Michael
@thecorvallisbirder.bsky.social
Fisheries biologist working with the Oregon Dept of Fish and Wildlife, monitoring coastal fall Chinook. Birder, forager, all-around amateur naturalist and photographer.
Today's #BirdoftheDay theme is #BirdsonTwigs. While on a birding trip in Central Oregon, a lot of birds loved these bare tree tops, allowing some great views and photos! #Nature #Photography #Birds #PNWBirding #Oregon
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Today's #BirdoftheDay theme is #BirdsonTwigs. While on a birding trip in Central Oregon, a lot of birds loved these bare tree tops, allowing some great views and photos! #Nature #Photography #Birds #PNWBirding #Oregon
For the #BirdoftheDay theme of #Movement, here's an American White Pelican (one of the largest birds in NA) flying over a marsh out in Central Oregon. Although most people think of them as ocean birds, White Pelicans breed inland. #Nature #Photography #Birds #PNWBirding #Oregon
December 6, 2025 at 5:57 PM
For the #BirdoftheDay theme of #Movement, here's an American White Pelican (one of the largest birds in NA) flying over a marsh out in Central Oregon. Although most people think of them as ocean birds, White Pelicans breed inland. #Nature #Photography #Birds #PNWBirding #Oregon
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For Day 2 of #25DaysOfFishmas, we've got an iconic oddball, native to the Mississippi River Basin. This is the American Paddlefish, Polyodon spathula, the only living member of the family Polyodontidae.
December 2, 2025 at 11:48 AM
For Day 2 of #25DaysOfFishmas, we've got an iconic oddball, native to the Mississippi River Basin. This is the American Paddlefish, Polyodon spathula, the only living member of the family Polyodontidae.
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It’s time to hang up the holiday GAR-land 🎄
Move over Florida Man, it’s Florida Gar’s time to shine!
On Day 3 of #25DaysofFishmas, we head down to the Sunshine State to find the Florida gar (Lepisosteus platyrhincus), an ancient-looking fish whose appearance hasn’t changed much since the Mesozoic
Move over Florida Man, it’s Florida Gar’s time to shine!
On Day 3 of #25DaysofFishmas, we head down to the Sunshine State to find the Florida gar (Lepisosteus platyrhincus), an ancient-looking fish whose appearance hasn’t changed much since the Mesozoic
December 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
It’s time to hang up the holiday GAR-land 🎄
Move over Florida Man, it’s Florida Gar’s time to shine!
On Day 3 of #25DaysofFishmas, we head down to the Sunshine State to find the Florida gar (Lepisosteus platyrhincus), an ancient-looking fish whose appearance hasn’t changed much since the Mesozoic
Move over Florida Man, it’s Florida Gar’s time to shine!
On Day 3 of #25DaysofFishmas, we head down to the Sunshine State to find the Florida gar (Lepisosteus platyrhincus), an ancient-looking fish whose appearance hasn’t changed much since the Mesozoic
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It’s all about that bass on Day 4 of #25DaysofFishmas - the Suwannee Bass (Micropterus notius), that is!
We head to the Florida Panhandle to find this lesser-known cousin of the largemouth bass who is like the quiet - but interesting - cousin at the black bass family holiday get-together.
We head to the Florida Panhandle to find this lesser-known cousin of the largemouth bass who is like the quiet - but interesting - cousin at the black bass family holiday get-together.
December 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
It’s all about that bass on Day 4 of #25DaysofFishmas - the Suwannee Bass (Micropterus notius), that is!
We head to the Florida Panhandle to find this lesser-known cousin of the largemouth bass who is like the quiet - but interesting - cousin at the black bass family holiday get-together.
We head to the Florida Panhandle to find this lesser-known cousin of the largemouth bass who is like the quiet - but interesting - cousin at the black bass family holiday get-together.
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For yesterday's #25DaysOfFishmas, we had one of the most primitive eels around. Today, we've got quite the opposite - this is Cyema atrum, the bobtail snipe eel, a species so bizarre and highly derived from the eel body plan it barely looks like one at all!
