Alberta Claw

Hi Bsky, sorry for the radio silence. I had a job offer fall through in January and have spent the year so far scrabbling to pay bills + feed myself + my cats whilst I try and get a new job. Accepting bird doodle commissions where I'll draw you any bird you want for a $10 KoFi

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We got so close to a pair of Glossy Black Cockatoos the other week which was really special, I just love the yellow feathers on the females! rachelhollis.com/product/glos... #bird #cockatoo #watercolorart #wildlifeart

buns. #ゆるキャンΔ #葬送のフリーレン #フリーレン

Female #kakapo are utterly focussed on their chicks. Stella came back to the nest while I was checking her very young chicks two nights ago. Apparently unconcerned by me being there, she jumped in and started brooding them in front of me. #conservation #parrots #birds #kakapo2026

A close-up of a dark seabird with a long hooked bill, dark blue eye, and a bright turquoise throat patch. Photographed in La Jolla, California.

A Brandt’s Cormorant rocking that electric blue!

#birds #nature #wildlife #photography

Thrilled to share my first PhD publication - gannets put more effort into diving when they are in groups 🐟🐟🐟

Out now in @meps-ir.bsky.social www.int-res.com/abstracts/me...

+Thanks to my coauthors who put a lot of effort into collecting the videos!

#seabirds #ornithology #animalbehaviour

A male Red-winged Blackbird patrolling the marsh.

Stuffed skin of a duck from a museum collection.

New species of steamer duck, the Chiloe steamer duck (Tachyeres ketru), distinguished on the basis of bill color and vocalizations: audiornis.org/journal/arti... 🪶🧪 (📷López-Lanús & Costa)

Nice end to a fun PhD 🎉

A Great Grey Owl outstretches her wings wide to slow down. The background is snow covered. Her talons can be seen getting ready to grab the landing post.

The grace and ease with which a Great Grey Owl moves is a sight to behold. Here a Great Grey uses her wings to slow down as she approaches a post to land on. And check out those talons! #wildlife #birds #owls

The visible song of a male Red-winged Blackbird in the morning light.

Limitations of molecular dating using constant birth–death rate priors in deep time reflected in Brachiopoda evolution Molecular dating often struggles to align with fossil records when divergence times are estimated in deep evolutionary history, particularly during th…

Limitations of molecular dating using constant birth-death rate priors in deep time reflected in Brachiopoda evolution www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Fossilized skeletons of several extinct birds, some including preserved remains of plumage.

Phylogeny of Eocene parrot- and passerine-like birds: vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.com/article/1825... 🪶🧪 (📷Mayr)

Acceleration hotspots of North American birds’ decline are associated with agriculture Human activities might have accelerated declines of population abundance, but this acceleration remains underexplored. Using 1033 North American Breeding Bird Survey routes, we analyze abundance chang...

Thrilled to share our new paper out in @science.org, led by François Leroy and Petr Keil! Using the Breeding Bird Survey, we document not only a continent-wide decline in bird abundance since the 1980s — but, crucially, the acceleration of these declines over time. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Digital models of the skull and hindlimb bones of a duck.

Drivers of skull and hindlimb skeleton evolution in waterfowl: academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan... 🪶🧪 (📷 @raychatterji.bsky.social et al.)

Social and ecological factors associated with innovation in urban sulphur-crested cockatoos (Cacatua galerita) Cities are challenging places for wildlife, but some species, like sulfur-crested cockatoos, adapt by finding new ways to feed and solve problems. We studi

New paper alert! 🦜

We gave wild cockatoos puzzle boxes across Canberra’s urban gradient. The finding? Urban birds approach faster, but are not better solvers.

Our results suggest that urbanization shapes neophobia independently from cognitive performance. Read it here:

doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Southern Giant Petrels are remarkably variable in plumage from dark brown to almost white. I don't know the origin but birds of this morph are sometimes called White Nellies. At sea, east of the Falkland Islands. 🪶🦑

Hey.

Tell people when they do good job.

When you like the stuff they make.

When you like the characters they’ve created.

The stories they’ve told.

Nobody hears it as often as you think bc everyone thinks everyone hears it all the time.

Trust. They don’t.

Tell. Them.

(A new and excellent specimen, but a previously known species.)

Fossilized bones and skeletal diagram of a small dinosaur.

New specimen of Alnashetri shows it to be a late-surviving non-alvarezsaurid alvarezsaur retaining unreduced forelimbs and representing an independent evolution of miniaturization: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪 (📷Makovicky et al.)

『ふたりバス』①巻
発売から１週間で大きめの重版が決定しました！！
大感謝です‼️🙌
引き続きよろしくお願いします🚎

Using multiple lines of evidence, we show that feral cats and red foxes are strongly implicated in most Australian mammal extinctions and in the ongoing imperilment of numerous extant species. academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

A large collaborative effort to rebut Wallach and Lundgren (2025).

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I'm being hounded by the internet and electricity companies for my previous home to pay back outstanding debt, and each company is demanding over $300.

I can't afford that on what I live on. And it's about to go to collections.

Please help if you can.

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Spotted Towhee. Victoria, British Columbia.

Many adults have striking red eyes, which may help with mate attraction and territorial displays.

#birds #birding #wildlife #nature #photography #birdphotography #Nikon #BirdsSeenin2026

Fossilized skull of an extinct bird-like dinosaur with a pointed snout and small teeth restricted to the tip of its jaw.

New long-snouted enantiornithean ("opposite bird") Gorgonavis alcyone: sjp.pensoft.net/article/1828... 🪶🧪 (📷 @nebreda.bsky.social et al.)

Duo Camping💜💙

Oh no. Hearing (via Neil Shubin) that Hans Sues has passed. Woah.

Life sometimes sucks but at least we got birds on earth

H.A. Brown Elementary School Mural By Skype a Scientist

A week ago I found out that the grant I was confident would fund our spring mural will not, bc we're 2 blocks too deep into Kensington. This STINKS.

This project rocks bc it's community driven, biodiversity-focused (& more! read on!)

We're raising money to make it happen
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