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Happy #ArtAdventCalendar Day 4!
Here's my photo: Tree with Bison on the ridge in winter, Lamar Valley, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA
#NationalPark #NationalParkGeek #Snow #Winter #Cold #NaturePhotography #Photography #PhotographersOfMastodon #Photo #Photographer #Color #Outdoors #Nature #Naturalist #Conservation #Wild #Biodiversity #Environment #Ecosystem #Ecology #Mammal #Film #Kodak #Kodachrome #Kodachrome25 #Wyoming #Throwback #Mood #Moods #FotoMontag #PhotoMonday ©Carl R. Englander

Color photo of a Tree with a Bison on the ridge in winter, Lamar Valley, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA ©Carl R. Englander

Carl Englander

2 days ago

Happy #SilentSunday & #ArtAdventCalendar Day 3!

Here's my photo of a small puffy white cloud against a blue sky.

#NaturePhotography #Photography #PhotographersOfMastodon #Photo #Photographer #Color #Film #Kodak #Outdoors #Nature #Naturalist #Conservation #BiologicalDiversity #Biodiversity #Environment #Ecosystem #Ecology #Mood #Moods #Blue ©Carl R. Englander

Color photo of a small puffy white cloud against a blue sky. ©Carl R. Englander

JL Johnson :veri_mast:

2 days ago

Missouri River Bird Observatory will be hosting some amazing free online educational webinars each Monday evening, Jan 8 through March 25.

Diverse topics and speakers including Dr. Doug Tallamy (!!!!)

Pre-registration is required, spots are limited.

#Naturalist #Missouri #MissouriMasterNaturalist #Conservation #Environmentalism #HomegrownNationalPark

https://bit.ly/winterlearning2024

An image with a ton of text showing speakers and topics over the course of each Monday. Topics range from plastics, bird friendly coffee, homegrown national park, nature's best hope, etc. @ me if you have specific questions. Too much to retype, unfortunately

JL Johnson :veri_mast:

2 days ago

Sitting at my computer trying to get some non-profit work done. But these constant distractions are pretty great, I can't lie.

Seems like our suet feeders are starting to get some action. It's about time!

#NorthernFlicker #BackyardBirds #Birdstodon #birding #naturalist #Ornithology #nature #wildlifephotography

A Northern Flicker hangs off of a suet feeder made to look like a giant red flower. The northern flicker is a beautiful and large woodpecker with a red patch behind its black eyes. There are dark dots all along its belly. In this photo you can see the bright yellow of its under tail.

Carl Englander

2 days ago

Happy #Caturday & #ArtAdventCalendar Day 2!
Here's my photo of a young Cougar in snow.

#CatsOfMastodon #Cat #Cats #Catstodon #NaturePhotography #Photography #PhotographersOfMastodon #Photo #Photographer #Color #Film #Kodak #Outdoors #Winter #Mammal #Nature #Naturalist #Conservation #BiologicalDiversity #Biodiversity #Environment #Ecosystem #Ecology ©Carl R. Englander

3 month old Cougar in snow (Puma concolor). The Cougar is also known as Mountain Lion, Puma, Catamount, or Panther. ©Carl R. Englander

Jeremy B. Yoder 🖖🏻🌿🏳️‍🌈📈

3 days ago

Spotted this VERY early (< 0.5cm) monarch #butterfly #caterpillar and the evidence of its feeding on a weedy milkweed by my building's loading dock

#naturalist #herbivory

A black, yellow, and white-striped caterpillar with black hornlike appendages at both ends, resting on a lanceolate leaf next to a big hole in the leaf surface

The same caterpillar from yet another angle

Carl Englander

3 days ago

Thanks to @jayispainting for organizing the #ArtAdventCalendar for 2023! Here is a photo of mine with lots of holiday colors! Mountain Cranberry, Crowberry, Alpine Bearberry, & Spruce Cone, Whitefish Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada. ©Carl R. Englander

#NaturePhotography #Photography #PhotographersOfMastodon #Photo #Photographer #Macro #Color #Film #Velvia #Canada #Inuit #WhitefishLake #NWT #Barrenlands #Tundra #Fall #Autumn #Nature #Naturalist #Wild #Biodiversity #Outdoors #Conservation

Close-up or macro photo of a portion of the tundra with Mountain Cranberry, Crowberry, Alpine Bearberry, & a Spruce Cone, near Whitefish Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada ©Carl R. Englander

Rebel and Rye

4 days ago

Waking up #naked with the sun.

