The Net Naturalist
A field guide to social media.
Category: Wildlife
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The common names we have bestowed on some animals do not do them justice. To start – I’m disappointed by how many of our names for animals are iterative. Take the genius additions of lionfish, dogfish, batfish or even catfish — by the time we were naming fish were we even trying? And then there…
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I think that nature photography is a gateway drug to a healthy wildlife watching addiction. With that hypothesis, I’ve been enjoying how many social media sites I frequent daily are now heavily populated with images (cough… Facebook, Google+, & Tumblr). You can’t go anywhere on those sites without bumping into a few words slapped on…
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I like to share great examples of nonprofits using social media, and I get even more excited when people engage around wildlife. I saw a great example in wildlife identification from Virgina State Parks on their Facebook page. They asked their friends to help them identify this bird–> We’ve talked about the benefits of crowdsourcing, but more and…
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*Note: An updated version of this post can be found on Wildlife Promise called 25+ Nature and Wildlife Mobile Apps. If you managed to wrestle my iPhone away from me, you would see that I collect nature applications, everything from trail-tracking apps to apps that help me identify birds (my weakness). My goal is to…
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Recently, my one of my brave colleagues, Kelly Senser, ventured into the social media space despite her incredible workload. She’s been a superstar ever since, and really provides value and friendship to anyone she meets. If you don’t follow @klsnature and you love wildlife and gardening, you should. She recently published an excellent article that…
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Many species depend on migration because it is imperative for their continued survival. Humans migrate, birds migrate, butterflies migrate, mammals besides humans migrate, data migrates — it’s all so overwhelming. While Fall migration is wrapping up at the end of this month, in my area there are still a few bird species migrating, as well…
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