Dan Baldassarre

Ornithologist, peering into museum drawer: "Ah shit, what am I gonna name this yellow bird with the long bill?"

Wildlife group sues to protect rare bird in coastal Virginia, North Carolina The population of Wayne’s warblers, which rely on wetland forests, has precipitously declined in recent years.

Based on genetic work from our lab .. let’s go! 🦉🧪

Albert’s Lyrebird encounter there changed my life

I merely beckon and the birds come to me. I whisper and they answer.

Lamington National Park, ca. 2012

We need a woman as president so desperately. In fact, we need an entirely matriarchal government for at least a few generations. Men have been running wild for a bit too long.

Well this is fcking crazy. Work from @msbbirds.bsky.social and others found that Black Metaltail hummingbirds can drop their body temperature down to 3 °C (37 °F) during torpor. 🤯 Turns out birds aren't warm-blooded after all! royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...

📷 Steve Juhasz

lmao what

Dolly Parton Is 'So Excited' That East Tennessee Children's Hospital Is Being Renamed in Her Honor Dolly Parton's philanthropic efforts are taking another huge step as the singer announced on Thursday, Feb. 26, that the East Tennessee Children's Hospital has officially been renamed the Dolly Parton...

Musical genius and humanitarian Dolly Parton announces that the East Tennessee Children's Hospital has officially been renamed the Dolly Parton Children's Hospital 🦋 people.com/dolly-parton...

Banding cardinals

Fcking GOAT really

I relentlessly curate my feed

Cat was really in his bag here damn

I regret to inform you that the evolutionary psychologists are at it again

Unconscionable. How do they sleep at night?

Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo. A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.

This is why Democrats rightly didn't stand in response to Stephen Miller's gross pledge of mindless nationalism at the State of the Union last night. When these crimes are being perpetrated by the state, the citizenship status of the victims is irrelevant. www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...

Would it void my security deposit if I applied decals to all the windows?

I like your EAKI but not the AMKE

What species are these? From a paper using AI to detect birds at solar panel sites. Unsure of location, but USA somewhere.

playing 8D chess

I enjoyed Heated Rivalry as much as the next straight housewife, but all I could think about was how many bird window strikes there must be at Shane's cottage 😩

Laced up the ol ankle brace and dropped a casual hat trick on the swim team in intramural soccer tonight

a man in a yellow shirt is sitting in a chair holding a cup and pointing ALT: a man in a yellow shirt is sitting in a chair holding a cup and pointing

Bar-headed Goose mentioned!

Great piece.

V cool thanks

Ha. Anus foot.

Whoa how did I miss this? Looks great. Anyone read it? global.oup.com/academic/pro...

I knew he was critical of Sociobiology and EP but had never seen him put it quite like that. Wish they had had a longer conversation!

This is also tasty

Jeez there's some other incredible stuff in there

lmao

The Psychology majors in my Evolution and Society class have never heard of Tinbergen's four questions.