Grey-white bird (willet) with one leg caught mid-jump on beach with waves in background.

One-legged Willet on a Galveston beach
🪶 #birds #shorebird

Osprey in flight with both wings up

Osprey over Galveston

🪶 #birds #galveston #bif #texaswildlife #birdfreaks

Pretty heron standing on rock with hazy blue sky in background.

Yellow-crowned Night Heron taking a cigarette break

🪶 #birds #R5
#costarica 🇨🇷 #wildlife

Bright red, yellow and blue scarlet macaw perched in a cashew tree with a claw in its beak.

Scarlett Macaw Johansson
#birds 🪶 #costarica

American Kestrel perched on a sign for the Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area.

Mislabeled kestrel.
#birds 🪶 #utahwildlife #wildlifephotography

Northern harrier flying low over yellow grass with white house in background.

Northern harrier skirting the suburbs.
🪶 #birds #wildlife #utahwildlife #birdsofprey #nature

Tiny kingfisher perched in branches. White belly with orange/tan chest and a green/blue head.

A wee American Pygmy Kingfisher looking for breakfast.
🪶 #birds #birdfreak #costarica #wildlifephotography

Green-winged teal duck, floating down Jordan River

Green-winged Teal cruising the Jordan River
🦆 💦 🪶
#birds #birdfreak #utahwildlife
#quack #canonr5

Red-tailed hawk with milky nictitating membrane visible, bringing claw to beak while perched on a branch.

Finger-licking good 😛
🪶 #birds #birdfreak #utahwildlife #raptor #hawk

Aurora borealis shining bright over Salt Lake City tonight!

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Mulvey lab alumna Alexis Rousek taking on UTIs with the Student Research Initiative at the U of Utah.
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@uofubiology.bsky.social @globaluti.bsky.social #UTIGA

Red dragonfly perched on a leaf. Patter between the sets of wings looks a bit like a devil face.

Can you spot the wee demon face between the wings of this Red-faced Dragonlet?
Happy Halloween!!! 🎃 👻 👿

#costarica #dragonfly #nature

Small kingfisher (brown, white and blue) sitting on a branch and looking stoic.

Ringed Kingfisher, waiting until after No Kings Day to make an appearance.
🪶 #birds #wildlife #costarica

Fighting tyranny helps…BIRDS 🪶#birds

Need something to read on a Sunday afternoon?
'Global Footprint of the Multidrug Resistance Island Ec17R and Resistance Gene Co-Occurrence in Pathogenic Escherichia coli Isolates'
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#UTIGA #UTIsky #sepsis #uti #UPEC #ExPEC #IDSky #SciSky 🧪

Small Black and White butterfly slurping up lunch on a purple flower

Common Checkered-Skipper dining out at UNC Chapel Hill
🦋
Burnsius communis

#butterflies #macrowildlife #canonr5 #insect #pollinator

Yellow beak, red eyes, gray cowl, brown body, pink legs, cool bird

Gray-Cowled Wood-Rail patrolling the muddy banks of the Sierpe River

#birds 🪶
#costarica
#wildlife
#canonR5
#birdfreaks

Thanks - they are fast and tricky to focus on, but this one cooperated for a split second.

Head-on view of a black-chinned hummingbird, hovering over a stream.

Black-chinned Hummingbird sipping from a stream in the Wasatch Mountains.

#birds #wildlife 🪶

Paradise spider (Habronattus festus)

Meow.

#macro #jumpingspider #spider #cutie

@globaluti.bsky.social

Excited to hear from @bacterialtalk.bsky.social speaking as part of the NIAID T32-sponsored Microbial Pathogenesis Seminar Series @utah.edu
@uofubiology.bsky.social

American Kestrel perched on the tip of a branch with snowy mountains in the background.

American Kestrel balancing act
#birds 🪶
#wildlife

Little Blue Heron standing cross-legged on a muddy river bank with tangles of mangrove roots in the background.

Little Blue Heron chillin’ on the banks of the Sierpe River.
#birds 🪶
#costarica #mangroves #wildlife

First attempt at a Milky Way shot. Taken at Meek’s Cabin Reservoir, WY. Imagine fewer clouds, and happy stars reflected in the water. Maybe next time…

#milkyway #stars

Brown and white bird in the grass with a black grub in its beak.

Song Thrush with breakfast, seen with @mgblango.bsky.social (who personally knows every single bird along the Saale River in Jena, Germany)
#birds 🪶
#wildlife #germanwildlife #r5

Blue dragonfly with tellow-green stripes in flight

Paddle-tailed Darner skimming above the boardwalk at Silver Lake, UT. ⛰️

#dragonfly #nature #canonr5 #insect #wasatch

Closeup of a wood pigeon with purple, green and blue hues on a window sill in Jena, Germany.

Common wood-pigeons barely tolerate the bird paparazzi in Jena, Germany.
🪶
#birds

Grey heron taking off from shallow water with wings up and water trailing from its legs.

Grey heron taking flight from the Saale river in Jena, Germany. Thanks to @mgblango.bsky.social and @ameliabarberphd.bsky.social for a fantastic visit with great science and wonderful birds.
🪶 #birds 🧬 🔬 🇩🇪

Two rows of people wearing active or outdoors clothing stand in a lush green forest. One person in the front row holds a map of the area.

Last week we enjoyed a lovely day of socialising and networking with the groups of @mgblango.bsky.social and @slavi-jan.bsky.social. We broke into teams for a scavenger hunt and visited a palace outside Weimar. We were even joined by special guest @mulveylab.bsky.social while he was visiting!