Natalie Wright, Ph.D.

@coereba.bsky.social

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Ornithologist, evolutionary ecologist, morphologist, mom, knitter, reader, lover of bananaquits. she/her 🏳️‍🌈 Associate Professor of Biology at Kenyon College. wrightlab.org

A messy cup nest of dried grass with a few large feathers thrown haphazardly on top, and a single small white egg laid inside. It’s the worst Tree Swallow nest I’ve ever seen.

Limbs of a cherry tree covered with ripe cherries.

A round pink cake decorated with sunflowers, small green flowers, and strawberries.

Rachel grins at someone off camera while giving a nerdy thumbs-up. A book titled “Nerd Faith” is on a shelf behind her, among other books for sale.

A female Eastern Bluebird stares straight at the camera while sitting on her nest.

A video of stuffed animals in a bookstore acting out the “come to my cottage” scene from Heated Rivalry, with text saying “come to my bookstore” and “don’t go on Amazon”

A picture of a loon with the caption “stupid Canadian wolf bird”

A bird Christmas ornament in shades of pink, yellow, and green.

A domed double-crusted pie.

A man pulls a child in a sled uphill in the snow while another child walks next to the.

A beagle puppy sits on my lap, looking at the camera and obscuring most of my face. He is as close to me as it is physically possible to be without melting into one being

A puppy lays on a dog bed looking up at the camera adorably.

A comic strip in which an elderly couple sneaks up to their neighbor’s house in the dark to leave zucchini on the doorstep.

A beagle-mix puppy lays in the grass chewing on a vulture wing feather.

A sheet cake with smooth chocolate frosting is topped with a square cake with blocky green fondant. A Minecraft skeleton and scary blocky black creature with purple eyes (I don’t know these characters) stand atop the cake.

Five women smile for a selfie in front of the St Louis arch.

A puppy who looks like a beagle dipped into a vat of cattle dog up to his belly lays on the ground looking adorably at the camera.

A hound mix puppy sits politely, looking up at the camera.

An email from Academia.edu that says “an AI wrote a review of your paper…”

A tiny stuffed mammoth posed by a bowl of peaches, apparently eating them.

A black, brown, and spotted puppy with long hound ears lays in my lap as I sit cross-legged on the floor. He is 10 lbs of pure adorableness.

A puppy lays on his back in grass, chewing on his leash.

A puppy sits politely and looks directly at the camera. He is the cutest puppy in the entire world. Looks like a blue tick coonhound puppy but is a mutt.

All about Mom worksheet.
My mom is 41 years old. She likes to go birdy watching. The best thing she cooks is broccoli. Her favorite food is fish. Her favorite thing to do to relax is knit.

My husband and I stand in front of an x-wing, arms raised in triumph

Two small children cross a sand dune heading toward the ocean.

A small girl in pink stands on sand between dunes, looking towards the ocean.

A tray of cookies with orange and blue M&M’s are being cut by a woman wearing a blue University of Florida shirt. A young girl wearing a blue shirt looks on, smiling.

A golden doodle with a mullet haircut.

A golden doodle with a mullet haircut.

Two bird bones lay side by side. One is straight, while the other has a dramatic curve in it.

Two bones lay side by side. They are the same bone, but one is bent - broken and healed. A tag identifies the species as Milvago chimango.

The shoulder girdle of a heron skeletons. The coracoid, furcula, and scapula meet to form a canal

Reddish egret skeleton laid out, with oddly rough-looking ends of bones circled.

The bones of a reddish egret are laid out. The ends of two leg bones are circled. These ends are rough, rather than smooth, and there’s a distinct line separating the main part of the tibiotarsus from its proximal end.

I am smiling, looking into the camera while holding a kingfisher sternum.

A bird skeleton is laid out, with the skull, sternum & keel, humerus, ulnar, carpometacarpus, femur, tibiotarsus, tarsometatarsus, coracoid, & synsacrum labeled.

A bird skeleton is laid out on a purple background. The bones of the wing and leg are very long and slender. The bill is long and pointy. The sternum is small compared to the other bones, but has a prominent keel.

A ball of yarn sits on a wooden holder hanging from a wrist strap. The hand with the wrist strap for the yarn also holds the beginnings of a sock on four double-pointed knitting needles. In the background is a sunny playground.

Penguin bones are laid out. The wing bones are very flattened.

A bird skull, sternum, and seven long bones lay arranged on a purple background with a ruler. Some of the bones are very flattened, while others are round and robust.

I am drinking a chocolate martini

A boy wears white pajamas with blue sharks all over them and plays with a small remote control car.

Open-air Hindu temple in bright teals, oranges, pinks, and blues.

A monkey sits on top of a trash can that has “USE ME” written on it. The monkey’s face is inside a food takeout container.

A young monkey looks directly at the camera, sitting on a branch surrounded by green leaves.

A spotted deer looks directly at the camera.

A large white plate filled with seven different brightly colored dishes, including vegetable korma, rice, carrots, and yogurt.

Four bright greet parakeets with long green and blue tails perch in bare tree branches.

A blackbuck deer lays on the grass next to a sidewalk.

Glass of ice and clear liquid with lime and lemon wedges on a cocktail stick sits on a paper napkin on a wooden table.

Apple Watch sleep data output showing time in bed 9 hours, 8 minutes; time asleep 6 hours, 26 minutes, with long periods of wakefulness between 4am and 6:30am.

Natalie smiles into the camera, wearing a blue floppy sun hat, backpack, and binoculars. She is smiling huge, like she just saw her first ever toucan barbet.

Robin Wright as Buttercup in the Princess Bride

A blond 4 year old screams with her mouth very wide open and full of food. She wears purple and is chaos embodied.

A blond 4 year old screams with her mouth wide open and full of food. She is wearing bright purple and looks like chaos embodied.

A bright blue bird bites his tail, while a bright green bird sticks her beak into her own armpit.