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Assistant prof @sunyoswego teaching and studying bird behavior. Opinions = mine, not representative of NY state government. He/him. #LaVidaNOCA #AwesomeBirds
Aug 14 β€’ 252 tweets β€’ >60 min read
Nobody:
Not a single person:
Nary a lone individual:
Me: Here's the definitive list of the best bird species in each of the 251 taxonomic families 🧡 Image Struthionidae: Somali Ostrich
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Jul 8, 2022 β€’ 11 tweets β€’ 4 min read
πŸ”₯ TOP-TEN SEXIEST BIRDS LET'S GO! πŸ”₯

10. Lilac-breasted Roller. A no-brainer. This bird will knock your damn socks off. It has colors I'm not entirely sure we have words for.

πŸ“· David Turko, eBird Image 9. Steller's Eider. Entire YouTube makeup tutorials are devoted to the smokey eye. Too bad this duck perfected it 15 million years ago.

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Jan 20, 2022 β€’ 12 tweets β€’ 8 min read
Thanks in part to #BirdTwitter, my @sunyoswego #Ornithology syllabus is complete! Students will be reading papers from @branchinalong, @WildlifeMcCoy, @sexinnature, @martinwikelski, @CaiafaMarcos, @lyrebirdlab, @ederry1, @teamswiftparrot, and @honeyguiding. What a lineup! Topic #1: "how birds evolve", paper by @branchinalong et al. on the genetic basis of chickadee spatial abilities sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Feb 2, 2021 β€’ 10 tweets β€’ 5 min read
90s goalkeepers as birds 🧡

David Seaman/Rainbow Lorikeet (πŸ“· Mat Gilfedder) ImageImage Jorge Campos/Cuban Today (πŸ“· Michael Good) ImageImage
Jan 31, 2021 β€’ 4 tweets β€’ 2 min read
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Feb 4, 2020 β€’ 17 tweets β€’ 9 min read
Been getting a lot of emails from this predatory journal lately, so I decided to submit this manuscript. Stay tuned. 🀞🀞🀞 longdom.org/entomology-orn… I'm hoping to be added to their Field Ornithology special issue.