It’s such a great experience. #nudist #clothingoptional #naturalist

Huxley

1 week ago

1/N GIDDY TO SHARE THAT - THANKS TO ARDENT INATURALIST IDENTIFIERS - I AM NOW UP TO 65 - SIXTY-FIVE! - BEE SPECIES IN MY GARDEN. THIS, IN THE GEOGRAPHIC CENTER OF BROOKLYN, NYC, ON LESS THAN 2,500 FT² / 232 M² / .057 ACRES.HTTPS://WWW.INATURALIST.ORG/OBSERVATIONS?PLACE_ID=125348&TAXON_ID=630955&USER_ID=XRIS&VERIFIABLE=ANY&VIEW=SPECIESCC: #BEES #INATURALIST #NATURALIST #URBANNATURE #URBANNATURALIST #URBANGARDENING #HABITATGARDENING #GARDENECOLOGY #ECOLOGY #INSECTS #POLLINATORS @xris

Huxley

1 week ago

2/N THIS SCREENSHOT LISTS ALL 65 SPECIES. SOME SUMMARY MEASURES AND METRICS:* 65 IS 30% OF THE ESTIMATED 217 BEE SPECIES BELIEVED TO BE PRESENT IN NYC.* 24 ARE KNOWN FROM ONLY A SINGLE OBSERVATION.* 37 HAVE FEWER THAN 5 OBSERVATIONS.* 9 ARE KLEPTOPARASITES, AKA BROOD PARASITES OR CUCKOO SPECIES.* 8 ARE INTRODUCED SPECIES.CC: #BEES #INATURALIST #NATURALIST #URBANNATURE #URBANNATURALIST #URBANGARDENING #HABITATGARDENING #GARDENECOLOGY #ECOLOGY #INSECTS #POLLINATORS @xris

Flatbush Gardener 🌈

1 week ago

2/n This screenshot lists all 65 species. Some summary measures and metrics:

* 65 is 30% of the estimated 217 bee species believed to be present in NYC.
* 24 are known from only a single observation.
* 37 have fewer than 5 observations.
* 9 are kleptoparasites, aka brood parasites or cuckoo species.
* 8 are introduced species.

cc: @darwin

#Bees #iNaturalist #Naturalist #UrbanNature #UrbanNaturalist #UrbanGardening #HabitatGardening #GardenEcology #Ecology #Insects #Pollinators

Flatbush Gardener 🌈

1 week ago

1/n Giddy to share that - thanks to ardent iNaturalist identifiers - I am now up to 65 - SIXTY-FIVE! - bee species in my garden. This, in the geographic center of Brooklyn, NYC, on less than 2,500 ft² / 232 m² / .057 acres.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=125348&taxon_id=630955&user_id=xris&verifiable=any&view=species

cc: @darwin

#Bees #iNaturalist #Naturalist #UrbanNature #UrbanNaturalist #UrbanGardening #HabitatGardening #GardenEcology #Ecology #Insects #Pollinators

Strange by Nature Podcast

2 weeks ago

Did you know humans are getting colder? Check out this week's show! https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-894sm-1505f1b

#Science
#Podcast
#Weird
#nature
#Naturalist
#Fungus
#Fish
#Scicomm

JL Johnson :veri_mast:

2 weeks ago

The red winged blackbirds typically don’t visit us. But today a few spent the afternoon chasing off the invasive house sparrows so they are most welcome. They are super fidgety and notoriously difficult to photograph.

#RedWingedBlackBird #BackyardBirds #Birdstodon #birding #naturalist #Ornithology #nature #wildlifephotography

Blackbird with a slightly brown top, the red and yellow under its wing is just barely visible as it stands, and eats sunflower seed

JL Johnson :veri_mast:

2 weeks ago

The #BrownHeadedCowBird is unpopular in #birding circles. They are brood parasites meaning they sneak an egg into the nests of other birds in hopes they will raise them. Parenting flaws aside, they are pretty. And they are native, therefore protected by the migratory bird act of 1918.

#BackyardBirds #Birdstodon #birding #naturalist #Ornithology #nature #wildlifephotography

Brown headed cowbird has a large black beak that looks a lot like what you'd see on a Cardinal. The bird is mostly shiny black. It has a brown head and black eyes.

JL Johnson :veri_mast:

3 weeks ago

I posted earlier today about providing water near your feeders. Here’s why— This beautiful #AmericanRobin came to visit, have a drink and bathe in the #GoldenHour light. They don’t typically visit feeders but love a drink and bath.

#BackyardBirds #Birdstodon #birding #naturalist #Ornithology #nature #wildlifephotography #Missouri

The American Robin is actually a thrush. It has a orange belly and black eyes with a white eye ring.

adrienandrem

3 weeks ago

Là aussi j'aurais aimé contribuer, mais les pisteurs non merci...

NaturaList https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/fr/reports/ch.biolovision.naturalist/latest

#NaturaList #ornithologie #nature #faune #viePrivée #pistage #privacy

Capture du rapport d'analyse Exodus Privacy pour l'application NaturaList montrant 2 pisteurs et 13 permissions.

Jeremy B. Yoder 🖖🏻🌿🏳️‍🌈📈

1 month ago

“Renaming the birds, in contrast [to evaluating centuries of historical figures with birds named after them], offered an opportunity to highlight unique features of the birds themselves.”

#BirdNamesForBirds on NPR this morning

#wildlife #naturalist #birds

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/01/1209660753/these-american-birds-and-dozens-more-will-be-renamed-to-remove-human-monikers

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JL Johnson :veri_mast:

1 month ago

#PSA! The #Missouri Dept. of Conservation has two wonderful ad-free monthly magazine available to all MO households.

#MissouriConservationist has been running for **84** years! 😳

#Xplor is a kiddo-centric magazine that is published every-other-month.

