Hey there, I'm Paxon, a wildlife biologist, living in the SE United States. I've been on Tumblr since 2009. We're here to share the beauty of herps and birds, as well as fishes and invertebrates.
Dovekie aka Little Auk (Alle alle), family Alcidae, order Charadriiformes, Iceland
Photograph by Christophe Moning
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Migrants face myriad challenges. That’s why certain songbird species choose to travel (and possibly even work) together, according to research drawing on a trove of bird banding records.
In a pioneering study published last week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers discovered that
songbirds socialize across species lines, forming “migrating communities” as they travel.
While ornithologists previously believed migrant species like the American Redstart and Magnolia Warbler just happened to end up flying near one another, we now know that this closeness is no coincidence:
It’s a sign that different bird species can form ecologically meaningful relationships and may even help each other out along their migratory journeys…
Crested Satinbird (Cnemophilus macgregorii), males, family Cnemophilidae, order Passeriformes, found in the mountains of Papua New Guinea
photos: Wilbur Goh, Nik Borrow, Adam Riley, Jacques Erard
Canyon Wren (Catherpes mexicanus), family Troglodytidae, order Passeriformes, Guadalupe River State Park, TX, USA
photograph by James Fallon
aeyriabird asked:
hello! do you have any favorite seabirds? i work with northern hemisphere cold water species but lots of love for the antarctic and tropical seabirds as well, they're just too far away and/or too equatorial for my heat intolerance
Favorite Sea Birds:
Yes, absolutely, I really love the Alcids (auks), especially Dovekie and Razorbill.
Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula arctica), family Alcidae, order Charadriiformes, North Atlantic
photograph by sarah.bethea
Crested Auklet (Aethia cristatella), family Alcidae, order Charadriiformes, Kiska Island, Alaska
photograph via: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Razorbill (Alca torda), family Alcidae, order Charadriiformes, Quebec, Canada
Photograph by Simon Boivin
Dovekie aka Little Auk (Alle alle), family Alcidae, order Charadriiformes, Svalbard, Norway
Photograph by Allan Hopkins
ainothefinn asked:
Do you have any especially fun creatures from Finland or the Nordics? :)
Well, my favorite animals found in the Nordic countries are the auks!!
Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula arctica), family Alcidae, North Atlantic
photograph by sarah.bethea
Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula arctica), family Alcidae, order Charadriiformes
photograph by Charles J. Sharp
Razorbill (Alca torda), family Alcidae, order Charadriiformes
photograph by Charles J. Sharp
Razorbill (Alca torda), family Alcidae, order Charadriiformes
Photographs by Nick Mir
Dovekie aka Little Auk (Alle alle), family Alcidae, order Charadriiformes, Iceland
Photograph by Christophe Moning
darkpuffin asked:
I saw someone say their favorite bird and get some cool images as a reply, and I went, "oh, I should try that! I love Puffins!" (Atlantic is my favorite, but all are good.) And then I remembered my username and thought that is perhaps a bit ok the nose, but ...
¯\(°_o)/¯
PREPARED TO GET COMPLETELY PUFFED!!!
Horned Puffin (Fratercula corniculata), family Alcidae, found in the North Pacific Ocean, including the coasts of Alaska, Siberia and British Columbia.
photograph by @jc_wings
Horned Puffins (Fratercula corniculata), family Alcidae, order Charadriiformes, Alaska
photographs via: NPS
Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula arctica), EAT TASTY FISH!!!, family Alcidae, order Charadriiformes, Wales, UK
photograph by Sean Weekly Photography
Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula arctica), family Alcidae, order Charadriiformes, North Atlantic
photograph by sarah.bethea
Tufted Puffin (Fratercula cirrhata) in flight, family Alcidae, order Charadriiformes, Alaska
photograph by Roy W. Lowe
Horned Puffin (Fratercula corniculata), family Alcidae, order Charadriiformes, found along the coasts of the North Pacific
photograph by PazyBirds
Pigeon Guillemot (Cepphus columba) EAT A TASY FISH!!!, family Alcidae, order Charadriiformes, Alaska
photograph by Marion Owen
(@marion_owen_photography)
Tufted Puffin (Fratercula cirrhata), family Alcidae, order Charadriiformes, San Juan Island, WA, USA
photograph by Becky Bart Valentine
The removed gene controls the production of the hormone thyroxine, which fuels the metamorphosis that occurs when a tadpole transforms into a toad.
Rick Shine, an evolutionary biologist and ecologist at Macquarie University, is one of the scientists behind the “Peter Pan toads”.
He said cane toad tadpoles were known to be voracious cannibals with a preference for snacking on their kin, both in egg and hatchling form.
This is especially true in Australia where rates of cannibalism of hatchlings by tadpoles have been recorded as 2.4 times that of South America — where the cane toad originated…
