Big Doughnutty News. Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Oh la la, Lullula arborea. Or a migrating Woodlark. Finland. #BirdsSeenIn2025 🇫🇮🪶🐦 #NaturePhotography #bluesky

A Cetti's Warbler Cettia cetti on a branch of the storm-felled Horse Chestnut Aesculus hippocastanum in a small London park this morning. Since this tree was toppled by Storm Henk on 2nd January 2024, I have photographed 30 species of #birds on its branches.

A migrating Sparrowhawk looking for a quick takeaway meal, Finland. #BirdsSeenIn2025 🪶🇫🇮 #NaturePhotography

Nutcracker, not quite as cracking a photo that I was aiming at, but sometimes you just have to settle for less. That's birding I guess 😅 #BirdsSeenIn2025 #NaturePhotography 🪶🇫🇮

A 7% decline in English birds in just 5 years is astonishing The web of life is unravelling fast

1/ The Wild Bird Indicators, using BTO data, have been updated today by Defra! ⬇️ Sadly, the ‘all bird species’ index, comprising the population trends of 130 species, has been in a slow continuous decline in the UK since the 1970s, down by 18% and by 4% in the last five years. 📉 #Ornithology

🚨 New paper out in Biological Conservation 🎉 The article focuses on the legislative gap in addressing the impacts of pets on wildlife and the opportunities for bridging the gap between animal welfare and nature conservation laws in the EU framework. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

a rare sighting - an Austral Pygmy Owl on a rainy morning. These birds are found only in the Patagonia region of Argentina & Chile. #birds #owl #australpygmyowl #argentina #patagonia #nikon

American Bittern, Bitter Lake NWR, Chaves Co., NM (09/17/25) #Birds #NaturePhotography

A Great White Egret and a hot-air balloon, Baltic coast, South of Finland 🪶🇫🇮 #BirdsSeenIn2025 #NaturePhotography

Amazing Swift show tonight in Portland! Every year migrating Vaux's swifts gather by the thousands and roost in chimneys like this SE Portland elementary school. And neighbors come out to watch them and cheer them on. It's a true delight.

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

Crossing 2°C is 97% certain (UNEP, 2024) IPCC SR1.5 (2018): “Coral reefs … projected to decline by 70–90% at 1.5°C (high confidence), with larger losses (>99%) at 2°C.” Perry et al. 2025: “If warming exceeds 2°C, nearly all reefs (≥99%) will be eroding by 2100. www.nature.com/artic...

An Osprey, looking rather resentfully at me 😅. South of Finland #BirdsSeenIn2025 🪶🦅🇫🇮 #NaturePhotography

New paper on precise tool use learning in carrion crows @currentbiology.bsky.social. We show that—like New Caledonian crows—expert carrion crows pay close attention to the working end of their tool, suggesting tool integration into their peripersonal space. 🧵 & vids! 👇 www.cell.com/current-biol...

A European Goldfinch and a bumblebee, late summer days, South of Finland #BirdsSeenIn2025 #NaturePhotography 🪶🇫🇮

Pomarine Jaeger on Monday to remind everyone not to let capitalism be a kelptoparasite of your time You own your time and no one else. And if you want to see birds… GO SEE BIRDS! Happy Fall Migration to those who celebrate 🥰 📷🌿🪶

A Black Woodpecker darting right above my head. 🪶 #BirdsSeenIn2025 🇫🇮 #NaturePhotography

Grey Herons dancing in the sky. 🪶 #BirdsSeenIn2025 🇫🇮 #NaturePhotography

You’ve been quail’d. 🪶

"Trump is pushing us over the cliff so we can land in Thiel's uncanny valley." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/mafia-stat...

Our new chapter is out! 📢 Co-first-authored with @mawadafreville.bsky.social with attentive supervision of @chacanteloup.bsky.social🤗 How has intentionality been theorised in developmental psychology and primatology, and how is it studied in animal signals?🐒🦜👶 Take a look 👇 doi.org/10.1016/B978...

Here's another capture of the great horned owl I saw stopping by a puddle for a drink last week. #owls #birds #wildlife #nature

A Northern Shoveler in close-up. Baltic coast, South of Finland. 🪶🇫🇮 #BirdsSeenIn2025 #NaturePhotography

A Beautiful demoiselle by a brook. #NaturePhotography 🦋 🇫🇮 #invertebrates #insects

Spotted this Kestrel on the ground beyond the gate and expected it to fly away. Instead it flew up and onto the gate . Bit of a special moment! @beaknikpoetry.bsky.social

Incidental to the main point, but I would rather make an embroidery and photograph it than use AI for my cover image. My newsletter is an AI-free zone! And a paywall-free zone too. On Palestine: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/on-palestine On AI: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/soul-strip...

