Sam Safran

Yeah no specimens from within the city since the 20s, though apparently some still around in the 60s? I was curious which territory/individual the detection came from (Glen Canyon? A transient?). Would be really interesting to back track if it happened to be a collared individual!

Western Skink! Who/where did that come from?

Congrats—I really enjoyed reading this! :)

do you use eBird? happy to make one for you! I'll send you an email...

Good visuals! Almost impossible to appreciate scale of historical wetland landscape without this sort of thing.

On the human appropriation of wetland primary production Humans are changing the Earth's surface at an accelerating pace, with significant consequences for ecosystems and their biodiversity. Landscape transf…

This is from 2021 but never had any coverage. We used old maps to quantify losses of freshwater wetlands in California since European-American colonization and the resulting change in the flow of energy to the aquatic food web (spoiler: it’s declined by almost 95% 😳).

Just mail me your sibleys with the check marks in the margins

aw thanks :) I wanna make these for people but no takers yet!

Where can I see new birds? Mostly Arizona, apparently!

Fun little project using eBird's Status & Trends data to map someone's potential lifers.

More here: smsfrn.github.io/posts/2024/0...

Christmas Bird Count planning! Pulled recent sightings from our circle from eBird and plotted to share with participants ahead of count.

Let me know if you want the code or for me to make one for your circle!