2011 Graduate Student Biological Photo Contest
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This year we are having a friendly photo competition, with winners being announced at the Graduate Student Spring Symposium. Each EEB graduate student can enter one biological photo they have taken, with a short caption including relevant details and the significance of the photo. To enter, send your photo and caption to Frank W. Smith (frank.smith@uconn.edu). A few days before the Spring Symposium (March 19), I'll send a link to the eeb-grad list to an on-line voting site.
2011 Photo Entrants
This is my favorite photo from my recent trip to Ecuador. A member of our group captured this little treefrog (unsure of the species) and brought it to me to photograph. It hopped away and huddled under some rocks, providing the perfect pose. -Brigette Zacharczenko
Working on the CT coast, it is hard to escape the influence of humans. Here, a herring gull, a "trash bird," pics up a piece of trash, yet the scene is somehow beautiful. I took this photo shortly after dawn at the Barn Island boat launch, which is is adjacent to one of my salt marsh field sites. -Alyssa Borowske
This is probably one of the most boring species of hummingbirds (in terms of the bright iridescent colors you would like to see in a picture), but I love it because only males have the crazy hook at the very tip of the beak. And no one knows why! My hypothesis: Sexually-dimorphic weapons. I took it in southern Brazil, last year. -Alejandro Rico Guevara