KABT BioBlog

This beauty was found here in Olathe (NE KS) early last November by one of my students. Perhaps this wayfaring waif had a little help from hurricane Gustav?

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JCCC Scholars Lecture on “Understanding the Diversity of Fishes”
Dr. Holcroft will present an overview of a large collaborative project to which she is contributing to reconstruct the evolutionary relationships among the euteleost fishes using data from their anatomy, development, and genes.

Who: Dr. Nancy I. Holcroft, Associate Professor of Science
When: Wednesday, February 18, at 7:00pm
Where: M.R. & [...]

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On the 15 Jan 2009 entry for the Monarch Watch blog, Chip Taylor has some fun info regarding the upcoming NOVA program, “The Incredible Journey of the Butterflies” set to air 8pm 27 Jan 2009.  Check it out at http://monarchwatch.org/blog/.  If you have not yet been bitten by the monarch “bug,” do a little looking [...]

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Since the forecast for tonight is supposed to be a chilly 2 degrees, I thought I would post an ID Challenge that would remind us all of  Spring.
I photographed this bird last spring at the Baker Wetlands in Lawrence, KS.

Here is another shot:

Who can ID this bird?

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eBird Home Page
Saturday morning, I got up early and headed over to a program presented by Chris Wood, sponsored by the Topeka Audobon folks and hosted by Janeen Walters at Washburn Rural Middle School.   Now I am a geek but the topic had to have a lot of promise for me to give up my [...]

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The Winter Bird Feeder Survey began in January 1988 as a cooperative effort between the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks and the Kansas Ornithological Society, to census birds at feeders. Data is gathered by hundreds of volunteers who watch their feeders and count birds on two, of four designated days. The four day feeder [...]

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A pdf Resource for Teachers wishing to spread Awareness of Evolution by Natural Selection

www.nature.com/evolutiongems
In this celebratory year of the Birth of Charles Darwin and the publication of his On the Origin of Species, it is fitting that the January 1 issue of the journal Nature announces a document “for teachers and others wishing to spread awareness of evolution by [...]

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