Caitlin Dagg
@caitlindagg.bsky.social
irish/french phd candidate | data-driven landscape-scale ecosystem restoration @ hie, wsu 🛰️👩💻🌱 || caitlindagg.github.io
my main takeaway from @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social’s plenary is that if my cat was a orange-bellied parrot juvenile, she’d definitely survive her first migration #AOC #AOC2025 #difficultbirds
November 19, 2025 at 2:15 AM
my main takeaway from @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social’s plenary is that if my cat was a orange-bellied parrot juvenile, she’d definitely survive her first migration #AOC #AOC2025 #difficultbirds
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Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.
November 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.
my parents are visiting and we spent a few days up in the blue mountains where we could barely turn a corner without tripping over lyrebirds and crimson rosellas!
November 4, 2025 at 9:18 PM
my parents are visiting and we spent a few days up in the blue mountains where we could barely turn a corner without tripping over lyrebirds and crimson rosellas!
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Melbourne’s native bird community is becoming progressively simplified, or homogenised, with greater urban development. In my recent paper, I demonstrate that more developed suburbs are home to fewer individual birds and a reduced diversity of bird species. 1/5
doi.org/10.1007/s109...
doi.org/10.1007/s109...
October 31, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Melbourne’s native bird community is becoming progressively simplified, or homogenised, with greater urban development. In my recent paper, I demonstrate that more developed suburbs are home to fewer individual birds and a reduced diversity of bird species. 1/5
doi.org/10.1007/s109...
doi.org/10.1007/s109...
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An employee at Sequoia Park Zoo in Northern California found a black bear who came in from the wild, introduced itself to the zoo’s bears and played with their toys, before being shown the exit.
Bear Breaks Into California Zoo to Mingle With Other Bears
Officials at Sequoia Park Zoo have no idea how the young bear got into the zoo and went “nose-to-nose” with the three bears there.
nyti.ms
October 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
An employee at Sequoia Park Zoo in Northern California found a black bear who came in from the wild, introduced itself to the zoo’s bears and played with their toys, before being shown the exit.
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I'm excited to share our new (in press) paper on vocal individuality and acoustic recognition. We looked at Red-tailed Black-Cockatoos, Little Penguins, Little Owls, Tree Pipits and Chiffchaffs, with promising results. #bioacoustics #vocalindividuality www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Acoustic recognition of individuals in closed and open bird populations
Passive acoustic monitoring is firmly established as an effective non-invasive technique for wildlife monitoring. The analysis of animal vocalizations…
www.sciencedirect.com
July 29, 2025 at 1:35 AM
I'm excited to share our new (in press) paper on vocal individuality and acoustic recognition. We looked at Red-tailed Black-Cockatoos, Little Penguins, Little Owls, Tree Pipits and Chiffchaffs, with promising results. #bioacoustics #vocalindividuality www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Our team has published a new study in Avian Conservation Ecology showing that #cats kill between 19–197 million #birds each year in Canada!
In the time it has taken you to read ~3 posts (1 min) 114 birds have been killed at the paws of cats in Canada.
ace-eco.org/vol20/iss2/a...
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In the time it has taken you to read ~3 posts (1 min) 114 birds have been killed at the paws of cats in Canada.
ace-eco.org/vol20/iss2/a...
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October 16, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Our team has published a new study in Avian Conservation Ecology showing that #cats kill between 19–197 million #birds each year in Canada!
In the time it has taken you to read ~3 posts (1 min) 114 birds have been killed at the paws of cats in Canada.
ace-eco.org/vol20/iss2/a...
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In the time it has taken you to read ~3 posts (1 min) 114 birds have been killed at the paws of cats in Canada.
ace-eco.org/vol20/iss2/a...
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u kiss it on the nose next question please
October 9, 2025 at 9:28 PM
u kiss it on the nose next question please
god i love science theconversation.com/worlds-first...
World’s first known butt-drag fossil trace was left by a rock hyrax in South Africa 126,000 years ago
The first hyrax fossil tracks and traces ever to be discovered were identified on South Africa’s coast.
theconversation.com
October 8, 2025 at 1:54 AM
god i love science theconversation.com/worlds-first...
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Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns
May 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns
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Totally not shocked
News that shocks no one: Carbon offsets do nothing for climate.
Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says
Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions
www.theguardian.com
October 7, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Totally not shocked
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"After only one year, the transformation is dramatic. A colony of 2000 Sooty Terns, where there was previously none, were feeding hundreds of chicks. We also counted 1000’s of native Pisonia grandis tree seedlings across just 60 12m monitored plots on the forest floor—in 2024 we found zero." 🌏
Press Release: Staggering Recovery of Plants and Seabirds on Marshallese Islands Just One Year After Rat Removal - Island Conservation
Astonishing results from our work to restore sites in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, boosting climate resilience and ocean health!
www.islandconservation.org
October 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM
"After only one year, the transformation is dramatic. A colony of 2000 Sooty Terns, where there was previously none, were feeding hundreds of chicks. We also counted 1000’s of native Pisonia grandis tree seedlings across just 60 12m monitored plots on the forest floor—in 2024 we found zero." 🌏
this is something that's been bothering me for ages! Decades of agricultural intensification had already occurred by the 1970s in many developed countries
If conservationists work from a compromised baseline, our notions of abundance, scarcity, and ecological wellbeing will keep getting defined downward:
"The researchers show that using the 1970s as a baseline tends to normalize an already severely degraded state."
phys.org/news/2025-10...
