Figure 1. Hypothesised drivers and movements of Nearctic landbirds associated with the passage of Hurricane Lee in autumn 2023. NAO, North Atlantic Oscillation. Image credits: Eastern Spruce Budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana) used with permission from Lucas Benaiche, wildfires and solar eruption by Gerd Altmann/geralt (Pixabay), Blackpoll Warbler (Setophaga striata) by Lucas Lombardo, Wilson’s Warbler (Cardellina pusilla) by Ian Davies, and Magnolia Warbler (Setophaga magnolia) by Sam Viles.

New paper on the pattern, process and implications of trans-Atlantic vagrancy for ecology and evolutionary biology, written with @pauldufour80.bsky.social and Andrew Farnsworth read free at: authors.elsevier.com/a/1mzPI3QW8S... #Ornithology #Ecology #UKBirding 🪶🦋🌱🌎🌍🧪

...so Maradona just put the ball back in the center circle and hit the crossbar once more

A friend of mine used to run track at San Paolo stadium in the 80s, sometimes overlapping with Napoli training sessions. One time Maradona put the ball in the center circle and bet one of the trainers he could hit the crossbar, which he proceeded to do. The trainer bet him he could't do it again...

Diego Maradona - First Year In Napoli ● The Goat YouTube video by MatigolVidz

One year of Maradona in Napoli is like an entire career of any other top class footballer. Miles ahead of everyone else. Insane.

youtu.be/HcwnRe3g330

(PDF) An illustrated key to the Cheilosia Meigen, 1822 (Diptera, Syrphidae) of Europe PDF | An identification key to the species of the hover fly genus Cheilosia (Diptera, Syrphidae) occurring in Europe is presented. This is the second... | Find, read and cite all the research you need...

Thanks to Sander Bot for sharing a new (and very well-illustrated) key to Cheilosia hoverflies in Europe - looking forward to trying it out www.researchgate.net/publication/... #flies #diptera @dipteristsforum.bsky.social

oh yeah my field notes totally look like this too ebird.org/checklist/S3...

Is there nothing AI can't do better than humans?

He has nukes.
He is a damaged fool.
Stop him.
Remove him.

Is it as good as Yvette's, though?

Israel passes death penalty law for Palestinians convicted of lethal attacks Israel's parliament passed a law on Monday making death by hanging a default sentence for Palestinians convicted in military courts of deadly attacks, fulfilling a pledge by Prime Minister Benjamin Ne...

A death penalty for Palestinians but not for Jewish Israelis who committed similar crimes. That's apartheid.

And still not a red line for western States who will continue their policy of support; because if genocide is not a red line, what is?

www.reuters.com/world/middle...

That needs its own atlas code

Post-copulatory bowing in urban Greater Roadrunners… recorded on the bike ride to No Kings, 3/28/2026

(PDF) Synthetic Species: The Emerging Threat of AI-Generated Biodiversity PDF | On Mar 22, 2026, Kris Anderson published Synthetic Species: The Emerging Threat of AI-Generated Biodiversity | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

@bfly52.bsky.social Interesting new argument in the discussion around photography-based taxonomy, discusses Marleyimyia xylocopae and an AI-generated mantis photo - www.researchgate.net/publication/...
#inaturalist

The U.S. Said It Helped Bomb a Drug Camp. It Was a Dairy Farm.

Alongside the ongoing extrajudicial executions carried out illegally by the US regime, this bombing and brutalisation of innocent campesinos seems almost tame and unremarkable. Bad news for Ecuador though. This is a village in which I stayed on fieldwork years ago. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/w...

...when I came across this image (on wikiaves) taken in Brazil. Not only is the nest largely composed of rhizomorphs but the nestling is CAMOUFLAGED TO LOOK LIKE THEM! 😍 2/5

"Majority Clade Credibility tree results from the partitioned Bayesian analyses of the concatenated data set (cytochrome b, MB, ODC) calibrated using three fossils. Numbers close to the nodes refer to maximum likelihood bootstrap support/concatenated beast posterior probabilities/species tree posterior probabilities. Values are indicated when at least one the three values was ≥70%, ≥0.95 or ≥0.95, respectively."

All 33 shrike species trace their roots to Africa ~8 million years ago, when C4 grasses exploded across the continent. Oh, and Magpie Shrikes? Just big Lanius. The first complete shrike phylogeny reveals Laniidae is basically one giant genus. doi.org/10.1111/zsc.... #2026MMM #RIP

People seem shocked that torture, repression and human rights violations continue in Venezuela as a US protectorate under puppet government 🤔. The main change since 3 Jan is simply that the authoritarian regimes of Washington and Caracas are now closely aligned with common goals.

Time to call a halt on a paint of a juv Roughleg boinging up and down on thin thorn branch before I am tempted to tinker about with it. I miss these chaps more than any other mild winter no-show I can think of. #BirdArt

I have a joke about ratites, but i think it won’t fly

The new player is just amazing. Check out these new sonograms!

donald trump is wearing a suit and tie while making a funny face . ALT: donald trump is wearing a suit and tie while making a funny face .

L'articolo 5 della NATO si attiva in caso di attacco subito da uno dei suoi membri, secondo il principio di difesa collettiva tra gli alleati.

Non si attiva nel caso che un cazzone abbia attaccato un altro paese e non sappia più come uscirne.

New Phyllosc!

The first article of the new Journal of Lost Species is out: journaloflostspecies.org/index.php/jl...

The US hypocrisy about Israel's nuclear weapons must stop Israel's nuclear weapons may have started as a deterrent against another Holocaust, but they have now morphed into an instrument serving the aggressive and expansionist Middle Eastern country.

thebulletin.org/2025/03/the-...

Yesterday's seminar added to our YouTube page - worth a watch if you missed

New article by Shaun Peters: "Bird species not represented on XC": xeno-canto.org/article/322 . Quite a list! Good to have. Let's see what 2026 brings :-)

Lark fight! The Bar-tailed started it. Western Sahara, March 2026

We fight on that lie YouTube video by ppajae

I wrote something years ago. At the time it was an angry answer to the Second Gulf War. But it still applies to American misrule.

Slim Charles > The entire Trump administration.

Poster for a seminar - Talk abstract: Vagrant birds were historically neglected in migration research due to their rarity and the limitations of early tracking methods. Yet, growing research shows that vagrancy can help us better understand several aspects of bird migration and its consequences. In this talk, I will show how abnormal migratory movements can inform key processes in bird migration, including the colonization of new territories, the emergence of novel migration routes, and the navigation systems of migratory birds.​

This week's seminar will be given by @pauldufour80.bsky.social of @vogelwarte.bsky.social on how we can understand bird migration through the study of abnormal movements such as vagrancy. Lecture held in @biology.ox.ac.uk at 3.30 on Fri 13 March - all welcome; online joining instructions ⬇️

With superb articles on Cypseloides ID, the "lost" Turquoise-throated Puffleg, and Caura Antbird among others