This is very important thread on good societal fortune: having a sample of cranes scientifically GPS tagged. All of a sudden, the many applications & implications became clear to many - during the outbreak of avian flu in Hula Valley, Israel. Information helping birds & people.

My wife is officially done with 2021. A barred owl plucked the toque from her head during a predawn trudge in the snow.

Great story on the incredible, enormous, magnificent & hard-to-even-understand long-distance #migration of shorebirds, centred around Hudsonian #Godwits and other folks of Global Flyway Network, especially @NRSenner! Thanks Jim Robbins for your special report! smithsonianmag.com/science/hudson…

“I’m done with COVID” is code for “I’m pretty sure I’ll be ok if I get infected, and what happens to other people is of no concern to me.” Other than being selfish and privileged, it‘s shortsighted - more cases = strains on healthcare & other systems, risk of new variants, etc.

Fear of predators can halve wildlife populations in 5 years or less. In a new PNAS paper we experimentally demonstrate for the 1st time in any wild animal that fear itself can reduce prey population growth rates & include impacts extending over generations pnas.org/content/119/7/…

If you speak Frisian, please kindly help with a 20-minute listening experiment of synthetic (artificial) Frisian speech at tinyurl.com/fryske-spraak. Your evaluation of these synthetic Frisian sentences will help assessing different methods to create a Frisian voice. Tige tank!

Red knots and a dunlin at the Salton Sea, California. Though not actually a sea, drought and agricultural water use have turned this into an extremely salty and toxic lake. Less and less shorebirds can make a living here. Little is done to improve the situation. Global Flyway Network

It's been over 3 weeks since Canada geese started arriving in central Alberta. It was thawing during the day, and it wouldn't be much longer until most of the snow cover would be gone... This is today, after a few days of night and daytime freezing - fresh snow falling #binoblast

We open this weekend and the gardens are waking up just in time. Open daily 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Come find the (pictured) Pulsatilla slavica (prairie crocus), and other spring flowers in our alpine and prairie gardens. Purchase tickets in advance or walk up. bit.ly/38JS4jw

Would you like to do excellent conservation work as part of a fantastic team? The West Coast Conservation Land Management Program (WCCLMP) is seeking Seasonal Conservation Field Crew members to join our Nanaimo team. Visit the link below to learn more: ow.ly/MhMJ50J1Mxt

High inflation is due a small handful of items. This is especially true in Alberta. Political rhetoric misses this, and so much more. My latest for Calgary Herald here: calgaryherald.com/opinion/column… #cdnecon #ableg

New paper with Josue D Arteaga-Torres (or Yoshi - He/his/him) and Jan Wijmenga: "Individual risk-taking behaviour in black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus) does not predict annual survival" royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

New paper from the lab! Team collaboration led by undergraduate student Megan LaRocque (supported by an NSERC / CRSNG USRA scholarship) investigating recapture bias in black-capped chickadees (1/5) authors.elsevier.com/a/1gPh~mjL~dwV…

This is the migration of birds in Europe traced by GPS. It reminds us of just how interconnected our world really is. Protect people and the planet. #ActOnClimate #ClimateAction #climate #Deforestation #Nature #rewilding #birds #biodiversity #SDGs

Danielle Smith proposing a $20B handout to oil companies to get them to clean up their orphan wells is truly the icing on the shit sandwich that is Alberta right now. Fun fact, the 2022-23 budget for AHS was $15.1B and the AbEd budget was $8.4B. This is the bad place #AbPoli

This is a 115 year old picture book. Apparently they would let you publish anything in the 1900s.