"To me, being a woman in conservation means...persevering when others doubt you...& supporting other women in this field, especially younger women just starting out." - Madie McFarland, Ducks Unlimited 📷Hunter Collins & Dane Cramer #WomensHistoryMonth ow.ly/NRem50QW3Qg

“I am sorry that my job is getting in the way of your learning. I hope that the time you gain can be productively used in employment so that you can pay for your college education” Class Is Canceled Until Further Notice While I Do My Job - McSweeney’s mcsweeneys.net/articles/class…

In a wetland far, far away... #DucksUnlimited #StarWars #MayThe4thBeWithYou #StarWarsDay

🚨New Paper: How does oil and gas development influence duck nest survival? TL;DR - we found no evidence of a negative effect of oil and gas development on duck nest survival Brad Fedy Ducks Unlimited CAN 1/9

Canvasbacks on a prairie marsh. #ducks Delta Waterfowl Ducks Unlimited

It's official! Excited to announce I'll be joining the faculty at UC Davis this fall!

Legend

Basically at no point during the day or night for the next three months will it not feel like 95-125 degrees outside

What if you had wood ducks, hooded mergansers, and black-bellied whistling-ducks all laying eggs in each others' nests and you had to try to make sense of it all? New pub here with Dylan Bakner journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

Circling back to this old post as we have a new paper out regarding this topic! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… Kevin Ringelman LSU AgCenter Ecology and Evolution

We're hiring staff to work on Desert Tortoise head-starting in the Mojave National Preserve. Duties include radio-telemetry and husbandry. Experience with the species is preferred, but you will receive training for permitting. Please help share this ad: toddlab.ucdavis.edu/opportunities.…

Well deserved!

Prairie ducks down, boreal ducks up. Especially noteworthy: half of all the pintail counted were in the far north.

*Five* LSU faculty positions at any rank: 3 wildlife (1 waterfowl), 1 forestry, 1 aquaculture lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0341-R… lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0220-R… lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0107-A…

Please RT‼️ I'm recruiting an #ecology PhD student for a fully funded 4 year NSF assistantship to study species-environment relationships in North American birds using eBird #CitizenScience data. #BirdTwitter. DL 30 Sept. see: jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id=9…

Some popular press on BBWD in Louisiana!

The most astounding part of this is the *decision* to forage at 10,000 ft where it feels like prey encounter and the energetic return on investment is unlikely. Or, maybe not.

The juxtaposition of having my writing critiqued and then reading literally any Clifford book to my kids is really just too much right now.

Undergrad thesis from Katie Miranda published today! Traditional monitoring methods dramatically underestimate duckling recruitment in cavity-nesting waterfowl Ogden Honors College Jonathan Earle is @jonearle.bsky.social nature.com/articles/s4159…

It’s that time of year again! I’m hiring three 🦆 technicians to assist in data collection for my Master’s project on Black-bellied Whistling-Ducks. Please share!