This Common Buzzard was definitely #LookingAtMe in #Rotterdam #KralinseBos, a beautiful lake and park with lots of interesting birds. #BirdOfTheDay #Birds #photography

🦣🏺 Great paper comparing Gran Dolina TD10.2 monospecific fauna with what turns out to be an equally distinctive lithic signature. Targetted mass-kills + focused stone sourcing = collab bison hunting & communal butchery, in proto- #Neanderthals c. 425-400 Ka. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Archaeologists untangle how Bronze Age textiles were made. #Archaeology phys.org/news/2026-03...

A Glaucous-winged Gull on the #Oregon coast. Heceta Head Lighthouse is in the background. I thought its grey wings added to the overall #GreyDay of today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme.

"Man the Hunter" is often conflated with Dart's "killer ape theory"; A pity because, though imperfect, the MTH conference was a departure from previous Hobbesian colonial Hunter-Gatherer narratives. In this new Target Article we map out some of that intellectual history.

The #WildTurkeys in my home town have adapted to humans. This one offered me great #headshots as he walked by. One of my #firstoftheyear bird sightings on a brutally cold winter day. #BirdOfTheDay

When I first saw this lizard, I thought it was a western fence lizard, but upon further inspection, I realized it must be a southern sagebrush lizard. The scale size and pattern were slightly different. Now that I’ve identified the lizard, can you #FindThatLizard? Reference photo by California Herps

The bird report that I’ve been writing about my #patchbirding is now out! It includes many months of research, writing, illustrations, and photographs from the local community too. It is free to look through and I hope a nice read even for those not local 🐦 Here's a link: figham.neocities.org

My #BestOfTheMonth for February is this red morph #EasternScreechOwl. I am grateful to the other birders for their help in locating this pair. #BirdOfTheDay #Birds #Minnesota

Osprey are amazing birds with #WideOpenWings of nearly six feet (180 cm). Thrilling to watch them dive on a fish. This #osprey was one of a nesting pair with two chicks near Centerville Lake in #Minnesota. #birds #BirdOfTheDay

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to chat with a player from the Harlem Globetrotters. Fatima “TNT” Lister has been apart of the team for 15 years and still adores seeing the missing-tooth smiles and gleaming eyes of the Globetrotter's youngest and more fiery fans.

Here is a tiny Ovenbird perched in an alder thicket for today’s #BirdOfTheDay #BranchBirds theme. Spotted in #Hovland #Minnesota #birds #wildlifephotography #photography

🧪🏺 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...

From 1066 to Robin Hood, longbows are an iconic part of English history - and what's a bow without its arrows? Blacksmith Joe Tyler and craftsman Lewis Beck show us how to make a replica Saxon arrow based on local archaeology! Watch & Subscribe: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVae...

Wrote down some thoughts I had while staring at a Dodge Durango full of Border Patrol dudes. www.minnpost.com/cityscape/20...

Thanks for sharing Bill!

Today’s #BirdoftheDay theme is challenging for me. I love #B&W #photography but have always struggled taking good shots. This pair of #trumpeterswans on an icy lake seems a safe choice. The reflected swan face is my favorite element. #birds

Who wants to help me find a Brown Creeper? You Ready? Let’s GO!!! #WiscoBirder 📷👐🏾🫶🏾🪶

Scientists call this “continental drying”:

A pair of #HoodedMergansers provide nice #SideProfiles for today’s #BirdoftheDay. #birds #naturephotograpy #minnesota #birddisplay

For today’s #AboutTheKids #BirdOfTheDay theme l chose this #HairyWoodpecker feeding a chick in our backyard maple tree. Sadly the tree is dying but at least we can enjoy its evolving bird habitat for a few years. #birds #wildlifephotography #nature

A beautiful #PaintedStork for today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme of #LongLegsAndNeck. I got this flyby shot while up in an observation tower at the #PrekToal bird sanctuary on the edge of Cambodia’s #TonléSap Lake. #birds #naturephotography #birding #wildlife #cambodia

Great Egret in flight at the #PrekToal bird sanctuary on the edge of Cambodia’s #TonléSap Lake. A fantastic place for birding & ecotourism. For local Khmer, the lake is a critical fishing ground providing 60% of the country’s freshwater fish #birdoftheday #heronsandegrets #birds #naturephotography

The revival of the Klamath River & its watershed over the past 14 months—after the completion of the biggest dam-removal project in US history—is one the most hopeful stories I know in our hope-stripped age. Magnificent @bengoldfarb.bsky.social essay on it here. emergencemagazine.org/essay/a-rive...

