👀2025 data added 2 new species to our ongoing offal visitor list-- badger and tufted titmouse! 📷Surely there are more species out there eating guts that we haven't yet documented... help us find more by requesting a camera to monitor your offal this year! #offal_watch

For #Nationaldogday-- offal sites around MN have no shortage of dog visitors living their best lives! 😄🐕🦴 #offal #offal_watch #participatoryscience #cameratrap #Zooniverse #SciStarter #mnenrtf #mnextension #Browningtrailcams #mnmasternaturalist #natureismetal #Tech4Wildlife

The gut buffet is open, and birds showed up in force! These photos capture some of the birds that visit gut piles left behind by hunters. The Offal Wildlife Watching Project is trying to understand: how guts are used as a food source across MN. Join us at offal.umn.edu!

Oh, deer! This candid photo of a doe comes to you courtesy of a local hunter. Deer hunters and wildlife enthusiasts can contribute to research into how nature interacts with gut piles (offal) by putting up trail cameras and sharing photos Learn more at offal.umn.edu

This friend of Jimothy isn't messing around, she is getting right down to chowing down! Want to help identify who else is showing up to deer gut piles in MN? Be part of the research at: zooniverse.org/projects/embe… Photo credit: #RyanPennesiPhotography

This camera captured great shots of an American marten and fisher. Easy to spot the difference when they're posing for the camera like this, harder when it's a blur running in the woods! #offal_watch #participatoryscience #cameratrap #Zooniverse #mnenrtf #mnextension

Hunters your gut pile is a research opportunity! Join the Offal Wildlife Watching Project: set up a camera at your gut pile, leave it out for a month, then share the images. No experience needed, and project cameras are available to borrow. Learn more: offal.umn.edu

This site seems to specialize in offal to go! #offal #offal_watch #participatoryscience #cameratrap #Zooniverse #SciStarter #mnenrtf #mnextension #Browningtrailcams #mnmasternaturalist #natureismetal #Tech4Wildlife

Here's a great shot showing the size difference between corvid species! Common raven left foreground, 2 black billed magpies in the middle and 2 American crows overseeing #offal #offal_watch #participatoryscience #cameratrap #Zooniverse #SciStarter #mnenrtf #mnextension

Look at these unlikely BFFs dining together! 📸👀😊

Raccoons living their best life 📷🦝🥩😊 #offal #offal_watch #participatoryscience #cameratrap #Zooniverse #SciStarter #mnenrtf #mnextension #Browningtrailcams #mnmasternaturalist #natureismetal #tech4wildlife

This looks like a fisher caching this offal ("caching" is a term for hiding or storing food for later). What do you think? If that's what this fisher is doing, caching food on-site is a rarely-observed behavior! #offal_watch #participatoryscience #Zooniverse #SciStarter #mnenrtf

Did you know...? Skunks are generally solitary animals but when they gather, they're typically called a a 'surfeit!' 🦨🦨🦨🦨 Other terms sometimes used are a 'stench' or an 'array.' #offal_watch #participatoryscience #cameratrap #Zooniverse #SciStarter #mnenrtf #mnextension

Same camera, different eagles 📷 These offal cam captures are a great representation of the impressive size difference between golden and bald eagles! #offal_watch #participatoryscience #Zooniverse #SciStarter #mnenrtf #mnextension #Browningtrailcams #mnmasternaturalist

#wildlifewednesday featuring the Barred owl/strix varia. Probably sitting on eggs this time of year and not scavenging gut piles! 📷 #offal_watch #participatoryscience #cameratrap #Zooniverse #SciStarter #mnenrtf #mnextension #Browningtrailcams #mnmasternaturalist #Tech4Wildlife

As scavenger researchers, we get plenty of images of guts and gore but photos like this are equally captivating! Here's a beautiful and peaceful shot of a rough legged hawk in the snow #offal_watch #participatoryscience #cameratrap #Zooniverse #SciStarter #mnenrtf #mnextension

Hunters: please join us for another year of offal research!🖊️ Register as a hunter participant at offal.umn.edu Our research wouldn't be possible without dedicated citizen scientists from all over MN- we appreciate your contributions! #Zooniverse #mnenrtf #mnextension

These interspecies interactions are always so interesting to see! 📷🦊🦝 The predators don't always get priority but this raccoon didn't look ready to stand its ground! #offal_watch #participatoryscience #cameratrap #Zooniverse #SciStarter #mnenrtf #mnextension #Browningtrailcams

More cool eagle footage 📷 These are more rare #goldeneagles and exciting to see as #offal visitors! #offal #offal_watch #participatoryscience #cameratrap #Zooniverse #SciStarter #mnenrtf #mnextension #Browningtrailcams #mnmasternaturalist