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Haley Holiman
@rept-hal.bsky.social
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Wildlife Science | Bioacoustics | Art & Photography | 📍Southern Illinois

PhD student studying bioacoustics and nightjars in the central hardwoods. She/her 🏳️‍🌈
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poppbirdart.bsky.social
I've been hired by @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social as an illustrator through the Bartels program and I couldn't be more excited to start! This has been a dream of mine for years.

My Turkey vulture has been finished for a while so I am finally sharing that too! 🐡🪶🎨 #BirdArt
A watercolor painting of a Turkey vulture. The painting has no background and is focused on the animal. It is perched with wings held out as if sun bathing. Its body is facing away with its head turned to face the viewer.
August 22, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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gilbert-lab.bsky.social
our paper on how light pollution affects bird vocal behavior is out today in Science!!

w/ @brentpease.bsky.social

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
August 21, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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oceanfilly.bsky.social
I am making a Starter Pack for people who are looking for PHD STUDENT POSITIONS in the biological sciences! If you wish to be added, please respond directly to this post saying you want to be added. I need at least 5 people to create the pack. Please share widely!
July 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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allthatwildlife.bsky.social
Since the start of 2024, I have managed to photograph 8 of the 9 nightjar species that regularly occur in the USA. 🪶

Here is my 1st ever photo of an Eastern Whip-poor-will that was found day-roosting at Magee Marsh Wildlife Area this past May.

#birds #birding #nature #photography #BirdsSeenIn2025
Photograph of an Eastern Whip-poor-will that is roosting during the day on a horizontal branch near the ground. The bird is an oddball-looking fellow, with a big flat head and a tiny bill that you can barely see. Its feathers are a mix of brindled brown and gray, which creates excellent camouflage with tree bark and leaf litter. In the photo, the bird is in profile, facing to the left, with a couple of bright green plants in the foreground and a small tree trunk and various green blurs in the background.
July 10, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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jocelynanderson.bsky.social
I've been looking for a Least Bittern for months, and last weekend I was treated to see one flying around. Last year I saw one for the first time that year on July 5th. This year, it was again July 5th for my first Least Bittern of the year. It's a lucky Least Bittern day 🍀
July 7, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social
Online early in the WJO - Eastern Whip-poor-will nesting ecology: behavior of nesting adults and chick growth. (📷 by Dominic Sherony) #ornithology doi.org/10.1080/1559...
close-up photo of a whip-poor-will, an oddly shaped, gray and brown bird that blends in well with the branches it's sitting among
June 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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birdsbyalex.bsky.social
Dipper dance! A fledgling American Dipper practices its new moves.

