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theonetruekat.bsky.social
Gonna take a lot of baby California tiger salamanders to get through the day. #herps #CTS #salamander #ambystoma #calherps #fieldbiologist
March 12, 2025 at 2:59 PM
theonetruekat.bsky.social
Spend a moment at work with me today.

#zen #bigsur #fieldwork #fieldbiologist
January 3, 2025 at 1:33 AM
theonetruekat.bsky.social
Kicking off #yearofthesnake with this January sharp-tailed snake (Contia tenuis) that was my first herp of 2024. #herps #snakes #reptiles #herpetology #fieldbiologist #fieldwork #sharptailedsnake
January 1, 2025 at 7:16 PM
theonetruekat.bsky.social
Another #ThamnophisThursday! Today’s feature is this extremely pregnant Valley Gartersnake, T. sirtalis fitchii, rescued from a steep sided trench. #chonk #gartersnakes #herps #fieldbiologist #snakes
December 26, 2024 at 2:47 PM
warblingdorito.bsky.social
Hi I study birds and try to inspire others to care about birds #ornithology #fieldbiologist #birdbanding #birdringing
November 23, 2024 at 12:10 AM
theonetruekat.bsky.social
First session done…. #sciencetattoos #fieldbiologist
A tattoo artist inks an arm
June 23, 2025 at 11:45 PM
theonetruekat.bsky.social
What to do when you encounter a snake in the wild. Start a convo. Be complimentary and reassuring. Baby California Gophersnake (P. catenifer) for #SundaySnakes. Monterey County, CA. #herps #snakes #fieldbiologist #snek #pituophis
February 9, 2025 at 2:41 PM
theonetruekat.bsky.social
If you need some herp-spiration to get through the week, here is another baby endangered species (blunt nosed leopard lizard). #herps #lizards #bnll #endangeredspecies #fieldbiologist
A small yellowish-grey lizard with bright red spots warms itself in the morning sun. Dried grasslands all around.
March 4, 2025 at 10:59 PM
theonetruekat.bsky.social
It could also be #TurtleyTuesday and I’d be fine with that. Welcome to the world, bebe Western Pond Turtle. #herps #turtles #Iliketurtles #turtlepower #herpetology #fieldbiologist #calherps
A very smol green turtle, about the size of a half dollar, trundles across the grasses as if they were forest.
January 29, 2025 at 12:23 AM
theonetruekat.bsky.social
All in a days work. #burrowexcavation #fieldbiologist
An excavated small-mammal burrow complex, with orange exclusion fencing in the background.
June 26, 2025 at 3:41 AM
leagrie.bsky.social
For the #FieldBiologist s out there, I present to you the top rubber boot recommendations fr a survey i once ran on 🐦 (RIP). It is almost time for #FieldWork!

#FieldGear #RubberBoots #Footwear

@evornithology.bsky.social @bethmacshack.bsky.social
March 7, 2026 at 1:45 PM
theonetruekat.bsky.social
Late to learning about #turtletuesday as well. So here is one of our Western Pond Turtles (Actinemys marmorata), sporting a lovely epoxy radio tag and some claws on fleek. #herps #turtles #fieldbiologist #iliketurtles
December 5, 2024 at 6:13 PM
theonetruekat.bsky.social
Here is a reminder that soon there will be baby blunt-nosed leopard lizards again soon. Hang in there, fam.

#herps #lizards #bnll #bluntnosedleopardlizard #fieldwork #fieldbiologist
A very small lizard sits at the entrance of a rodent burrow, soaking up the morning sun.
February 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
theonetruekat.bsky.social
The thing about being a biologist in California is…. there are always more snake photos…. GO GO GO GOPHERSNAKES! #herps #snakes #gophersnakes #fieldwork #fieldbiologist #herpetology #pituophis
A nice adult Gophersnake blending in with the dried grasslands. Nothing to see here. Adult gophersnake begrudging accepting photographs and fangirling.
February 9, 2025 at 9:01 PM
theonetruekat.bsky.social
Spend a few moments at work with me today. #fieldwork #californiabiologist #morningcommute #bigsur #fieldbiologist
December 30, 2024 at 10:16 PM
theonetruekat.bsky.social
Night surveys were also productive. Have you ever seen a more gorgeous California red-legged frog? *handled with all appropriate permits* #herps #crlf #redleggedfrog #frogs #fieldbiologist
A beautifully colored frog with orangey-red base coloring, and distinct dorsolateral folds is held up, in the glow of a headlamp, by a smitten biologist.
March 10, 2025 at 6:56 AM
theonetruekat.bsky.social
Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba Bombus! High elevation Bombus are fun because who even are you? (I think this is B bifarius?). #fieldwork #fieldbiologist
A groovy looking bumblebee samples a small lupine
August 11, 2026 at 7:15 PM
theonetruekat.bsky.social
And it was all yellow…. Another day working in #bigsur #fieldwork #fieldbiologist #bananas #bananaslugs #wildflowers
Two bright yellow banana slugs on the forest floor. Bright yellow violets blooming amid the redwood forest. Fremont’s Camas just starting to bloom.
February 12, 2025 at 10:43 PM
theonetruekat.bsky.social
Excavating small mammal burrows is always an interesting (if backbreaking) chore, but what will we find as we dig everything up this week? #fieldbiologist
A biologist excavates a gopher burrow by hand.
June 17, 2025 at 1:32 AM
theonetruekat.bsky.social
Yes, my dudes, it is #ToadallyTuesday. So here is an almost-there Western Spadefoot toadpole (Spea hammondii). Which I will spend the rest of my life defending, for all her descendants. #herps #toads #spea #speahammondii #toad #fieldbiologist #fieldwork #amphibians
A squishy little goo-ball with four developed legs, but still rocking the big paddle tail of many tadpoles, is almost ready to transition to land.
February 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
theonetruekat.bsky.social
Biologist excavation tools: borescopes and pool noodles. #fieldbiologist #burrowexcavation
A photo with a dirt mound in the background and a borescope and part of a pool noodle in the foreground.
June 18, 2025 at 2:33 AM
theonetruekat.bsky.social
Lots of mushrooms at work today! #mushrooms #fieldbiologist #californiabiologist
December 18, 2024 at 3:59 PM
theonetruekat.bsky.social
Spent the workday handing off a project to one of our staff biologists and vegetation mapping Eriogonum for Smith’s Blue Butterfly. Big Sur, CA. #fieldwork #fieldbiologist
A young biologist maps vegetation on a rocky plateau above the Pacific Ocean.
March 22, 2025 at 2:57 AM
theonetruekat.bsky.social
#twosday is on with a dramatic shitfight between two #starlings. Bird fights are just vicious. #birds #europeanstarlings #EUST #fieldwork #fieldbiologist
January 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
theonetruekat.bsky.social
Trying to decide how far out of my burrow I’m willing to come today. Horned Lizard (P. blainvillii) Madera County, CA. #herps #lizards #hornedlizard #goblinface #reptiles #fieldwork #fieldbiologist #herpetology
A small, sand-colored lizard stands on squatty legs at the mouth of a burrow. It appears to be unimpressed with the photographer. The background environment is sandy desert scrubland.
January 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM