FINALLY SOME GOOD NEWS IT’S FAT BEAR WEEK

#InternationalVultureAwarenessDay! Thinking of all this year’s fledglings & the threats they’re going to face; mostly anthropogenic. Vultures just go about their lives keeping the natural world clean while humans set it on fire. Tough, but it’s important to hold on to hope & conservation successes.

🎉 Celebrate International Vulture Awareness Day with Bird Conservation International! 🎉 🍖 The world's most efficient scavengers are disappearing from their vital role. 🔎Discover our curated collection of studies here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #vultureday #vultureawarnessday #vultures

🦅 On International Vulture Awareness Day, we recognize the essential role vultures play in sustaining healthy ecosystems and highlight @wwf.eu’s ongoing efforts to protect them. 🔗 Learn more about WWF’s conservation efforts in our guide: securesustain.org/abstract/world-wildlife-fund

Soar with us to Spain this International Vulture Awareness Day for an update on Egyptian vulture conservation! Read about a project from coordinator Alfonso Godino: www.hawkmountain.org/blog/in-the-field/wings-over-the-mediterranean-international-collaboration-to-save-egyptian-vultures-takes-flight

Today is International Vulture Awareness Day. This group of birds has a bit of an unfair reputation and is even regarded in Africa as one as the ‘Ugly 5.’ Lots of wildlife species contribute to the ecosystem in different ways. #vultures #birds #wildlife

Happy #InternationalVultureAwarenessDay Vultures are natures all-important clean-up crew, but in South Asia have hugely declined Find out how Saving Asia’s Vultures from Extinction (SAVE) partners are working to fix this 🌏 🪶 RSPB Species Spotlight: tinyurl.com/6mxxucf7

Epic soaring skills, stomachs that neutralise deadly bacteria, and a vital role in stopping disease… We reckon vultures might just be the most underrated birds out there. 👀 🦅 This #InternationalVultureAwarenessDay, discover why we owe them so much: brnw.ch/21wVwo3

To celebrate #InternationalVultureAwarenessDay & begin a 🧵on #BirdsSeenIn2025 in Zimbabwe, around Victoria Falls, the phenomenal Vulture Restaurant at Victoria Falls Safari Lodge which does so much to raise awareness of horrific plight of African Vultures such as these White-backed & Hooded. 1/25

Happy #internationalvultureawarenessday! I have been very aware of vultures, internationally. Here is a random thread of that!

Happy International Vulture Awareness Day! Vultures make our world safer for humans & other animals by dining on carrion & removing their pathogens from the environment. 🪶

🌍 Across Africa, BirdLife and its partners are committed to protecting vultures. This #IVAD, we're sharing action & impact insights. From new anti-poisoning strategies to groundbreaking research on vulture ecosystem value. Conserving vultures=safeguarding resilient ecosystems #SaveAfricaVultures

Endangered California Condors soaring above Pinnacles National Park for #VultureAwarenessDay. Such magnificent creatures! 💚 Learn about them here... www.nps.gov/pinn/learn/n... #Birds #NationalParks #iNat #NaturePhotos 📷🪶

Turkey vulture flying low over my house in California for #VultureAwarenessDay #bird #photography #IVAD2025 #InternationalVultureAwarenessDay

From oops to awesome! Turkey Vulture shows off remarkable wingspan when branch snaps. Happy International Vulture Awareness Day! 🖤 #birds #birdwatching #naturephotography #WildlifePhotography #nature #wildlife #birdphotography #vulture

Happy Vulture Day Eve everyone!

🦅 Today is International Vulture Day! Vultures may not always get the spotlight, but they are vital to healthy ecosystems. Today, we celebrate Africa’s incredible vulture diversity. Let’s give vultures the recognition they deserve. 🌍 @vultureday #VultureDay #AfricanOrnithology #BeardedVulture

🦅 Bird of the Month: BEARDED VULTURE Ahead of International Vulture Day, we’re spotlighting one of the world’s most remarkable scavengers. @vultureday projectvulture.org.za #AfricanOrnithology #BeardedVulture #VultureDay #BeardedVultureRecoveryProgramme #ProjectVulture

EARLY VIEW in IBIS Using high-resolution remote sensing to quantify nest-site characteristics of White-backed Vultures (Gyps africanus) in Karingani Game Reserve, Mozambique | onlinelibrary.wiley.... Tom C. Lautenbach, Frans G. T. Radloff, Andrew B. Davies | #ornithology #RaptorResearch 🪶

🦅Hoy es el Día Internacional de los Buitres y en España tenemos la suerte de contar con 5 especies que sobrevuelan nuestros cielos.  Celébralo rompiendo esos mitos que se han creado sobre ellos y aprendiendo la importancia que tienen en la naturaleza. ¡Feliz día buitres!

