Alice Boyle

@birdfiddler.bsky.social

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birds~rain, prairies, wet tropical forests, conservation, migration & dispersal; equity & social justice; @WesternU (prev Kansas State); also fiddle player, contra dance musician www.aliceboyle.net www.dancetosteam.com

Beautiful grassy field, some flowering for a, a couple of distant trees… mostly fantastically empty
Map with many red dots (= cattle locations) closely matching purple shading and avoiding yellow and orange areas (burned 1-2 yr previous).
GRSP habitat in Prince Edward Co, Ontario; regrowing grassland 15 years since restoration began
above: montage of brightly coloured tropical birds, some in interesting display postures, some eating fruit below: a phylogeny that includes those same taxa (and others) and a plot of the ratio of genetic diversity on the autosomes relative to the Z chromosomes
Baby Eastern skunk cabbage poking out of wet mud
Hands holding a bird with bulging eyes and a very long droopy bill against early spring background of leafless shrubs
Skating on the Assiniboine River with my brother with MB legislature behind him
Edge of Lake Huron: frozen ice to the horizon, blue sky, sparkling snow, snow covered dunes in foreground
Jabiru (massive white bird, long legs, red collar and black neck) standing in brownish grassy meadow
dirt road, arid grassland/scrub, no human evidence, and in the distance, low forested mountains
Gray brocket deer
West Indian Manatee in downtown Georgetown being fed bermuda grass