Kyle Smelter

The @audubonsociety Bird Migration Explorer is your guide to the heroic journeys made by over 450 bird species, and the challenges they face along the way. 🐦 🔸Explore the map: explorer.audubon.org/home

Reminder that Project 2025 is promising to gut protections for birds, endangered species, and wild Arctic landscapes on behalf of oil companies

David Toews, assistant professor of biology, co-authored an article on StateCollege.com about how #PennState is helping reduce bird window collisions on University Park's campus. Read the full story at buff.ly/3wm23HZ

My first chapter of my MSc work with @fbuderman on using change-point models to identify behavioral transitions is out today in Movement Ecology! link.springer.com/content/pdf/10…

Mainers near and far, check out this neat volunteer science project digging into the community ecology of Maine owl species and the threatened northern bog lemming. #volunteerscience #MOPP #scicolab sites.une.edu/maine-owl-pell…

Check out this article about our RAWA tabling event @UMaine. We truly had a blast and this was a complete team effort! This is the year for RAWA! UMaine’s Student Chapter contributed to historic progress for RAWA during the last Congress wildlife.org/umaines-studen…

Here is an adult male Eastern Wild Turkey in flight. The tom’s beard is barely visible, but I know it’s an adult because its tail fan is uninterrupted, whereas a jake, or juvenile male turkey, sports a tail fan where the middle feathers are longer than those on either side.

This is the launch of the Wild Turkey Science Podcast! New episodes are available every Monday everywhere podcasts are found. #forturkeys

Researchers from UMaine and @mefishwildlife are working together to develop new resources that will support current and future management strategies for wild turkey populations in the state. bit.ly/3GoDhIg

@MushtaqBilalPhD Thank you!

Here are my 15 Zotero tutorials — all in one place 🧵

The first peer-reviewed article I'm a contributing author on was published last week! Thanks to @BriWeeks_MI for inviting me to participate in the process! #AcademicTwitter #NeuralNetworks #Skelevision besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Yesterday, TWS staff and partners were made aware that the decision to include the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act in an end-of-year funding package may be made within the next 24 hours. Contact your members of Congress at bit.ly/3j8bML1 #RecoverWildlife

Thanksgiving may be right around the corner, but Maine’s wild turkeys 🦃 have more to worry about than ending up on the kitchen table. Click here to learn more! ow.ly/SyH450LLoTL @ejblomberg @MattGonnerman

Animal behavior plays a critical role in the delivery of ecosystem services!.. yet the study of animal behavior and ecosystem services rarely intersect! Check out my latest paper on @Trends_Ecol_Evo #relatedArticles" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">cell.com/trends/ecology…

Some of my first GPS tagged woodcock are making big migratory moves! So cool to see the data in (almost) real time!🤩 Shout out to @LA_Berigan for excellent field training and masterful R code! woodcockmigration.org/migration.html #EWMRC #americanwoodcock #gpsdata

New paper: lesser prairie-chickens, which are a hair away from the endangered species list, are largely neglected on federal lands in favor of intensive grazing practices doi.org/10.1002/wsb.13… (PC: Melody Lytle)

conservationcorridor.org/digests/2022/0… Well, here's an idea...dark infrastructure. Like green infrastructure, but homing in on reducing artificial light at night within developed and protected areas.

In Vermont this week, learning a new trapping technique - spotlighting. Plus spending some time searching for boreal species in the North Woods. @KyleSmelter @LA_Berigan #fieldwork #americanwoodcock #scolopaxminor #EWMRC #Vermont #northwoods

Please RT: Ph.D. opportunity at LSU studying black-bellied whistling-ducks! This is a project with a ton of potential. $32k stipend+tuition waiver drive.google.com/file/d/1juBqEu…

The Eastern Woodcock Migration Research Cooperative is responsible for much of the woodcock data in this tool; check it out! @ejblomberg @AmberRothLab