I was busy thinkin bout Boyd's, ✨ Boyd's, ✨ Boyd's ✨

I caught this Ovenbird in New York two days ago. It’s probably in Jamaica now.

No sleep til Bogotá (Swainson’s Thrush)

Is it cake? (Chestnut-sided Warbler)

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Yung Junc 😤 (Dark-eyed Junco)

Looks like great Black-backed Woodpecker habitat

Feeling down? Ashanti has the cure for you. It’s really quite simple: Step 1: Hold a bird. Step 2: 😃

Who wore it better? (Black Heron) 📷 Thomas Gibson, eBird

Incredible position. Run don’t walk.

May I offer you a small bird in these trying times? (Ruby-throated Hummingbird)

King of the Bog 👑 (Northern Waterthrush)

Wait which Muppet is this? (Yellow-bellied Flycatcher)

Watching a Pileated Woodpecker bounce out of the net

That’s right folks! It’s time for yet another round of every bander’s favorite game! It’s… GUESS! THAT! FLYCATCHER!!! I believe our contestant just muttered, “Dammit, p6 isn’t supposed to be emarginated.” 🫠

Hide yo kids, hide yo caterpillars (Black-throated Green Warbler)

OH LAWD SHE COMIN’ (Mourning Warbler)

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That look you make when your flight to Brazil is delayed (Blackpoll Warbler)

Getting an Instagram account up and running for my banding station. Give us a follow! My students are gonna run it, so it will actually be cool. www.instagram.com/rcbobirds?ig...

Downright vermiculated goddamn (Lincoln’s Sparrow)

Panacea

Nerd 🤓 (Swainson’s Thrush)

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Anyway, here’s a Magnolia Warbler

Ol buddy got the real-life anime eyes 👀 Kilimanjaro White-eye 📷 Alex and Julia, eBird

Willy Warbs are really starting to climb in my power rankings. We catch quite a few sneaking though our site during migration. Always a treat to see one of these little cuties in the net.

Lol. Lmao even. (Wood Thrush)

Thar she blows! 💨 Kennedy showing the young guns the ropes when it comes to aging catbirds. Turns out like 75% of bird banding is just blowing on them.

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October) www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Be honest. Who can pull off the salt-and-pepper look better? (Common Yellowthroat)

Naughty bitey boys get the chewy (Rose-breasted Grosbeak)

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Real 1s no

Me reading Pyle cover to cover preparing for next fall banding day 💪

The fuck

Love this quote in Looking for the Goshawk from WH Hudson describing his revulsion toward bird taxidermy. An early champion of avian conservation, he preferred his birds alive and protected. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...

Here we see a dual example of the “What the hell is this?” look, frequently displayed by bird banders during fall migration.

Another massive L for our dear leader. Sad!

Bee tee green 🖤💚 (Black-throated Green Warbler)

What was antibiotic resistance like before we ever used antibiotics? How did we change what antibiotic resistance genes looked like over 100 years? Our paper looking at resistance genes from a century of NCTC historical isolates now out in mGen: www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Oh word? Birds-of-paradise are just fluorescing left and right now? Goddamn! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Ol chonky beak looking head-ass (Pine Warbler)

But why no red eye? 🧐 (Red-eyed Vireo)

“Yup, it’s definitely a warbler.”

Managed to convince this Scarlet Tanager to pose for a photo. What a sweetheart.

Brazen theft of alleles. These fish should be arrested.

When will the pile of dead kids be big enough?

My Instagram algorithm is so dialed in right now