Birds never cease to amaze me: Hummingbirds See Colors Humans Can Only Imagine ❤️🌺 cmns.umd.edu/news-events/fe…

Hurricanes during the peak of migration is bad for birds! Veeries cut their breeding season short during particularly bad seasons. This relation predicts the severity of hurricane seasons better than leading meteorological models.

The astronomer Vera Rubin was born #OTD in 1928. Her work on galactic rotation curves became one of the main pieces of evidence for the existence of dark matter, and she deserved a Nobel Prize for it. Image: Vassar College / Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

Have to share this beautiful short film; missing home everyday. ALONE TOGETHER - COVID19 Pandemic - London Ontario youtu.be/1FQM085HKyI via YouTube

A really beautiful article: Remembering Toni Morrison, the Bird Whisperer audubon.org/news/rememberi… via Audubon Society

Indigenous governments and communities across the boreal forest in Canada are working on the largest land conservation action in modern history. We must make sure they have the resources they need to protect the boreal for generations to come. audubon.org/news/a-last-ch…

Hey folks, this news continues to get attention (rightly so) so here’s a quick explainer thread to provide folks some additional context. lcsun-news.com/story/news/202…

The Graduate School Fall 2020 Events calendar is packed! Check out what's coming up and register now! gradschool.umd.edu/calendar #UMD #UMDRightNow #UMDDiscovers

The BirdCast Team is predicting a large flight of nearly 600 million #birds tonight across much of the central and southeastern US. With a spotting scope and clear skies, you might even be able to see migrants flying past the full moon! 😎🌕🐦 bit.ly/3l60a6Q #birdtwitter

Yes!!! I'm so happy to see this!! Light pollution can disorient migrating birds, which mostly migrate by night, and even put them on collision courses with buildings. An estimated billion birds die this way each year in the US, so this is really encouraging to see 👏🏼🐦💛

"The Cost of Cats" by @JakWonderly -- these birds were all attacked by outdoor cats and did not survive their injuries. This is the fate of more than 2 billion birds every year in the US, among other wildlife as well. jakwonderly.com/index/I0000UsW…

A summary of my most recently published work!

Story of a 66-year-old researcher, an immigrant, who rarely got grants, never got her own lab, never earned more than $60K. For four decades, she kept working on mRNA—a path considered foolish. Her work is the basis for the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. nytimes.com/2021/04/08/hea…

400 million birds in flight last night -- spring migration is happening and it's my favourite time of year!! 🐦💛 Check out live migration maps here: birdcast.info/migration-tool… -- it's super cool!

Especially important now when birds are migrating north!!

Check out this timely Port City Daily story on the important work our biologists and volunteers to to do to protect birds during the coastal nesting season. bit.ly/3f0ms8D #ShareTheShore

Did you know that due to disturbance by recreational beachgoers, some beach-nesting birds like the Least Tern are nesting on unsafe rooftops? Learn what Audubon Florida is doing to help chicks from falling. bit.ly/3nNunJV #ShareTheShore

That's me! Sitting in awe, witnessing astronomy being revolutionized!! Can't wait to see what amazing results tomorrow will bring.