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stubearhop.bsky.social
Academic at the University of Exeter. Animal ecologist 📊 Researching: animal migration 🦅, foraging behaviour🦆 Will likely post about: research🔬, teaching🎓, wildlife🦋, birds🐦‍⬛, ornithology 🪶, landscapes🏔️, coast🏝️, kayaking🚣, cycling🚲
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Both posts are part of our @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded project 'Developmental control of neural cell number and type’, which builds on our work on mushroom body expansion in #Heliconius butterflies (e.g. see www.nature.com/articles/s41...) 2/n
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Got to love autocorrect… IOS knows best..
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Actually did a bit of dredging and while snakes do feature in many of the diet studies, they do not seem important. Not sure where I got the gen on that from… apologies.::
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Ok maybe specialist was a bit strong, and I know they scavenge but snakes are a big feature of their diets…
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Many thanks Daryll, that would be great…trying to start using this platform more often…
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Thanks for letting me cover this issue years ago, amazing to see progress! blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations...
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Boom! 🙅🏻‍♂️ that’ll do! Pallid Swift on my #WestrayBirding Noup Head patch late afternoon and @PatchBirding #PWC2023 #PatchGold. Second for Orkney and first for the isle. Makes up for the distant swift I couldn’t nail during last autumns Pallid influx x.com/stevedudley_...