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BOU @bou.org.uk · 1h

Association of nesting Otus scops (Eurasian Scops Owls) with Xerotyphlops vermicularis (worm snakes) in Türkiye | doi.org/10.1093/orni... | Ornithology | #ornithology 🪶

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Sarah Dalrymple @sarahdalgulls.bsky.social · 1h

Some breathtaking scenery in this short film on Leach's Petrel surveys on North Rona and Flannan from RSPB
#Seabirds
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEQm...

Take a wild journey to remote Scottish islands with an RSPB team searching for a remarkable seabird

YouTube video by RSPB

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 2h

"Did someone say.... euphausiid shrimp?" 👀

Crested Auklet to continue the #Auktober celebrations

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Emilio Santiago Muíño @esantiago.bsky.social · 3h

Ayer me entrevistó @eldiario.es entre los helechos arborescentes de La Térmica Cultural, Ponferrada. Un escenario solar punk alucinante para un mensaje solar punk: ecosistemas como pilar del bienestar, muchas renovables, redistribución, prosperidad y esperanza

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Emilio Santiago, el científico que se enfrentó a Vox: "Distorsionar el cambio climático con bulos es una degradación de la democracia"

El antropológo climático pide acelerar el proceso de descarbonización y que existan pagos a quienes cuidan de los ecosistemas, pasando a ser un nuevo pilar del Estado del Bienestar

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establoPegaso @establopegaso.bsky.social · 1h

El 14 de octubre de 2010, muere Benoît Mandelbrot, matemático polaco nacionalizado francés y estadounidense conocido por sus trabajos sobre los fractales. El cantautor Jonathan Coulton compuso la canción Mandelbrot Set, dedicada a esta geometría fractal. establopegaso.wordpress.com/2015/02/03/e...

El conjunto de Mandelbrot

El conjunto de Mandelbrot de Jonathan Coulton Monstruos patológicos! -exclamó el matemático aterrorizado Cada uno una astilla en el ojo Odio la curva de Peano y la curva de Koch Temo al conjunto te…

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Marine Ornithology @marineorno.bsky.social · 19h

Results from 4 years of beach monitoring in Brazil. New paper from Carla Barbosa et al.
#seabird #monitoring #OpenAccess #ornithology

www.marineornithology.org/PDF/53_2/53_...

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Marlo Garnsworthy @icebird.bsky.social · 10h

Good morning! Here’s your minute of peace & calm.

To watch the full 25-min video & see dramatic changes as the sun rises, watch here: youtu.be/HRcMWZ-j3AA?...

#OceanDevotion

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Ferwen @ferwen.bsky.social · 7h

Ecological and evolutionary influences on the elemental composition of birds | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Ecological and evolutionary influences on the elemental composition of birds | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

The evolutionary and ecological diversity of animals is often reflected in the elemental composition of their bodies. Despite decades of stoichiometric research, remarkably little is known about the elemental composition of birds, the most diverse group ...

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establoPegaso @establopegaso.bsky.social · 12h

Adiós a una de las pocas zonas costeras de Huelva sin tocar. Pese a que el megaproyecto está judicializado, el complejo Sagitta (Cartaya) arrasará una gran masa forestal y prevé varios hoteles, campo de golf y miles de plazas de parking www.eldiario.es/andalucia/hu...

Adiós a una de las pocas zonas costeras de Huelva sin tocar: la mayor urbanización de Andalucía levantará cientos de casas

Arranca la promoción de las primeras 150 viviendas pese a que el megaproyecto está judicializado tras una denuncia ecologista. El complejo Sagitta en El Rompido (Cartaya) implica arrasar una gran masa...

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Literland @literland.bsky.social · 14h

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Mckeedi @mckeedi.bsky.social · 14h

Sky pointing gannets at RSPB Bempton Nature Reserve, East Yorkshire, UK #birds #gannets #seabirds #RPSB #RPSBBemptonCliffs #eastyorkshire #wildlife #coast #yorkshirewild

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AEMET @aemet.es · 20h

⚠️🔴 AVISO ROJO | Lluvias torrenciales en Litoral sur de Valencia.

En vigor hasta las 23:59. Pueden acumularse más de 100 mm en 1 hora y más de 180 mm en 12 horas.

Peligro extraordinario. Puede haber inundaciones y crecidas repentinas. Siga recomendaciones de Protección Civil.

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David Steel @steelyseabirder.bsky.social · 16h

At long last we have our first Grey Seal pup of the new autumn season on the Isle of May as the blog explains: isleofmaynnr.wordpress.com

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Ferwen @ferwen.bsky.social · 16h

Current mosquitoes evolved more recently than previously thought www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Client Challenge

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Portland Bird Observatory @portlandbirdobs.bsky.social · 1d

Yellow-browed Warbler trapped in the Crown Estate Field

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 19h

Back over 1.5°C again and on the way up.

Coral has tipped. AMOC, Amazon, boreal forests, Antarctica, Greenland, permafrost, etc., are tipping.

The Climate 8-ball says, "Not to be!"

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SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social · 18h

One of my favorite arroyos in Anza Borrego desert called Mine Wash. Site of Kumeyaay village with grinding mortero rocks (3rd shot), scenic, lots of cactus & birds, ocotillo forest, and just a great place to hike around.

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Melissa Crytzer Fry @crytzerfry.bsky.social · 18h

Is this not the CUTEST?

This is a baby white-nosed #coatimundi in Arizona's Galiuro Mountains (the very place threatened by #copper mining). She is learning to forage in the leaf litter for food. #cameratrap

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Alexander Lees @alexanderlees.bsky.social · 23h

Redwings tricking west over Longdendale in the Peak District this morning, part of an ongoing arrival on the East Coast #UKBirding @derbyshirebirds.bsky.social

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BOU @bou.org.uk · 17h

Over 30 years decline of an iconic farmland bird, Red-backed Shrike Lanius collurio, in a Central European stronghold: meadow loss and shrub succession drive near-local extinction | doi.org/10.1017/S095... | Bird Conservation International | #ornithology 🪶

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Stockholm University @stockholm-uni.bsky.social · 17h

Widespread mortality of warm-water coral reefs is underway as the world reaches its first climate tipping point. The Global Tipping Points Report 2025 underlines that the only way to avert catastrophe is to act urgently. Research from @sthlmresilience.bsky.social
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Widespread mortality of coral reefs - Stockholm University

Widespread mortality of coral reefs Widespread mortality of warm-water coral reefs is now underway as the world reaches its first climate tipping point. The Global Tipping Points Report 2025, released...

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The American Geographical Society @americangeo.bsky.social · 17h

Scientists warn the planet has crossed its first climate tipping point. Current rates indicate the world will hit 5.6°F (3.1°C) of warming by 2100.

Read More: mailchi.mp/americangeo/...

#climatechange #coralreef #tippingpoint

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Miguel McMinn @mmcminn.bsky.social · 16h

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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BOU @bou.org.uk · 1d

Local dominance predicts foraging decisions in a changing environment | doi.org/10.1093/behe... | Behavioral Ecology | #ornithology 🪶

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Robert Boessenecker, Dr. of Whaleontology ™️ @coastalpaleo.bsky.social · 17h

New blog post: tracking the slow exposure and erosion of a small fossil baleen whale skull in the Pliocene Purisima Formation on the northern California coast. This is the fifth skull of the dwarf baleen whale Herpetocetus that I've discovered, and still need to dig up! #whaleontology 🧪🦖🐬

A new Herpetocetus specimen awaiting excavation

During a field day in May of 2023, I was out scouting for fossils and came across an interesting bit of skull in a horizontal rock face belo...

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