December 5, 2025 at 10:00 AM
For yesterday's #25DaysOfFishmas, we had one of the most primitive eels around. Today, we've got quite the opposite - this is Cyema atrum, the bobtail snipe eel, a species so bizarre and highly derived from the eel body plan it barely looks like one at all!
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Keep an eye on your #Fishmas tree - there’s a cat(fish) on the loose! 🎄🐈
Carolina’s on our minds here on Day 5 of #25DaysofFishmas, as we meet the Carolina Madtom (Noturus furiosus), a small - but mighty - endangered catfish species only found in North Carolina
Carolina’s on our minds here on Day 5 of #25DaysofFishmas, as we meet the Carolina Madtom (Noturus furiosus), a small - but mighty - endangered catfish species only found in North Carolina
December 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Keep an eye on your #Fishmas tree - there’s a cat(fish) on the loose! 🎄🐈
Carolina’s on our minds here on Day 5 of #25DaysofFishmas, as we meet the Carolina Madtom (Noturus furiosus), a small - but mighty - endangered catfish species only found in North Carolina
Carolina’s on our minds here on Day 5 of #25DaysofFishmas, as we meet the Carolina Madtom (Noturus furiosus), a small - but mighty - endangered catfish species only found in North Carolina
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Go tell it on the mountain - the Mountain Mullet (Dajaus monticola), that is! ⛰️
#25DaysofFishmas Day 6 takes us to the rainforests of Puerto Rico where this freshwater mullet species - also known as dajao or tepemechín - proves there ain’t no mountain high enough to keep from celebrating #Fishmas!
#25DaysofFishmas Day 6 takes us to the rainforests of Puerto Rico where this freshwater mullet species - also known as dajao or tepemechín - proves there ain’t no mountain high enough to keep from celebrating #Fishmas!
December 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Go tell it on the mountain - the Mountain Mullet (Dajaus monticola), that is! ⛰️
#25DaysofFishmas Day 6 takes us to the rainforests of Puerto Rico where this freshwater mullet species - also known as dajao or tepemechín - proves there ain’t no mountain high enough to keep from celebrating #Fishmas!
#25DaysofFishmas Day 6 takes us to the rainforests of Puerto Rico where this freshwater mullet species - also known as dajao or tepemechín - proves there ain’t no mountain high enough to keep from celebrating #Fishmas!
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For Day 4 of #25DaysOfFishmas we have an animal that I'm low-key obsessed with. This snazzily dressed little fella is Protanguilla palau, the Palauan primitive cave Eel. As you might expect, this mysterious creature was first discovered (as recently as 2012!) in coral caves east of the Palau.
December 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM
For Day 4 of #25DaysOfFishmas we have an animal that I'm low-key obsessed with. This snazzily dressed little fella is Protanguilla palau, the Palauan primitive cave Eel. As you might expect, this mysterious creature was first discovered (as recently as 2012!) in coral caves east of the Palau.
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For Day 6 of #25DaysOfFishmas, we have a really quite important species - this is the milkfish, Chanos chanos. C. chanos is the only living member of the Chanidae family, and is a widespread and widely-consumed species across the Indo-Pacific.
December 6, 2025 at 2:52 PM
For Day 6 of #25DaysOfFishmas, we have a really quite important species - this is the milkfish, Chanos chanos. C. chanos is the only living member of the Chanidae family, and is a widespread and widely-consumed species across the Indo-Pacific.
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For Day 3 of #25DaysOfFishmas, we have a really charismatic little fella. This floating clump of leaves and twigs is Pantodon buchholzi, the African butterflyfish. This is the only living member of the Pantodontidae, a family that was more diverse in the Cretaceous.
December 3, 2025 at 10:43 AM
For Day 3 of #25DaysOfFishmas, we have a really charismatic little fella. This floating clump of leaves and twigs is Pantodon buchholzi, the African butterflyfish. This is the only living member of the Pantodontidae, a family that was more diverse in the Cretaceous.
