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@jby@ecoevo.social
2026-01-14 14:17:05

A cottontail rabbit on the lawn at Deception Pass State Park, Washington
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A brown rabbit with eyes wide, crouched in short sun-dappled grass
@jby@ecoevo.social
2026-01-12 15:19:04

Classic city pigeon, Columba livia, at the market on Granville Island in Vancouver
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A gray and white dove with black stripes and some green iridescence on its neck, walking on a pebbly concrete surface
@jby@ecoevo.social
2026-02-12 16:54:03

Red-winged blackbird, Agelaius phoeniceus, screaming at the world, because sometimes that's what you have to do
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A black bird with bright red shoulder patches, clinging to an upright twig and leaning forward with its beak open, feathers fluffed out with the effort of screaming
@jby@ecoevo.social
2025-12-11 16:54:03

Eastern gray squirrels, Sciurus carolinensis, apparently sharing a nest-hole in the wintery woods near Acton, Massachusetts
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Two rather fat gray squirrels perched by a knothole in the trunk of a tree, one down by the knothole and the other facing downward, above the knothole
@jby@ecoevo.social
2025-12-09 15:54:03

A swift little brown creeper, Certhia americana, on a cloudy San Juan Island morning
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A small bird with brown-and-white upper parts and a white breast, and a longish curved bill, clinging to the side of a rough tree trunk facing upwards, braced by its tail feathers
@jby@ecoevo.social
2026-01-08 16:54:04

Hooded merganser, Lophodytes cucullatus, on the water at Friday Harbor, San Juan Island
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A black duck with red-brown flanks and striking white marks across its breast, as well as a large sail-like crest with a big white patch , swimming in rippling water
@jby@ecoevo.social
2026-01-08 19:09:53

Pearly everlasting, Anaphalis margaritacea, along the trail to Granite Lake in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest this summer
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An inflorescence of small asteraceous flowers, most of them with white rays closed but a single one open to reveal yellow disc florets
@jby@ecoevo.social
2025-12-05 15:15:13

Oxeye daisies, Leucanthemum vulgare, along the trail to Granite Lake this summer
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Classic radiate asteraceous flowering heads with bright yellow disc florets framed by long white ligules; one in sharp focus with others out of focus in the background
@jby@ecoevo.social
2025-12-03 14:17:03

A wren (Bewick's, I think, Thryomanes bewickii) in Seattle's Discovery Park this summer
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A brown passerine with sharp, curved bill, white and brown-flecked breast, and a white stripe over its eye, perched on a twig that runs more or less vertically down the middle of the frame so the bird is sitting at an angle, watching the camera side-on
@jby@ecoevo.social
2025-12-01 15:19:03

Tufted titmouse, Baeolophus bicolor, in Falmouth, Massachusetts last December
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@jby@ecoevo.social
2025-11-27 16:54:04

A sanderling, Calidris alba, probing for prey at the tide line on Asilomar State Beach back in January
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A small round shorebird with brown wings, neck, and cap and snowy white underparts, reflecting in the surface of the wet sand as it bends down to probe with its bill
@jby@ecoevo.social
2025-11-25 15:54:03

Columbines, Aquilegia formosa, in Yosemite Valley this spring
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Two downward-facing red flowers with long nectar spurs on each of their five petals and a bundle of long-exerted stamens, in focus against a backdrop of green and brown
@jby@ecoevo.social
2025-12-26 14:17:05

A ring-billed gull β€” Larus delawarensis, second winter, I think β€” at Sandy Point Bird Sanctuary outside New Haven, Connecticut
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A medium-sized gull, mostly white with gray wings and black wingtips, with gray streaking on its head and a black ring around its yellow bill, standing on a sandy beach near the water line
@jby@ecoevo.social
2025-12-25 15:54:03

American robin, Turdus migratorius, in downtown New Haven, Connecticut last month
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A fat thrush with slate-gray wings and head and a brick-red breast, perched on a branch with some small red fruits and yellow leaves still hanging on it
@jby@ecoevo.social
2025-12-23 14:17:03

Columbian black-tailed deer, Odocoileus hermionus columbianus, on San Juan Island, Washington
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A small antler-less deer standing amidst tall grass, looking towards the camera; a second deer is silhouetted among the grass stalks in the background
@jby@ecoevo.social
2025-11-20 16:54:04

A western fence lizard, Sceloporus occidentalis, perched on a fence post, along the trail in Yosemite Valley this spring
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@jby@ecoevo.social
2025-11-19 14:17:05

These weasels have locally adapted their winter coats to varying snow cover thanks to a million-year-old mutation
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Detail from Figure 1 of the linked preprint: a diagram contrasting the two weasel morphs, one of which is brown in summer and white in winter, and the other of which is brown all year; with images of weasels in both forms of winter coat; and then nucleotide and amino acid sequences for the two MC1R variants underlying the two coat types
@jby@ecoevo.social
2025-11-18 15:54:03

A sleepy great blue heron, Areda herodias, in the Seattle Arboretum's Japanese garden
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@jby@ecoevo.social
2025-12-19 14:17:04

A chestnut-backed chickadee, Poecile rufescens, gleaning in the branches of a larch on San Juan Island
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@jby@ecoevo.social
2025-12-15 15:19:03

A northern mockingbird, Mimus polyglottos, perched along the canal trail in New Haven, Connecticut
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A gray and white bird with some black striping, sitting in profile on a metal fencepost with autumnal leaves in the background
@jby@ecoevo.social
2026-01-06 14:17:04

A belted kingfisher, Megaceryle alcyon , having a snack in the Friday Harbor marina
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A slate-blue and white bird with a low crest on its head, perched on a wooden railing with a silvery fish in its long chisel-shaped beak