Celebrate Give!Guide’s Big Garden Day with a gift and get the chance to win up to $750 towards your garden! Donate $10 or more to Bird Alliance of Oregon today, November 11 (between 12 a.m. and 11:59 p.m. PST) to enter to win both prizes: giveguide.org/nonprofits/b...

If you see this, post your bird art 🐦 #birds

I was delighted to be part of the judging panel for this art that will raise money for wildlife across Oregon!

Portland OR friends, would you consider fostering a dog? The need is urgent. www.multcopets.org/foster

It’s true, I swear! Not just hoarding the peanut butter cups.

Lighthouse selfies?! Oregonians, this is our moment!

@powells.bsky.social is fully stocked with my books, including the out-of-print Must-see Birds of the PNW! I’m excited to be here for @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social’s book event.

Show up for Portland’s Parks and wildlife by voting yes on the Portland Parks Levy! Without the Levy Portland Parks & Rec will lose nearly half its budget, forcing closures and eliminating programs. Let’s show how much we love our parks by voting yes! birdallianceoregon.org/take-action/...

Congrats! I thoroughly enjoyed Absolution and look forward to completing my SR collection and reading the new intro. 🐊 🐇

I love finding my friends’ books at independent bookstores! I hit the jackpot at Paulina Springs Books in Sisters, OR today. @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social @rheisman.bsky.social @kingfisherjourney.bsky.social @timberpress.bsky.social

No kings only kingfishers, kinglets, and kingbirds! Rally in Bend, Oregon, drew thousands …. #nokingsday #birders

Barking for our rights! #NoKings

Holy shit guys.

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

HAVE YOU EVER SEEN TWO OYSTERCATCHERS taking a bath in a tidal pool? No, of course not. But now you have!

Remember when I was using all those blue and green threads? There were many great guesses about what bird I was working on, but no one guessed magpie! I was inspired by a Neko Case song that mentions one. #embroidery #birds

Birds of the Pacific Northwest for Kids, out today! @timberpress.bsky.social #birds #fieldguides #birdsofthepnwforkids

Your moment of calm: A white-tailed kite hunting above the Tomales Bay Trail, near Point Reyes Station.

Save the date for 45th annual Wild Arts Festival at Wingspan Event Center in Hillsboro on December 6 & 7! Just in time for the holidays, you can purchase nature-inspired art, meet some of your favorite authors, and find great items in the Silent Auction. 👉Tickets on sale: www.wildartsfestival.org

Get your copy today! 📖🫶🏾🪶 timberpress.com/titles/dexte...

Portland... such a hard-scrabble hellscape there's hardly time to look out for wasps and put up signs so everybody can get along... let alone hand draw the wasp amid all the chaos...

Your moment of calm this morning, in totally unwartorn Portland. Cedar waxwings lit by the sun, preening on branches.

Big legal victory for the Streaked Horned Lark! A federal judge ruled that the USFWS’s decision to list the bird as “threatened” instead of “endangered” was unlawful. This decision offers new hope that the lark will finally receive the stronger safeguards it urgently needs. bit.ly/StreakedHorn...

With AI, the race to hedge bets, or outright say stupid shit like "we're like the dinosaurs before the asteroid, we need to adapt", is so incredibly dangerous because the stakes are so high across multiple industries and also involve theft, excessive resource usage, etc. 6/?

Spooky season approaches, so I'm going to repost some of my Halloween comics from years past.

It's time for another episode of This Month in Birding on the American Birding Podcast! Andres Jimenez, Sarah Swanson, and some guy join host Nate Swick to discuss the latest news from the birding world. Listen here: www.aba.org/09-39-this-m...

I've said this many times, but saying "people with autism" is playing directly into this perception because it sounds like something we caught instead of part of who we are. You wouldn't say a person with gayness or a person with maleness. Autism is no different. We are autistic, we don't 'have' it.

If you need a break from your Tuesday menty b, or if you just want to learn more about the weird shit I get up to in my free time, have I got a distraction for you! An whole doc about The Galbatross Project, female bird science, and our quest to triumph over some toddlers www.bbc.com/audio/play/p...

Lights Out Alert! The next three nights are BIG for fall migration here in Oregon, with around 5 million birds flying through our skies nightly. Join us by turning off unnecessary outdoor lighting from dusk to dawn to reduce sky glow and help migrating birds. 🌟 📷: aeroecolab.com/oregon

Looks like great Black-backed Woodpecker habitat

It might be that the part of embroidery that I enjoy the most is picking the colors. Any guesses on which bird I’m working on? #birds #embroidery

Anyone want to help Bird Alliance of Oregon get to 1000 YouTube subscribers so that we can monetize our videos? #birds www.youtube.com/@BirdAllianc...

i have such a hankering

Ironically, this fading summer is indeed passing me by as I procrastinate on this embroidery project. #birds #embroidery #nekocase

This Thursday, Sept. 11, the Climate, Resilience, and Land-Use Committee will vote on whether to advance the Urban Forest Management Plan to City Council. We need a strong show of support to get it passed! Click here for three ways you can help: birdallianceoregon.org/take-action/...

Around the Oregon Zoo with @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social

🪶 Y.M.C.A. It's fun to stay at the—

Total goofs of white pelicans out at Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge, birding with @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social !

Fall warblers (derogatory)

Tired of having to plunge its head into smelly bloody carcasses even just for a snack, a Black Vulture thinks about fresh seafood maybe. #ornithology #birds

Sparrowhawk Native Plants' fall plant sale begins this Sunday at 9 am! When you buy during this sale, if you choose our pop-up location for your order pick-up (the Montgomery Building on October 17th & 18th), a portion of your sale goes to support our work! sparrowhawknativeplants.com

Very cool! (And you can join Milton’s Paradise Lost in the long tradition of literary uncanny cormorants!) “Thence up he flew, and on the Tree of Life, The middle Tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a Cormorant; yet not true Life Thereby regaind, but sat devising Death To them who liv'd;”

I’m so excited to be contributing some birdy weirdness (weird birdyness?) to this book in the form of uncanny cormorants and maybe a few other things.

This is 100% where the idea of jackalopes came from, right...?

The Custom Oregon Plate HONKER was previously assigned, but is now available for reservation. https://dmv2u.oregon.gov/eServices/?link=custom #Oregon #LicensePlate #VanityPlate #OregonPlates #CustomPlate #HONKER

Is there anything more endearing than coming across a bundle of male longhorn bees sleeping on a flower? At dusk, you'll often find them clinging to stems or flower heads. This behavior is thought to offer some protection from predators & may also help with thermoregulation. Flower = perfect pillow.

I was just thinking about the old adage that while tons of books have been written, nobody can write *your* book because nobody else has your lived experiences, thoughts, emotions and so on. On the other hand, *anyone* can write GenAI slop because it can ONLY write what's already been written.

Come celebrate with us on Aug. 20 at Steeplejack (NE PDX) with drinks, friends and a nature trivia battle! Get a chance to win a year of nature classes and support free programs for all. Only 50 spots so grab yours now: birdallianceoregon.org/event/bdosce...

your moment of calm, courtesy of @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social

Neighborhood crows strutting their stuff. More in the alt text on their lifestyles and fashion sense.