A male Magnificent Frigatebird inflates his bright red gular sac to impress his lady friend. #BirdOfTheDay #MarriedCouples Galápagos Islands, 2019

The need to preserve animal culture in conservation efforts. 🪶 Gift link.

Here are some lovely Puerto Rican 🇵🇷 critters for you to enjoy. I love seeing these little tropical guys and I'm looking forward to seeing and posting more! ☺️ #Vieques, PR

It’s never been more important for scientists to break out of the ivory tower and engage with the public. I am excited to announce that I’m now booking professional development workshops focusing on public science engagement for summer and fall 2026! #Scicomm 🧪🦑🌎

Attention Science Communicators! We are conducting a survey on the landscape of science communication & need your help gathering experiences. Please send this to #SciComm ppl you know. We want to get as thorough a sense of the state of the field as we can. umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

A first glimpse of #kakapo chick Whetu-A3, about a day old and unreachable in Whetu’s nest in a hollow rata tree. In the last week about 16 chicks have hatched on Pukenui and Whenua Hou. #kakapo2026 #conservation #wildlife #birds

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! I forgot to wear green today so I asked Piper, one of our parrots, if he’d help me out with a green post. He said yes! #Birds #photography #wildlife 🪶

It is a unique pleasure to have someone send you pictures of a species you described. It's like a report that one of your kids is doing all right. This beauty is Orectoscelis westwoodi, a myrmecophile (probably with Pheidole) described back in 2005 from Queensland, AU. (photo by Jan Pražák)

A Puffin on take off for today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme #Splash 🪶

A family of Blue-gray Tanagers stops to visit fruit #feeders at a birding spot in San Gerardo de Dota, Costa Rica. The bird at the left is a youngster looking for a little help at the buffet. #BirdOfTheDay 🪶

If you enjoy #BirdOfTheDay you can follow @robcrank68.bsky.social and @alan678.bsky.social for the prompt each day!

A Snowy Egret works on scaring up some snacks on a #GreyDay #BirdOfTheDay 🪶

One of the side benefits of the unseasonable weather Anchorage #Alaska has been that when it is cold, snowy, and windy high in the mountains the Rosy Finches come down for a visit. They just make it to treeline but if someone with a feeder lives in the right spot they can get colorful visitors. 🪶

Found my first jumping spider of the year! I gave her some water and she was very grateful. (Eris sp.) PA #invert

Chase checking in for #Caturday. My sweet guy is 18 years old this year.

Canada lynx kitten

FIRST CALL: A collared pika sounds revelry as the morning sun tops Alaska's Talkeetna Mountains. #wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #naturephotography

A Hoatzin taking a break from munching leaves. Hoatzins branched off from the rest of the avian tree about 65 million years ago the are the only living bird in the family Opisthocomidae. #BirdOfTheDay #HeadShots Waita Lodge, Cuyabeno Reserve, Ecuador, 2024

Why is animal print almost exclusively big cat patterns when these creatures exist?

I was walking along the river, scanning the rocks for mink. A ripple where the water meets the riverbank caught my eye. I stopped and watched. After a minute or two, this cute mink appeared. laurel-gale.pixels.com/featured/min... #wildlife #nature 📷

Anna’s Hummingbird on sakura at dusk 📷🌿🪶🌸

Time to get the Macro Muscles back into shape (oh believe me - it's a whole thing!) Practicing with the amazing flexible twin flash @jencross.bsky.social gave me because my off camera flash muscles literally atrophied from my broken humerus in '19 😭 Genus Eupithecia moth #inverts #becurious

Lady aurora blew up the sky last week in Churchill. I'm so glad my guests got to experience this amazing evening. #NorthernLights #aurora

Luuuuuuuuuunaaaaaa 💚 Few local creatures stop me in my tracks like this, just the sheer size and soft colors and markings. Like, welp, day instantly better.

I'm celebrating half a century on this planet today and it's also #WorldWildlifeDay. I know there's a lot of darkness, but the world is still full of so much beauty. Let's celebrate it by sharing our favourite wildlife photos.

Model and mimic: a clever longhorn beetle (Euderces reichei, at right) tries its best to look like a local carpenter ant, Campontous decipiens, as they both feed on a spring dogwood flower. Brackenridge Field Laboratory, Texas.

Professional musician and heavy construction equipment operator. Both of them made things for a living. That fits.

Scientists just found Purgatorius, the world’s oldest primate, lived much farther south than previously known. The data suggest the tiny critter spread quickly after the asteroid that killed the dinos, migrating southward across the US. #Paleontology 🧪🧪 New for #NatGeo

Spent an incredible day #hiking Aravaipa Canyon, one of Arizona's true wonders, yesterday. This is the OTHER place we are working to save from copper #mining in the lower San Pedro watershed. This ♥️ rock (left in the canyon) completely encapsulates how I feel about this area.

This Monument Is the Latest Casualty in Trump’s War on Public Lands | Sierra Club

Looking for a fun spring project? Join me for a 4-session online course drawing a raccoon in coloured pencil starting April 1. I will walk you through all the steps from drawing the initial image to bringing it to life in colour. You can register at: www.mcnallyrobinson.com/classes #SciArt

Female #kakapo Kohengi on her nest with a newly-hatched chick and an egg (unseen). We removed the egg from underneath her and gave it to another female (Phoenix) who had infertile eggs. We're trying to ensure each female on Anchor Island has 1-2 fertile eggs to hatch. #kakapo2026 #conservation

A red-tailed hawk eats a rodent while a Northern mockingbird gets territorial. Happy 💙 #SkySunday! There is a #BlueSky in the background. 😉 #Birds #Nature

Band-tailed Pigeons are named after a literal light band on their tails - not because they band together... ...but they do also band together! A lot. AKA "Why I have mostly caged feeders now" 😂 #BirdOfTheDay #FourOrMore #birds #becurious 🪶

Cliff Swallows gathering mud to make nests! #BirdOfTheDay #FourOrMore Klamath National Wildlife Refuge, OR

The grace and ease with which a Great Grey Owl moves is a sight to behold. Here a Great Grey uses her wings to slow down as she approaches a post to land on. And check out those talons! #wildlife #birds #owls

The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #PrimaryColors or #Colours, if you prefer Masked Flowerpiercer, Ecuador

the shrimp 🍤

Snowman making some abstract art for #Caturday

Bears vs. Trail cameras

Stunning moss mimicry on this harvestman

White-mouth moray - Gymnothorax meleagris #gili #giliislands #lombok #diving #scuba #trawangan #diveandstay #giliair #pets #ocean #sealife #marinelife #padi #morayeel #eel #moray

Y’all need some goats. 🐐 🐐🐐

My wife read GRIZZLED to the kids tonight for bedtime. There were oo’s and aww’s and I-didn’t-know-that’s! My oldest is 11 now. He was 2 when I sent my first email about this idea. 🥹 GRIZZLED comes out in 21 days!!!!!!! (Oh, and it’s technically for adults, but tweens/teens are welcome, too. 🧪)

Huge win for California mountain lions: Today they were granted protection under the state #EndangeredSpeciesAct 🙌🐾 Now, six populations within Southern #California and the Central Coast will receive much-needed protections under the Act. More info on this win for the wild ➡️ bit.ly/4tzC4FI

Here’s the @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social GAR question based on our team’s living fossil study (led by @chasedbrownstein.bsky.social @dmacguig.bsky.social)!

trundle, trundle, trundle 😍 🌿

Image taken in Lofoten, Norway 🇳🇴 just few days ago.

it's cold out, please remember to winterize your greyhounds