The short film linked here is wonderful

YouTube video by Russian Circles - Topic Tupilak

Is this suitably threatening?

TRAKEL | Fotogaleri | Süleyman’ın Kaplanı TRAKEL Öncelkle ısparta'dan selamlar kelebek dostlarıma.İki yıla varan bir çalışmamız az önce makalenin yayınlanmasıyla sonuçlandı. Herşeyden önce iki yıldır gece gündüz desteklerini esirgemeyen Onat ...

And it doesn't look like any other species in the western palearctic, so not some cryptic species stuff here but an amazing new find! Here's a pic by Süleyman Erdeğer, the person who first found it (and after whom it is named) www.trakel.org/kelebekler/?...

What a remarkable discovery! In SW Turkey a new species of Lycaenid was discovered, Rapala suleymani sp.n., of a genus that was only known from the eastern palearctic & indomalayan realms, it's closest relative flies 7000km away! doi.org/10.31184/M00...

In 2010-2013, conservation teams on #Chichijima - 1 of the main islands in the #Ogasawara chain - captured & removed 131 feral cats. The goal was to reduce predation pressure on an endangered pigeon. The results were immediate: adult pigeon numbers rose from 111 to 966 www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Photograph of painting by Díðrikur á Skarvanesi depicting most of the Faroese breeding birds. Painted approximately in 1830. His paintings are now on display in the national museum and were discovered long after his death.

Can I share this curious bit of Faroese art factoid. The first Faroese artist Díðrikur á Skarvanesi died in obscurity, but his illustration of Faroese breeding birds (approx 1830s) is truly unique and (mayb biased) but I think this great skua is particularly beautiful 🌍🧪

#ornithology #teamskua #art

Perspective Who gets the spotlight? Disparities in seabird research attention at scientific conferences Ingrid L. Pollet a b Alexander L. Bond b c Jennifer L. Lavers b c d Highlights • Decade-long review of >2,950 seabird conference abstracts. • Over 30% of seabird species are rarely or never featured at scientific conferences • Several seabirds listed as Critically Endangered have received little or no attention. • 16 seabird species are over-represented in conferences. • Southern Hemisphere seabirds require greater research attention.

Hey seabird folks - have you ever thought "*ANOTHER* talk about <species X>?!" So did we.

So we reviewed 3000 conference abstracts to see which species get the spotlight. Huge work from @ingridpollet.bsky.social with me and @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A small bronze statue of a shrew standing on a rectangular base. The figure is elongated with a pointed snout, slender legs, and a long tail, featuring engraved decorative patterns on its back. Displayed against a neutral background with the label number 42.

What a charming #Egyptian bronze figure of a shrew! Since shrews are animals that find their way in the dark they were connected to the descending phase of the sun’s nocturnal journey. Late Period (746-332 B.C).
On display at Museum Hohentübingen. 🏺

📷 me

🚨 2nd master’s project!
Interested in bird migration & genomics? 🧬🐦
Use whole-genome data to trace the recent colonization of Ouessant Island by Blue Tits and explore how irruptive migratory events can shape colonization dynamics. Please share! #ornithology

www.vogelwarte.ch/de/wir/mitar...

I am delighted to share some new paintings, illustrations and card designs, all now available on my website.
www.robertvaughanillustrations.com
As always, a massive thank you to Sara Sirtoli for all her work on this!

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

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

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

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

WTF?

Snitches get stitches, fella.

Explore a bird database with 11,500 species Twenty-six years ago, a PhD student's unanswered question sparked a bird data revolution.

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

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

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

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

🦅 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.

Wow! Tracking a butterfly with motus!

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

💥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.