Physical: https://mdc.mo.gov/conmag / Free to MO. $7/year for out-of-state

Digital https://mdc.mo.gov/mocon / free for all.

Great stories, #WildlifePhotography, #naturalist and #Conservation themes.

The beautiful colorful covers of three recent Missouri Conservationist issues. On top is the October cover, a sunset shot from Peck Ranch in SE Missouri.

T. R. Shankar Raman

1 month ago

Perfect in their own ways..
Cleome felina
Cyanotis
Stream Ruby Heliocypha bisignata
Neorthacris, grasshopper
#naturalist #photography

Pink flower with 4 petals and pretty stamens

Frilly violet tiny flower with ring of 6 yellow stamens and Central stigma

Green grasshopper with black and white antennae and red pattern by side, on leaf

Strange by Nature Podcast

2 months ago

NEW EPISODE.

A Parasitic Turduckin

As we ramp up toward #Halloween things really start to get #weird. Kirk makes us all queasy by talking about Bot flies that prey on humans. Rachel brings us the bizarre looking Monkey Slug Caterpillar and Victoria tells us all about Cockroaches. We had a ton of fun this week, we hope you do too.

https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-ezt98-14d3df1

#Nature
#Podcast
#Naturalist
#Strange
#Science
#Scicomm
#Insects

B's Creative Life 🌈 🧶🌱🐛🎼

2 months ago

Sorry, not sorry for filling your timeline with my garden photos this morning. Got to see some amazing colors & activity with insects (even in the chilly air) yesterday as I meandered through the spaces.

The Virginia creeper is going strong! Look at all those wonderful little holes & trails from insects in the leaves! Makes my heart sing, especially with the plethora of moths flitting out of my way while walking the paths.

#Gardening #PlantNative #GrowNative #Naturalist #HomeGrownNationalPark

Red leaves of Virginia creeper shade stonecrop and provide contrast to the small green things growing in the garden as fall marches on.

JL Johnson :veri_mast:

2 months ago

We're heading to Seattle soon. Haven't been there in a couple years. Their raccoons are way cooler than ours. Way more photogenic. Look at this guy!

#Raccoon #TrashPanda #naturalist #nature #wildlifephotography

B's Creative Life 🌈 🧶🌱🐛🎼

2 months ago

Absolutely not regretting turning the Virginia creeper into a ground cover!
Aside from it's gorgeous fall colors, it's provided shade for my woodland stonecrop, traveling corridors for wildlife, food for so many moths, and more I'm sure to be forgetting to think about this morning!

#PlantNative #GrowNative #HomeGrownNationalPark #Naturalist #Gardening

A bed of red 5 leaved plants seem to fill a garden bed shading green plants beneath them. It provides a scenery of red leaves against a backup of trees and plants turning yellow in the cooler temps.

JL Johnson :veri_mast:

2 months ago

It's 52 (f) and I have the window open. It "sounds like" Spring out there. Took me a while to figure out why... I hear the Robins!

American Robins are commonly associated with Spring but are apparently here in #Missouri all year. Despite that, I typically only see/hear them in Spring and sometimes fall.

#BackyardBirds #Birdstodon #birding #naturalist #Ornithology #nature #wildlifephotography

An American Robin seen standing in some grass. It's a bird that has a large orange or rusty breast with a mostly black head and yellow beak.

B's Junior Gardeners

2 months ago

Today we continued our explorations into the sun's energy cycle & how it plays out with the environment around us.
How does the sun's waning energy affect insects?
What part do they play in the cycle?
Why are they so important to all life?
Insect counts were held with our top counter reaching 43!

#education #Ohio #volunteer #GardenClassroom #gardening #naturalist #insect #science #SciComm #VikingDiff

First grade students sit around the naive pollinator garden counting the insects they see. Some are exploring the leaf litter and rocks for more friends.

First grade students look through hand lenses at an invertebrate collection brought to school by an Ohio Certified Volunteer Naturalist.

Frank Ashwood

2 months ago

I’m delighted to be the iNaturalist observation of the day and see giant springtails getting the attention they deserve!

#Collembola #Naturalist #Springtail #HotSpringtailSummer #SoilBiodiversity #SoilEcology

A screenshot of an Instagram post featuring my photograph of a giant springtail. The springtail has a blue body covered in beautiful soft orange spikes.

A screenshot of a Facebook post featuring my photograph of a giant springtail. The springtail has a blue body covered in beautiful soft orange spikes.

JL Johnson :veri_mast:

2 months ago

I love this helpful #birding video so much.

Video from GirlInWhiteGlasses on IG. Unfortunately, not on any fedi platforms. 😭

They did OK me uploading here, though. Here’s a link to their IG profile.

https://instagram.com/girlinwhiteglasses

#BackyardBirds #Birdstodon #birding #naturalist #Ornithology #nature

JL Johnson :veri_mast:

2 months ago

Today @Jillianmarisa and I are supporting the #Missouri department of conservation at an event to get kiddos interested in the outdoors. But smokey the bear showed up and is getting all of the attention. 😂

#MasterNaturalist #GetMOwild #naturalist

Smokey the bear surrounded by folks looking for selfies and to chat

JL Johnson :veri_mast:

2 months ago

My new favorite thing to do with my old and unused iPad is to run Cornell’s Merlin Bird ID app on it. I let it record between meetings when it’s somewhat quiet here. My keyboard clickety-clacking doesn’t seem to bother it and…. Oh look, an Eastern Towhee!

