Calgary Urban Species Response Team

Immediately looked like a Frank Lloyd Wright. Wonderful share!

A fluffy small bird looks down at the camera. The background is a very unnatural looking blue sky and weird light making it look kind of trippy.

I was trying to rescue this photo from shade and terrible lighting but things went very wrong. However I love the way this chickadee is looking down at me so I'm going with it

#birds 🌿 #WorstBirdPic #OrMoreLikeWorstBackgroundPic

Oil Wars vs Energy Transition (feat. Markham Hislop) What another oil war means for Canada’s future

Your Sunday morning podcast is HERE. Fire up that morning coffee and enjoy.

Have a GREAT Sunday!

www.podcastics.com/episode/4019...

#Venezuela #ClimateChange #OilWar #EnergyTransition #ElectroStates #PetroStates #CleanEnergy #Renewables #cdnpoli #abpoli #yyc #Electrification #ElectrifyEverything

Is there any way ...at all.... to watch #SixNations live from home in Western Canada.... #CymruAmByth

TIL about Acopian BirdSavers thanks to @calgaryresponse.bsky.social . You can make DIY versions at home, so they are very renter friendly too!

www.birdsavers.com

#birds #birdwatching #wildlife

Ironically the warming planet is causing more survival migrations of people. It's all just mind boggingly cruel.

If we don't fight climate change, nothing else will matter. Keep hope but also keep working and keep fighting for the environment. We all depend on it. Literally.
@calgaryclimatehub.ca

Beautiful! How many coniferous species are there in Canada? And how different are the species on the West Coast from the East? Thanks!

Rethinking ADHD as ‘hypercuriosity’ What if ADHD isn’t a deficit of attention, but an intensified curiosity? A new study explores how reframing ADHD could transform education

Yes! What if we treated extremely normal human variation as something other than a "disorder"???

www.positive.news/society/yout...

We don't have to choose between the economy and the planet.
The UN reports that nature-based solutions (restoring forests, sustainable agriculture) can provide 37% of the climate mitigation needed by 2030.
Investing in green jobs isn't charity,it’s the most intelligent long-term investment.

One Great Tit (as in a small passerine) perches on a small branch by a suet feeder, while another Great Tit (also as in a smaller passerine) waits their turn in the background. (Oddly, although the author has numerous pictures of Great Tits, they are almost all display only Great Tit at a time.)

No Valentine's Day date? Here's an alternative activity for your weekend: the Great Backyard #Bird Count!

Who knows, you might get to see a pair of great tits bouncing around right outside your house [*] 🐦

[*] Result more likely in Europe than puritanical America.

www.birdcount.org

A Pivotal Paper Once Used to Justify Roundup’s Safety Has Been Retracted Over ‘Serious Ethical Concerns’ In 2000, a scientific paper reported no evidence that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, caused cancer — a conclusion that shaped regulatory views for decades. Years later, questions surfaced about who wrote (and funded) the study, leading to its retraction over “serious ethical concerns.” For consumers, it raises a bigger question: How many other “settled” safety claims deserve a second look?

A major glyphosate safety paper from 2000 has been retracted for ethical concerns and undisclosed industry involvement.

The science is being corrected.
The ecosystems and bodies exposed for 25 years are not.

Retractions repair journals.
They don’t repair time.

Most welcome! Thanks for your interest!

Oh I do see a picture window now. That needs marking. I seriously fear that projects like this often lead to a glass fencing around a patio. Extreme strike hazard.

Of course! There's a lack of windows so my comment was a bit tongue in cheek.

That said...reducing glass IS an amazing mitigation

The boom in glass-rich frontages is extremely hazardous. We are fighting an uphill battle to prevent collisions.

#MakeBrickSexyAgain #SaveBirdsFromGlass

Love how bird friendly the red building is! 

Coming from every direction. The threats to wildlife. Incredibly disappointing to hear of this one too.

Hundreds of species and deep-sea mining impact discovered Long-term study into the effects of deep-sea mining shows 30% reduction in sea life, and the discovery of hundreds of new species.

This was just a test
Imagine what full scale mining will do
Results showed that deep-sea habitats were directly disturbed by mining equipment, experiencing a 37 percent decline in animal numbers, and a 32 percent decline in species diversity

oceanographicmagazine.com/news/hundred...

Gosh I hope you're okay!

‘We don’t have a plan’: Invasive species take hold as action lags legislation Sitka spruce, sika deer and common garden plants are all invasive species with potential to cause harm to native varieties

‘We don’t have a plan’

Invasive species are an important pressure on biodiversity but confusion reigns about what qualifies as 'invasive' and whose job it it is to take action

www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Come feel the LOVE this #ValentinesDay with your pals at the Calgary Climate Hub and @bikecalgary.bsky.social for #WinterBikeDay!

Snacks, hot chocolate, #Valentines fun, selfie-station, LIVE MUSIC with Indigenous artist #CurtYoung and the first 10 karaoke-ers get a prize!
#yyc #yycbike

Image by Lindsey Wallis of the Alberta Wilderness Association - bat walk in the Weaselhead in Calgary, Alberta - shows people on a bridge with bat detectors listening for bats overlooking a pond area with a pretty sunset and trees in the background. Remarkable as this is right in the city of Calgary. Above the crowd is an embedded image of a flying bat by Brock&Sherri Fenton with "echolocation" lines emanating from the front of the bat to show that the bat is echolocating! Text reads "Nature is not a place to visit, it is home." by Gary Snyder. Logo WCS Canada Alberta Community Bat Program albertabats.ca

Start seeing your property as habitat. What are you doing to support native ecology? Plant native trees and plants to help local wildlife - even in the city. Skip pesticides. Replace some lawn with native plants (and lower your water bill!). Turn off outdoor lights in summer. Small steps matter. 🦇🏡🌿

The people.

The environment.

Make it stop.

So many permanent harms and suffering being caused at such drastic levels, and yet it somehow continues.

Horrible! Absolutely horrible. And the people carrying out his wishes (in every manner) also need to take responsibility too! No excuse.

Life returns to a damaged seagrass meadow in Malaysia Seagrass restoration is increasingly recognised as crucial for addressing the twin crises of biodiversity loss and climate change.

Life returns to a damaged seagrass meadow in Malaysia
Seagrass restoration is increasingly recognised as crucial for addressing the twin crises of biodiversity loss and climate change
Whilst countries like Ireland plan to destroy their seagrass
www.eco-business.com/news/life-re...

YouTube video by YaleClimateConnections Did you miss this symbolism in Bad Bunny's performance?

The #ClimateChange message from the unforgettable #BadBunny #Superbowl halftime show youtu.be/bpzvYB9Q0RM?...

Oh boy. Here we go. 😭

Oh how incredible is this. 💕

Screenshot of docs referencing another document ("Doc. 6. Appropriate Assessment") and that document isn't apparent in the links.

Shared. I opened the map link which connects to the application docs but I don't see the referenced docs? Curious about those.

A Canadian corporation no less! @naturecanada.bsky.social @davidsuzukifdn.bsky.social @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social @seashepherd.bsky.social