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She’s Back! Wisdom the Incredible Laysan albatross Has Returned The world’s oldest known wild bird, Wisdom, the Laysan albatross, has returned to Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge to nest.

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When the Killing’s Done!

Seagull Core

This Osprey is so majestic…. 🥰
And in the bird world this is considered a sick move….

Short tailed albatross photographed off southern California

@cageyratfish.bsky.social big bird news.

Welcome to Idiocracy.

Trump Killed a Major Report on Nature. They’re Trying to Publish It Anyway. (Gift Article) The first full draft of the assessment, on the state of America’s land, water and wildlife, was weeks from completion. The project leader called the study “too important to die.”

Scientists gonna science. We have GOT to figure out how to enable government-sponsored research to continue and function independently of whoever is in office. 🧪

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/c...

Bluesky’s science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X.

On the migration of the scientific community to Bluesky:
www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

World’s oldest-known wild bird lays egg in Hawaii at age 74 Wisdom the Laysan albatross has laid what experts estimate may be her 60th egg, and her first in four years

The long-winged seabird named Wisdom, a Laysan albatross, returned to Midway Atoll national wildlife refuge at the north-western edge of the Hawaiian Archipelago and laid what experts estimate may be her 60th egg.

Catastrophic and persistent loss of common murres after a marine heatwave Recent marine heatwaves have had pervasive effects on marine ecosystems, from declines in primary production to die-offs of top predators. Seabird mortalities are often observed in association with he...

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YouTube video by Dark Records The Exploding Whale Incident

54 yrs ago this week, a sperm whale washed up in Florence, Oregon, and the state decided to remove it w/20 cases of dynamite.

What happened next is as #PacificNorthwest as Powell's, "Twighlight," Mount St. Helens, the Space Needle, "Put a Bird on It" and Jim Hendrix.
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