A special treat for my birthday girl! Sydney is a blue tongue skink and has been with me since she was a little skinklet! #birthday #skink #lizard

When we tag horseshoe crabs, we sometimes have to remove barnacles or slipped snails from their shell I order to place a tag. We made sure that the slipper snails made good on their sacrifice, as a snack for our Horseshoe crab pals. They were happy to accept our snack offering!

Tonight my daughter tagged her first horseshoe crabs! I’m a very proud mama 🥹 #communityscience #wildlife

Red knots on the beach in Queens, NYC. An amazing migrating bird, and absolutely handsome. I get so excited to catch them in their spring finery. #birds

Piping Plover magic... the big reveal is actually quite small, and very cute. #birds

I don't know who needs to hear this, but sharks absolutely do get cancer. And even if they didn't get cancer, eating shark wouldn't cure your cancer any more than eating LeBron James would make you better at playing basketball. 📷: Andrew Fox

A few gems while waiting for my tour group at work today… American black duck, mourning dove, great egret, Canada geese… all at the Gowanus Canal waterfront. #birds #brooklyn #urbanwildlife

A number of common terns are born and raised New Yorkers! I love these birds and their attitude, I wish more of our beach nesting birds took the tern approach to nesting... dive, defend, and defeat. #Birds

Bird Blep. I love when I catch animals with their tongues out. Extra special when it's a sweet piping plover. #birds

Recent life-bird: Fork-tailed flycatcher on Randall's Island, NYC! Such a great rare #bird, esp for beginners, it's easy to spot, observe, and its flight is easy to follow as it hunts slowly by fluttering and hovering. Big recommend if you are a new birder and want to add a li' spice to your list!

If you're in the Washington, DC area, I'm giving a free public talk about shark science and conservation, including why Federal funding for research and conservation is important! Friday 5/30 at 7 p.m. at Silver Branch in Silver Spring. This is through @standupforscience.bsky.social 🧪🌎🦑🦈 #SciComm

***GIVEAWAY*** This signed/stamped Advance Readers Copy of TIGERS BETWEEN EMPIRES, forthcoming Nov 2025 from @fsgbooks.bsky.social! Like=1 entry, Share=1 entry, Like + Share=2 entries. Will randomly select winner on Friday, May 23, 2025. US addresses only. Preorder info: shorturl.at/OXr0Z #booksky

Off to do my water quality monitoring in the Gowanus Canal… and I found myself an urban Canada Goose family on 7th street, just outside the Bell House here in Brooklyn…

OPPOSE!!!!!! Oppose the rescinding of "harm" under the ESA: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... SUBMIT TODAY!!!!

I just had a common nighthawk calling as I put some recycling outside and shut off the yard lights…. I am so fucking jazzed for that yard bird! #birds

#birdbot

Marine Park, Brooklyn, familiar faces for this time of year. #birds

Met local Broad Channel, Queens Celebirdy, Edgar the Great egret. I also learned where the purple martins in Jamaica Bay live! #birds

Learned a new plant today, cypress spurge.

Brooklyn birds from the #globalbigday Birdathon last Saturday. Our team saw 118 bird species in Brooklyn, NYC in 12.5 hours - even lunch at L&B Spumoni Pizza got us a peregrine! I also got my first Kings County Broad-winged Hawk. #bird

Mama American robin tied to her maternal duties, fueled by the various hormones flowing through her veins that compel her to sit really still for long periods. She's doing her damn best and I love her for it. #birds #momlife #wildlife

Two weeks in a row we have caught northern pipefish in the Gowanus Canal! How cool is this water noodle?! It is among a more common fish of the Canal, mummichog. All were released alive. #fish

Birds of pray. Dear heavenly father, we thank you for thy daily squirrel and pray to you lord, Buteo jamaicensis. Red-tail hawks, 8th Ave and 2nd street in Brooklyn. #birds

Bittern two ways.... American Bittern on my way in to work.... least bittern on my way home from work. #birds

Its gettin' birdy out there! #birds

Old North Church in Boston last night on the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's ride.

When your home is a real fixer-upper... a nest on a structure from the mid 1800's - it just requires constant tweaks and twigs. Quaker parrot, Green-wood Cemetery, Brooklyn. #birds

NOMNOMNOMNOMNOM! I watched this robin scoop up three worms and slurp 'em down. #birds #nomnom

... UGH. I LOVE THIS TREE. Northern Flicker in a magnolia, appearing to nuzzle it with its face.... ...probably just itchy. #birds #trees #flowers

The red-headed woodpecker who stayed in Brooklyn over winter has taken on it's name, with a stunning red head! #birds

Watched this one piping plover at the all-you-can-slurp worm buffet today... @nycploverproject.bsky.social will be hosting an info session for new volunteers and training real soon! If you want to protect these cuties, please join a really great group of caring people! #birds #volunteer

It's Timberdoodle Tuesday!!

The birds are making more #birds. Killdeer spring formalities...

Female American kestrel in the desert warming up in the glow of first light. 🌿🪶

I like turning my Phone in selfie mode and letting the fish at the aquarium interact… the perch swim over to see themselves immediately. The rockfish slowly turn from side to side examining themselves. This exhibit in particular, I enjoy how curious the #fish are…

This is what many cities in the U.S. looked like before the EPA. Why the heck would anyone celebrate deregulating it?

OMG YAY!!! This ride became an annual tradition for my sister and I after I had gotten into an almost life ending crash, when someone flung me off my bike by opening their car door into me... fractured skull, TBI, ear bone damage, fractured collarbone, memory loss, tinnitus continues today.

Lots of jobs out there for ocean-minded folks!

Saw a yellow-bellied sapsucker. It showed me how it sucks sap. #birds

Saw a green-wing teal. It showed me its name. #birds

Saw a black-capped chickadee. Here it is threatening me with violence. #birds

Saw a rare goose. Captured it mid-poo. #birds

I’d watch this documentary…

Bird mom win: Kid didn’t want to peel away from our safari style birding to go shoe shopping. We were out for almost an hour, on her own free will. Saw kestrels, gulls, and a rarity, greater white fronted goose. #birds #momsthatbird

I am reading prep tips for the @standupforscience.bsky.social event tomorrow… I wanted to bring my daughter. Is anyone else bringing kids? Is this a horrid idea? I’m a bit worried reading about pepper spray and things…

"Although this directive claims to defend us—Jewish and Israeli students—we unequivocally declare that this act does not protect us. We reject the order’s immoral threat of deportation of our fellow Columbia students..." www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025...

I DIDNT REALIZE I TOOK A PIC OF A BUTTLESS JUNCO TODAY! ..no junco in the trunko #bird #birds

She is beautiful 😍

Researchers believe they've recorded potentially the first-ever sighting of an adult abyssal fish, Melanocetus johnsonii, in broad daylight. Normally found at depths between 200 and 2,000 meters, this predator was spotted just 2km off the coast of Tenerife. Full story: tinyurl.com/5j37dnmw