Rock outcrop and mountain mahogany in foreground, aspen stand with snags poking out of the canopy in middle ground, peak with meadows, aspen, mahogany, and conifers in background.
Good morning!
Did you know that #Nevada was the most mountainous state in the lower 48 states?
#MountainMonday
Spotted Owl glows against a dark forest.
Interested in Spotted Owls and learning more about #acousticmonitoring?! We have an opportunity for you!
Learn more about how to apply:
jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/v...
#jobs #ornithology #birds
Time is flying, just like the Lesser Goldfinches out back ... and that means the Great Backyard Bird Count is only a week away! Bird lovers across the globe, from beginners on up, will be identifying birds in yards, parks & more. Join in & learn more!
Free webinar on Asian Vulture Conservation, featuring Chris Bowden, MBE.
Spotted Owl glows against a dark forest.
Interested in Spotted Owls and learning more about #acousticmonitoring?! We have an opportunity for you!
Learn more about how to apply:
jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/v...
pronghorn making goofy faces while looking into a field camera against a blue sky and sweeping vista
Hello there! Hope you had a good day!
#ThrowbackThursday #pronghorn #mammal #smile
#pronghornmakinggoofyfaceswhilestaringintofieldcamerasalwaysmakeadaybetter!
mountain lion walks through the woods
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
Left panel: A small black, grey, white and yellow songbird wearing a tracking backpack. Right panel: A map of North America showing a migration track beginning in Alaska, crossing east across the boreal forest of Canada, and then turning south to the coast of Texas before retracing the path north.
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.
Chukar walks, hunched, by the cover of a sagebrush on a mountain slope by blue skies (with a touch of clouds)
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
Black-throated Sparrow on cholla cactus
Good Morning 🪶 Black-throated Sparrow perched on a cholla
you can join us by zoom, or catch up the replay on our youtube channel.
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)
vulture flies by, with mountains in background, against mostly blue skies
Turkey vulture flying over eastern Nevada #TrailCamTuesday
Steep and loose surface on this ridge in the southern Spring Mountains.
it is steep and loose underfoot, and incredibly difficult to survey in the time allotted! Beautiful and fascinating to look at all the folds and layers in the rock formations...
Best wishes to all in 2026!
Sunrise over the rocky mountains of the southern Spring Mountains
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,
Anyway, thanks for the info & adding to an ever-increasing reading/research list!
Actually, a followup - does it seem (anecdotally or otherwise) like the Prodoxus moths respond to similar conditions as the Tegeticula? Or not really / who knows?
Ok, I'll stop badgering you now - thanks again!
But it was really encouraging seeing all those "snowflakes" in the headlights, & a nice change from driving to survey locations, noting 0 or 2 inverts over many miles of road. (After 2021-2, even the presence of mosquitoes now gets a :) on datasheets, so you can imagine...)
Interesting! Yes, they were white. Sadly, it was crazy late, so no pics to confirm ID -regretted it, since not present at any of the other JT sites visited.
That "bogus yucca moth" is an actual common name for a genus, tho, is fantastic. The danger & the quirky joy of common names in one example!
thru a snowstorm, a wall of white flakes drifting in my headlights! .. I say "wall", but (I just measured) it was about a mile - varying density, but over any part of it, more moths than I'd ever seen before. (Also, the mile was where I stopped, not necessarily the moths.) So neat!
Yeah, obviously biased re birds! But especially the past few years, really keying in on Mojave inverts & your post was perfect timing. I'd recently been writing about surveying this past spring in the WeeThump JT Wilderness - I've NEVER seen so many (what I believe were) Yucca moths.. like driving
// 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.
GBBO staff behind a bar, pouring beer for the birds!
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!
😂. I suspect Joe would appreciate that thought!