The Oxenham Arms pub in South Zeal, Devon, boasts the unusual distinction of having been constructed by 12th Century monks around a prehistoric standing stone. If you’re lucky and visit at the right time of day, as I did today, you might also see it being recharged with sacred energy by the sun.

The Redpoll is one of my favorite #finches. Spotted this beauty in #kingsalmon #alaska this summer. #birdoftheday #birds #nature #wildlife #photography

#BirdOfTheDay is #CootsandMoorhens A pair of Moorhen's getting along just fine (as usual) #birds #photography #EastCoastKin #naturephotography #ukbirding #wildlifephotography #naturetherapy #birdphotography

For today’s #BirdoftheDay, I’m going with the alternate theme of #hidden. I never would have seen this #GreatHornedOwl if it wasn’t for the noisy crows harassing it. #Minnesota #birds #naturephotography #owl

"Cause I can think of a few cows who have it comin'. They know what they did." 🤣🤣🤣 @brittlestar.com youtube.com/shorts/0Kjt0...

For today’s #birdoftheday theme of #movement I chose this #heron photographed as it is shaking a leech before swallowing it down. I was lucky to watch this bird catch several leeches. Each one received a violent shake before it was eaten. #birds #wildlife #nature #photography #Minnesota

The #BirdofTheDay theme is #Songbirds so I chose this Eastern #Meadowlark singing away while perched on a mullein stalk in eastern #Minnesota. #birds #naturephotography

A juvenile American Robin eating cedar tree berries. One of a dozen robins that had descended on this tree in Como Park last September. #BirdOfTheDay #BerriesandBeaks #Minnesota #birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography

It’s cliché to call the Boundary Waters a refuge, but it certainly was mine when I was a kid.

This Red-eyed Vireo was loudly chirping away in the forest but otherwise remained hidden from me. The only photo I could get was this #headshot through the leaves. Wish the branch was gone but love the eye. #birdoftheday #birds #naturephotograpy #minnesota

American White Pelicans waking up #OnTheEdge in a southwestern #Minnesota pond. My contribution to today’s #BirdOfTheDay #birds #naturephotography

My contributions to #birdoftheday and #birdonawire are a Brewer’s Blackbird and a Field Sparrow. Both seen at #KeystonewoodsWMA. It was a beautiful early summer day with lots of bugs for the #birds. I likewise had over 70 wood ticks by the end. #worthit.

A centuries-old grid of holes in the Andes may have been a ‘spreadsheet’ for accounting and exchange. theconversation.com/a-centuries-...

I moved to Minnesota in June 2023 during a day when the air smelled like a campfire. When I’ve asked longtime Minnesotans about the increasingly severe smoke during our summers, they all say it was never a problem until a few years ago. And wow, this graph has got the receipts.

"The businesses north of University didn’t wait for permission. They saw opportunities in underutilized buildings and took them. They built for their neighbors rather than theoretical suburban customers." streets.mn/2025/11/12/n...

Happy Exploding Whale Day for those who celebrate :)

Northern Lights!!!!

"We live in a moment of confrontation over an attempt to hold onto the largest accumulation of the proceeds of crime. Stolen land, stolen labour, stolen lives, stolen histories, stolen time, stolen knowledges."

After collecting examples since 2006 (!) today I decided to finally create the Museum of Dead Digital Museum Displays: middlesavagery.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/m... Pathetic fallacy? Digital doom? The pained wails of curators everywhere? Yep. 🏺

I know a few 😃

Got out to #CrexMeadows in western Wisconsin on Sunday to watch the #SandhillCranes flying in at sunset. So impressive. Probably a couple thousand arrivals in a little over an hour. Took over 1000 pictures! #birds #wildlifephotography

A 30,000-year-old toolkit from a Gravettian hunter in today’s Czech Republic reveals a life of mobility, recycling & memory. Stone tools tell stories of survival & connection. #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #Paleolithic #Anthropology

Author (that's me) hopes ‘deep map’ of the St. Croix River watershed will inspire others www.twincities.com/2025/09/14/s...

‘We’ve done it before’: how not to lose hope in the fight against ecological disaster @drkatemarvel.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

Beginning with beach cleanups in the 1980s, @elsadevienne.bsky.social shows in this Environmental History paper how #data-collection methods & data itself have “shaped public understandings of who is to blame for major global environmental problems such as the #plastic crisis” doi.org/10.1086/737351