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Andy Boyce @andyjboyce.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Jaeger/tern photo from Massachusetts submitted in thanks for the quiz.

Andy Boyce @andyjboyce.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

But like...here's an 800 acre parcel of BLM in Billings. I think its reasonable to let Billings decide what to do with it

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Andy Boyce @andyjboyce.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

I have a 5lb bag of the best *DECAF* #birdfriendly coffee money can buy. Decaf coffee is of no use to me. Happy to send to anyone who wants it at cost.

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Andy Boyce @andyjboyce.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Absence due to existential dread and abject joy/fatigue:

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Andy Boyce @andyjboyce.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

We know there are ecological interactions between #grassland birds and prairie-dogs, but these are rarely considered in #conservation plans for grassland birds. Andrew Dreelin reviews what we know and don't know in a new paper out today: conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #ornithology

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Andy Boyce @andyjboyce.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

meanwhile fed agencies are banned from using other EVs

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Andy Boyce @andyjboyce.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Orange-breasted Falcon and Greater Flowerpeircer from a trip to the top of Mt. Roraima in Venezuela. Feels like a lifetime ago #birding

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Andy Boyce @andyjboyce.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

GSA is shutting down EV purchases or rentals. Insane

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Andy Boyce @andyjboyce.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

live look at NSF HQ reviewing PRFBs

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Andy Boyce @andyjboyce.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

NFWF conservation funds are also held up, at least those with a federal prime funder. Here's my nice, unsigned, note from them today:

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Andy Boyce @andyjboyce.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

it's a good time to dig up this one

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Andy Boyce @andyjboyce.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Purple-backed Thornbill, maybe my favorite #hummingbird from Colombia. That shining purple is just so epic and they generally don't deign to come to feeders with all the other basics. #birding

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Andy Boyce @andyjboyce.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

#birding in Missoula, MT is pretty slow in December but watching these Common Goldeneye being absolute weirdos with their displays and getting after crayfish on @umontana.bsky.social campus was lovely

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Andy Boyce @andyjboyce.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

This is Otus!! He loves upland game birds and blankets. Between him and I we have 1 fully intact ACL.

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Andy Boyce @andyjboyce.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

studying cloth diaper systems so that by the time baby comes I can be a

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Andy Boyce @andyjboyce.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Lumps resulting in -1s: Edible-nest Swiftlets, Papuan Pittas, Red-rumped Swallows, & Redpolls. 📷:Blue-headed Pitta. Not a split or lump... but nice #birding

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Andy Boyce @andyjboyce.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Splits resulting in +1s: Brush-cuckoos, Brown Boobies, Flickers, Xenops(es??), Nutcrackers, Slender-billed Crows, & House Wrens. 📷 is new split Crocker Jungle Flycatcher (not a +1 tho) #birding

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Andy Boyce @andyjboyce.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Love these eBird personalized taxonomy updates! I'm at +3 post-update (7 splits & 4 lumps). #birding

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Andy Boyce @andyjboyce.bsky.social · 10/06/2024

10/10 Black-backed Woodpecker habitat in western Montana #birding

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Andy Boyce @andyjboyce.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

We're hiring PAID ($1800/mo) interns/technicians to work on grassland bird ecology and conservation in #Montana. Nest-searching, #MotusWTS tracking, prairie-dogs and more... #ornithology jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id...

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Andy Boyce @andyjboyce.bsky.social · 28/10/2023

Pretty excellent #borb showed up in Missoula with the recent winter weather -- Golden-crowned Sparrow #birding

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Andy Boyce @andyjboyce.bsky.social · 22/10/2023

We'll eat well this year. Eastern #Montana cannot be beat. #keepitpublic

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Andy Boyce @andyjboyce.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

Another Sprague's Pipit record on the Pacific coast of Mexico (!), well outside the known winter range. Feb 10 & Feb 19, 2023 near Ciudad Obregón, Sonora. Full year movements also pictured Thanks to Pronatura Noroeste and Julian G.W. for maintaining these #motusWTS stations! #ornithology

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Andy Boyce @andyjboyce.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

#ornithology, good dogs, foraging, gardening, #Montana, #birding... that's what this account is gonna be on about. Making my over from the sunken place.

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