New backyard species! Long-tailed Weasel. I set this camera specifically to see if I could get a weasel (meat and fish sauce lure), and it paid off!

Toad

How many newts can you find in this dried vernal pool? #amphibians

We're hiring a Research Scientist (Zoologist) at the New York Natural Heritage Program! Get paid to do science and lots of field work across the state:

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We're experimenting with new survey methods. While we didn't detect our target (Southern Bog Lemming), we did get this lovely Eastern Massasauga, an endangered species in New York. Nice to confirm reproduction is occurring! #snakes

Good hashtag!

A timber rattlesnake from a hilly central hardwood forest in southern Indiana. #snakes

Just picked up this beauty (and work paid for it!). Can't wait to dig in. If you liked the little winbugs book of 2010, this is basically the updated and expanded version. Also, while I don't know Marc, I worked with Ken and he's great. Cheers!

Lol @ tuataras

Well this looks awesome!

Kéry et al. 2024: Integrated distance sampling models for simple point counts. Ecology. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Wild turkey tracks from the Catskill Mountains of New York.

Scientist problems... I could only find a metric ruler when I needed a standard for a specific home DIY project...

Heterodon, the North American Hog-nosed Snakes.