upload needed today // reads JT updates // rationalizes "I work in JT habitats!" (except not today) // realizes I can spread the joy (cackles mischievously) lab.jbyoder.org/2024/08/05/1... (paper linked in blogpost) // ok, back to data! :)

Calling all iNaturalists in Joshua tree country!

Thanks to Joe for coming out and sharing the current status of the Peregrine Falcon in Nevada, and thanks to all of you who showed up! Between the library and zoom, it was a great turnout :) It should get posted onto our Youtube channel soon, so if you missed it live, you can still watch it there.

In August, GBBO staff took over the bar for a night at Reno's Hideout Lounge, to pour beers for the birds! Thank you to everyone who came out to support #DesertThrasher research, and special thanks to Rob at the Hideout for collaborating with us (& for the on-the-fly training)! #ThrowbackThursday

Join us tonight, 6pm Pacific, as Joe Barnes talks about his #PeregrineFalcon work in #Nevada. Joe's a great speaker, and the Peregrine is a fascinating bird - if you're in the Reno area, meet us at the Sparks library, but if not, we'll be streaming on zoom, as well!

We’re thrilled to welcome Joe Barnes, a wildlife biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service who has specialized in raptors since 2004. Over the past 22 years, Joe’s research has helped document a rapid increase to 101 known Peregrine Falcon nesting territories in Nevada. 🧵

Applauding last week's Everything Bay-Gull trivia team right now, because it's Gull Time in Nevada again! This Saturday, we'll start off at @unevadareno.bsky.social for a classroom session, followed by a trip to Sparks Marina to apply what we're learning! #BirdID

Join us Wednesday, 6pm Pacific, as Joe Barnes talks about his #PeregrineFalcon work in #Nevada. Joe's a great speaker, and the Peregrine is a fascinating bird - if you're in the Reno area, meet us at the Sparks library, but if not, we'll be streaming on zoom, as well!

Welp, I reckon it's time to register for the 51st Annual Symposium! Don't lollygag and find yourself paying late registration rates! This will be a hybrid event (both in-person and virtual attendance... Photo: Andres Galindo #desert #tortoise #conservation #science #reptile #conference #symposium

Want to support bird conservation in Nevada?! Chip in to survey this site's unburned neighbor, JT-26, & push it over the finish line :) Plus you can double your impact! Thanks to a kind supporter, all of your donations will be matched, dollar-for-dollar. THANK YOU! www.gbbo.org/highlighted-...

Join us Wednesday, 6pm Pacific, as Joe Barnes talks about his #PeregrineFalcon work in #Nevada. Joe's a great speaker, and the Peregrine is a fascinating bird - if you're in the Reno area, meet us at the Sparks library, but if not, we'll be streaming on zoom, as well!

Wow, we just hit 2000 followers today - THANK YOU ALL for your interest in the birds of Nevada, the Great Basin, and surrounding regions!

Want to support bird conservation in Nevada?! Chip in to survey this site's unburned neighbor, JT-26, & push it over the finish line :) Plus you can double your impact! Thanks to a kind supporter, all of your donations will be matched, dollar-for-dollar. THANK YOU! www.gbbo.org/highlighted-...

Speaking of Joe Barnes - the researcher behind this Golden Eagle study - he's going to be speaking about his Peregrine Falcon research next week! You can attend in person or by zoom, & learn more here: www.gbbo.org/calendar/202...

We're going to be surveying DS-BorderCorral in 2026! South of Las Vegas, this site burned in 2023's York Fire, & thanks to donors, we'll be able to follow the bird community's recovery for another year. In 2025, we recorded 20 species, including 7 conservation priorities. THANK YOU for your support!

Golden Eagles are having a rough time in Nevada (see link below) Effects of hemorrhagic disease on rabbits/jackrabbits (critical Golden Eagle prey) are highly noticeable - I'll track their #s as I drive.. so odd to be able to drive 100s of miles without seeing any. Tho variable in space/time, ofc 🧵

A fun evening at Pigeon Head! Grandma Got Run Over By A Killdeer won the bird trivia, & came home with second in the rest of the series ... with an additional win of making me sing "Grandma Got Run Over By A Killdeer" over & over, all the way home 😂 Runner up in bird names: the Everything Bay-Gull!

