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Michael (Mike) C. Mahoney
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PhD Student | NSF GRF | Safford Vegetation and Fire Ecology Lab | Graduate Group in Ecology | U.C. Davis | Research on the nexus of avian ecology, fire ecology, and ecological forest management 🪺🌲🔥
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Acorn Woodpecker?
November 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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According to @corvidresearch.bsky.social on a reddit post about it from years ago, they have a expandable sublingual pouch to hold food. I can't find a jay diagram, but here's one from a Clark's Nutcracker paper, guessing it's similar: digitalcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcont...
old-timey hand-drawn diagram from the linked paper. It shows a bird's head and neck muscles. Under the bird's beak hangs a pouch of muscles. In the top diagram, A, the pouch is not full of food. Below that, in B, shows the pouch expanded with food.
October 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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I am hoping to use this account as a platform to share my research with a wider audience, and I am
hoping to connect with others from a variety of disciplines. Do you have advice for a fresh grad student? I’d love to hear it!
October 21, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Pics 1 + 3 are from my field work this summer censusing high elevation trees with new lab. Pic 2 is a closeup of an Anna’s Hummingbird - one of the last birds I banded at @pointblue.bsky.social where I worked for several yrs. Pic 4 is of a prescribed burn I was a part of in Sonoma County, CA
October 21, 2025 at 4:04 PM