Grasshopper Sparrow, by Greg Neise
Today's Migrant: Grasshopper Sparrow
Weird fact: Sometimes runs through grass instead of flying when disturbed.
Have you heard your first Grasshopper Sparrow of the season yet?
Diagram showing hypothesized life history and ecological relationships of the bird-like dinosaur Archaeopteryx.
Review of the ecology of Archaeopteryx: link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🪶🧪 (📷NICE PaleoVisLab studio & Samantha Clark)
Haha well I think in this case it looks pretty safely dogwood of some kind!
Aw man, bummer. Something happened to the other parent, then. Usually both are incredibly fierce and dedicated about their parenting, including during incubation.
They look right to me too! But I can't pretend to know if there are any lookalikes out east.
Thank you!
Thanks! Yeah getting to do birds and bugs and flowers all in one here was so much fun. I am not very secretly a big fan of getting to draw insects where and when I can.
Angled down image of a rattlesnake, partially buried in sand and facing left. The snake’s colors match its sandy surroundings.
I’m flying home from Phoenix today after spending a few days in northern Mexico. Here’s a sidewinder rattlesnake (Crotalus cerastes) observed in the light of morning at El Pinacate and Gran Altar Desert Natl Park. These are sandy habitat specialists as the photo suggests. #herps #snakes 🌿
This was done for @mwtingley.bsky.social in celebration of Graham Montgomery's Ph.D defense - I can't seem to ping Graham though, bsky is giving me an invalid handle error! :/
Digital illustration of a Dark-eyed Junco, a dark brown sparrow with a pink beak, looking down from the background at a patch of red clover. The clover is covered in a variety of insects from Graham Montgomery's Ph.D work, including Harmonia axyridis (Asian ladybeetle), Scaptomyza terminalis (a small fly), Altica sp. flea beetles (tiny iridescent green beetles), Forcipata loca (pale yellow small leafhopper), Evacanthus interruptus (yellow and black leafhopper), and Anaspis rufa (small golden-brown false flower beetles).
I've never known if #BirdoftheDay is open to art but I guess I'll give it a go! If we're doing birds with flowers today, then I'll re-share this illustration of a Slate-colored Junco peering down on a landscape of red clover and the insects among it. #BirdArt #SciArt #Invertebrates
A small hummingbird with faint orange on its sides, a white belly, shining green feathers on its head, and the same green feathers mixed with white on its throat, perches on the branch of a plant. It's turned to the right and has its beak against the branch as it sticks its long, curved, clear tongue out. Behind the bird is an out-of-focus bright red lily flower. 📷 Canon R5 Canon RF100-500mm f/4.5-7.1L IS USM M, f/7.1, 1/2000, ISO 1600, 500mm 7/30/24 Northern Oregon Coast
A rufous hummingbird cleans its beak on a flowering lily. The #birdoftheday is #petalsandperches so this little guy should fit in
#birds #bird #photography #ornithology #birdphotos #nature #naturephotography #birdphotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #birdoftheday #hummingbird #rufous
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A hummingbird with a pink head, stretches its wings and tail while perched amid yellow flowers
@alan678.bsky.social has declared Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Petals&Perches any bird with flowers in the frame. I captured this Anna’s Hummingbird in mid-stretch surrounded by the flowers of a bladderpod. Note the species’ uniquely shaped out her tail feathers. #birds #digiscoping
Black and white sketches based on Lord Huron's video for Bag of Bones. The sketches feature a young man flopping and bending and tumbling in all kinds of crazy directions, and in the lower left corner, a mime in a bowler hat commiserates with a brahmin cow.
bags of bones of bags of bones of bags of bones of
#LordHuron #fanart 🎨
The only advice you need when running horror:
“horror games should put to you a choice in any given situation, which is that you can either survive the terror, solve the mystery, or save the day.
…But you should only be able to do 1 to 1.5 of those things.”
www.failuretolerated.com/survive-solv...
Painting of an purepecha ruler, seated under the palace of tzintzuntzan patio roof smoking a pipe.
Peaceful palace morning
#artist #illust #illustration #painting #digitalart #mexico #michoacan #purepecha #history #mesoamerica
Oh, yeah, totally. Well the first thing that comes to mind that is not that similar except for being cool and geometric and vaguely round are some hydrozoans? Velella is the one I'm most familiar with that has neat ripply patterns on its surface.
You guys are all in the same losers boat.
One of the most famous mosasaurs, Tylosaurus proriger, submerges after taking a breath. It is dark above and light below, as tentatively suggested by some palaeocolour data. The challenges of interpreting scaly reptile palaeocolour, and the tiny scraps of colour data we have for this animal, preclude much confidence in chromatic interpretations of this species, however. Also, if you stare at this long enough, you'll see a few sharks. No foolin'.