Research aimed at reducing conflict between humans and gulls has shown that Herring Gulls recognize and react to angry, raised voices. #ornithology

How are Pacific NW mountain birds responding to climate change? I got up at 4:00 am for a month to find out. but first the backstory, or "how I spent seven years telling everyone this project wasn't possible" new paper here: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Huge News from the Western Amazon: it's the year 2025 and we are still describing entirely new, strikingly-distinctive large-bodied bird species! Behold Tinamus resonans sp. nov. the Slaty-masked Tinamou mapress.com/zt/article/v... #Ornithology @tetzoo.bsky.social 🪶

Because of your generosity, we'll be surveying this Mojave scrub transect in 2026! Thank you for the opportunity to continue monitoring how Nevada's desert bird community responds to changing conditions.

It's time for Bird Trivia, in just a few hours! Join us tonight at Reno's Pigeon Head Brewery, 6pm, for funky facts and fantastic folks!

THANK YOU! Because of you, we will be able to resurvey this (former) Joshua tree site in 2026, almost 20 years after it burned & document how the habitat and birds are recovering. We surveyed here this year - not many birds, but there are some young Joshua trees starting up! www.gbbo.org/adoptat...

Wahoo, it's once again Bird Trivia Time! Laugh, learn, and lounge with us tomorrow night, 6pm, at Reno's Pigeon Head Brewery!

THANK YOU so much for your support! Because of you, we will be able to resurvey this transect in the Carson Range in 2026. We had almost as many White-headed Woodpeckers detected this year as there have been total across the 7 previous visits going back to 2004!

Motus stations are one of the technologies that are being used in this monarch tracking & Nevada is one of the big blank spaces in the Motus map - but slowly (though increasingly!) stations are getting added here in the state. You can learn more about Motus here www.birdscanada.org/small-tags-b...

Wow. It's just amazing how far and how fast this technology has come!

Today, we're kicking off #GivingTuesday with our Adopt a Survey program! Thanks to our supporters, we surveyed birds at 12 sites earlier this year, including here near Nevada's Black Rock desert, where we found 20 species, including 6 conservation priorities! THANK YOU! www.gbbo.org/adoptat...

In the Reno area, and in the mood for some trivia? Join us Wednesday, 6pm, at Pigeon Head Brewery!

#GivingTuesday is tomorrow - help us learn more about Nevada's birds through our Adopt a Survey program! Thanks to a generous supporter, every donation will be matched, dollar-for-dollar. www.gbbo.org/adoptat...

THANK YOU to all our partners, field crew, volunteers, and supporters for helping make 2025 a successful year! Interested in learning more about us and what we do? Check out our annual report, at the link:

Happy Thanksgiving! Are you in the Reno area, and want to walk off some of your Thanksgiving dinner? Tomorrow morning, #OptOutside with GBBO and Northern Nevada Bird Alliance, and head out for a Pinyon Jay walk!

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! #Grateful for singing birds, breezy mountaintops, sagebrush-filled valleys, and all the amazing people doing great work out there, making the world a better place! Have a wonderful day!

In the Reno area, and want to walk off some of your Thanksgiving dinner? On Friday morning, #OptOutside with GBBO and Northern Nevada Bird Alliance, and head out for a Pinyon Jay walk!

So glad you enjoyed them, and thank YOU! :)

This donor-supported survey in southern Nevada’s Avi Kwa Ame National Monument contained an array of Joshua tree and blackbrush species including Cactus Wrens, Ash-throated Flycatchers, Ladder-backed Woodpeckers, and (of course) Black-throated Sparrows. Thank you for making this survey possible!

Interested in learning more about ebird, both creating useful records, and being able to use ebird data to answer questions of your own? Join us, as Lauren Harter shares how we can make the most of ebird in our birding! Wednesday, November 19, 6pm.

Another of our #NevadaBirdCount projects this year was our adopt-a-transect program, where we were able to survey transects like this one in the Carson Range. Thank you to our supporters who made this survey possible!

One of our major #NevadaBirdCount projects in 2025 included setting out Automated Recording Units to record bird song on BLM habitat survey sites. We then overlaid NBC point counts and area searches on a subset of these sites. We're still analyzing the data, but are looking forward to the results!