Joe Manthey @jdmanthey.bsky.social · 16/08/2026A sapsucker in northern Wisconsin looking at me from its perch 🪶 1414
Joe Manthey @jdmanthey.bsky.social · 15/08/2026A Kirtland's Warbler in Michigan earlier this week. 🪶 0130
Reposted by Joe MantheyJeff Groh @jeffgroh.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Avocados come in 2 varieties - A-types start each day female and switch to male midday. B-types do the reverse. In work just published from the last chapter of my PhD, we show this system evolved 40+million yrs ago and is regulated by alleles of 1 transcription factor www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...pnas.orgBalanced polymorphism in a floral transcription factor underlies the ancient rhythm of daily sex alternation in avocado | PNASIn avocado and certain wild relatives in Lauraceae, a highly synchronized daily rhythm of floral sex timing promotes cross-pollination between two ... 22721274
Joe Manthey @jdmanthey.bsky.social · 24/07/2026A Long-tailed Weasel found in a Gunnison's Prairie Dog colony. I very much like how long they are 623941
Reposted by Joe MantheyBethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 29/06/2026You may have heard about the OMB rule change that will put politics over federal grants. However bad you think it is? It's probably worse. Thanks to @theverge.com for letting me report this one out. There is still time to comment. bit.ly/4v2X4nQbit.lyThe war against ‘woke’ could end US science as we know it“Everyone will be affected, not just scientists. Every community in the country.“ 311363788
Joe Manthey @jdmanthey.bsky.social · 25/05/2026We had a close encounter with an American Badger a couple days ago 1140
Joe Manthey @jdmanthey.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Saw a Northern Bobwhite today quite close to the road. If you zoom in, you can see the truck in the eye's reflection. 🪶 09423
Joe Manthey @jdmanthey.bsky.social · 15/05/2026My first time seeing a Black-throated Blue Warbler today 🪶 3221
Reposted by Joe MantheyOscar Villaseñor Johnson, PhD @henicorhina.bsky.social · 11/05/2026🚨New paper alert!🚨 (only slightly delayed). I'm proud to have been a part of this cool work led by Dr. Marco Rego. Marco assembled a massive dataset of bird distributional information to test long-standing ideas about how rivers serve as taxon boundaries in the Amazon Basin. Check out those maps! 1176
Joe Manthey @jdmanthey.bsky.social · 08/05/2026A very fabulous Northern Waterthrush from today 🪶 35314
Joe Manthey @jdmanthey.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Another bright warbler that is somewhat rare here seen this afternoon in West Texas 🪶 11058
Joe Manthey @jdmanthey.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Found this bright guy in West Texas this morning 🪶 314714
Joe Manthey @jdmanthey.bsky.social · 07/04/2026This morning I managed to get both a Lesser and Greater Yellowlegs in the same frame for the first time. 🪶 0130
Joe Manthey @jdmanthey.bsky.social · 02/04/2026The Purple Martins are back in West Texas. I wonder what this female (right) is thinking in this moment. 🪶 5343
Reposted by Joe MantheyEmilio M Bruna @brunalab.bsky.social · 02/04/2026The US Forest Service. This is madness. Illegal, obviously. But madness even if it weren’t. WTAF morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...morethanjustparks.substack.comBREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest ServiceThe headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed. 13222
Joe Manthey @jdmanthey.bsky.social · 19/03/2026This thief stole a piece of cheese from my breakfast burrito while I made my coffee. Watch out for them in Hill Country! 🪶 14611
Joe Manthey @jdmanthey.bsky.social · 10/03/2026A Black-throated Sparrow, uncommon for our area in west Texas 🪶 0121
Joe Manthey @jdmanthey.bsky.social · 18/02/2026This time of year the Northern Shovelers are some of the most common ducks here in West Texas, giving plenty of photo opportunities. 🪶 0213
Joe Manthey @jdmanthey.bsky.social · 15/02/2026Watched this pocket gopher for a bit today moving in and out of its hole to grab and chew on plant material. They seem to be mostly nocturnal, so it is always nice getting a good view of one. 060
Joe Manthey @jdmanthey.bsky.social · 13/02/2026A Ferruginous Hawk with its lunch. A Red-Tailed Hawk later stole the remaining food from it. 🪶 0131
Joe Manthey @jdmanthey.bsky.social · 09/02/2026A Belted Kingfisher telling me what it thinks about me hiking near its fishing spot 🪶 0120
Joe Manthey @jdmanthey.bsky.social · 07/02/2026Saw a bunch of eagles this morning, including this one landing on a frozen lake in Kansas 🪶 2140
Joe Manthey @jdmanthey.bsky.social · 27/01/2026A very fabulous looking Great Blue Heron, with a snowy backdrop 🪶 0150
Joe Manthey @jdmanthey.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Hermit Thrush during this afternoon's snow in West Texas 🪶 0161
Joe Manthey @jdmanthey.bsky.social · 24/01/2026House finch floofed up in the snow. You can see a few snow flakes streaking by in the photo. 🪶 0303
Joe Manthey @jdmanthey.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Not a common winter visitor here, a January American Redstart 🪶 1220
Joe Manthey @jdmanthey.bsky.social · 22/01/2026A hybrid or admixed red-shafted x yellow shafted Northern Flicker 🪶 0374
Joe Manthey @jdmanthey.bsky.social · 19/01/2026This Great Blue Heron was fishing and didn't mind me so I waited to get a nice headshot. 🪶 2201
Joe Manthey @jdmanthey.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Great Blue Heron keeping an eye on me while fishing 🪶 0191
Joe Manthey @jdmanthey.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Two different angles of a Great Blue Heron in a spillway🪶 1173
Joe Manthey @jdmanthey.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Saw a Williamson's Sapsucker today, rare here in Lubbock, TX. 🪶 1292
Joe Manthey @jdmanthey.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Look at the feet of this American Coot walking on the side of the playa lake 🪶 170
Joe Manthey @jdmanthey.bsky.social · 06/01/2026Red-Breasted Nuthatches in classic upside down poses. 🪶 0120
Joe Manthey @jdmanthey.bsky.social · 05/01/2026Meadowlark marching through the short, dry grass 🪶 0111
