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Evolutionary biologist, photographer, NSF PO. Views are my own and do not represent those of my employer or the United States. youtube.com/@xprinceps, https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61577139550412, matthewherron.net

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Thank you!

22.10.2025 11:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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By far the best hummingbird pictures I've ever gotten: ruby-throated hummingbird, Patuxent Research Refuge, Maryland
#birds #wildlifephotography

22.10.2025 10:15 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you!

21.10.2025 11:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A very backlit lesser yellowlegs, Pickering Creek Audubon Center, Maryland
#birds #wildlifephotography

21.10.2025 10:15 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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King rail, Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge, Virginia
#birds #wildlifephotography

20.10.2025 10:15 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That should be 18x24 for 12x18 prints

19.10.2025 14:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Semipalmated plover bathing, Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge, Virginia
#birds #wildlifephotography

19.10.2025 10:40 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Juvenile yellow-crowned night heron

Juvenile yellow-crowned night heron

Tricolored heron on the rain

Tricolored heron on the rain

Hooded merganser, black and white

Hooded merganser, black and white

Pileated woodpecker

Pileated woodpecker

I am now offering a very small selection of prints for sale at www.matthewherron.net/client-galle....
These are signed, archivally mounted and matted, and ready to frame in standard sizes (11"x14" for 7"x10" prints, 16"x24" for 12"x18" prints). If any sell, I'll add more.
#birds #wildlifephotography

18.10.2025 10:35 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Great blue heron, Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge, Virginia. There's no extreme editing here, just a lucky circumstance. The bird was in the light while the background was in shadow, and I underexposed a full stop to preserved the detail in the white feathers.
#birds #wildlifephotography

18.10.2025 10:15 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ugh, thanks for the heads-up! Fixed now.

17.10.2025 11:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Wood storks feeding, Audubon's Silver Bluff Sanctuary, South Carolina
#birds #wildlifephotography

17.10.2025 10:15 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Sorry, yes, NSF is shut down

16.10.2025 17:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Canis lupus familiaris "Cooper", Virginia Beach, Virginia
#dogs #photography

16.10.2025 10:15 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Semipalmated sandpiper subduing a moth, Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge, Virginia
#birds #wildlifephotography

15.10.2025 10:15 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Gulls, flycatchers, and peeps, for me. Luckily, eBird now has REALLY good image identification, so I get fewer correction emails.

14.10.2025 12:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ring-billed gulls (I think; I'm terrible with gulls) trying to steal a meal from a Caspian tern. Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge, Virginia
#birds #wildlifephotography

14.10.2025 10:15 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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King rail, Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge, Virginia
#birds #wildlifephotography

13.10.2025 10:15 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Great blue heron, Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge, Virginia
#birds #wildlifephotography

12.10.2025 10:40 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Slight disagreement between two white-rumped sandpipers, Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge, Virginia
#birds #wildlifephotography

11.10.2025 10:15 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
White ibis bathing
White ibis bathing at Audubon's Silver Bluff Sanctuary, South Carolina White ibis bathing

White ibis bathing at Audubon's Silver Bluff Sanctuary, South Carolina
#birds #wildlifephotography
youtu.be/qNxP3_26m10

10.10.2025 10:15 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ruddy turnstone, Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge, Virginia
#birds #wildlifephotography

09.10.2025 10:15 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ghost crab, Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge, Virginia

08.10.2025 10:15 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Willet in the surf, Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge, Virginia
#birds #wildlifephotography

07.10.2025 10:15 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The photos that I'm posting now are from August...it's actually just a coincidence that I'm in Back Bay again while they're posting. This is from this morning...it will be weeks or months before I start posting pictures from this trip.

06.10.2025 19:25 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Willet with a mole crab, Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge, Virginia
#birds #wildlifephotography

06.10.2025 10:15 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sanderling, Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge, Virginia
#birds #wildlifephotography

05.10.2025 10:40 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Black-necked stilts, Wye Island Natural Resource Management Area, Maryland. These are some of the same birds as in this video: youtu.be/3b9Y2Sl9h5g
#birds #wildlifephotography

04.10.2025 10:15 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Or time machines

03.10.2025 23:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Cape Henlopen State Park in Delaware was ridiculous. Now I'm in Cape Charles on the eastern shore of Virginia, where there are just as many white ibis, but also lots of seaside sparrows

03.10.2025 23:42 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Wood storks preening, with a cameo by a great egret, Audubon's Silver Bluff Sanctuary, South Carolina
youtu.be/zR9hTWtzaP8
#birds #wildlifephotography

03.10.2025 10:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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