Adam Ulicny

This is a Tourmaline sunangel (Heliangelus exortis, I think) we spotted with @flograttarola.bsky.social in the cloud forests around Cocora valley, Colombia. Notice the structural coloration on the neck!

Another friendly glassfrog from the Chocó. This one is the Ghost glassfrog - Sachatamia ilex, I believe.

Fringe-limbed tree frog. One of the glassfrogs common in the Chocó region.

Interesting presentation by @rmwaterhouse.bsky.social about large scale arthropod trait data extraction.

@flograttarola.bsky.social giving her presentation on our project #RegRed

Watching Francois Leroy give a presentation on "Neural Dynamic N-mixture model: a deep learning framework to infer demographic rates from abundance data"

At #LivingData2025

github.com/FrsLry

Next is my turn to present our #RegRed project at #LivingData2025. If you are interested in regional, national l, and subnational red list data get in touch! 🚨🐆🌴🐠🪲 Also, make sure to check @ulicny.bsky.social’s poster too!

Poster for EcoParse. A species-level data extraction app

I'm currently at the #LivingData2025 conference in Bogotá with @flograttarola.bsky.social
I am presenting EcoParse - a species-level data extraction app.

Flo is presenting our project #RegRed focused on collecting regional redlist data from all over the world!

Met some hoopoes in december

The music is
Carbon Based Lifeforms - Photosynthesis

A slightly pointless video of (wild) oyster mushrooms

european robin singing, early morning, perched

European robin
Erithacus rubecula

Yesterday, people of botanical bluesky seemed to enjoy my photo of hydrophobic trichomes, today I'm sharing a picture of the sticky glandular trichomes of a drosera.

They are! It's a floating fern. That's why it needs the hydrophobic properties on the upper part of it's leaves.

Thanks! I used my phone as a black reflective platform and lit it with my table lamp. Possibly using a diffuser. For the camera i used a tripod mounted Nikon, either D3200 or 7200 but it doesn't matter much because the sensor is pretty much the same. Also macro rings.

And finally how these ferns look from below

Here is another more "intimate" angle

A drop of water balancing on top of hydrophobic trichomes of the invasive water fern Salvinia molesta.

I split the leaf with a razor in order to get the full detail of the trichome structure.

Cool stuff! I was only familiar with the macroscopic slimes anyways. So for the non-amoebozoan slimes, what is the convergence you're speaking of? What makes a non-slime slime mold a slime mold?

White slime mold macro photography

This is a slime mold. Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa var. porioides. The Coral slime.
The looks and name might hint it's a fungus, but no. Most slime molds belong to amoeboza.
This one can be found all over the world. I took this picture at the tri-border area between Slovakia, Poland and Ukraine.

Macro photo of a Buffalo treehopper.

The buffalo treehopper (Stictocephala bisonia) is an invasive species here in Europe. It is pretty hard to spot as it is less than a centimeter long. More pictures in the replies.

And don't worry, the bird wasn't harmed. The ornithologists were harmed by it's sharp beak though!

Haha, no you didn't! In Costa Rica you saw toucans which are related to woodpeckers.
Hornbills and toucans looking so similar despite being very distant in their phylogeny and even geography is a great example of convergent evolution.
But no worries that is some bird nerd stuff 🤓

Thanks! Sri Lanka is great for birds. And hoopoe's close relatives, the hornbills can also be seen there.

Common Kingfisher

A Common kingfisher, Alcedo atthis.
This one was caught in a mist net for banding. Otherwise I'd never get that close to it.
Most commonly you can spot a kingfisher as a blue/orange blur flying past the river bank thanks to it's sharp high-pitched whistle call.

Eurasian hoopoe (Upupa epops)

This is a female Smooth newt (Lissotriton vulgaris) seconds after laying eggs in a clump of algae. In the lower right corner you can spot another female coming over to cannibalize her eggs. Not sure if this behavior is common.

Here's a couple pictures of a Sacoglossan, close relative of nudibranchs. Thuridilla hopei. It was about 1 cm in length and I caught it in Croatia near Zadar.