Did you know a group of vultures in flight is called a “kettle?”🦅 Today is #InternationalVultureAwarenessDay! Vultures have suffered severe population declines from the poisoning of carcasses. We need ongoing efforts to conserve the 23 vulture species. Read more👉 www.birdlife.org/protecting-t...

Happy International Vulture Awareness Day to all who celebrate.* (*If you like clean, safe, healthy humans and ecosystems, you should celebrate.) #vultures #birds #nature

It’s #InternationalVultureAwarenessDay, so let’s make a fuss of these phenomenal birds! I took these at the Horstmann Trust last year, and will tell their stories in my (nearly finished!) new book... They deserve so much more recognition for all they do, and up close are utterly charming 😍 #IVAD2025

Hey! Did you know it's the best day of the year? International Vulture Day is here!! It's a day to celebrate, share & support vultures, the most endangered (and misunderstood) family of birds in the world. Take a moment to share a vulture with someone just how cool and important they are! #ivad2025

Happy International Vulture Awareness Day! We hope you’ll take a moment today to celebrate your local vultures and acknowledge the important role they play in our ecosystems. #Raptors #RaptorResearch #Ornithology #Birds Hooded Vulture 📷 Evan Buechley

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Met a lizard-friend. ❤️

“Two economists looked at the vulture die-off and found that it coincided with a surge in the numbers of feral dogs, the sale of rabies vaccines, water pollution, and human deaths.” 🌎 www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/07/savi...

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Important thread! Don't get me wrong, I love me a convenient airport, but it's really important to consider potential bird strikes, which are bad for everyone.

The Bearded Vulture has hit a milestone—100+ breeding pairs now thrive in the Alps after a century of absence. One of Europe’s greatest wildlife comeback stories. Read the full story on The Ornithologist: theornithologist.org/bearded-vult... #ornithology #vultures #rewilding #conservation

I have decided barnacle goose goslings are the cutest little-large chonks.

Lady Minerva loves to go enjoy a summer rain shower! Vultures = Clean! They purify the environment by efficiently removing dangerous toxins (their digestive systems can neutralize anthrax, botulism, rabies, etc) and they spend a lot of time keeping clean themselves, too! 🪶 #soggyvultures

The @archipelacon.org pirate swans are doing a great job raising some more fluffy crew. 🏴‍☠️🦢🇦🇽

And so it beginds here in the Aland Isles, which are known for piracy it seems...

The @archipelacon.org opening ceremony was fabulous! Yarrrr! 🏴‍☠️🦢🇦🇽

I am in Mariehamn and have engaged ramming speeds. #archipelacon 🏴‍☠️🦢🇦🇽

Love that this interview is making people laugh! Of course as a scientist, I don’t think perfection is a biologically realistic concept, but, if it were, surely cats are our best example of it. Not least because cats couldn’t care less if we think they are perfect or not & I worship them for it!

Conservation implications of the illegal trade in Hooded Vultures Necrosyrtes monachus for belief-based use in Benin, West Africa | doi.org/10.1017/S095... | Bird Conservation International | #ornithology #RaptorResearch 🪶

We're now down to 3 days left, and all pin designs are now unlocked! We're working on our last few stretch goals, have you joined and gotten your pledge in yet? www.backerkit.com/c/projects/f...

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I would like Brit TERFs to know that Ireland has had self-ID for almost a decade now. It was introduced the same week postal codes became a legal requirement. Which one has caused problems for Ireland since? (hint: my family there keeps getting post lost in the system)

The colonialism of British TERFs is through the roof. Again. This open letter from Irish feminists to British transphobes in 2018 remains relevant. Where was JK Rowling's money for #RepealThe8th? But she has it to spread British Anti-LGBT hate in Ireland? #Spéirgorm feministire.com/2018/01/22/a...

Do you have a broken down old horse you want to sell? Need to make it seem young again? Then, friend, you need an eel! In medieval & early modern England, horse sellers practiced feaguing: inserting a live eel into the horse's rectum to get the animal to act more lively. 1/5 🗃️🧪

Today is #WorldTurtleDay! 🐢 This is an Alligator Snapping Turtle. They are the largest freshwater turtle in North America. Known for their immensely powerful jaws, spiky carapace, and razor sharp claws. #AlligatorSnappingTurtle #SciArt #NatureArt #WildlifeArt #AnimalDayCal #SketchStudy

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