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Pahoehoe

Bowdoin student @elliewanders finds the orientation of a pahoehoe lava flow (this ropy-looking rock, splotched with lichens and surrounded by moss) that we encountered in a lava field near Reykjavik, Iceland

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Zee and the Trout Lily

Zee and this ant are waiting for the trout lily to finish developing a seed, because attached to that seed will be a little snack. The ant will take the seed home, feed the snack to the baby ants, and throw the rest in the compost pile—a nice place for a new trout lily to grow. (Zee, who already has an ample supply of snacks, is just here for the show.)

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Zee and the Inchworm

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Borneo bird gallery

Yellow-breasted Warbler mother feeds her newly fledged chick

A Collared Owlet and I were both roaming the forest at 6:30 a.m.

Little Cuckoo-Dove nesting by the road through Kinabalu Park

Fruithunter female on the nest

Nest searchers like Elise Zarri start work before dawn every morning

Bird bander Kristen Oliver measures a Bornean Stubtail's stubtail

Yellow-breasted Warbler

Yellow-breasted Warbler nestlings

Good morning, Borneo

Morning glories above Pandanus Trail

White-throated Fantail, sans tail

Nobody enjoys a caterpillar like a Chestnut-hooded Laughingthrush

One of Mount Kinabalu's many rodents, who like to find bird nests as much as we do

Eyebrowed Jungle Flycatcher

The endemic Bornean Whistler

The only way to reach an Orange-headed Thrush nest

A Mountain Leaf Warbler is nesting nearby

The peaks of Mount Kinabalu

View from Kinabalu

The 2017 field crew of Dr. Thomas Martin (center, yellow shirt)