Been thinking marine-reptiley thoughts today. Here's one of my latest #paleoart efforts along that line: Tylosaurus proriger. The colour is based on fossil colour data, although it's far from certain that this animal was black and countershaded.
Print link: www.markwitton.co.uk/product-page...
oh man it is cool to watch this come together
Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 / Warhorse Studios
Daniel Vavra is pro-ai, and Warhorse replaced translators for gen-ai for forward updates. Defended Larian's use of gen-ai. -y
Sources:
www.pcgamesn.com/kingdom-come...
kotaku.com/kingdom-come...
An I'iwi (small vermillion honeycreeper) with black wings and a long curved beak sipping nectar from 'iliahi blossoms, which are dark red on the outside and bright white when opened
The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ComeEatWithMe , and for a nectivore this is what predation looks like LOL. :) I'iwi on 'illiahi, Haleakala National Park 🌿🦉📷
Comments on a post on r/birding: u/tkohhhhhhhhh . 3d ago Could you perhaps tell us what are the painful parts you're referring to? There may be existing methods that address your pain points without the need for additional development. u/wazawoo OP . 3d ago Specifically, creating checklists after the fact, by going through your photos, is really annoying. If you take too long doing it in the eBird ui and refresh the page, you can lose all your counts. So then, I looked at the process of creating these files as csv first, but that process is very error prone, and you don't know of issues until you try uploading the csv. Another part of that process is the photo ID process after the fact. That is, you're going through a bunch of pictures and ID-ing each of them so you can fill out your checklist. On mobile, this process (for me) involves checking the photos one by one in Merlin, which does work, but takes a long time. I'm normally looking at the photos on desktop and they're not always on my phone yet, which further complicates things. I'd love a way to bulk ID from pictures on desktop. I'm sure it exists, but I would love to use the same ID method that merlin is using under the hood. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be available publicly, but I may have missed it. Another one, maybe personal to me, is the ability to easily list the birds I've seen but don't have media of. I have a goal of having a photo of each species, like completing a compendium. Right now, even in the eBird UI, I can't seem to find this info without manually comparing my life list to the unique species I see in my media the media tab.
Something that really frustrates me about a certain type of new birder is the terminally engineer-brained "I have encountered something I do not understand. Clearly this is a tech problem external to me, how do I apply a tech solution?" mindset. 🪶
Six crew members remain missing following the discovery of an overturned ship near Saipan, stressing recovery efforts in the Northern Mariana Islands.
abcnews.com/US/wireStory...
The light black head and neck of a seabird, the pigeon guillemot, peeks up over out-of-focus light yellow barnacles that cover the rock it's sitting on. The line of barnacles is visible at the very bottom of the photo. The bird has a smooth, somewhat long neck with a head that resembles a pigeon, though its black beak is a bit longer and thicker for catching fish. The feathers on this bird are small and tightly packed and not fluffy, which I assume helps it as it dives into and swims around underwater. 📷 Canon R5 Canon RF100-500mm f/4.5-7.1L IS USM M, f/7.1, 1/250, ISO 1000, 500mm 6/9/24 Northern Oregon Coast
The head of a pigeon guillemot pokes up over barnacle encrusted rocks. The squeak these birds make is very cute!
#birds #bird #photography #ornithology #birdphotos #nature #naturephotography #birdphotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #birdoftheday #pigeonguillemot #guillemot #seabirds
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Update #2: Quicksilver, a detector for AI-generated music.
Most folks today are not aware that AI-generated music (entire songs generated by AI models) are growing rapidly. Today, there are more AI-generated songs than human-created songs arriving each week on platforms like Spotify.
A digital illustration of the Lord Huron character Buck Vernon. He is positioned on the lower half of the image, looking upward, with neon green lighting highlighting his face. Behind him reality crumbles and cracks and gives way to a starry void dripping with black liquid. In the upper right, the brightest star shines green.
It's 4/20 happy Vide Noir day 🎨
This one in particular is doing numbers on tumblr since I also forgot I hadn't posted it there yet. Might as well highlight it better here. Go watch Vide Noir, the color use and cinematography is spectacular.
Happy Vide Noir anniversary day! Practically an international holiday among #LordHuron fans, haha. Nothing does it the way this album does it.
Happy Monday.
Today we're making a few updates/announcements.
First up: our nonprofit ETCH is alive on the web.
etch-humanity.org
ETCH: Ethical Technology and Computing for Humanity.
ETCH is not another AI nonprofit. It is a nonprofit that explicitly prioritizes people over AI.
Yep! Long beak and clean white outer tail feathers without any spots.