Mosquitos probing through the membrane of a hatching wood duck egg. Has anyone ever seen or read about this before?

Congratulations to Dr. Bonczek who defended her dissertation today! No PhD is a cake walk, but Lizzi fought through a dizzying number of early challenges on this one. She is a paragon of perseverance, and has earned every inch of this accomishment.

Saturday floofs

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(•_•) <) )/ / \ You go to lake. (•_•) 🎣 ) )> You catchy the fishy fishy. (•_•) ~) )~ We dance.

it is 91 degrees outside put that natural deodorant DOWN

Check out our new publication in Association of Field Ornithologists where we report on intra- and interspecific brood parasitism in Louisiana black-bellied whistling-duck nests. doi.org/10.5751/JFO-00… Katie Miranda Kevin Ringelman LaWildlife&Fisheries LSU AgCenter

Had a fun weekend with the students! Banded a hundred teal and hand-fed a hungry Kiwi

Congratulations to Katie Miranda for defending her honors thesis! You’re an incredible person and taught me so much. She will be heading to Minnedosa, MB to work for Delta Waterfowl. Good luck Katie! I know you’ll succeed in whatever you decide to pursue!

New short communication in Food Webs by myself and Kevin Ringelman. We used modified trail cameras to observe wood duck nests and found red-bellied woodpeckers depredate and consume eggs when nests are unguarded. authors.elsevier.com/a/1gtp48MrlBCx…

Classic

Please RT: looking for a new MS student to study disturbance and bird movement using acoustic recording units and GPS-GSM marked ducks in a heavily hunted landscape in southwest LA drive.google.com/file/d/1NvXXFE…

Calling all 🦆 people! I’m hiring waterfowl technicians to collect field data for my Master’s project. Come on down to Louisiana and work with Black-bellied Whistling-Ducks, Wood Ducks, and Hooded Mergansers! Kevin Ringelman LSU AgCenter Dylan Bakner

Louisiana is known as a major wintering ground for North American waterfowl. But there is a new visitor to the state that is spending its spring and summers there and leaving for the winter. Kevin Ringelman Ducks Unlimited

Shoulda slapped a geo on him

Join Hannah Sabatier and me this summer in Saskatchewan! We’ll be using drones to study duck pairs and broods, nest searching, and deploying transmitters on blue-winged teal. You’ll get valuable experience with different techniques in an important area for breeding ducks!

girls shed their ugg boots in the spring the way deer shed their antlers and I think that connection to nature is beautiful

This is who you’re sending to work tomorrow

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!