"The researchers show that using the 1970s as a baseline tends to normalize an already severely degraded state."
phys.org/news/2025-10...
Bird conservation threatened by shifting baseline syndrome
New research shows that populations of dozens of waterbird and seabird species have been declining for much longer than previously thought in Europe. The article "Shifting the baseline for waterbird a...
phys.org
October 2, 2025 at 6:04 PM
this is something that's been bothering me for ages! Decades of agricultural intensification had already occurred by the 1970s in many developed countries
I had some time to explore before #SER2025 started and was lucky enough to get to join a bird banding session at Barr Lake state park yesterday! So cool to see different warblers up close and see valuable data being collected
October 1, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I had some time to explore before #SER2025 started and was lucky enough to get to join a bird banding session at Barr Lake state park yesterday! So cool to see different warblers up close and see valuable data being collected
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We've just recorded a Rare Earth on animal migration & this app is amazing. It's called Animal Tracker (www.icarus.mpg.de/29... ), and it's real time data on 100s of animals - birds, foxes, bison & more. Their tracks are fascinating, taking clear routes with intent. More to come next wk on the air!
September 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
We've just recorded a Rare Earth on animal migration & this app is amazing. It's called Animal Tracker (www.icarus.mpg.de/29... ), and it's real time data on 100s of animals - birds, foxes, bison & more. Their tracks are fascinating, taking clear routes with intent. More to come next wk on the air!
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Keeping cats contained is safer for them and safer for the environment. This is a massive issue in Australia 🧪 The #biodiversity crisis is existential for humanity.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
NSW councils call for cat curfews to protect native wildlife
Local Government NSW president Phyllis Miller says making owners lock their cats in at night should be a "no-brainer" decision, but animal welfare organisations disagree.
www.abc.net.au
September 7, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Keeping cats contained is safer for them and safer for the environment. This is a massive issue in Australia 🧪 The #biodiversity crisis is existential for humanity.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
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Predawn song of a Pied Butcherbird in early spring. Before sunrise at this time of year the song of butcherbirds (and Australian Magpies) is often made up of simpler, more repetitive phrases than the typical full song heard later in the morning - but it's still sublime!
#wildoz
#wildoz
August 26, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Predawn song of a Pied Butcherbird in early spring. Before sunrise at this time of year the song of butcherbirds (and Australian Magpies) is often made up of simpler, more repetitive phrases than the typical full song heard later in the morning - but it's still sublime!
#wildoz
#wildoz
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PhD opportunity available at @westsyduhie.bsky.social with the brillant Dr Laura Williams - hyperspectral data and process-based modelling of tree diversity 🌳🌲 please share with your networks tinyurl.com/ms6mjz8y
August 18, 2025 at 3:41 AM
PhD opportunity available at @westsyduhie.bsky.social with the brillant Dr Laura Williams - hyperspectral data and process-based modelling of tree diversity 🌳🌲 please share with your networks tinyurl.com/ms6mjz8y
i am loving these bird etymologies
Actually my favorite bird etymology is that in 1400s England they gave human nicknames to birds (Jenny Wren, Tom Tit) but some of them stuck. Jack Daw became Jackdaw, Maggie Pie became Magpie. With Robin Redbreast they just dropped the original name of the bird entirely.
July 29, 2025 at 11:33 PM
i am loving these bird etymologies
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Cormorant is just bastardized latin for corvus marinus (sea raven)
July 29, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Cormorant is just bastardized latin for corvus marinus (sea raven)
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Two paper just out from the #clevercockieproject!
@julia-penndorf.bsky.social reveals how cockies play politics when deciding who to aggress: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
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@barbaraklump.bsky.social describes a new 'drinking innovation':
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
@julia-penndorf.bsky.social reveals how cockies play politics when deciding who to aggress: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
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@barbaraklump.bsky.social describes a new 'drinking innovation':
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
June 4, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Two paper just out from the #clevercockieproject!
@julia-penndorf.bsky.social reveals how cockies play politics when deciding who to aggress: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
&
@barbaraklump.bsky.social describes a new 'drinking innovation':
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
@julia-penndorf.bsky.social reveals how cockies play politics when deciding who to aggress: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
&
@barbaraklump.bsky.social describes a new 'drinking innovation':
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Long-term evidence for the benefits of feral removal in our arid zone. New paper from Katherine Moseby et al. in Proc Royal Soc B - royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #wildoz
Feral-free zones spark small mammal boom in Australian desert
A 26-year study at the Arid Recovery Reserve reveals how removing invasive predators like cats and foxes triggers a dramatic reshaping of desert small mammal communities.
www.unsw.edu.au
July 9, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Long-term evidence for the benefits of feral removal in our arid zone. New paper from Katherine Moseby et al. in Proc Royal Soc B - royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #wildoz
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Nature Ecology & Evolution highlights our paper about bird niches keeping pace with climate change in a news & views feature:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Some birds are left behind in a race to beat the heat - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Twenty years of occurrence data for North American birds suggest that range shifts in some, but not all, bird species have partly mitigated the effects of climate change.
www.nature.com
July 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Nature Ecology & Evolution highlights our paper about bird niches keeping pace with climate change in a news & views feature:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
had the wonderful surprise of running into my first glossy black-cockatoos 5 minutes from my house yesterday!
July 9, 2025 at 10:45 PM
had the wonderful surprise of running into my first glossy black-cockatoos 5 minutes from my house yesterday!