Andrew Iwaniuk

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neurobiologist, ornithologist, scruffy looking nerfherder, social distancing since 1974, currently at U Lethbridge, Treaty 7 lands 🇨🇦

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Sometimes you gotta scratch that itch! Flamingo in flight, getting that beak back, to nibble on the nuisance. 🦩 🦉

PhD student in my lab Sara has joined Bluesky! If you’re interested in #birds and #anatomy keep an eye out for her posts in the future. 🪶🧪 @evolsara.bsky.social

evolsara.bsky.socialevolsara.bsky.social When I'm not handling brains or old bones, you can find me lost in a book or getting inked with my favorite animals. @paleo, @brains, @evolution

A male Lincoln's sparrow singing loudly on a fencepost. Buck Lake, Alberta. #birds #birding #yql #Alberta

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🇧🇷Aratinga-de-testa-azul 🌎Thectocercus acuticaudatus A aratinga-de-testa-azul é uma ave psittaciforme da família Psittacidae. 📷 Wilson Lucheti

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Australian Owlet-nightjar - small, cute, and fluffy with fantastic rictal bristles 🐡🪶

Great Sapphirewing, the most brightly-colored bird from this project. It's pretty bizarre that the tiny, sparkly hummingbirds are part of a group whose other members are mostly brown and grey 🐡🪶

American goldfinches are seemingly everywhere along the Oldman River (Alberta) this weekend. #birds #birding #yql #Alberta 🪶

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With big googly eyes, a Least Bittern in the reeds. Keep watching the skies!

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Just finished this vibrant Cassowary bird using colored pencils in my Leuchtturm 1917 sketchbook! Did you know the Cassowary is one of the most dangerous birds in the world? Their kick can be lethal! 🦅✨ #sciart

Cape Barren geese at Moonlit Sanctuary, Victoria from a year ago today. One of the many unusual and endemic Australian waterfowl species. #birds #birding #wildOz 🪶

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🇧🇷Araçari-negro 🌎Selenidera piperivora O araçari-negro é uma ave piciforme da família Ramphastidae. 📷 Ronaldo Koloszuk

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Moa genome from Scott Edwards and co, including some cool sensory gene-omics from Bala lab alum Robert Driver www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A nuclear genome assembly of an extinct flightless bird, the little bush moawww.science.org A draft genome of an extinct, flightless moa reveals diverse aspects of its sensory biology and evolution.

A pair of Northern rough-winged swallows today. Not the easiest of species to take photos of and I rarely see them perched. Oldman River, southern Alberta. #birds #birding #yql #Alberta 🪶

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When you defend your thesis, be sure to acknowledge those who helped you. It takes a lot of time, energy, and emotion to advise students well. It's my job to do that and I don't need a parade, but just seeing my name on a list of helpful people goes a long way in feeling like I was useful

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Another paleocolor project bird painting! This is an Oilbird, which lives in caves and can echolocate 🐡🌿

Another one: Whiskered Treeswift, a very fancy little guy. These pieces were made to be composited onto a single tree 🐡🪶

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ライチョウちゃん交尾前。雄はいわずもがなですが、雌の肉冠もかなり大きくなっています #birds A ptarmigan before mating. Like the male, the female's crest is also quite large 🪶

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I can photograph these for hours, because every time they move you get a completely different set of colors.

In another disgusting and embarrassing move, the Alberta provincial government is bringing back grizzly bear hunting. This is a political move and not evidence based. #Alberta #Canada #wildlife #bears albertawilderness.ca/news-release...

News Release: Controversial Hunt Returns for Alberta’s Threatened Grizzly Bears after Ministerial Order - Alberta Wilderness Associationalbertawilderness.ca Alberta’s decision to allow grizzly bears to be hunted again despite being a threatened species...

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Male Black-crested Coquette at Tapir Valley, Costa Rica. #birds #hummingbirds

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Here's the first piece from the paleocolor project! This is one of nature's top glarers, the Tawny Frogmouth. The project looked at the preserved colors of fossil birds in the clade Strisores, which includes living frogmouths, nightjars, hummingbirds, etc, so I painted living and fossil species 🐡🪶

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After an unexpected layoff, I am looking for more freelance work! A larger portfolio is available on my site, nearbirdstudios.com (big updates coming this week), but I'm also going to be sharing more work on here. Direct email is rebecca(at)nearbirdstudios.com 🐡

For some reason, little wattlebirds often look like someone scared the s**t out of them. This was one of dozens at Cox Scrub Conservation Park, SA. #birds #birding #WildOz 🪶

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The robot is not a bargaining unit member and must not be given bargaining unit work. Faculty unions should be looking over their contracts right now, figuring out exactly how to grieve or otherwise oppose the introduction of these systems.

Also known as “training your replacement.” 😩

Morehouse to be the first university to use virtual AI teaching assistantswww.axios.com The Atlanta HBCU will have AI teaching assistants this fall.

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Most Herons will hunt by wading through water, but the Least Bittern—bitterns are members of the heron family—will look for food in the water below while clinging to cattails with its long toes.

Several mountain bluebirds have popped up again along the Oldman River (Popson Park, Lethbridge, Alberta). #birds #birding #yql #Alberta 🪶

A Say's phoebe wondering what the h is this guy doing? Popson Park, Lethbridge, Alberta #birds #birding #yql #Alberta 🪶

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This female Powerful Owl has recently taken to roosting outside the hollow during the day. Previously she has only had one Owlet each year & has stayed in the nest during the day up until when the Owlet emerged. Maybe a sign it's getting crowded in there & there more is than one? #birds #brisbane

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I’ve been very lucky to see beluga in the Churchill river a number of times, but I’ve never seen anything quite like this. There are a few hundred whales here churning up the water, herding capelin into a bait ball to feed. It was incredible! 🌿🐳https://youtu.be/sgM21bM0wd8?si=QDNac_tw5hYbmFsm

Beluga Feeding Frenzy in the Churchill River.youtu.be A few hundred beluga whales are charging back-and-forth, herding schools of capelin into a bait ball so that they can scoop them up and eat them. While there...

Encountered a large colony of yellow-headed blackbirds yesterday gorging themselves on insects and yelling at each other. This is one of the males adopting the splay-legged posture typical of them in cattails. #birds #birding #yql #Alberta 🪶

A Swainson's hawk surveying a field from atop a poplar tree, north of Lethbridge, Alberta. #birds #birding #raptor #yql #Alberta 🪶

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