#MerlinBirdID #BackyardBirds #Birdstodon #birding #naturalist #Ornithology #nature

Photo shows an old iPad running Merlin Bird ID the top part of the application shows the sounds it’s hearing and the rest of the application shows birds that have been identified including a Bluejay house sparrow Ruby crown something and a northern cardinal

Jeremy B. Yoder 🖖🏻🌿🏳️‍🌈📈

2 months ago

Male calliope hummingbird (Stellula calliope) at a feeder in Moscow, Idaho, 2010

https://flic.kr/p/8491XP

#naturalist #wildlife #bird

A hummingbird with green back and white underparts and a wide spray of red-pink feathers at the throat, sitting with wings folded on a perch in front of the red plastic funnel of a hummingbird feeder

The same hummingbird, leaning forward from the perch to stick its beak into the feeder

Jeremy B. Yoder 🖖🏻🌿🏳️‍🌈📈

2 months ago

Lionfish (maybe Pterois lunulata?) at the New England Aquarium

#naturalist #fish

https://flic.kr/p/2obWcqi

A white-and-brown striped fish with pectoral wide fins flared like wings, floating in blue-lit water

JL Johnson :veri_mast:

2 months ago

A #CoopersHawk came to hang out in our yard while I was on a conference call. Thankfully I was on mute and was able to grab my camera with the good lens and telex already setup. I have better/sharper shots but this one is funny.

When ya gotta go, ya gotta go 🤷🏻‍♂️💩

#BackyardBirds #Birdstodon #birding #naturalist #Ornithology #nature #WildlifePhotography

A juvenile Cooper’s Hawk raises its tail feathers and makes a poo while perched on a landscape timber in our yard.

Jeremy B. Yoder 🖖🏻🌿🏳️‍🌈📈

2 months ago

White-crowned sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys) on the dunes at Asilomar State Beach, Pacific Grove, California

#naturalist #wildlife #birds #photography

https://flic.kr/p/2obYCsF

A brown-and-white bird with gray cheeks and a black-and-white striped crown, perched in bare branches, viewed against a blurred green and sandy gray background

JL Johnson :veri_mast:

3 months ago

Cornell's #ProjectFeederWatch starts again in November. 🤩

If you are interested in #birding or supporting #FeederWatch and don't know where to begin, I'd recommend taking this self-paced course offered in partnership with Cornell.

60+ birds for $59.99! That's less than $1/bird!

https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/product/feeder-birds-identification-and-behavior/

#BackyardBirds #Birdstodon #naturalist #Ornithology #nature #wildlife

Naturalistes de Nice et des AM

3 months ago

Dimanche, le circuit près de la vacherie de Mantegas nous a offert de la fraîcheur bien appréciée et quelques plantes intéressantes. #botanique #nature #annam #association #naturalist #botany #alpesmaritimes

Jeremy B. Yoder 🖖🏻🌿🏳️‍🌈📈

3 months ago

Western bluebird (Sialia mexicana) in North Hollywood Park, Los Angeles

https://flickr.com/photos/jbyoder/52264060343

#naturalist #wildlife #bird #California

A blue-gray bird with bright black eyes and white-orange underparts perched on a eucalyptus branch, looking over its shoulder toward the camera

JL Johnson :veri_mast:

3 months ago

This year I have really fallen for Turkey Vultures. They are all over North and South America. These large graceful birds are non-aggressive to humans and pets, and do us all a favor by being nature's cleanup crew.

#Vulture #TurkeyVulture #Birdstodon #birding #naturalist #Ornithology #nature #wildlife

A turkey vulture rests on the support beam of a large tower where it perches with friends. Turkey vultures are large birds with mostly dark bodies with no markings of note. Their heads are baled and red, and they have large sharp beaks for tearing the flesh of already deceased animals.

Jeremy B. Yoder 🖖🏻🌿🏳️‍🌈📈

3 months ago

California sea lions (Zalopus californianus) lounging on a buoy off Ventura

https://flic.kr/p/2oD3zjh

#naturalist #wildlife #California

Large pale-brown seal-like animals, mostly lying in a heap on the floating base of a red metal buoy, though one is in the water, stretching up to interact with the ones on the buoy

Jeremy B. Yoder 🖖🏻🌿🏳️‍🌈📈

3 months ago

Cliff asters (Malacothrix saxatilis, maybe var. implicata?) on Santa Cruz Island this spring

https://flic.kr/p/2oDstAU

#naturalist #photography #plant #wildflower #ChannelIslands #California

Three ligulate aster flowering heads, with luminous white ligules and bright yellow pollen visible

Jeremy B. Yoder 🖖🏻🌿🏳️‍🌈📈

3 months ago

Great blue heron (Ardea herodias) in the tidal marsh at Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge

https://flic.kr/p/2oX1jzd

#naturalist #photography #wildlife #bird #WashingtonState

A gray-blue wading bird with a black cap, standing ankle-deep in water near a muddy shoreline

