👀 Spotted: the Masked Flowerpiercer serving absolute looks on the cover of our newest ‘Bird Conservation’ magazine. This is clearly the palette for all you “winters” out there. 🔷 Would you wear this? Become an ABC Member to receive our newest issue: abcbirds.org/helpbirds

🏔️ Steal the Look: Cerulean Warbler Mountain Core ☕ This fit is giving trails at dawn and celebratory pour-over coffee at the peak. Get more outfit inspo from the birds in our bird library: t.co/S12cZ9pBh9 t.co/GeOKKELq4V

🪶 Steal the look: Northern Bobwhite 🍁 This fit says: I touch grass, I reflect, & I move at Birkenstock speed…, which is just slow enough to notice every migrating warbler this Fall. Love Bobwhites? RSVP for our FREE webinar: act.abcbirds.org/a/northern-b...

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In preparation for a presentation I'll be giving in about a week, I made this little animation (in PowerPoint) to explain sex determination in tongue-biter isopods 🧪 #SciArt

🥄 Steal the Look: Roseate Spoonbill 🧗🏻 We're climbing toward summer, & there’s only one thing to do: full send. ♻️ Spoonbills spend their days wading through wetlands in search of food. Haul out what you haul in! Protect birds from plastic pollution: abcbirds.info/4oL5Cye

🍇 Steal the Look: Purple-breasted Cotinga We are bi-cycling & only stopping for fruit. Being the brightest plumage in sight should make us impossible to miss, but visibility & being seen aren’t always the same thing. The perks of NOT being a wallflower! What should we do next? abcbirds.org/birds

Morning all. Here be grasswrens.

Bilby!

Nothing quite like confirming ID of a Western Brown Snake by checking the head scales to get the blood pumping

Morning all.

@billandtedtest.bsky.social please tell us about the new Sense and Sensibility film, have they lost their hair pins? Where are the bonnets?? www.imdb.com/title/tt1360...

Completely agree, the misinformation being thrown around! The media outlets, including the ABC, are at fault too for not vetting their experts ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It would be nice if the Australian media would source information about avian influenza from avian veterinarians and disease ecologists rather than just birders and ecologists with wild untested hypotheses. #H5N1 #birdflu #avianinfluenza

🟠 Steal the look: Atlantic Puffin Did someone say picnic at the beach? 🐟 I’ve got a fizzy-lifting prebiotic drink, tinned fish, & fresh batteries in my polaroid. BUT — let’s get real. Picnicking on fish is cute... eating plastic is not! Take Action: bit.ly/4ck42gX

🌈 Steal the Look: Painted Bunting Did you know that their colors don’t come from pigments, but from tiny structures in their feathers that reflect light? A reminder that we all reflect light in our own unique ways — & the world is brighter for it! Learn more: abcbirds.info/3QoqWwz

🌳 Steal the Look: Mourning Warbler We’re staying on trail… but only until we find 2 perfectly spaced trees. Then stop! It's hammock time. 🟡 With a setup like this, we will be avoiding warbler neck this season. Speaking of… they’ve arrived. Time to stretch! Learn more: abcbirds.info/4tkjiRo

Steal the Look: Nashville Warbler 🌼 Did someone say farmers market? 🍅🐛 The Nashville Warbler may not require fresh produce, but they do need bugs! Supporting pollinators is always on trend, but you know what’s not? Neonics. Take Action: abcbirds.info/4dXYbhX 📷: Owen Deutsch, owendeutsch.org

What Discworld novel did you start with? I started with Mort and followed that with Small Gods!

My dad’s ashes are scattered at Pearl Harbor, and it totally disgusts me that anyone could or would vacation snorkel in a sacred military cemetery. www.cbc.ca/news/world/k...

Putting the finishing touches on our regional call classifier. Today’s tasks included validating hundreds of calls identified as Hooded Robin and Black-eared Cuckoo. Good news—model’s working really well and now I *really* know those calls! Pepper for scale.

Recent claims that farm cats in Australia can control rodents on dairy farms are unconvincing. Our new paper critiques the basis of these claims. There is no case to be calling for tax incentives to support cats as working animals on Australian farms. 📖(OA): doi.org/10.3390/ani1... #bioinvasions 🌐

Hello Everyone!! Are you looking for Higher Eduction in Europe? Applications are open for multiple fully funded PhD, Postdoc, and Assistant Professor positions at Utrecht University! Deadlines: May–June 2026 For More Details 👇 fellowshipsguide.com/utrecht-univ...

"In 2019, a pilot conservation initiative removed sections of the fence and documented the first confirmed crossing of the Trans-Mongolian Railway by a khulan in over 6 decades." Exciting work from @wcs.org colleagues in Mongolia! Full paper in @oryxthejournal.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1017/S003...

May the 4th be with you. Here's one of my favorite Star Wars memes:

Omg today our research group passed 100 research papers published on Australia’s most difficult birds! You can read them all free here: www.difficultbirds.com/research-out...

Amazing painting!! Sean Layh’s portrait of Jacob Collins has won the Packing Room prize, ahead of the Archibald prize’s main announcement on Friday next week. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Twenty-one seconds of bliss

Peanut-butter Crisscrosses, Better Homes and Gardens New Cookbook 1953 edition (maybe?). Except for replacing shortening with butter, an excellent recipe from my childhood!

🏓🍋‍🟩 Steal the Look: Speckled Tanager Where’s the sunscreen? Grab the electrolytes. It’s court time! ⚫◾⚫ Appreciate this eye-popping Costa Rican bird up close in our bird library: abcbirds.org/birds/speckl... 📷: Speckled Tanager by Owen Deutsch, owendeutsch.com

Yeah that’s cool

Full Moon Paterson Ewen 1988

Hoatzin bird

Artemis (/ˈɑːrtɪmɪs/; Ancient Greek: Ἄρτεμις) is the goddess of hunting, the wilderness, wild animals, transitions, nature, vegetation, childbirth, care of children, and chastity.

You might forward this story to every Marine you know.

Doonesbury… puce is nice not meh! Puce is a dark red or brownish-purple colour originating from the French word puce (flea). It was coined in the late 18th century (circa 1775-1781) and refers to the colour that stains flea-ridden bedsheets because the fleas droppings are made of blood!!! #Parasites

Breaking: APVMA suspends sale of persistent owl poisons in Australia! We have fought tirelessly for years and after meeting with them last week this is not an outcome we had anticipated! www.apvma.gov.au/news-and-pub...

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

Steal the look: Mountain Chickadee @abcbirds.bsky.social

I have actually stumbled across the greatest title of a scientific article ever.. “Postmortem predation by a clowder of domestic cats” (DO NOT read the paper if you are at all squeamish, it’s as bad as it sounds, I removed the picture thumbnail cuz yeah nah.) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Ice hockey 🏒 explained!! www.facebook.com/share/v/18F3... Ping @ngoziu.com @theotherdibbler.bsky.social

🧪🏺 Update - authors have new paper showing how useless gen- #AI is for archaeological illustration. All 400 images were multiply inaccurate (physically, socially, technologically, environmentally), even with improved prompts. JUST USE HUMAN EXPERTS & ARTISTS www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Three new Australian rock goannas! Varanus umbra⁣ Varanus phosphorus ⁣ Varanus iridis⁣ doi.org/10.1093/zool...

How Fear Came by Rudyard Kipling The stream is shrunk—the pool is dry, And we be comrades, thou and I; With fevered jowl and dusty flank Each jostling each along the bank; And by one drouthy fear made still, Forgoing thought of quest or kill…

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience