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Robert Spaul

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Wildlife Biologist | Birder | #RaptorResearch, monitoring & applied ecology | Board of Directors @hmanahawkwatch | He/him

Laramie, WY
Joined May 2013
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Robert Spaul
4 years
Excited to lead this effort for @hmanahawkwatch, partnering w/ @birdingtoronto, @ofobirds, @nphawkwatch, @HolidayBeachMO, Hawk Cliff Hawk Watch, @hawkwatchint, & @BirdsCanada. We're recruiting participants for a 2-day dispersed hawkwatch raising a voice for raptor conservation!
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Robert Spaul
2 years
RT @Phil_Lewis_: "Missouri House Republicans voted to defund all of the state’s public libraries, in a proposed $45.6 billion state budget…
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Robert Spaul
2 years
RT @ben_a_goldfarb: For @hakaimagazine, I wrote about beach dogs, which are both shockingly harmful to coastal ecosystems *and* a wildly co…
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Robert Spaul
3 years
This basically sums up my entire economic and sustainability philosophy.
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Clive Lewis MP
3 years
The obsession with GDP helps evade questions of distribution while promoting infinite expansion on a finite planet. Only in the warped reality of our current growth obsessed economic model is expansion without end seen as a virtue. In biology, it's called a cancer.
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Robert Spaul
3 years
@raptornaturalst Awesome research too!
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Robert Spaul
3 years
Found an amazing family of Northern Saw-whet Owls this weekend in Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest! Here's 1 of 3 fledglings, photographed from the trail. #NorthernSawWhetOwl
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Robert Spaul
3 years
Hey #BirdTwitter! Just realized I’m running dangerously low on #bird tshirts & I want to support #research & #CommunityScience organizations featuring awesome artists with my purchases. Please suggest birdy attire! My 1st one will be from @hmanahawkwatch
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Robert Spaul
3 years
After feeling bad about a very muddy work week, NE Wyoming is now offering free* power car washes to all residents! Current WY residents don’t even need to move their cars! *Clean cars guaranteed for 8 hours. NE Wyoming is not responsible for future muddy work weeks.
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Robert Spaul
3 years
Suddenly Swainson’s Hawks are trickling across WY’s sage-steppe! The last raptors to arrive in spring, they get the last pick of scarce nesting trees. In the next few weeks they’ll pack in b/w all the other tree nesters & cobble together flimsy little nests w/ amazing efficiency!
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Robert Spaul
3 years
Field biologists are lucky to enjoy the “field house”. The best thing is the random accessories striving to be homely…washcloths for oven mitts, the wrong size coffee filters & a shortage of quality pillows. Love ‘em & leave ‘em; but always leave ‘em cleaner than you found ‘em!
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Robert Spaul
3 years
@naturallywild__ Malheur NWR, Toronto Islands, Ponderosa Pine forests, and just about any solid hawkwatch.
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Robert Spaul
3 years
@missmaddylucas @ecologistash That’s awful. They should have been able to work with you to figure out accommodations.
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Robert Spaul
3 years
RT @missmaddylucas: @ecologistash I had a job offer for a summer tech position revoked - I was told explicitly it was because of having a s…
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3 years
RT @ecologistash: There are so many stupid barriers to getting hired in the field of wildlife biology, and I want to vent about one that I…
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Robert Spaul
3 years
Learned first-hand today that #Graycrownedrosyfinch use #Cliffswallow nests for winter roost sites! 🤯 Birds truly never get boring.
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Robert Spaul
3 years
@AnEtchabear I was chased & treed by a female moose in B. Columbia. Though scary it was right out of a cartoon, & probably hilarious had anyone seen it 😂 2x around a tree, then I darted for another tree & climbed it a quickly as I could. Moose interrupted bird surveys more than 🐻 that year!
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Robert Spaul
3 years
@EvanBuechley @peregrinefund Congrats Evan!
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Robert Spaul
3 years
@ShannonSkalos Struggled w/ this in Toronto where only those selected for interviews were contacted; folks always leaned on the “busy HR line”. It’s so demoralizing & reduces transparency in hiring. Big fan of “all serious applicants get a response”; you’re basically doing part of HR’s job!
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Robert Spaul
3 years
RT @Mitch_Serota: Show me your cutest camera trap photo! I'll start...
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Robert Spaul
3 years
@Mitch_Serota Adult GOEA sternly teaching HY bird how to scavenge. Sweden, 2011.
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