Twitter Tuesday (4/23)

This week for Twitter Tuesday, I followed more bird researchers. I tried looking for more researchers by looking at the followers and following of the researchers that I already follow. One of the newest researchers that I followed this week is an expedition naturalist and lecturer, Dan Brown. His posts are very interesting as he is as he travels a lot and documents his findings on Twitter. Although he may not be specialized or focused on penguins, his research and findings are beneficial just to learn more about the wilderness. Another person that I recently followed is Annie Schmidt, a seabird and marine ecologist who is studying Adelie penguins and climate change. Right now they have been researching climate change and its effect on Adelie penguins molting behaviors which is taking place right now for a lot of penguins. I also scrolled though my following feed this week to look into what my peers have been researching. One of my peers, Azucena Melendez is also researching and focusing in on penguins. I learned more facts about penguins like their nesting behavior through her research and tweets on her page. Although, some of our findings have been similar, it is nice to have someone else focusing on penguins so I can expand on research findings. On another note, I have always been fascinated to hummingbirds and one of our peers is studying hummingbirds, Andrea Torres-Cortes. Although I did not choose to study hummingbirds, I love looking at her twitter posts and findings. One of the things I learned about them from her findings are that hummingbirds generally have the same migration routes year after year and rarely deviate. This is because hummingbirds are taught the same migration patterns through every generation. I thought this fact was so cool because I always believed that migration patterns just depended on the season and year and would often change. To check out more about hummingbirds, her page is linked above!