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Rob Miller🦅🦉🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

@raptorrob.bsky.social

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Research Biologist, Intermountain Bird Observatory @ Boise State U- studying American Goshawks, Short-eared Owls, Flammulated Owls, and migration. Cycling, cross-country skiing, hiking, wildlife. Multiple Myeloma cancer patient (partial remission) He/Him

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Rob Miller🦅🦉🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @raptorrob.bsky.social · May 19

Just finished a fantastic trip to Yellowstone National Park! (Thank You Park Service - America's best idea!). Lots of cool predators (wolves, coyote, fox, grizzly, black bear, badger, lots of raptors). My favorite raptor photo - Red-tailed Hawk with Uinta Ground Squirrel. #BirdsofPrey #raptors

Rob Miller🦅🦉🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @raptorrob.bsky.social · Apr 27

(2/2) This manuscript highlights the power of collaborations among various research organizations. While we have only noted a few cases at Intermountain Bird Observatory in Idaho, our surveillance is important to measure the spread of this disease.

Rob Miller🦅🦉🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @raptorrob.bsky.social · Apr 27

(1/2) My latest research manuscript (my 20th!). This study provides important insight into an emerging disease affecting Sharp-shinned Hawks. #raptorResearch #BirdsOfPrey

meridian.allenpress.com/rapt/article...

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Rob Miller🦅🦉🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @raptorrob.bsky.social · Mar 22

That is an awesome road. I recognized it immediately.

Rob Miller🦅🦉🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @raptorrob.bsky.social · Mar 18

Our introduction to raptor handling and banding workshop registration is open. Workshop is held in Idaho, USA in September, led by yours truly. (birds handled with all necessary federal, state, and local permits).

Details: www.boisestate.edu/ibo/2025/03/...

2025 Workshop: Introduction To Raptor Handling and Banding

Join our “Introduction to Raptor Handling and Banding Techniques” 4-day workshop at our Lucky Peak Research Station in Boise, Idaho!

www.boisestate.edu

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Rob Miller🦅🦉🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @raptorrob.bsky.social · Mar 10

We hear lots of news about golden eagle mortality by wind turbines. However, this is not the largest source of mortality in the western US. Any guesses?

Illegal shooting... Needless and disgusting! (Katzner et al. 2020, Millsap et al. 2022)
#birdsofprey #raptorResearch #conservation #Birds

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Rob Miller🦅🦉🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @raptorrob.bsky.social · Mar 10

American Goshawk nest tree during a late spring snowstorm, 2012. Amazing aspen tree. #goshawksRule #kakkakkak #BirdsofPrey #RaptorResearch #Birds

Rob Miller🦅🦉🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @raptorrob.bsky.social · Mar 8

17 nests occupied at our local rookery!

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · Feb 28

Pass it on.
#StandWithUkraine

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Rob Miller🦅🦉🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @raptorrob.bsky.social · Feb 25

Four coyotes and a dozen Common Ravens challenging a grizzly bear over a bison carcass.

Yellowstone National Park May 2024

#NationalParkService America’s Best Idea

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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · Feb 22

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Rob Miller🦅🦉🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @raptorrob.bsky.social · Feb 19

I agree with all points except Common Ravens (in North America) do travel in groups. Adults are territorial (in pairs), but young non-breeding birds, form groups. They will work together to overrun the territorial pair when food is present.

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Rob Miller🦅🦉🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @raptorrob.bsky.social · Feb 19

Saddle-billed Stork, Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique 2017. #waderWednesday #waterWednesday #birds

Large black and white bird, approximately 1.5 meters tall, with long red, black, and yellow bill, wading into a pond.

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Esteban J. Quiñones, Ph.D. @estebanjq.bsky.social · Feb 7

What can you do about the assault on USAID?

Share this far and wide. Do your part! Please do retweet 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

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Whitney Alese @thereclaimed.bsky.social · Feb 1

Happy:
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...month🖤

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Rob Miller🦅🦉🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @raptorrob.bsky.social · Jan 28

Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) talons. Respect! Idaho, USA 2020. #talonTuesday #raptorResearch #birdsOfPrey #birds

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Rob Miller🦅🦉🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @raptorrob.bsky.social · Jan 28

Our paper accepted for publication in J. of Raptor Research. Will share link when online.

Erickson, Mathiason, Alioto, Allen, Crocker, Miller, Nicoletti, and Radley. Oral Capillariasis in Sharp-shinned Hawks (Accipiter striatus) During Fall and Spring Migration

#raptorResearch #birds #birdsOfPrey

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Rob Miller🦅🦉🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @raptorrob.bsky.social · Jan 27

Great shot of a Great Grey Owl.

Rob Miller🦅🦉🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @raptorrob.bsky.social · Jan 26

Great afternoon walk along the Boise River (Idaho, USA). My best two photos - Common Merganser and Bald Eagle. Both eagles were within 100 m of the nest that they have been working on.

Rob Miller🦅🦉🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @raptorrob.bsky.social · Jan 25

Young Cooper's Hawk (Second-Year, ~8 months old) in our local nature reserve. We saw an adult about 500 m away, but no photos. #birds #raptors #birdsOfPrey

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Rob Miller🦅🦉🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @raptorrob.bsky.social · Jan 25

#IStandWithDenali

Rob Miller🦅🦉🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @raptorrob.bsky.social · Jan 22

I's an ornithologist at the Intermountain Bird Observatory/Boise State University. I primarily focus on raptors, but also do a lot on woodpeckers, migration, and some other sensitive species. Welcome!

Rob Miller🦅🦉🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @raptorrob.bsky.social · Jan 22

It was absolutely stunning! I loved it all. So much better in person than streamed (no surprise)!

Rob Miller🦅🦉🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @raptorrob.bsky.social · Jan 22

Surreal to be at a musical about our country's founding while it is currently being torn apart. But, this is our most anticipated show of our season tickets. #Hamilton #broadwayInBoise #dateNight

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Rob Miller🦅🦉🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @raptorrob.bsky.social · Jan 16

As a cancer patient, and a human being, this is disgusting. I used to have UHC insurance (the worst I have ever had). I even won a class action lawsuit on one of their previous "screw the patient" schemes.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · Jan 15

UnitedHealth has overcharged some cancer patients for medicine by over 1,000%.

An FTC report finds that OptumRx, United Health's pharmacy benefit manager, has made billions by charging patients a huge markup for life-saving drugs.

www.yahoo.com/news/unitedh...

UnitedHealth, employer of slain exec Brian Thompson, found to have overcharged some cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000%

The report is the latest indictment of America’s broken healthcare system.

www.yahoo.com

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