YAY! Thousands of miles and several weeks later, I finally have a copy of Alison Ballance's book, Kākāpō: Rescued from the Brink of Extinction. She's a hefty tome - can't wait to crack in! 🦜💚📖 #parrots #conservation #wildlife #kakapo
In 1982, there were only 22 individuals left. A captive breeding program has brought that number up to 607. There have already been nests from condors released further south; but this is potentially the first wild condor egg in northern California in 100 years. 🥚
California condors are nesting in the redwoods again 🥹
waking up like deBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS dE CUANdo tE TUve
This is the result of YEARS of dedicated efforts by the Aotearoa NZ conservation team. We can't count their chicks before they hatch, or even before they fledge...but it's a wonderful thing to see.
This year, the breeding population of kākāpō has already laid 81 (fertile) eggs and counting. This might not seem like a lot until you remember that in 1995 there were only 51 kākāpō remaining, total.
sheesh chatgpt 🤦🏻♀️
thank goodness!
The flightless #kakapo usually nest underground. Yesterday we found the coolest nest I’ve ever seen: Whetu was 3m above ground in a hollow rata tree. #kakapo2026 #conservation #birds
Whetu, I like your style!
The kākāpō breeding season is well under way! If you don't know, kākāpō are these amazing giant, flightless, nocturnal parrots in Aotearoa New Zealand that almost went extinct. Dedicated recovery efforts are bringing them back. As you can see here, every nest is being monitored, every egg checked.💚🦜
logging on
I can't wait for society to get bored of cringe culture and decide that my natural golden retriever personality is hot shit. #culture #cringe
I found a really good nook the other day
"'I think these cases may really be pro-social representations of conscious learning where these whales are going out of their way to actually try and understand … who we are and how we might interact with them in their environment,' [Jared] Towers [of Bay Cetology] says."
From Brenna Owens' article in The Canadian Press:
"Sharing food among relatives and other orcas is foundational for the whales, and in attempting to provision humans with prey...it could be an example of the whales practicing a cultural behaviour or exploring humans’ capacity to respond."
I am once again delighted by whale news: orcas have been trying to share their food with humans!
The new study looks at 34 cases of orcas approaching people and offering up bits of meat or whole prey, sometimes repeatedly.
When 80s/90s nostalgia goes live
#nineties #90s #lisafrank #lisafrankirl #vaporwave
GUYS. You know how orcas have been sinking yachts? HUMPACK WHALES HAVE BEEN APPROACHING PEOPLE AND BLOWING BUBBLE RINGS.
The report says that there have been 12 cases of them doing this during friendly encounters with humans where they appeared "curious"
They're trying to talk to us aaahhhhhhh
One of the best things you can do is be a person that makes other people feel better just by being around them.
It *almost* doesn't matter what you're doing/saying...
If you're connected with your source of joy and power and you have a compassionate heart, believe me, you're doing something. ❤️
Coquí frogs have a two part call (co-QUI) and the nervous systems of nearby males respond to the first part, while females respond to the second part. Just thought people should know. 🐸 #animalbehavior #animalcommunication #frogs
what a life #birding #birds #whitepelican #naturephotography
"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by." - #DouglasAdams
i am the leader of this expedition
i am retrofitting the spaceship
i am requesting intergalactic clearance
i am the leader of this expedition
i am checking the weather
i am bringing snacks
I remember it, almost -
the matrix of stars
holding stories, and me,
in their celestial arms
I remember it, almost -
navigating wilds
by memory and sight,
bird calls in the day,
plant whispers at night
I remember it, almost -
kin knit together
by abundance and pain,
and the collective voyage
into transcendent states
You weren't meant for a 9-5
And you certainly weren't meant to have your biometric data stolen by an authoritarian state and then stored insecurely
just sayin'
You weren't meant for a 9-5.
You were meant to wade just a liiitle farther out into the ocean of consciousness and feel the giddy possibility of it carrying you away...
