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Professional bird nerd, here to figure out yet another social media space…
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Alexander Lees
24 days ago
Huge News from the Western Amazon: it's the year 2025 and we are still describing entirely new, strikingly-distinctive large-bodied bird species! Behold Tinamus resonans sp. nov. the Slaty-masked Tinamou
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Birds of the World | The Cornell Lab
4 months ago
Who is in Wales at the European Ornithological Congress
#EOU2025
this week? We are! Please stop by the booth and see Shawn and Nick and ask about the exciting things happening with Birds of the World and our partner network.
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Martin Stervander 🏳️🌈🇸🇪🏴🏛️🦉🦤🪶
7 months ago
🦅 The new unified global
#avian
#taxonomy
#AviList
has just been released at
www.avilist.org
! Xmas for anyone interested in
#birds
& checklists... The first version will be followed by annual updates, with decisions and processes aimed to be more transparent than its predecessors'. 🪶🧪 🧵
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The Onion
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Benjamin Freeman
8 months ago
you might think N American species are getting common at their north range limit and rare at their south range limit as temps get warmer but you would be wrong new paper in GEB w/
@eliotmiller.bsky.social
& Matt Strimas-Mackey, eBird Status & Trends ftw
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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I found this tree stump in an Ithaca park with year markers for the various tree ring ages. Who knows what the missing year is?
8 months ago
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I found many little orange friends in the woods today. I love them so much.
8 months ago
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Used book store find of the day: when this cheerful man posed for a photo with his orchids, do you think they told him what the book title would be?
8 months ago
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Eliot Miller
8 months ago
"North American bird declines are greatest where species are most abundant"--a stark, timely reminder of just how important conservation measures are. We need to save birds before it's too late. New research out by Cornell Lab of Ornithology &
@abcbirds.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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North American bird declines are greatest where species are most abundant
Efforts to address declines of North American birds have been constrained by limited availability of fine-scale information about population change. By using participatory science data from eBird, we ...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adn4381
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BHL is essential for my work. I hope it finds a good new home!
#ILoveBHL
add a skeleton here at some point
8 months ago
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It’s still wild to me how some Paphs are so shiny waxy they don’t even look real. I’m going to have to try one at some point.
add a skeleton here at some point
9 months ago
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Orchid time! I just got back from the spring show by the Genesee Region Orchid Society in Rochester. I only bought three new ones and that was showing restraint. I didn’t take as many pics as I should have but here’s some highlights.
9 months ago
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River Otters make any morning better.
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Birds of the World | The Cornell Lab
9 months ago
Calling all researchers, conservationists, & habitat biologists! We’re collecting insights from users for grants/reports. How does Birds of the World impact your work? That is, what do you use BOW for, and what does it provide that other resources cannot? DM or email
[email protected]
- TIA!
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50 degrees and raining? It’s salamander time
10 months ago
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America right now:
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ML629934887 - Red-legged Seriema - Macaulay Library
Macaulay Library ML629934887; © Mauricio Silvera; Rivera, Uruguay
https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/629934887
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Richard Littauer
11 months ago
If you have access to Birds of the World, my first chapter on a bird there was just published after a good deal of work. The Tristan Moorhen was a flightless rail that lived only on Tristan in Tristan da Cunha in the south Atlantic. 1/n
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Last bird of 2024: Wild Turkey First bird of 2025: Carolina Wren
12 months ago
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Starting off 2025 right: walking for miles in rain and snow for a CBC
12 months ago
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The Birdist
about 1 year ago
Part of making BlueSky a better place includes not bringing bird-related Elf of the Shelf puns over here thanks!
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Happy 8th Gotcha Day to my Finch 😻
about 1 year ago
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The fact that one of my local radio stations has already switched to Christmas music is really confusing my sense of what holiday week this is.
about 1 year ago
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My new favorite tag on Macaulay Library just dropped. Look at all these sweet plumage mutations.
search.macaulaylibrary.org/catalog?sort...
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Media Search - Macaulay Library and eBird
Explore millions of photos, audio recordings, and videos of birds and other animals; powered by Macaulay Library and eBird. The Macaulay Library collects, archives, and distributes wildlife media for ...
https://search.macaulaylibrary.org/catalog?sort=rating_rank_desc&tag=aberrant_plumage
about 1 year ago
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Exciting new
#colsci
!
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about 1 year ago
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November mood
about 1 year ago
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After being sick for most of the last week, I really needed to stretch my legs. Then I remembered I have a state park right out my own backyard. I should take advantage of that more often.
about 1 year ago
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Birds of the World | The Cornell Lab
about 1 year ago
Join Shawn, Pam, and Marshall from our Taxonomy team for an in-depth look into this year's taxonomy updates at their annual webinar, What’s new in avian taxonomy: 2024 Edition! The webinar will take place Thursday, 14 November at 12PM ET. Register below!
buff.ly/3Artgeh
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I did the thing. Can I stop getting election spam now? 🐸
about 1 year ago
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Birds of the World | The Cornell Lab
about 1 year ago
Who wants to meet our team? Birds of the World is going to the
@amornith.bsky.social
#AOS24
ornithology conference in Estes Park, Colorado, next week. You can find us at our sponsor booth in the Assembly Hall all meeting long - come say hello!
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In honor of fall migration, the moon has dressed up as a Wilson’s Warbler
over 1 year ago
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The 2nd paper from my postdoc work on yellowthroat genomics is now online at Molecular Ecology! Populations of Common Yellowthroats in eastern North America have notable differences in sexual selection on similar plumage ornaments ... 1/4
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Sexually selected differences in warbler plumage are related to a putative inversion on the Z chromosome
Large structural variants in the genome, such as inversions, may play an important role in producing population structure and local adaptation to the environment through suppression of recombination.....
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mec.17525
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The 2nd paper from my postdoc work on yellowthroat genomics is now online at Molecular Ecology! Populations of Common Yellowthroats in eastern North America have notable differences in sexual selection on similar plumage ornaments ... 1/4
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Sexually selected differences in warbler plumage are related to a putative inversion on the Z chromosome
Large structural variants in the genome, such as inversions, may play an important role in producing population structure and local adaptation to the environment through suppression of recombination.....
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mec.17525
over 1 year ago
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