Jeremy B. Yoder 🖖🏻🌿🏳️‍🌈📈

3 months ago

Great blue heron (Ardea herodias) in the tidal marsh at Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge

flic.kr/p/2oX1jzd

#naturalist #photography #wildlife #bird #WashingtonState

Jeremy B. Yoder 🖖🏻🌿🏳️‍🌈📈

3 months ago

Northern elk (Cervus elaphus) along the Hoh River trail in Olympic National Park

https://flic.kr/p/2oWUToq

#naturalist #photography #wildlife #WashingtonState

A bull elk, with velvety antlers, standing half in shadow

A female elk and a calf about half her height, looking at the camera over a hedge of ferns

JL Johnson :veri_mast:

3 months ago

This morning's stroll through one of our #Missouri nature preserves was incredible. Best and most fruitful visit I've had in recent memory.

Here's a teaser.

#KC #Hummingbird #Birdstodon #birding #naturalist #Ornithology #nature #wildlife

A juvenile ruby-throated hummingbird sits perched on a mullein with out of focus purple thistles in the background. Blurry mullein stalks in the foreground frame the left and right sides of the image.

Carl Englander

3 months ago

Here's an image of Denali taken from the dining room at Camp Denali in Denali National Park, Alaska, USA.

#ThrowbackThursday #FensterFreitag #FensterFriday #WindowFriday #WindowsFriday #WindowsFridays #Fenster #Window #PhotographersOfMastodon #Photography #Photo #Photographer #Alaska #Denali #NationalPark #NationalParkGeek #CampDenali #Autumn #Throwback #Snow #Mountain #BucketList #NaturePhotography #Wild #Outdoors #Nature #Naturalist #Conservation #BiologicalDiversity #Biodiversity

Denali's Peak with pond taken from the dining room at Camp Denali in Denali National Park, Alaska, USA.

JL Johnson :veri_mast:

4 months ago

File this under things you don’t normally see at the feeder. 👀

For the record it didn’t feed, just perched. Still, WOW!

Took me a while to identify it. Thinking juvenile #CoopersHawk which is very different from how the grownups look.

#BackyardBirds #Birdstodon #birding #naturalist #Ornithology #nature #wildlife

A large bird of prey with yellow eyes and yellow feet. The yellow feet have long, sharp, black claws. The head and wings are mostly brown with white. The breast is white with brown flecks

B's Creative Life 🌈 🧶🌱🐛🎼

4 months ago

♻️ Mulch, compost, add layers, but unless you have SERIOUSLY compacted soil, don't till please. It's for the soil's sake and for the regeneration of it's biosphere that we've destroyed. ♻️

#naturalist #soil #regeneration #gardening #farming

Screenshot from joegardener.com
Reads:
"Another detrimental aspect of tilling is that it breaks up any existing microscopic pathways built by the organisms of the soil food web to deliver water, nutrients and oxygen. The blades of a tiller are harmful to fungi too. Although tiny, the strands of a fungus are long – relatively speaking – and can be sliced apart, reducing fungal populations. More to the point, tilling destroys about 50% of the organisms of the soil food web, according to research.

The microorganism population which requires oxygen will already be at low levels, so the last thing you want to do is further reduce the number of these good guys. Meanwhile, the only organisms thriving in the compacted layer beneath the tilled surface are the anaerobic species. Those are the bad guys – the diseases – and they will stick around long after you’ve turned off the tiller."

JL Johnson :veri_mast:

4 months ago

A young #AmericanGoldfinch hanging out on a spent volunteer #sunflower outside my window. They won't visit our feeder, but they don't mind letting me grab a few photos every now and then.

#BackyardBirds #Birdstodon #birding #naturalist #Ornithology #nature #wildlife #goldfinch

A young brilliantly yellow and black small bird perched near the back of a sunflower which is drooping as it's reached the end of its life.

Lauren Harter

4 months ago

The obedient plant is in full bloom in my front yard “bog”. Not planted, just came in when we allowed the spot to grow more or less wild.

#nativeplants #bloomscrolling #flowers #wildflowers #louisiana #naturalist

Flower spike with cluster of brilliant pink-purple blooms

JL Johnson :veri_mast:

4 months ago

Have you heard about #MOTUS bird tracking? Tiny devices are placed on migratory birds which ping stations throughout north and Central America. Fascinating!

We’re attending a webinar hosted by #MissouriRiverBirdObservatory + US fish and wildlife. They hope to launch a large Wood Thrush study in 2024.

Learn about MOTUS: https://motus.org/

Support ($) project: https://mochf.org/wood-thrush-motus-tagging-project/

#BackyardBirds #Birdstodon #birding #naturalist #Ornithology #nature #wildlife #Missouri #MissouriMasterNaturalist

Bicycling Monterey

4 months ago

We miss the people we connected with on the bird site, and we're so HAPPY that some of our favorite folks are here!

ICYM her, meet @Kleen / Kathleen Jones — a #recumbent e-triker, #hiker, #reader, #sketcher, #naturalist, and #baseball fan.

What else do we know about her? She's a Pedal Pusher—that is, one of the people who have chosen to support the #Bicycling #Monterey site and projects as an automatic monthly contributor.

