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Fraser Todd @birdingscot.bsky.social · 1d

Incredible skies to top off my most incredible birding moment ever- finding a (the) White-throated Needletail from Brora!! 🤯 The stuff of absolute dreams, I’ve just about stopped shaking 😂
#birding #BirdingScotland #needletail

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ottaviojanni.bsky.social @ottaviojanni.bsky.social · 2d

There's two right now (we'll be joining them mid-week), but they're running a recorder at night and they documented something that frankly seems impossible: Tawny Owl, and on first listen maybe sounding better for Maghreb

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ottaviojanni.bsky.social @ottaviojanni.bsky.social · 3d

I count 22 people in that photo, still more birders than have ever been on Linosa (5.2 km2) at any one time

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ottaviojanni.bsky.social @ottaviojanni.bsky.social · 3d

Quail is a regular feature on seawatches here in Italy, but 3 different birds coming in off the sea in 15 minutes on July 1 (!) this year still have me scratching my head

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ottaviojanni.bsky.social @ottaviojanni.bsky.social · 3d

WTF?

Birdingprof @birdingprof.bsky.social · 3d

Swapped for the Mourning Dove perhaps. Seriously, how does a Woodpigeon get to Texas?

ebird.org/checklist/S2...

@alexanderlees.bsky.social

eBird Checklist - 11 Oct 2025 - South Padre Is.--Valley Land Fund lots (LTC 036) - 14 species (+1 other taxa)

Submitted by Anonymous eBirder.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 3d

Snitches get stitches, fella.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4d

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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Wilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · 5d

BIRDBASE, a new publicly available dataset, brings together "ecological and life history traits for 11,589 bird species across 254 families." #ornithology

Explore a bird database with 11,500 species

Twenty-six years ago, a PhD student's unanswered question sparked a bird data revolution.

www.popsci.com

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Paul Dufour @pauldufour80.bsky.social · 5d

Hopefully, we should soon know thanks to genoscaping whether vagrants seen in Western Europe come from these western populations or from further east. Even though it’s tempting to link these two increases, nothing is certain for now.. @joewynnbirds.bsky.social

BirdGuides @birdguides.bsky.social · 5d

The breeding population of Red-flanked Bluetail in Finland has risen spectacularly in recent years, with the latest Finnish nesting-bird report estimating there to be 13,000 breeding pairs for the 2019-2024 period:

Spectacular growth in Red-flanked Bluetail population across Finland

Finland's 2024 nesting bird report reveals a major increase in Red-flanked Bluetail, with breeding pairs rising from 1,500 in 2013-18 to an esimated 13,000 in 2019-24. While the species remains Vulnerable due to its concentration in eastern and north-eastern Finland, habitat expansion, potentially driven by warming climate, and earlier spring warmth are likely assisting its spread. Other taiga birds show mixed fortunes, reinforcing the need for continued monitoring.

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 5d

Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.

Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

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Ariel Brunner @arielbrunner.bsky.social · 5d

Tens of millions of essentially factory farmed poultry are dumped into the countryside each year. They boost the population of mesopredators like foxes, reducing ground nesting bird populations. They are an obvious avian flue hazard. They eat declining reptiles. Turn out they're also a health hazard

British Birds @britishbirds.bsky.social · 17d

Ticks are more likely to carry the bacteria that cause Lyme disease in areas where Common Pheasants Phasianus colchicus are released, according to new research.

Read more: britishbirds.co.uk/journal/arti...
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Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County @nhm.org · 6d

🦅 It's a bird, it's a plane, it's 𝘼𝙧𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙫𝙞𝙨 𝙢𝙖𝙜𝙣𝙞𝙛𝙞𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙨!

Take a peek into the Collections with our Director of Archives & Library, Yolanda Bustos, and discover what exactly this magnificent bird (literally) was.

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Sarah Dalrymple @sarahdalgulls.bsky.social · 7d

Wow! Tracking a butterfly with motus!

Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 7d

Look at her go!
#invertebrates 🌿

Screen shot of Project Monarch app map of progress of a monarch butterfly from southern Ontario to Oklahoma.

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BirdGuides @birdguides.bsky.social · 8d

Conservationists are calling for urgent global funding to save Samoa's Tooth-billed Pigeon, a Critically Endangered species often referred to as 'little dodo':

Funding urgently needed to save Samoa's 'little dodo' from extinction

Samoa's Critically Endangered Tooth-billed Pigeon, or 'little dodo', is facing imminent extinction due to deforestation, hunting and invasive species, reports BirdGuides. Conservationists warn that without urgent international funding for large-scale forest protection and monitoring, this unique and elusive bird could vanish forever. Tooth-billed Pigeon is one of the world's most evolutionarily distinct birds, yet remains poorly known, with no clear wild photographs and few recent sightings.

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Ben Sheldon @sheldonbirds.bsky.social · 9d

Had the pleasure of seeing Great Grey Owls with @peralstrom.bsky.social this summer (pic: @tmbirding.bsky.social) - and heard some superb tales of birding & ornithological discovery in China in the 1980s. He's written this splendid article about this - screenshots as I don't have link. Pp 1-3 here

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TG42Birder🇵🇸 @tg42birder.bsky.social · 10d

You can bet it’s actually a lot more than 46.

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 10d

BREAKING: Since dawn, Israeli attacks across Gaza have killed at least 46 Palestinians, despite US President Trump’s call for Israel to cease its attacks, medical sources told our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/08ph6v

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Alexander Lees @alexanderlees.bsky.social · 11d

A really intriguing vagrant Blackpoll Warbler resighting from California; parallels to be made with eastward reorientation in a few Yellow-browed Warblers in Western Europe too movementecologyjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... @pauldufour80.bsky.social #Ornithology

Recovery sites (orange) of 22 Yellow-browed Warblers (Phylloscopus inornatus), which were ringed in Europe during a same autumn season (blue; EURING data). The red triangle indicates the interannual and winter ringing recovery from Spain near Tarifa [26]

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ottaviojanni.bsky.social @ottaviojanni.bsky.social · 11d

Two weeks ago it was hundreds of thousands. Today it's two million. Italy standing up for Palestine.

The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 14d

Demanding an end to Italy’s complicity in the Gaza genocide, half a million people abandoned their workplaces, schools, and universities. Niccolò Barca writes that they were inspired by a slogan: “Blocchiamo tutto.” (“Let’s block everything.”) www.thenation.com/article/worl...

How Italy’s Workers Shut Their Country Down For Gaza

Hundreds of thousands blocked ports and roadways to demand an end to military collaboration with Israel.

www.thenation.com

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Wilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · 14d

There's a new guest post on the WOS blog! Konshau Duman writes about his discovery that White-throated Sparrows regularly mimic the chip calls of Golden-crowned Sparrows, opening up new questions about whether calls are learned. #ornithology wilsonsociety.org/2025/09/26/g...

a young man stands outside on a road through the woods, looking up and holding out a sound recording device

a white-throated sparrow, a brown bird with a black and white striped head and yellow spots by its eyes, on the ground

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Natalia Pérez-Amaya @nataliaperez-a.bsky.social · 15d

💥BREAKING: Birds in a tropical pluvial rainforest of the Chocó have been quietly changing in morphology for 109 years. Some have shrunk, others grown. Tails grew longer, bills grew deeper. Even in forests with continuous cover, climate change may be rewriting evolution in real time.

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Migration Ecology Group @migecol.bsky.social · 18d

1. Yellow-browed Warbler tagged in 2025! 🤩

On September 24, @annikapeter.bsky.social tagged the first Yellow-browed warbler (Phylloscopus inornatus) on Helgoland in 2025 to study its migratory behaviour. Stay tuned for fascinating bird tracks!

#Motus #Tracking #Birdmigration

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Wilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · 20d

The ever more detailed data coming from bird tracking devices is letting researcher gauge whether migrating birds are threatened by offshore wind development. #ornithology