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Bearded Vulture nests found to have hoards of cultural artifacts—some up to 650 years old Many people have probably seen birds picking up small pieces of man-made materials, like strips of a plastic bag or paper litter, and taking them into their nest. This behavior appears to be fairly wi...

Bearded Vulture nests found to have hoards of cultural artifacts—some up to 650 years old share.google/I5vrFyOkftYz...

World’s largest carnivorous bats are big softies Spectral bats share prey, hug, and even form 'tight cuddle-balls' when falling asleep.

World’s largest carnivorous bats are big softies | Popular Science share.google/CihdoJzdIB6H...

Putin to his interpreter: "is just called Bald Eagle, these fucking idiots didn't even know the name of their national bird."

Interpreter to Trump: "President Putin is greatly moved and will be reminded of this wonderful gift every time he watches a Western film and hears it's majestic call."

Today at Broughton Beach in Portland, Oregon.

America's largest shorebird species, Long-billed Curlew, standing behind the world's smallest shorebird, Least Sandpiper.

Of course, field flattening is in effect in this image.

In reality, Long billed Curlews are only 3,150% larger than Least Sandpipers.

After 3 days, @mothweek.bsky.social is up to 5,617 species! Here's one that i added to the project, a big Aholibah Underwing that came in to the sheet in Portland last night. Lifer!

#mothweek is here! Amazing to check the @inaturalist.bsky.social project and see how fast the species are wracking up. 2,727 in ~34 hours. A little slow at my moth sheet last night because of cooler temps and breezy conditions, but I do love the topiary grass-veneers. They look like little wizards.

#feelthebern

I didn't really get why they had invaded Portland until i saw one in my garden obsessed with eating my kale

The Lewis and Clark birds And the entanglement of ornithology and genocide

this is an incredible piece from @stephencarrhampton.bsky.social. required reading for anyone interested in the debate around #birdnamesforbirds, or the genocide of Native peoples, or of the mythology of Lewis and Clark. open.substack.com/pub/schampto...

The thing is, if he votes for this, he will be doing what the majority of his constituency wants him to. If we don't want people like him voting for bills like this we need to present populist alternatives that actually work to make people's lives better.

If you care about hunting, hiking, wildlife, clean water, or just the idea that public lands belong to all of us, it’s time to raise hell.

Call your senators. Call the media.

Call it what it is: A war on the American West.

Trump vs. Birds: Proposed Budget Eliminates Critical Research Programs • The Revelator Experts say there’s “no substitute” for the Bird Banding Laboratory or the Breeding Bird Survey, which help reveal the health and status of avian populations across the country.

Welp, I did it, I wrote a piece for @therevelator.org on the proposed funding cuts to the Bird Banding Lab & Breeding Bird Survey and what they would mean for bird research & conservation in the U.S. Definitely a different sort of writing than I usually do. 🪶 therevelator.org/trump-vs-bir...

If you're going to tape in a Near-threatened, range restricted species, maybe at least photoshop the speaker out of the photo

Happy Father's Day to all the geese and swans out there (not you, ducks)

Some ducks have joined one of the #NoKings rallies in Portland, OR!

You never realize how much a Ruddy Turnstone looks like the third member of Insane Clown Posse until you see it from the front

Had an awesome time at Magee Marsh. Somehow still didn't catch up with one of these 🤷🏻

16 species of warbler on the first day of the @birdallianceoregon.bsky.social Magee Marsh tour.

As always, Blackburnian wins the popularity contest.

Birders in Oregon have been noticing an unprecedentedly late and light migration. Zero migrants in my local parks this morning. BirdCast confirms. I'm curious how things are across the country?

And shout out to the Cornell lab folks for making such an amazing tool: www.birdcast.info

Spring break is a great idea but it should be April 1 - June 1 and for adults

The first two images are of one such note, about how flowerpeckers disperse mistletoe seeds by wiping their bums on tree branches. Somehow they manage to pack all this fascinating info in while still making it portable enough for the field. It's worth reading even if you never make it to Borneo.

There are a lot of great field guides out there, but i have never enjoyed one as much as the "Birds of Borneo" by Quentin and Karen Phillipps. The illustrations and descriptions are top notch, but it's the incredible ecological notes that make it read more like a riveting natural history.

I love the @ababirds.bsky.social podcast annual rarity draft, but @n8swick.bsky.social, letting Blue Rock Thrush fall to 4, after two regularly occurring ABA birds, means we need some west coast representation on the panel 😄

Americans who disagree with the illegal actions of Elon Musk should refuse to pay their federal taxes. Our tax dollars are supposed to fund what is determined by Congress. If our agency has been removed from that process, we should pay state and local taxes and #boycottfederaltaxes.

And today i found my own Fuzzy Biscuit in the Columbia Slough!

Vector illustration of an American Crow in blue, yelling toward the upper right with throat feathers raised and wings stuck out. Text in magenta: Fuck you, make me

Clean version of the previous image. Vector illustration of an American Crow in blue, yelling toward the upper right with throat feathers raised and wings stuck out. Text in magenta: Make me

In case anyone needs a little corvid energy. Feel free to print, stick in your workspace, shove in a musker's face, whatever.

an image in 4 quadrants, each one containing a literal image of the animal and text top left: goose barnacle - not a goose - a barnacle top right: barnacle barnacle - a barnacle - a barnacle bottom left: goose goose - a goose - a goose bottom right: barnacle goose - not a barnacle - a goose but also a barnacle if you ask a 12th-18th century english and so it also counts as a fish

bringing back some #InvertebrateShitposting from the archives

A shout out to the org i work for! Follow for conversation updates, and sweet bird photography

Short-eared Owls give good face, don’t they?

This is a great time of year to spot them gliding over open fields or grasslands at dawn or dusk. They hunt while flying low or hovering, diving to snatch prey or rising swiftly to escape danger. It’s a spectacular sight! 📷: Eric Ellingson