Post AygepeDWKBTCJE7052 by joncounts@mastodon.nz
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 (DIR) Post #AygepeDWKBTCJE7052 by joncounts@mastodon.nz
       2025-09-29T04:21:40Z
       
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       NEWS FLASH: We have CLAMS living on campus!As part of last week's Sustainability Weed at #LincolnUniversityNZ, our freshwater ecology tutor Elysia Harcombe did some kick sampling along a farm ditch. Yes, she found clams!It's the first record on #iNaturalist of clams on campus, or anywhere in Lincoln (and we've been kick sampling in the Liffey Stream through Lincoln for several years in my biodiversity class).There are records of some clams living in the Yarrs Lagoon wetland reserve to the south of campus, but that's about 3 km to the south.https://inaturalist.nz/observations/316195607#clam #FreshwaterEcology #nz
       
 (DIR) Post #AygepfPxrP1C26wS7E by lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz
       2025-09-29T04:24:08Z
       
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       @joncounts how would they even get there? Wading bird legs?
       
 (DIR) Post #Aygf3bV9DaXPwO0n9E by joncounts@mastodon.nz
       2025-09-29T04:26:39Z
       
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       @lightweight This is an excellent question. Yes, maybe birds? Muddy duck feet are blamed for a lot of otherwise unexplainable long-distance dispersal. Some young clams travel about in the gills of fish. But, it would be an adventurously foolhardy fish that would be able to discover this farm ditch.
       
 (DIR) Post #Aygfo1lHunVQhrhJs8 by lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz
       2025-09-29T04:35:03Z
       
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       @dantheclamman @joncounts sadly, not much in the way of amphibian movement, eh, but I suppose the whistling frogs do move around a bit...