Hannah Miller

Happy birthday, Jer! Hope your next year is full of excellent birds and people!

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Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

Please share, only 4 hours left: the giving circle has a special dose of hope: one of the families is expecting a baby very soon (🧿) !!!

With lack of food, shelter, medicine, we MUST step up for this malnourished mom. Anything helps.

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I'm 100% with Ryan on this (and not just because I was on the same trip)!! Anthropomorphizing can of course go too far, but I've seen over and over again in my outreach work that a little bit can really help people connect to nature more!

I have a lot of complicated feelings about the Catholic Church after growing up in it, but they do get some things right.

Ha! Then I'll continue with my plan to study and absorb bird info on the couch instead of watching tv, and then bring the knowledge in the field but not the book!

Digital painting of a Least Bittern clinging to green reeds as it aims downward, watching the water carefully for movement. It has yellow eyes, a very sharp pointy beak, and a mottled gray-yellow-reddish back. The water surface is murky and covered in little green duckweed leaves.

For friendsofabracadaver on tumblr, a Least Bittern! Big thanks once again for the #Waymakers donation. The challenge is over for this year but I'll be wrapping up bird art for donors over the next couple weeks. Much appreciation to all of you who joined in!

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aww they're so tiny and cute!

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haha yes that sounds perfect for it! if I wasn't in an apartment and had a yard that could support it I would totally get some!

Well uhh that's something I guess 😬

(Depending on how far you're willing to travel, check out Sweet Bay Nursery. They're in Parrish, which is def worth the trip from Highlands Co but maybe not if you're further east and/or north. Lovely staff and good selection of natives.)

Screengrab of a book details page showing the cover of 'The Shorebird Guide' and listing details including the publisher and publishing date, number of pages, and product type. The dimensions section reads "9.0 x 6.0 x 1.1 inches | 35.4 pounds" (there is no way the book is actually this heavy).

it's time I finally step up my shorebird ID skills (I live by the beach afterall!) so I was looking at guides but oof I didn't realize the weight of shorebird knowledge 😅

schmear on poppyseed or egg and cheese on everything

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Thank you! And thanks for your always interesting curation of 'on this day' history nuggets!

So weird! It *is* my birthday and I keep getting confetti over my profile pic but thankfully it hasn't asked if I want to tell any collaborators yet.

1993: I was born and while I wouldn't say I'm following in Darwin's footsteps (which is for the best, they're a bit 😬 at times) I also enjoy staring at nature and making observations.

Happy birthday, birthday buddy!

Bird conservation threatened by shifting baseline syndrome New research shows that populations of dozens of waterbird and seabird species have been declining for much longer than previously thought in Europe. The article "Shifting the baseline for waterbird a...

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Yep, I'm a Florida scrub-jay researcher and this bird is in one of the populations I monitor!

4 bands seems like a lot but they hardly weigh anything (~1g total) compared to the bird's bodyweight (70-85g). The population is large & all individuals have unique combinations, so everyone needs a few!

they are an adorable menace!

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

Photo of a banded Florida scrub-jay perched on the side mirror of a silver pickup truck, with palmettos and a few tall pines in the background.

best cellphone photo I’ve ever taken of a Florida scrub-jay and it's sitting on my truck 🙃

Photo of a stormy blue-gray sky over a greenish-blue ocean inlet between two rocky jetties.

Photo of a tiny sea star suctioned to the wall of an aquarium tank.

Photo of a very green seagrass aquarium exhibit. Some small fish are visible near the center of the image, most of them are silvery but two have some fun striping. There was a fish in this exhibit (but sadly not visible in this photo, it seemed to be shy) called the 'slippery dick wrasse'. I highly recommend looking them up, they look fun and their reproductive biology is super interesting!

For #VacationSundays no. 14 I met up with some friends for what turned out to be a jam-packed day! It was about to rain for a lot of the morning & the waves were rough so we chatted on the beach, then escaped the rain in a small local aquarium, grabbed lunch, and ended the day with some swimming!

Let that sink in

"Despite its extreme population density, Gaza was mostly self-sufficient in vegetables and poultry, and met much of the population’s demand for olives, fruit and milk. But last month the UN reported that just 1.5% of its agricultural land now remains both accessible and undamaged."

tussock moth caterpillars are so great! 🥰

I'm a big fan of @casetify.bsky.social! Fun designs, availability for lots of different phones (including older models of popular brands), and protection at least as good as otterbox (impact or bounce series)!

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

13 hours left on our first day 🚨 please share! We’re matching the next £3,000/$4,000 🫡

We have four days to make this goal, which will help the final two giving circle families stranded in Gaza City flee in order to SURVIVE. Every minute is death…

Give and be doubled. 545/7000 by Tuesday night.

bird friend up north: if you're wondering where the ovenbirds went, they seem to all be down here in FL at the moment!

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

OK, this is amazing.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...