An Avocet seen in the West Midlands recently has been confirmed as the oldest of its kind ever seen in Britain:

Happy #WorldAlbatrossDay! 🪶

Happy #WorldOceanDay! To celebrate, here's a White-chinned Petrel chilling off New South Wales, Australia #seabirds 🪶

I had a great time chatting with @dmennill.bsky.social and his students Madison Bygrove and Natalie Emerick, of whom I am not at all envious, thank you very much. www.audubon.org/magazine/mee...

This Bendire’s Thrasher was one of two we equipped with satellite tags at Avi Kwa Ame Ntl Monument in NV. It will transmit data showing us how it moves around its territory and informing management like buffer sizes. During migration, we’ll see where it goes and when! @greatbasinbirds.bsky.social

The #wildflowers at Avi Kwa Ame National Monument are putting on a show! Pictured: a blanket of Wallace’s woollydaisy, a Mojave yucca inflorescence, and a tiny Nama bloom

#Desire can distract or it can serve. Today I gave in to a small indulgence. It brings me joy. In the coming days I’ll be working on deeper desires, to serve in community. #UULent

I started getting reports of an unseasonal Joshua tree bloom in the last few weeks, and looking over records on @inaturalist.bsky.social it's pretty widespread! So we're putting out the call for folks to record this "bonus bloom" and help us study it 🌿 lab.jbyoder.org/2025/12/10/w...

My 7000th observation on iNaturalist! I love iNat for encouraging me to pay attention to all the organisms, not just the feathered ones. Feathers are good too though. 🪶 #inaturalist

#NoKingsProtest: Baton Rouge, LA @indivisbatonrouge.bsky.social @indivisible.org @velshimsnbc.bsky.social @msnbc.com @theweekendprime.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com @jenpsaki.msnbc.com @democratswin.bsky.social @occupydemocrats.bsky.social @theguardian.com @theatlantic.com

Because who doesn't like pancakes? Pancake pricklypear, Opuntia chlorotica, from central Arizona #bloomscrolling #cactus

Why is it so difficult to trust Typhlachirus? Well, for one thing, eyes are usually the window to the sole.

Post a bug that looks like AI but is actually real. Saddleback caterpillar moth #bugs

This giant walkingstick looked like a zoo exhibit, just chilling on a dwarf palmetto outside Baton Rouge Louisiana. According to Wikipedia, the largest #insect in North America!

Violet-toothed polypore, because purple #mushrooms

Louisiana turned out today! #NoKings Baton Rouge

A regal Mississippi Kite, daring dragonflies to fly above the treeline 🪶

Fight the Empire.

My Epiphyllum cactus is blooming 😍 what a beauty to wake up to #cactus #flower

Our shipment from the Princeton University Press 50% off sale came! 😍 This turned into a reading party, me with ferns, hubby with velvet ants, and child with fossil birds, all sharing interesting stuff every ~1.4 seconds #books #nature

Fewflower milkweed Asclepias lanceolata, a real stunner. #NativePlants #Louisiana #milkweed

I saw a cecropia moth caterpillar for the first time and it was 100% Heimlich from A Bug’s Life #insects #pixar

Gov. Tim Walz is doubling down on trans rights — and criticizing members of his party who are retreating — at a time when the issue has become a political lightning rod nationally and back home in Minnesota.

Spent a lovely morning botanizing at Abita Creek Flatwoods Preserve and especially enjoyed the carnivorous plants. Here are two sundew species! #plants #naturalist

The aftermath of finding every chigger in Louisiana

Went for a hike at a local park yesterday, in part searching for dwarf sundew. It wasn’t easy but we found them! Hands and knees botanizing 🌱 #plants #naturalist

The Trump administration just dropped an executive order, "Restoring Gold Standard Science" and there's lots to unpack. This EO reveals more about how the Administration will approach scientific integrity and science in regulatory contexts. Some initial thoughts. 🧵 www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

My supervisor is really keeping a close eye on me today #frog #WorkBuddy

I don’t know why it’s called a beggar moth, but it sure is pretty. #moths

Insights from a decade of using the Motus network to track boreal bird species from Observatoire d'oiseaux de Tadoussac, Québec to temperate and tropical wintering grounds | journal.afonet.org/v... | Journal of Field Ornithology | #ornithology 🪶

Through decades of monitoring we have learned that the upper El Dorado and Piute valleys in far southern #Nevada are a stronghold for Bendire’s Thrashers in NV and LeConte’s Thrashers in the world. #desertthrashers #conservation #birds 1/2

I rescued a toad and a baby snapping turtle from the pool. I'm not sure they appreciate their new home down by the creek. 🐢🙂🐸 #toads #turtles #critters #nature #photography

Fergie advises you to sleep in today #cats

While tagging thrashers at a soon-to-be-developed solar site in Arizona, we came across a good number of northbound migrants using the mesquite washes, like this Orange-crowned Warbler. 🪶 Handled with all appropriate state and federal permits.

On a rainy day in a drought-addled desert, I got to watch this darkling beetle sip raindrops from a rock. #desert #insects #naturalist

Black-throated Sparrows are probably the most common bird of the Sonoran and Mojave deserts, and I’ll never get tired of looking at them. 🪶 Handled with all appropriate state and federal permits.

I am in love with this teeny bee

Joshua tree forest between rain showers Avi Kwa Ame National Monument, Nevada, May 2025 #PublicLands

My trip to the #desert took place during an unusual cold snap, and we were even rained out of thrasher surveys on a few occasions. The desert responded to the rain with a green-up and some blooms, although it is heavily stressed from long-term drought. The creosote smell was amazing.

After decades of mystery, the enigma of the Nechisar Nightjar may finally be solved. Read about the latest discovery in this fascinating saga here: www.aba.org/has-the-nech... Special thanks to Mathieu Wald for sharing the preprint referenced in the article with the author.

Just wrapped up a whirlwind 2-week work trip to Arizona and Nevada. From a great bioblitz to surprisingly rainy thrasher surveys, it was all thrashers all the time. Highlights were successfully tagging three LeConte’s Thrashers, and all the friends and colleagues I got to see! 🪶#ornithology

While target netting for Bendire’s Thrashers today, this accommodating and unseasonal Sage Thrasher found the nets instead. #BirdBanding 🪶

Success! We tagged one LeConte’s Thrasher today. It will be so interesting to see where he goes over the next few weeks, months, and hopefully years. 🪶#ornithology @greatbasinbirds.bsky.social All handling and marking is being conducted with all appropriate state and federal permits.

So excited to get started with thrasher tagging today! We are partnering with Bureau of Land Management and Arizona Game and Fish to study Bendire’s and LeConte’s thrasher movements following solar development 🪶 #ornithology @greatbasinbirds.bsky.social

Very proud of this paper led by @lsu.bsky.social students where we examine what ‘Unexplored’ means in a natural history context - we recommend ‘biodiversity blindspots’ instead for places that lack digitized public data Paper here peerj.com/articles/185... Video abstract youtu.be/QZ8wUrgJEao

I am “Nalgene will always be the cool water bottle” years old.

Copper iris, maybe my favorite local native wildflower #NativePlants

Interested in Pinyon Jays & conservation? Of course you are! :) Carl Lundblad will be presenting his work on Pinyon Jay habitat selection & holistic conifer management in the eastern Sierras. Join us Thursday, April 17, 6pm, at Rosewood Nature Study Area. Learn more: www.gbbo.org/calenda...

Feeling extra nostalgic for Arizona today after revisiting the music of Jared & the Mill, a former Phoenix band that evokes the desert with lines like “She’s the kind best enjoyed like a pool under cottonwoods and stones” #Arizona #music