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For this year's #25DaysOfFishmas we're going to go in roughly chronological order, from the oldest lineages of fish to the present. We're kicking off, then, with a truly ancient and utterly bizarre animal - this is the Queensland Lungfish, Neoceratodus forsteri.
December 1, 2025 at 11:31 AM
For this year's #25DaysOfFishmas we're going to go in roughly chronological order, from the oldest lineages of fish to the present. We're kicking off, then, with a truly ancient and utterly bizarre animal - this is the Queensland Lungfish, Neoceratodus forsteri.
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Rudolph, the red-eared reindeer! 🦌
With ears so bright, the Redear Sunfish (Lepomis microlophus) guides us into Day 2 of #25DaysofFishmas! This member of the sunfish family found throughout the southeastern US is a warm-water loving ray of sun on a cold winter day ☀️
With ears so bright, the Redear Sunfish (Lepomis microlophus) guides us into Day 2 of #25DaysofFishmas! This member of the sunfish family found throughout the southeastern US is a warm-water loving ray of sun on a cold winter day ☀️
December 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Rudolph, the red-eared reindeer! 🦌
With ears so bright, the Redear Sunfish (Lepomis microlophus) guides us into Day 2 of #25DaysofFishmas! This member of the sunfish family found throughout the southeastern US is a warm-water loving ray of sun on a cold winter day ☀️
With ears so bright, the Redear Sunfish (Lepomis microlophus) guides us into Day 2 of #25DaysofFishmas! This member of the sunfish family found throughout the southeastern US is a warm-water loving ray of sun on a cold winter day ☀️
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🎶It’s beginning to look a lot like #Fishmas🎶
There’s no better fish to kick off this year’s #25DaysofFishmas than the aptly-named Christmas darter (Etheostoma hopkinsi)! We get our road trip started down in the southeastern US with this small species of fish who has big holiday spirit all year long
There’s no better fish to kick off this year’s #25DaysofFishmas than the aptly-named Christmas darter (Etheostoma hopkinsi)! We get our road trip started down in the southeastern US with this small species of fish who has big holiday spirit all year long
December 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
🎶It’s beginning to look a lot like #Fishmas🎶
There’s no better fish to kick off this year’s #25DaysofFishmas than the aptly-named Christmas darter (Etheostoma hopkinsi)! We get our road trip started down in the southeastern US with this small species of fish who has big holiday spirit all year long
There’s no better fish to kick off this year’s #25DaysofFishmas than the aptly-named Christmas darter (Etheostoma hopkinsi)! We get our road trip started down in the southeastern US with this small species of fish who has big holiday spirit all year long
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Science is essential to managing wildlife populations, but there are limits to what we know.
The mystery of wildlife and a world beyond our understanding - High Country News
Science is essential to managing wildlife populations, but there are limits to what we know.
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December 6, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Science is essential to managing wildlife populations, but there are limits to what we know.
Today's #BirdoftheDay theme? #Borbs! So here's a couple nice round birds! #Nature #Photography #Birds #PNWBirding #Oregon #WillametteValley
December 5, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Today's #BirdoftheDay theme? #Borbs! So here's a couple nice round birds! #Nature #Photography #Birds #PNWBirding #Oregon #WillametteValley
Been a minute since I posted any #fieldwork pictures. These are from a new survey I did Tuesday. Kind of surreal, it follows old train tracks out along a river. There's houses at first, but then they fall away, and it's just you, the river, and the crumbling rail line. #Nature #Photography
December 5, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Been a minute since I posted any #fieldwork pictures. These are from a new survey I did Tuesday. Kind of surreal, it follows old train tracks out along a river. There's houses at first, but then they fall away, and it's just you, the river, and the crumbling rail line. #Nature #Photography
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This is the conclusion, which I'm pulling out from behind the paywall because it'll probably be a free newsletter or podcast one day. I think the AI era is a reckoning for the tech industry, one where consumers finally realize they're being abused.