A White-tailed Deer in setting sun. Non-native species fostered by the hunting industry. A beautiful creature nonetheless. 🦌🇫🇮🦊 #NaturePhotography

It's out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuHY...

A humble bumblebee, summer 2025, Finland. 🐝 #NaturePhotography

🚨 First PhD chapter is out! My work thus far, with @andy2dobson.bsky.social We found that formerly common species have declined the fastest, on average. 📄 North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We were both equally wide-eyed 😲. A 5 am encounter with a Ural Owl (Strix uralensis) in the forest. 🪶🦉🇫🇮 #BirdsSeenIn2025 #internationalOwlAwarenessDay #NaturePhotography

#InternationalOwlAwarenessDay The Hoot Owl Cafe in Los Angeles was in the shape of an owl.. its head rotated and its eyes, which were made from Buick headlights, would blink.

Birds are dinosaurs who shrugged off a couple apocalypses. Some eat bone marrow. Some drink nectar. They outswim fish in the sea. They smile politely at gravity’s demands. ‬ ‪I am grateful to see them. I am grateful to feed them. I am grateful to know them.‬

Two Red-throated Divers on a small lake in Nuuksio national park. Blessed to have such a remarkable wilderness area in the middle of urbanized southern Finland. 🪶🦆 #BirdsSeenIn2025 #NaturePhotography

TLDR: mountain gorillas use >120 distinct gesture forms (63 major action types) with at least 10 potentially novel actions not previously described in other apes! Videos here 👉 zenodo.org/records/1334... Like what..? Well since you ask ;) 👇 2/6

Friday favourite. Terry the Treecreeper. #birds #ukbirds #wildlife #nature

A Pied Flycatcher busy feeding the offspring, earlier in the summer, south of Finland. 🪶🐦 #BirdsSeenIn2025 #NaturePhotography

Sand Martin feeding young at Seaton wetlands this week. Fantastic job done by the team that created this wonderful habitat. #birds #birding #Ukbirding #Ukwildlife #birdphotography #Naturephotography #Wildlifephotography #Naturelovers

A Marsh Warbler, a few weeks ago, Baltic Sea coast, South of Finland. #BirdsSeenIn2025 🇫🇮🪶🐦

A Common Firecrest, actually nothing common about it here in Finland. I consider myself very lucky to get a good sight of a singing one. #BirdsSeenIn2025 🇫🇮🪶🐦 #NaturePhotography

I’ve wanted to put together all my favorite photos in once place for a while now, and I’ve given it a proper start! Check out my new website and let me know what you think stevemckerrall.com

This endemic to New Guinea Red-bellied Kookaburra was photographed today here in PNG’s Central Province showing well its black cap, white bill and red underparts [www.Bird-Photo-Tours.com, #BirdsSeenIn2025].

Bird Book of the Dead no. 44 - Tahiti Sandpiper The genus prosbonia is are small waders that evolved on different islands thoughout French Polynesia, with at least four species surving to historic times, and only one of these, the Tuamotu Sandpiper still extant, though itself endangered.

#Herps #Reptiles This research adds to evidence that reptiles have more complex inner worlds than previously thought. Known for their cognitive abilities, including problem-solving & learning, this study provides clear evidence they also experience long-term mood states. phys.org/news/2025-07...

I'd like to introduce a new page on my website: U.S. climate indicator visuals (zacklabe.com/united-state...). I only have a few basic variables so far, but I will be expanding this summer to add a range of metrics (e.g., ecological). I welcome suggestions! Hope this is useful, especially nowadays.

Crested Tits always cheer me up. #BirdsSeenIn2025 🪶🐦🇫🇮 #NaturePhotography

1/3 First evidence of anxiety in snails They exhibit fear responses hours after the source of their anxiety is removed. These responses can be reduced with an anxiolytic, such as alprazolam. They have also demonstrated high-level learning. (paper) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Welcome a new family of #birds, the Caribbean cave rails, Nesotrochidae! They were—surprisingly—the sisters of NZ adzebills, all sadly extinct. New #OpenAccess paper out in Avian #Systematics w Gerald Mayr, Chen Guangji & Feng Shaohong: www.avespress.com/uploads/down... 🧵 #ornithology #taxonomy 🧪🪶