#birds #bird #nature #wildlife
June 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
rept-hal.bsky.social
Song sparrow 🪶
A small brown and white streaked bird perched on a small branch. It's beak is open in song
June 22, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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rheisman.bsky.social
Re-upping this: If you are an ornithologist (ideally U.S.-based) who uses bird banding or BBS data in your work, I'd love to hear from you! You could comment as something like "a scientist from a state university" (for example) if you don't want to use your name.
rheisman.bsky.social Rebecca Heisman @rheisman.bsky.social · May 27
Pls share: I'm seeking ornithologists willing to comment about how the Bird Banding Lab &/or Breeding Bird Survey are crucial to their research & conservation efforts, for a piece for @therevelator.org defending these programs. Reply, DM, or email me at rebecca dot heisman at gmail. #ornithology
May 29, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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kristalerista.bsky.social
You mean I’m supposed to work when there are birds out there who aren’t being watched?
May 28, 2025 at 1:14 PM
rept-hal.bsky.social
Green heron, taking a stroll down the boardwalk 🪶
A medium sized bird with blue,purple and gray feathers walking down a wooden path A medium sized bird with blue,purple and gray feathers walking down a wooden path.
May 27, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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conniemenefee.bsky.social
Whip-poor-will from the CLM #PenAndInk Archives
Pen and ink drawing of a Whip-poor-will on the ground
May 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
rept-hal.bsky.social
No thoughts, just bluebird babies 🪶
A tiny Eastern bluebird fledgling perched on a wooden fence post.
May 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
rept-hal.bsky.social
We've been putting in the miles this week getting our #bioacoustic recorders out!
A landscape of a deciduous forest that is bright green and cloudy gray skies An acoustic recorder mounted to a small tree. It is a small, camouflaged painted box with a microphone on the bottom
May 23, 2025 at 6:19 PM
rept-hal.bsky.social
Tree swallow, Yellowwood State Forest, IN 🪶
A close up shot of a tree swallow perched on top of a nest box. It has a bright blue head, back and wings with a white belly.
May 17, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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ellycknight.bsky.social
New paper! We developed HawkEars, a CNN training framework and classifier for a regional community of acoustic animals - 328 bird species and 13 amphibian species in Canada.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#bioacoustics 1/n
HawkEars: A regional, high-performance avian acoustic classifier
Passive acoustic monitoring is rapidly emerging as a dominant approach for studying acoustic wildlife, with neural networks used as an increasingly co…
www.sciencedirect.com
May 14, 2025 at 10:13 PM
rept-hal.bsky.social
I ran into a pair of blue-gray gnatcatchers that seemed even angrier than usual. Made sense when I spotted their nest well hidden above me! 🪶
A blue gray gnatcatcher perched on a small branch. It's feathers are fluffed up and it looks ready to take off any second A gnatcatcher nest hidden in the y-branch of a tree. It is a small cup nest made of moss and a gnatcatcher peaks out from where it sits on the nest
May 14, 2025 at 11:46 AM
rept-hal.bsky.social
🪶 Even Prothonotary Warblers have bad angles •^•
A close up of a Prothonotary warbler from below, and with its head tilted down towards the viewer. It is a bright yellow bird with gray blue wings and a gray beak.
May 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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aosiecka.bsky.social
🔊After years of Kevin Darras's et al's hard work, we are very happy to have this one out: Worldwide Soundscapes: A Synthesis of Passive Acoustic Monitoring Across Realms.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Worldwide Soundscapes: A Synthesis of Passive Acoustic Monitoring Across Realms
Aim The urgency for remote, reliable and scalable biodiversity monitoring amidst mounting human pressures on ecosystems has sparked worldwide interest in Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM), which can...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
rept-hal.bsky.social
Some highlights from this week in the central hardwoods of Indiana - the summer field season has started, and I am so excited to be back!
An image of an oak forest stand with a trail running through the middle. The trees are bright green and there is new regeneration growing in the understory following last year's burn A close up of a female Scarlet Tanager perched on a branch. She has pretty yellow feathers and darker brown wings and tail. An Eastern chipmunk peeking out from a log. It has the cutest, tiniest little hands
May 9, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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theonion.com
Woman Reminds Self Not To Catastrophize After Spotting 4 Skeletal Horsemen On Horizon
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Woman Reminds Self Not To Catastrophize After Spotting 4 Skeletal Horsemen On Horizon
LOWELL, MA—Doing her best to follow her therapist’s advice for dealing with stressful situations, area woman Holly Debling reportedly reminded herself Tuesday not to catastrophize after she spotted four skeletal horsemen on the horizon. “Okay, Holly, remember: Just because a great trumpet has sounded at the arrival of four unearthly riders, that doesn’t necessarily mean […]
theonion.com
May 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
rept-hal.bsky.social
Spring is in full swing and so are the kingbirds 🪶
An adult eastern kingbird perched on a skinny tree limb. It is a striking black and white flycatcher An adult eastern kingbird perched on a small branch. It's body and head are facing to the right
May 3, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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skwinnicki.bsky.social
Looking for early warblers with high-pitch trills and white tail flashes but the park is like:
The front of a Cap'n Crunch's Oops! All Berries box, but it is edited to instead say "Oops! All Juncos" and instead of the captain's face there is a hastily edited picture of a Dark-eyed Junco, with a dark gray head, black eye, and pink beak. There is also a hastily edited photo of a junco in flight, showing off their white belly and white tail-edges.
April 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM
rept-hal.bsky.social
Native wildflower season is here!
Virginia springbeauty. A clump of white pink flowers on the forest floor A close up of a trout lily - a bright yellow flower with mottled leaves A close up of a white fawnlily - a white/pinkish flower with mottled leaves
March 29, 2025 at 5:16 PM
rept-hal.bsky.social
Nyoom 🪶 Great blue heron
A great blue heron taking off from a floating log.
March 26, 2025 at 12:19 PM