mattdstep.bsky.social
Data manager and landscape ecologist at Iowa State University's Bioeconomy Institute. Interested in agroecology, grassland birds, prairie restoration, regenerative agriculture, statistics, data viz, and spaceflight. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
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A pair of coyotes and a Red-tailed hawk at another camera at this site.
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We found Upland Sandpiper nests in cover crop and mowed grassland at this site, but catching them on camera is fun! They seem to be undergoing a decade-long transition from a grassland-nesting species to a cropland-nesting species in our region, due to a lack of the one and abundance of the other.
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A female ring-necked pheasant (Phasianus colchicus)!
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Lots of nice photos in this deployment.
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And as a bonus, some photos of her unmarked neighbor taking her chicks for a stroll (strut?).
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Nice find!
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The princess and the pea but the princess *is* the pea
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And it gets even more complicated when you consider that adding habitat can actually increase many fragmentation metrics in very sparse landscapes.
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EML is a XML file type and is machine-readable, but not (easily) human-readable. EML files can be browsed using ezEML, but for our projects I wrote a RMarkdown script that uses package 'EML' to assemble a document that can be easily read by interested users. doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.EML
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Zielonka, N. B., V. Tubman, L. V. Dicks, and S. J. Butler. 2024. Increased bird sound diversity in vineyards enhances visitors’ tour experience. People and Nature 6:2325–2338. doi.org/10.1002/pan3...
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It's no Montana, but there are some nice spots hiding amongst the corn and beans!
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Great visualization!