Bless you, Kathleen, for your August 1 contribution! https://bikemonterey.org/about/financial-donations/donors

B's Creative Life 🌈 🧶🌱🐛🎼

4 months ago

Nothing like looking up an interesting variation on an insect to find out it's been covered in fungi!

#nature #insects #entomology #photography #photo #naturalist

Close-up of a fly on the underside of a leaf. It has white bands across it's back

Carl Englander

4 months ago

Happy Caturday!
Wild Bobcats and kittens (Felis rufus) are always welcome in our yard in Tucson, AZ, USA! 👍

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #Kitten #Wildcat #Cat #Cats #PhotographersOfMastodon #Photography #Photo #Photographer #Wild #Outdoors #Mammal #Nature #Naturalist #Conservation #BiologicalDiversity #Biodiversity #NaturePhotography #Arizona #SonoranDesert #Desert #Throwback #Environment #Ecosystem #Ecology ©Carl R. Englander

Wild Bobcats and kittens (Felis rufus) in our yard in Tucson, AZ, USA ©Carl R. Englander

Carl Englander

5 months ago

With all of the hot air these days, I am reminded of this prescient quote by Aldo Leopold: "The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the pieces."

Photo taken from Point Sublime, North Rim, #GrandCanyon #NationalPark #Arizona #AldoLeopold #Quote #ThrowbackThursday #NaturePhotography #PhotographersOfMastodon #Photography #Photo #Photographer #Film #Wild #Outdoors #Nature #Naturalist #Conservation #BiologicalDiversity #Biodiversity #Environment #Ecosystem #Ecology ©Carl R. Englander

Woman enjoying the view from Point Sublime wearing t-shirt showing Aldo Leopold quote on the back: "The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the pieces." Photo taken from North Rim, Grand Canyon National Park, AZ, USA ©Carl R. Englander

B's Creative Life 🌈 🧶🌱🐛🎼

5 months ago

While I was out in the heat burning invasive plants, I questioned whether it was worth all the effort to keep coming out to treat this space without chemicals.
Then I noticed a robin going around teaching it's young how to hunt in the leaf litter and a bunny knocking over red clover stalks to eat the leaves. No poison on the food means no poison in the wildlife. Guess I'll go drink another glass of water my wild friends and continue stewarding naturally for all our future existence.
#naturalist

Carl Englander

5 months ago

This morning in Tucson, AZ USA after the 1st storm of our Monsoon season yesterday, Red Velvet Mites were out and active! Dinothrombium sp. COOL!

#Entomology #Mite #Arachnid #Monsoon #SonoranDesert #Insect #Red #NaturePhotography #PhotographersOfMastodon #Photography #Photo #Photographer #MacroPhotography #Macro #CloseUp #Wild #Outdoors #Nature #Naturalist #Conservation #BiologicalDiversity #Biodiversity #Tucson #Desert #Arizona #Environment #Ecosystem #Ecology

Red Velvet Mites active on small stones and pebbles. Dinothrombium sp.

Elisa Coghlan

5 months ago

I can barely take in the burst of life that's happened in my garden in the past week. From an unsettling emptiness in June to a buzzing, euphoric hotbed of bees, wasps, flies, moths, and butterflies amid the flowers, native plants, and veggies. Joy!
#pollinators #gardening #NativeGardening #Milwaukee #bees #flies #moths #flowers #midwest #naturalist

Eastern honey bee and a leaf cutter bee (?) on milkweed

Some kind of sawfly with black wings and head and rust-colored thorax, sitting on a lovage stem

Metallic green sweat bee on a golden calendula blossom

Red-belted bumble bee climbing amid oregano flowers

B's Creative Life 🌈 🧶🌱🐛🎼

5 months ago

The Culver's root is in bloom and attracting all the wildlife!

#BloomScrolling #flowers #insects #HomeGrownNationalPark #naturalist #NativePlant #ohio #photo #photography

White spikes of flowers are in bloom against a green leaf background

An insect is visiting a white flower spike. There are several other white spikes of flowers in the background as well as green leaves.

Flatbush Gardener 🌈

5 months ago

And a robin just dropped into the the backyard to pick off some perfectly ripe blueberries before I could get to them.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/171275579

#Ecology #GardenEcology #Birds #UrbanNature #HabitatGardening #Gardening #Naturalist #iNaturalist

Carl Englander

5 months ago

On these 105°+ Fahrenheit summer days here in Tucson, AZ, USA, I like to recall trips to cooler climates like Alaska! Denali National Park is one of my favorite places to visit & the Wonder Lake area is spectacular!

#Alaska #Denali #NationalPark #NationalParkGeek #Autumn #Panorama #Throwback #Snow #Lake #BucketList
#NaturePhotography #PhotographersOfMastodon #Photography #Photo #Photographer #Wild #Outdoors #Nature #Naturalist #Conservation #BiologicalDiversity #Biodiversity

Panorama photograph of a snow covered mountain, Denali, with Wonder Lake in the foreground, Denali National Park, Alaska, USA. ©Carl R. Englander

Carl Englander

5 months ago

Honored to see a Gila Monster in our Tucson, AZ USA yard today! This one was a different individual from the last one we saw. Comparing photographs, we noted the different patterns on the two venomous lizards!

