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.

Just awful!! 🤬

Is bigfoot just anti-bear propaganda?

Oooh, the Anticipation!

After 3 days, @mothweek.bsky.social is up to 5,617 species! Here's one that i added to the project, a big Aholibah Underwing that came in to the sheet in Portland last night. Lifer!

this is an incredible piece from @stephencarrhampton.bsky.social. required reading for anyone interested in the debate around #birdnamesforbirds, or the genocide of Native peoples, or of the mythology of Lewis and Clark. open.substack.com/pub/schampto...

My student Griffin said they look like Statler and Waldorf 😆 (Bobolinks)

A thing I've been working on is out now: I wrote the cover story for the summer issue of Living Bird! Scientists have sequenced the genomes of almost all 25 (!) song sparrow subspecies AND connected their genes to how they're each likely to fare under climate change.

Just in time for my birthday today, the NYT publishes my list of climate novels. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/b...

To all the artists creating in these times: thank you. It’s not easy to make beauty, truth, or meaning when the world feels chaotic. Whether it helps you breathe or comforts others, your work matters. Art doesn’t need to fix the world to be meaningful, sometimes it just needs to exist.

Bird migratory paths affected by Area X have been insufficiently studied in the past. A deficiency being remedied by @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social this year. Research funding by the new eco company Serum Bliss.

Absolutely staggering numbers of wildlife killed by vehicles every day. nautil.us/what-if-ever...

That Portland ICE facility is really something right now. #pdx

Åland Island birding... two gull babies make for the little house they sleep in at night...

I love oystercatchers!

Forward-facing birds are the best.

Trans pride but make it florida birds #pridemonth #wildlifeart #birdpainting #oilpainting #floridaart

📢Oregon Wildlife Needs You! Urge Oregon Senators to Support HB 2977 (asap this week!). This landmark legislation, which has bipartisan support, would provide funding for protecting at-risk species and habitats, and much more. For all the details, click here: birdallianceoregon.org/take-action/...

I just love making art with charcoal. It's about as far from GenAI as you can get because it's literally burnt chunks of wood rubbed on dead trees, it's so basic and primal. And you have to use your whole body, it's messy and tactile and real.

Just a reminder that generative AI is theft of labor and intellectual property, uses vast amounts of energy/ water, provides at best mediocre results (if not outright lies or misinformation), actually affects your ability to think over time (mind duh), and is in general a really fucking bad idea.

Welp, I did it, I wrote a piece for @therevelator.org on the proposed funding cuts to the Bird Banding Lab & Breeding Bird Survey and what they would mean for bird research & conservation in the U.S. Definitely a different sort of writing than I usually do. 🪶 therevelator.org/trump-vs-bir...

The Clark's Nutcrackers on Mount Howard were amazing to photograph in the sun today. These alpine dwelling birds are loud, boisterous, beautiful. 1/?

Bugs don't even know why they're in your house. Yell at some ants all you want but they just followed a guy and don't know what a house is.

I called this particular nutcracker “Trail Mix” because he was trying to sweet talk me into dropping a cashew.

Great horned owl near Enterprise, Oregon, while birding with @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social

Hawks wear…chaps??

NO KINGS 🇺🇸

I don't care what anyone says, I think Turkey Vultures are cute! 🪶