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Murry Burgess, PhD
@murryloub.bsky.social
Urban Ecologist & Ornithologist | Children’s Author | Field Inclusive CEO & Co-Founder | 🏳️‍🌈

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Spotted several Yellow-rumped Warblers right outside my apartment! Took these photos through my home office window! According to CLO, Yellow-rumped Warblers don’t breed in MS, but I put out a few clumps of raw wool just in case. If they don’t use it, other birds will! 🪺
February 10, 2024 at 4:48 PM
Look what came in the mail!! 🎓
January 10, 2024 at 12:35 AM
It’s finally here!!! Sparrow Loves Birds available for PREORDER through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Walmart, Target, and other major retailers.
RELEASE DATE: June 25, 2024
Get yours now!! 🤗
#SparrowLovesBirds
November 30, 2023 at 2:50 PM
I have 2 FULLY FUNDED ornithology-related M.S. opportunities that start Summer or Fall 2024! 🐦‍⬛

Check them out on Texas A&M job board or my website (link in bio). Looking forward to your application! 😁
November 22, 2023 at 1:21 AM
Quote with a picture of water you took
November 5, 2023 at 2:14 PM
WHOSE FEATHER IS THIS? The Feather Atlas is failing me lol

Oktibbeha County, MS
10/13/23
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October 23, 2023 at 7:35 PM
Research Grant opportunities from Field Inclusive! Apply here: www.fieldinclusive.org/research-gra...
October 18, 2023 at 4:02 PM
Ok, here’s a challenge: What is this bird and what is it eating? 🪶

My guess: Eastern Wood Pewee eating a monarch butterfly

Starkville, MS 10/14/23
October 14, 2023 at 8:13 PM
SciComm time with Gendry!
October 13, 2023 at 3:36 PM
Found the cutest candy basket for my desk!
October 13, 2023 at 3:35 PM
Book Cover Reveal‼️

So excited to get the F&Gs (Folded & Gathered, step before final bound print) & see my beautiful book coming together! F&Gs are also sent to buyers & reviewers. Almost tearing up as I see this come to fruition. 🥹 #SparrowLovesBirds coming 2024!
September 25, 2023 at 3:50 AM
Alligator! Alligator! Alligator! 🐊
September 14, 2023 at 11:01 PM
Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?
September 14, 2023 at 7:55 PM
This was ALMOST such a great photo 😭🪶
September 12, 2023 at 7:17 PM
Exciting Life Update: I have a job!! You’re looking at the new tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Wildlife, Fisheries, & Aquaculture Department at MS State! 🙌🏽 T-minus 4 days until I move to Starkville. So ready to start this new chapter!
August 28, 2023 at 12:37 AM
Getting slightly better at feather ID. I believe this is a redtailed hawk feather! Perhaps a juvenile? A secondary or tail feather? 🪶
August 19, 2023 at 10:07 PM
Bebe skink
August 8, 2023 at 7:55 PM
Retiring this poster as I get ready to move. Can’t wait to bring back my kids’ Bird banding activity bigger & better!
August 7, 2023 at 1:43 PM
Birds in flight thread! 🪶
July 26, 2023 at 2:02 PM
Let me reintroduce myself: I am DR. BURGESS, PhD in Fisheries, Wildlife, & Conservation Biology!! 🎉 Thank you so much to everyone who supported me on this journey! I DID IT!!! 😭

Photo Credit: Mike Fernandez / Audubon
July 20, 2023 at 7:51 PM
I found what I believe to be blue jay feathers! Anyone know for sure?

7/18/23 in Wake County, NC 🦉
July 18, 2023 at 8:49 PM
Some sunshine for the timeline 🌻🐝
July 16, 2023 at 2:19 PM
Beautiful indigo bunting! I got some surprisingly decent photos considering how far away it was. 🩵💚

So happy to go birding with a great friend! It was a much needed destressor from my dissertation. 🥰
July 14, 2023 at 7:46 PM
THANK YOU so much to Jenny McKee & Audubon for highlighting
Field Inclusive, inclusive field safety, and the stories of diverse field workers like me & @ldpharr.bsky.social

Read the story here: https://www.audubon.org/news/fieldwork-all
July 11, 2023 at 10:19 PM
This field guide is hilarious! I’ve enjoyed thumbing through it between writing breaks. Features some common birds plus various tips on birding, feeders, & journaling. I also love this style of illustration! 10/10 highly recommend 😁
July 4, 2023 at 6:13 PM