#Tucson #SonoranDesert #Desert #Arizona #Environment #Ecosystem #Ecology #Nature #Lizard #Reptile #GilaMonster #NaturePhotography #PhotographersOfMastodon #Photography #Photo #Photographer #Wild #Outdoors #Nature #Naturalist #Conservation #BiologicalDiversity #Biodiversity

Uncle Daniel 🐅🏔

6 months ago

#Introduction: Hi, I'm Daniel! He / him. I'm a #husband and Master #naturalist from #Louisiana; I post about #birds, #insects, #nativeplants, and everything else that we find around our home here and in our travels. I'm a practitioner of #Soto #Zen, #LaoHuGong mover and shaker, #photographer, #songwriter, #musician, and burgeoning #gardener.

#Buddhism #SotoZen #photography #birding

🔗: https://daniel.observer

Flatbush Gardener 🌈

6 months ago

And I'm out here now, doin' my thang.

THE SETUP v. THE SHOT (low-res)

#iNaturalist #MacroPhotography #Lichens #Fungi #MushToDon #Botany #Naturalist #SmallThings #Photography #LichenSubscribe

A photo of a setup for a macrophotography shoot, taken feom above. Clockwise from upper left:
- A flexible white balance target, its lighter side exposed to serve as a makeshift light bounce. It's leaning against a camera bag toward an indistinguishable object in the center.
- A camera with a macro (close-up) lens mounted on a flattened tripod. Two flash units are mounted at the front of the lens, aimed at the subject.
- Top far right is a small color balance reference card.
- Center bottom is broad, diffuse LED lamp, mounted on its tripod, low to the table and aimed at the subject.
- In the center is the subject of the next photo, just a green-gray blob at this scale.

One of the photos resulting from th

One of THE SHOTs from THE SETUP above. The subject is revealed to be a tangle of lichens and moss, hidi g the rotting wood which is their substrate.

B's Creative Life 🌈 🧶🌱🐛🎼

8 months ago

In a battle between basement stairwell residents, smol #bee and jumping #spider I wonder which would win.

Apparently, those cavity searching bees have found their home in the crumbling parts of our 100 yro concrete stairwell and jumpy is hunting them.

#photography #nature #HomegrownNationalPark #naturalist

A medium large sized jumping spider is hunting in the basement stairwell. It is chocolate brown in color with tan markings on it's back and grey-brown mandibles in front

Cracks in the ceiling of a basement stairwell hold mud tubes and small webs, but a bee is moving around inside

RDS (shawphd on Twitter)

9 months ago

Hey, US naturalist folks! Any idea what’s making these castings? #chicago, after a couple of mild days this week. #naturalist #identification #insect ?

Small (about 1 inch across) mounds of earth cast up from the soil. They look like tubes or the dribble castles some of us made on the beach as kids.

Closer view. Small (about 1 inch across) mounds of earth cast up from the soil. They look like tubes or the dribble castles some of us made on the beach as kids.

JL Johnson :veri_mast:

9 months ago

Tonight I’m learning about how in some cases, trees are bad. Our ongoing #Naturalist and #conservation training is fascinating. This is tree enchroachmemt on grassland

In just 18 years woody areas have encroached dramatically in typically prairie grasslands. The image shows a “thunder storm” map of a roughly doubling of woody encroachment of the US plains

Carl Englander

10 months ago

#ThrowbackThursday
As Valentine's Day approaches, here is a photo with lots of the color RED!

Mountain Cranberry, Crowberry, Alpine Bearberry, and Spruce Cone, Whitefish Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada

#Tundra #TBT #Color #Red #Green #NaturePhotography #Nature #Naturalist #Photography #Macro #CloseUp #Wild #Biodiversity #Film #Velvia #Fall #Canada #Inuit #WhitefishLake #NT #NWT #Barrenlands #Dene

Close up photo of Mountain Cranberry, Crowberry, Alpine Bearberry, and Spruce Cone, taken near Whitefish Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada

JL Johnson :veri_mast:

10 months ago

Becoming a #naturalist here in #Missouri has been quite eye-opening.

Let me share one way.

This is an educational rant about an incredibly #invasive, terrible plant: #bushhoneysuckle.

WARNING: If you read this thread you’ll be broken. Because once you know what it is, you will always see it. Everywhere.

But that’s a good thing because you can share the knowledge with others and maybe yank some, too. Thus giving #nativeplants a chance.

Anyway, proceed with caution…

Anne Camozzi

11 months ago

Hello out there in the fediverse. I’m an #artist, #writer and #naturalist. Follow for #art #writing #nature #birds #environment #kindness. I aim to bring #joy #light and kindness into your world. I am a person with #disabilities and use a #wheelchair for mobility. Art and writing bring me #serenity and joy
Please enjoy this little-known #painting by Salvador #Dali.
Fleurs 1948
#artmattters #artofmastodon #artoftheday #artheals #MastoArt

A watercolour painting of blue pink and white flowers.The veins of the flowers are prominent

Travis🏴

11 months ago

These past few weeks have been just a preview of what's to come... All these fresh rains are bringing the underground world to life! Take pictures! Bring a mushroom book hiking with you! Join a foraging group on social media!

