We had a lot of great birds at the banding station this morning, but this bycatch adult female Calliope hummingbird was a special treat 🥰

All birds captured and banded with appropriate state and federal permits.

I encourage everyone to read this if they haven’t. Audubon Society is bleeding the talent we need if we want any chance of protecting birds. inthesetimes.com/article/bird-u…

Charlie 🐶💤🥰

Variation in male and female tricolored blackbird plumage. First two are an adult male, third is an adult female (some have lots of red some have none), and fourth is a second year male.

I was in the field today and I didn’t take a single picture 🙃

Well 💩🦌🧬

Please, everyone, I am begging you, stop using century gothic! Please!

And that’s a wrap! The people have overwhelmingly chosen “pill-ee-ay-tid” (see, I did better this time!) as their preferred pronunciation. Tune in next time for another installment of #HowDoYouPronounce

Two hours left but I think we have a clear winner here!

Ok folks step right up for round #2 of #HowDoYouPronounce where we let the people decide how to pronounce difficult/confusing/controversial English bird names.

Today’s poll: how do you pronounce “Pileated”? Annnnnnnd go!

Y’all don’t be picky. I know I didn’t write it out with three syllabus. You know what I mean! Just have fun!

Ok folks step right up for round #2 of #HowDoYouPronounce where we let the people decide how to pronounce difficult/confusing/controversial English bird names.

Today’s poll: how do you pronounce “Pileated”? Annnnnnnd go!

AND THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN!!!

Well that was fun. What bird name should I do a poll for next?

Snow on the mountain dogwood ❄️🌳

Puppy and a fire with snow outside on MAY 4TH 🤯

Two hours left to vote! Unless you can pay a couple thousand people to vote for the wrong answer, it looks like the right answer is gonna win 😜

Nice to visit the UC Davis campus today. It’s been a few years since I’ve just walked around campus 🚲🌳🎓