Everybody’s upset because it’s Argentina but I’m glad that gets called. Get it out of the game.

Colombia the latest to learn that Center Backs should not take penalties until they absolutely have to.

It was a heart breaker in the end but I would have rather gone out like Egypt did than like the US did.

What a heart breaker for Egypt. Pretty sure that’s not a foul on Salah though.

I mean there’s really no question anymore that Messi is the greatest but my god how does he keep coming up with this stuff?

I’ll go to my grave, I think, believing that 36 hours of Balogun insanity fucked with this team’s makeup. Which at the end of the day is no more than they deserve and is also an indictment of that makeup.

Donald Trump, please come out as a dook fan

Brand new pair of Swarovski bins. First time I take them out for a Breeding Bird Survey and I lose one of the objective lens covers.

Australia learning why you never send CBs to take pens before you absolutely have to.

Ecuador versus Mexico is bird flag versus bird flag.

The World Cup is the best. Just the absolute best.

I can’t believe there are people who want to get rid of pen shootouts.

Hey the New York Times likes bird podcasts, including mine. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/a...

When I started writing about birds online over a decade ago — the effort that, over time, brought me to my current gig with ABA — I did it pretty much entirely to get free bird books. I have succeeded beyond my wildest dream to the extent that I have almost run out of shelf space. Dream big kids.

“go back to the moon but this time we have really good cameras” was a fantastic idea

ethical people should not be using right wing propaganda websites owned by white supremacists

They keep making up awards to give our stupid baby president to keep him from throwing his plate on the floor and none of it stops him from throwing his plate on the floor.

Join me and @n8swick.bsky.social Nate Swick at NOON Central TODAY! We'll be working through some tricky IDs—sandpipers, ducks, hawks, geese, and parrots!—taking your questions, and more, on @aba.org ABA's What's This Bird LIVE! www.youtube.com/live/AbszNvh...

how broken inside must you be to watch the speech out of anything other than professional obligation

Was driving down the highway yesterday and saw a Common Raven fly over and land on a billboard next to a pair of Black Vultures and the raven was *significantly* bigger than the vultures and something about those birds together rocked me to my very core and I've been thinking about it all day.

There’s an odd aversion in the Reddit birding community to pishing, putting it up with abuse of playback in terms of potential bird stressors to be avoided and I can’t say I get it.

If the executive branch can unilaterally cut off federal funding to specific states the union has already been dissolved.

This is the most bonkers snake behavior I have ever seen. I am legitimately gob-smacked. www.reddit.com/r/whatsthiss...

I once heard Black Bears described as "bigger, dumber raccoons", and nothing I've ever seen has suggested that wasn't a bang-on characterization.

A reminder to leave Twitter. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/goodbye-tw...

That’s me! In honor of the Grue Jay I came up with a list of other potential hybrids that’d have cool names. Mt favorite was Smooth-billed Ani x Groove-billed Ani aka the Smooth Groove Ani aka The Steely Dan Ani.

Has anyone ever seen a hybrid of Blue-winged Teal and Green-winged Teal and why isn't it called a Teal-winged Teal?

Suck it robots!

Join Nate Swick and Kelly Smith for a fun weekend of birding in Fort Myers, Florida! Registration is now open for the October ABA Community Weekend in Fort Myers!

If you require a distraction from The Horrors, you could listen to @captaintimh.bsky.social @n8swick.bsky.social and I deliver the hottest takes in birding, including my plan to weaponize swans. www.aba.org/09-41-take-i...

I just bought $160 worth of nature books for $60 including shipping. I didn't need them. But I got them anyway. The new edition of the Collins guide to Europe is in here, by the way.

Not to spoil this week's Take it or Leave it episode of the American Birding Podcast, but we manage references to The Simpsons, Futurama, Arrested Development, AND Back to the Future in there.

Atlantic Puffin, Tufted Puffin, Horned Puffin.

So against my better judgment I'll probably watch this. I worry, though. www.hallmarkchannel.com/adventures-i...

I recorded an interview with novelist Amy Tan the other day for an upcoming ABA podcast episode, and I'm pretty sure she's the first guest on the American Birding Podcast who has been featured on The Simpsons.

I'm just happy that my home state of NC got two native species here.

I have downloaded the Avilist excel spreadsheet of birds of the world and it is clearly an impressive amount of work, but it is so huge that it makes my computer run like a steam engine and takes 10 minutes to search for one bird.

Only one week left for participants of the North American Breeding Bird Survey to complete their routes for the 2025 season! Don’t forget to enter your data online and mail in a physical copy of your data sheets and route map when you’re finished. The sooner the better!

Lots of stuff getting tossed from this bill but as far as I can tell, the elimination of the USGS Ecosystems Mission Area, which includes the Bird Banding Lab and the Breeding Bird Survey, is still in there. Would love to hear otherwise if anyone knows more.

Four year late but Hot Limpkin Summer finally reached Greensboro, NC.

It’s important to remember that every one of these rocket explosions is a massive pollution event of the coast and ocean.

"It’s for brainstorming, it’s for extrapolating, it’s for helping me come up with 20 ideas for different questions" Motherfucker that's what TAKING WALKS is for!

Yup

The release of the new AviList, the latest attempt to create a standardized bird taxonomy, has radicalized me into an IOC zealot. Sadly, eBird will adopt this mess and we'll be stuck with it unless I go back to a spreadsheet list.

This equates to approximately 764.8 years of funding the Breeding Bird Survey.

I was taking summer courses at college and was up at 3 AM watching this game in my shitty off campus duplex. Immediately afterwards I jumped on my bike to go to the library computer lab to read media reactions. What a time.

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The potential deletion of 100 years of bird banding, breeding bird survey, and various other survey data would cripple bird conservation efforts not only in the US, but in the entire hemisphere.

When I officiate rec league soccer games for children I won’t even accept a post game juice box from a team because of the potential appearance of impropriety.

Look, if you want to work birding into a murder mystery the way to do it is to have the murderer get caught because they found a county bird at the site where they dumped the body and created an eBird checklist for it.