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Writing: www.nicholaslund.com Books: Dinosaurs to Chickens: How Evolution Works (2024); The Ultimate Biography of Earth (2022); American Birding Association Field Guide to the Birds of Maine (2022) Purchase here: https://tinyurl.com/yfpfzjrx

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Is Your State Bird a Stupid State Bird? What It Should Be Instead. I drove over a bridge from Maryland into Virginia today and on the big β€œWelcome to Virginia” sign was an image of the state bird, the northern cardinal ...

The first thing I ever published was inspired by my ire at the yellow bill on the cardinal on a Welcome to Virginia sign www.slate.com/articles/hea...

02.03.2026 02:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Cardinal with a yellow bill!!

02.03.2026 02:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes!

02.03.2026 01:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hahaha oh man

02.03.2026 01:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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let’s count the errors!

1. Loon in a tree
2. Snowy Owl in a tree
3. made up black bird
4. Northern Cardinals hardly β€œnorth woods” birds they barely range into Canada…

What else

02.03.2026 01:03 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0
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my retirement plan is just suing this seed company for false advertising if I can’t attract Siberian Nuthatches to my feeder in Maine

01.03.2026 02:45 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I think maybe it was a book discussion club? Like a wine and cheese and mealworm type social thing? I’m okay with it.

27.02.2026 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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came up to check the feeder today and startled some birds reading my new book WORLD WITHOUT BIRDS!! How’d they even get a copy, it’s not out until March 3?!?

Maybe they preordered at the link below, like you can too! tinyurl.com/srwswrcb

27.02.2026 16:39 β€” πŸ‘ 76    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

call me Dense Brain

25.02.2026 13:31 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Lol baked bean can

24.02.2026 19:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

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Searching for Birds An interactive story about the birds that capture our curiosity, told through data, visuals and illustrations

Really enjoyed this Searching for Birds data visualization from
@nadiehbremer.com
and team. Lots of great info (and I wouldn't have guess the species estimated to be the second most-numerous in the U.S. if given 50 tries)
searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com

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Great stuff, eBird! A new feature highlights the Iconic Birds at a particular hotspot.

11.02.2026 23:14 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah closest equivalent here I think

09.02.2026 03:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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retired NFLer Tony Gonzalez with binoculars and a computer generated bird in a Super Bowl ad night

09.02.2026 03:02 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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a short story about a mouse and an owl

05.02.2026 13:33 β€” πŸ‘ 51    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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never a doubt

03.02.2026 16:13 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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juvenile Herring Gull

30.01.2026 21:02 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

β™₯️

29.01.2026 01:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They’ll be fine

27.01.2026 21:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just rewatched a bunch of the Listers guy’s unlisted videos, available only via QR code from their book. Just the funniest shit. Laughing just now at the one where they follow the falconer through suburban Arizona and marvel at his dog’s balls. Cinema.

27.01.2026 01:08 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

This will be the 12th year since 2000 that a team named after a bird will play in the Super Bowl

26.01.2026 03:46 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

it’s actually a happy book!

22.01.2026 12:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Lol yes whoops

22.01.2026 12:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s actually a happy book!

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BIG NEWS!

Here's a cover reveal for my new book WORLD WITHOUT BIRDS! It's a really fun look at worldwide bird conservation, with lovely illustrations by Asia Orlando.

Major thanks to @kennkaufman.bsky.social and @rosemarymosco.com for their kind words!

www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/nick-...

21.01.2026 19:06 β€” πŸ‘ 55    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
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things are going perfectly over at X The Everything App

20.01.2026 00:18 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

My dentist can do it all, from a simple cleaning to identifying my charred remains

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Tigers Between Empires: Book Teaser
YouTube video by Jonathan Slaght Tigers Between Empires: Book Teaser

Tigers Between Empires - on a number of "Best Books of 2025" lists - is on shelves in bookstores right now! Come for the tigers, stay for the dirty biologists & geopolitics
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4cE...

18.01.2026 15:10 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Believe me, I am!

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