December 5, 2025 at 4:02 AM
This is the conclusion, which I'm pulling out from behind the paywall because it'll probably be a free newsletter or podcast one day. I think the AI era is a reckoning for the tech industry, one where consumers finally realize they're being abused.
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They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
Here's a #Songbird from a few years ago for today's #BirdoftheDay; a White-crowned Sparrow on the #Oregon Coast! #Nature #Photography #Birds #PNWBirding #thepeoplescoast
December 4, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Here's a #Songbird from a few years ago for today's #BirdoftheDay; a White-crowned Sparrow on the #Oregon Coast! #Nature #Photography #Birds #PNWBirding #thepeoplescoast
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A new #Jaguar has been spotted in #Arizona just days after the Trump admin.'s decision to to fast-track construction of border walls and industrial-scale lighting systems across all federally designated jaguar critical habitat connecting southeastern Arizona to Mexico.
Read on ➡️ bit.ly/4pDXChu
Read on ➡️ bit.ly/4pDXChu
Breaking
The University of Arizona Wild Cat Research and Conservation Center (WCC) has tonight confirmed a brand-new jaguar in the United States, Jaguar #5, never before identified, just days after the Trump administration’s new double border wall construction waivers (see below).
The University of Arizona Wild Cat Research and Conservation Center (WCC) has tonight confirmed a brand-new jaguar in the United States, Jaguar #5, never before identified, just days after the Trump administration’s new double border wall construction waivers (see below).
December 3, 2025 at 5:07 PM
A new #Jaguar has been spotted in #Arizona just days after the Trump admin.'s decision to to fast-track construction of border walls and industrial-scale lighting systems across all federally designated jaguar critical habitat connecting southeastern Arizona to Mexico.
Read on ➡️ bit.ly/4pDXChu
Read on ➡️ bit.ly/4pDXChu
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I am excited to share with you a new paper, probably my last of 2025. @drcatmac.bsky.social is a coauthor.
Our paper presents advice for early career shark scientists who want their work to be useful for conservation and management policy.
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧪🦑🌍🦈
Our paper presents advice for early career shark scientists who want their work to be useful for conservation and management policy.
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧪🦑🌍🦈
“This research is important for the conservation and Management of Sharks”: A proposed framework for ensuring that this is actually true
Many scientists want their research to inform policy and help manage endangered species, but many common research practices hinder potential policy relevance. The results of our survey provide advice...
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:08 PM
I am excited to share with you a new paper, probably my last of 2025. @drcatmac.bsky.social is a coauthor.
Our paper presents advice for early career shark scientists who want their work to be useful for conservation and management policy.
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧪🦑🌍🦈
Our paper presents advice for early career shark scientists who want their work to be useful for conservation and management policy.
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧪🦑🌍🦈
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but if you don’t bend to these absurd and impossible demands, you render these people powerless. let them fucking howl, who gives a shit.
November 30, 2025 at 8:58 PM
but if you don’t bend to these absurd and impossible demands, you render these people powerless. let them fucking howl, who gives a shit.
For the #BirdoftheDay theme of #Headshots, a cooperative Great Blue Heron. #Nature #Photography #Birds #PNWBirding #WillametteValley #Oregon
November 28, 2025 at 3:04 AM
For the #BirdoftheDay theme of #Headshots, a cooperative Great Blue Heron. #Nature #Photography #Birds #PNWBirding #WillametteValley #Oregon
"Meet your meat!" (Shamelessly stolen from @pftompkins.bsky.social character Randy on Bob's Burgers S1.E3) The wild Turkey, Meleagris gallopavo. Progenitor of the common domesticated version, but gorgeous wild birds as well, and widespread across the US thanks to introduction. #Birds #Nature #Oregon
November 28, 2025 at 2:49 AM
"Meet your meat!" (Shamelessly stolen from @pftompkins.bsky.social character Randy on Bob's Burgers S1.E3) The wild Turkey, Meleagris gallopavo. Progenitor of the common domesticated version, but gorgeous wild birds as well, and widespread across the US thanks to introduction. #Birds #Nature #Oregon