#foraging #mushrooms #mushtodon #LichenSubscribe #mosstodon #edibles #fungus #rain #rains #winter #hiking #nature #UrbanForager #stoner #SparasisRadicata #WesternCauliflowerMushroom #ShaggyParasol #CaliforniaKingBolete #Naturalist #NaturalistsOfMastondon

A cutting board with four large porcini mushrooms and a cauliflower mushroom.

Very dirty cauliflower mushrooms. They burst through the soil at the base of conifers, such as pines or first. They almost always have numerous twigs, pine needles, dirt, and the occasional millipede; making cleaning them a labor of love. It is 1000% worth it.

A bisected view of a tall shaggy parasol mushroom. They are edible but since I volunteer here, I didn't collect it. 🤷🏼‍♂️

4 young cauliflower mushrooms in the bottom of a woven grass foraging basket. An Opinel mushroom knife sits aside the mushrooms. Fancy!

Flatbush Gardener 🌈

1 year ago

I thought I had added #HashTags to my pachy #Profile. They're there now!

#UrbanNaturalist #UrbanGardening #WildlifeHabitat #NativePlants #Brooklyn #NYC #PhytoAgnosia #gay #queer #NewYorkCity #NewYork #Photography #Nature #Naturalist #Plants #Insects #Hymenoptera #Bees #Wasps #MacroPhotography #CatDad #iNaturalist #Flickr #Botany

(Most of them. Not enough characters allowed in the profile for all of them!)

https://ecoevo.social/@xris

JL Johnson :veri_mast:

1 year ago

Here's a Red-Bellied Woodpecker @Jillianmarisa and I spotted this weekend while volunteering for Cornell's #ProjectFeederWatch. Beautiful bird, but dumb name. They don't have red bellies. Rufous at best.

#birding #naturalist #woodpecker #Ornithology #redbelliedwoodpecker #nature #wildlife #backyardbirds

A woodpecker with a red head sits perched between two large limbs of a tree. The bird is mostly white, with a red head, a long black beak. The wings and tail feathers are black and white striped, some white with black spotting on the underside below the wings.

Amata (they/she)

1 year ago

I started using iNaturalist last year to make a project for our land, trying to ID things. Of course this meant I found new special interest taxa, and got very good at IDing some things. I started to get braver this year and ID for others. I decided to make a goal of going through the *entire* Alabama backlog of non-RG observations, all 318,840 of them to date. I just finished! With some strong ID statistics!
If you use iNaturalist, try to give back some and ID a few things for others, for every thing you upload. There are far more users than ID'ers, and even people who can sort things into general taxa is super helpful for the specialists who come through to ID.
If you want to learn more, there was just a great article in the NYT about iNaturalist the other day! https://tinyurl.com/yckyn3k9

#iNat #iNaturalist #nature #naturalist #science

My ID stats
42.1% supporting
33.1% leading
24.8% improving

MauiGuy 🏳️‍🌈🐜🐜♾

1 year ago

@fabiomrbarbosa > #defragment my online persona

I wholeheartedly support this! If only I could figure it out myself. I feel pressure to have a very focused persona, and that if one has interests that are too widely divergent it's best to have separate handles (or friend circles) to explore them, lest we offend someone.

I'm a #neurodivergent #sex-positive #lgbtq #naturist with serious #mentalhealth issues who is ALSO a #naturalist studying #entomology. I don't know how to honor all of that.

Jennifer Ebeling

1 year ago

#November 29, 1627
#OTD John Ray, English #Naturalist & #Writer is born.

John classified #Plants based on observed #Similarities & #Differences. He was clearly thinking about ways to distinguish 1 plant from another.

In his book, #History of Plants, John was the first #Scientist to use the terms #Petal and #pollen

John also wrote #Collection of #English #Proverbs:

If the first of #July be #Rainy #Weather,
It will #Rain, more or less, for 4 weeks together.

#GardenersofMastodon #Botany

Jennifer Ebeling

1 year ago

How beautifully #leaves grow old.

How full of light and color are their last days.

- John Burroughs (1837-1921), American #Naturalist and #Nature #Writer

#autumn #trees #garden #gardening #gardenpodcast #podcast #FollowBackFriday #FollowFriday

Dan Harper

1 year ago

#introduction Religion geek, where "religion" includes things like work (Chen 2022), sports, cult of Mao, Christian nationalism #religiousstudies Currently fascinated by the connection between Western religions and colonialism.
I sing Sacred Harp, the oldest N American choral tradition #sacredharp
My other social media platform is iNaturalist. Documenting local flora mostly. #naturalist
In Cohasset Mass USA where I'm a Unitarian Universalist clergyperson. Live with my partner of 33 years.

David Epithet

1 year ago

#Introduction and partial disclosure
I'm a recently retired #EnvironmentalEngineer and #WaterResources consultant. My wife and I live with my elderly father in inland #SouthernCalifornia. Politically, I'm anti-kleptocrat, anti-populist, and anti-theocrat. I'm a #Thelemite, an amateur #naturalist and #photographer, and a #Harmonica player. Most of my posts are photos.