One more repost for the late crowd. Currently sitting at 1650 out of the 2100 🙏

Photo of Houdini encouraging me to stop working on the laptop and get to bed😅
#MutualAid

One more repost for the late crowd. Currently sitting at 1650 out of the 2100 🙏

Photo of Houdini encouraging me to stop working on the laptop and get to bed😅
#MutualAid

Ahhhh, look at those lovely birds!!!😍

It's World Curlew Day.
Time to remember extinct curlew species:
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Time to try to make a difference for Eurasian Curlew in the UK:
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Time to buy a wonderful book:
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#birds

More of the west is getting in on the action now that the sun has set out thataways.
#birds #spring #migration

A picture of Bruce, a green parrot, missing his upper beak. Photo by Alex Grabham

Bruce is a New Zealand parrot missing his top beak. It’s a serious disability, but he has managed to become the alpha of his group, through creativity. Here’s my story about Bruce and the mostly mysterious natural history of disability. Gift link: nyti.ms/4cwVGT5

Checking back in now that it’s night there. 132 hummingbirds! 101 Indigo Buntings! Sounds like it was quite the day!
#birds #migration

Whoa!
That’s a well-named warbler!

A close-up of a small songbird perched on a branch, partially framed by green leaves. The bird features a striking, vibrant orange throat and upper breast, contrasted by a slate-gray head and back with white-streaked wings. It is looking downward with a sharp, dark beak and a small black eye.

The Flame-throated Warbler has always been a challenge for me, as I don't see them that often and they're very busy little birds as they flit under leaves looking for delicious insect snacks. I got a little luckier today. #CostaRica #birds

That would be Limpkin beaks😁

My final Woodcock Watch had a bird displaying right by a patch of road that some participants could see while he was on the ground, and everyone saw him when he flew. Interestingly, each flight he took off toward the Moon! (Which I failed to catch but enjoy the sounds😅)
#birds #spring #PEENT

Ahhh! How cool!!

So weird these little sea potatoes nest in big old trees. Like, how did that happen?!

BirdCast map showing 85.7 million birds in flight early on in the evening at 10:10pm EDT on April 20, 2026.

NEXRAD radar map showing birds and weather.

One more quiet night in the east and then I think tomorrow and especially Wednesday night will really start moving again as a high pressure builds off FL.

Nice movement coming from FL & along the Gulf coast, and central flyway is lighting up tonight.
#birds #spring #migration
#LightsOutForBirds

A small, slate-gray bird with a slightly hooked beak is perched upside down on a flowering plant. It is focused on a bright pink flower bud, seemingly searching for nectar. The background consists of soft-focus green leaves and reddish-brown stems.

I spent some quality time with this wonderful Slaty Flowerpiercer this morning in San Gerardo de Dota #CostaRica

These little nectar thieves pierce the base of flowers to extract nectar, bypassing the pollination process.

#birds #nature

You guys. A goose is nesting under the Spoon Bridge and Cherry. This is our Romulus and Remus moment. We already became ungovernable. Now we become myth. #Minneapolis.

New preprint! We sequenced 175 'Alalā (Hawaiian crow) genomes to understand why >50% of eggs fail to hatch in a species recovered from just 9 individuals. What we found was a both exciting and surprising. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Digital art of 36 warbler species depicted in stylized block forms.

Digital art of 36 species of warblers depicted in stylized circles highlighting relative color and pattern placement.

Warblers on my mind.
Making these two different sets of bird art was a fun way of seeing how my brain works at IDing birds.
#birds #BirdArt

Thank you so much I’m now up to 1600 of the 2100 I need, you all are the best❤️❤️❤️

Here is a summery shot of a Yellow-headed Blackbird in a sea of sunflowers for you.

Two Mourning Doves at a bird feeder with a built-in camera. One dove is in profile, very close to the camera, and appears to be looking at it, and the other dove is further back, but also looks like it’s staring straight into the lens.

These two Mourning Doves at my feeder cam look like they just rang my doorbell because Tony Soprano sent them to collect a debt I owe.

A sketching tutorial page featuring a chicken. The first part describes studying the forms first. Second step is to speed up the sketching to 1-2 minutes. Last step is sketch as fast as you can! Page by Charlotte Belland

A 10-minute daily sketching practice! (Additional info for step three: keep your pen close to the page / avoid lifting it!)

Anyone who visited the following locations during any of the listed dates and hours may have been exposed: Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport’s Customs federal inspection station in the international terminal arrivals area, and lower level international bag claim area, on April 12, 2026 from 7:50 - 10:30 p.m. FastMed Urgent Care (2827 Smith Ave. Baltimore, MD), on April 14, 2026 from 5 - 8 p.m., and on April 17, 2026 from 12 - 3:30 p.m. Sinai Hospital’s emergency department main waiting area and pediatric emergency department, on April 17, 2026 from 3:30 - 7:10 p.m.​

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European shag at Dunbar harbour

European shag at Dunbar harbour

European shag at Dunbar harbour

Plenty of activity with the European shags at Dunbar harbour - nest building and repair, feeding and mating.

#seabirds

Congrats!!

Woohooo!!! Congratulations and many many many happy years to you both!!

A Brewer's blackbird puffs himself up like a balloon to announce his territory

The same blackbird, deflated, now cocks his head and looks quite angry

"Please don't put on Bluesky that I got mad." #birds

Thank you so much I’m now up to 1600 of the 2100 I need, you all are the best❤️❤️❤️

Here is a summery shot of a Yellow-headed Blackbird in a sea of sunflowers for you.

So tiny and blue!

Thank you! That’s one of my favorite of the series!

Edmonton folks! I’m looking to interview a first-time buyer for a story i’m writing.

If this is you or someone you know, send me a DM for further details.

Thanks in advance!

No skippers or swallowtails here yet, but I saw one of the tiny blue ones the other day! I think Eastern Tailed Blue but I need to look at my pics to make sure.