I have open chats.

Las ballestas voladoras han vuelto, y están un poco emocionadas con eso de los gritos.

#10MinMerlin desde el balcón de casa, al lado del monte. Amplio repertorio de pajarines cantando como locos.

My first #10MinMerlin. These are common birds here. The
Eu. blue tit pair ('Herrerillo común') decided to nest on a wall in the garden this year.

No estoy seguro, tengo poca experiencia con serpientes a nivel de identificación.

Spotted the first swift of the year today. Seen flying high and following closely a group of 3 barn swallows.

The Red-rumped Swallow that went south at the Warren then lingered at Chalk Bank before flying on south again

📸 Jack Pettit

Hembra de CURRUCA CAPIROTADA /Sylvia atricapilla/

La avanzadilla de las GOLONDRINAS ya ha llegado al pueblo de Asturias. En poco tiempo vendrán muchas más para sacar adelante nuevas generaciones de estos bonitos y ágiles pájaros

Found this friend today while birding. It hid under some leaves too fast to get better pictures.

Veo que hoy, 20 de marzo, además de empezar la primavera, es el DÍA MUNDIAL DEL GORRIÓN
#DíaMundialdelGorrion #WorldSparrowDay

Estoy muy contento de poder decir que nos han publicado un paper que empezó como una charla debajo de un par de buitres disecados y que se convirtió en una enorme colaboración internacional via Twitter. Un placer publicar con gente como @bioeaf.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A Swallow-tailed kite (bird of prey with white feathers and dark tipped wings and a v shaped tail) flying against a blue sky

Swallow-tailed kite

First Black kite of the year arrived, along with a big flock of yellow legged gulls.

Fictional theropod skull. References mostly Nanotyrannus and Zuolong.

Preliminary Tameryraptor skull. Done when it was named last year.

Being 'out of touch' from the paleontological community, apart from a vast mental health improvement, means I get these news months later.
I would like to thank the authors for using it, and with proper credit.

Nanotyrannus and Tyrannosaurus coexisted at the close of the Cretaceous - Nature A well-preserved skeleton of a nearly mature tyrannosaur from the Hell Creek Formation in Montana, USA supports the existence of a second Nanotyrannus species, Nanotyrannus lethaeus sp. nov., and vali...

Biggest achievement so far is having my old (and slightly inaccurate) tyrannosaurus silhouette used in this paper in Nature.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Barn swallows have arrived at last. Yesterday saw one and now there're three of them.
Eu. Red-rumped swallows are not here yet, and neither the We. house martins are.

Footless Urban Pigeons Suffer Untold Trials and Tribulations — Tetrapod Zoology Foot deformities are ubiquitous in urban pigeons – why?

Footless Urban Pigeons Suffer Untold Trials and Tribulations, a new article at Tetrapod Zoology... tetzoo.com/blog/2026/2/... #birds #ornithology #pigeons

Say👋 to *Gorgonavis alcyone*, the newest enantiornithine bird from the Early Cretaceous of Spain✨🐦

We welcome here the 1st adult cranial remains of a bird from the fossil site of Las Hoyas, and the 1st longipterygid out of China...

Thread!!🧵👇

Paleart by Roc Olivé

Black Kite a highly adaptable, medium-sized, and social bird of prey found across Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia, often considered the world's most abundant raptor. #LakeBunyuni #Uganda #birdseenin2026 #Birdsofprey #birds #bird #kites #biodiversity #conservationphotography markscheflen.com

Old unfinished skeleton of a fictional pliosaur. Not sure I should post it but it's a thing that exists.

Sketching some dragons

Happy new year gift. A long ago I wanted to do a skeleton for Prestosuchus... I started doing some tests on it for fun.

A snowflake eel CT scanned skeleton. it has scary extra jaws behind its skull that look like a bow with teeth.

Finally have time to upload things to Sketchfab.

Here's the dead eel I found at an aquarium store!

Thanks to the generosity of the store owner, everyone can see the scary extra jaws these guys have!

sketchfab.com/3d-models/sn...

Time to reveal this thing.
Felt the old dragon was frustrating to do, so i tried a different idea and made it more serpentine.

Illustration of a pfeilstorch (stork with an arrow in its neck), overlaid with stylized air mail and postal markings describing various details about the pfeilstorch.

special delivery

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Great Shearwater from above over the sea. A large shearwater with a dark cap, white collar and across upper tail coverts and pale scallops on scapulars and wing coverts

Great Shearwater from above over the sea, low over the waves

Garfish leaping clear of the sea fleeing Tuna. Long streamlined silvery fish with a very pointy snout

Some more Scilly pics from way back on 6 Oct pelagic. Great Shearwater (awesome as ever) and Garfish fleeing the Blue-fin Tuna that we saw but was too quick for a pic. #ukbirding #psl #fish