China's anti-poaching activist protecting migratory birds www.bbc.com/news/article... #birds 🌏

Sparrows are all similarly small, but they're not all the same! Their subtle feathers are beautiful, and identifying them is a lot of fun! Get started with our quick guide to backyard sparrows of the U.S. and Canada. www.allaboutbirds.org/news/identif...

This is a very useful guide from Cornell Lab of Ornithology for distinguishing various North American Sparrows. The illustrations are exceptional in my opinion. 🪶 www.allaboutbirds.org/news/identif...

One year ago today, I made my first post here and set a goal to post at least one photo a day for a year. This choice has changed my life for the better in many ways. A little thread about it is below if you care to read. 🧵 1/5 #photography #cardinals #birds #BirdOfTheDay #songbirds

“The Birds we love, are vanishing. An alarming new study reveals that the population of North American birds has dropped nearly 30% since 1970. #Nature #Birds #Birding That’s almost three billion birds gone”https://www.birds.cornell.edu/home/bring-birds-back

🧪🪶🌍🕊 25 Critically Endangered Birds All of these species are on the brink of extinction. A poster to raise awareness and inspire action. Every effort counts. ✨

October Big Day is Saturday, October 11th. Last year, nearly 750,000 people joined in this worldwide celebration of birds and science. Be part of this effort and help set a new record for October birding. This article will help you set up eBird so you can contribute from wherever you are. #birds

Scientists rappelled down cliffs to reach the nests of bearded vultures, which have a diet of bones and paint their feathers red with mud. Inside the nests were perfectly preserved human artifacts from the Middle Ages. By me, for Nat Geo: www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti... 🧪

A Cape May Warbler in Central Park's Shakespeare Garden. 💛

ʻEkupuʻu on Kuaihelani (Midway Atoll). Enjoy the very distinct song of this Laysan Finch now residing on Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. Read about their fascinating journey back to their former home at: friendsofmidway.org/%ca%bbekupu-... Video by Dan Rapp #Birds

I found this birding book along the side of the road on the Tamiami trail in the Everglades on 8/25/25. It is so well loved with sightings going back decades. If you're a birder (I am not) please spread the word and hep me find the owner so they can be reunited

Dive into the sunset. 11 shots, edited in lightroom, stacked in photoshop. Background stacked individually from 6 shots, slight bend in the horizon due to the stacking. #birds

Clark’s nutcracker plants thousands of whitebark pines in a season. No human project can match that. Lose the bird, lose the tree. Lose the tree, lose the bird. Ecosystems are relationships, not machines.👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=FygU...

Cardinal close-up #birds

Human artists, use only one piece to convince people to follow you. Oh this is easy. #birds #watercolor #sciart #nature #traditionalart

"Researchers have tracked Iris, named for the unique inflections in her eye, since she started nesting along Missoula’s Clark Fork River in 1999. “Osprey nests help us track the movement of toxins through the watershed,” says UM chemist Heiko Langner. " - www.audubon.org/magazine/wor... #birds

Congress eliminated public media funding. At a time of deep division, public media brings us together. Help keep it strong. Join our monthly donors today: n.pr/458sOhq

Audubon provides a quick/easy way to raise your voice for birds by identifying your members of Congress, providing a letter you can customize, and sending the letters for you: act.audubon.org/a/breeding-b.... Please act now as deliberations are in progress. Thank you! 🌎 #birds

WIRED reviewed its findings with two independent video forensics experts who confirmed that the edit occurred just before the missing minute mark and that approximately three minutes of footage were cut from the original clip. From @dmehro.bsky.social:

WIRED sent a detailed request for comment to the Department of Justice at 7:40 am on Tuesday. Just two minutes later, Natalie Baldassarre, a public affairs officer for the DOJ, replied tersely: “Refer you to the FBI.” The FBI declined WIRED’s request for comment. www.wired.com/story/the-fb...

This comes after WIRED previously reported that the video had been stitched together in Adobe Premiere Pro from two video files, contradicting the Justice Department’s claim that it was “raw” footage. It’s unclear what, if anything, the minutes cut from the first clip showed.

The nearly three-minute discrepancy may be related to the widely reported one-minute gap—between 11:58:58 pm and 12:00:00 am—that attorney general Pam Bondi has attributed to a nightly system reset. Read more: www.wired.com/story/the-fb...

NEW: Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”

The EU is America's biggest business partner and the world's largest trading bloc. The U.S. decision will have repercussions for governments, companies and consumers on both sides of the Atlantic.

We do have a secret police in the United States now. Unidentified agents, without accountability, serving an autocrat and targeting law-abiding people who present no threat.

BREAKING: FEMA removed dozens of Camp Mystic buildings from their 100-year flood map in Texas in response to appeals.

If you're wondering what happened with Grok overnight, it ended up referring to itself as MechaHitler before being switched off.

The State Department is warning U.S. diplomats of attempts to impersonate Secretary of State Marco Rubio and possibly other officials using technology driven by artificial intelligence.

If Biden had ever come out with make-up like this, MAGA World and Fox would’ve gone nuts and compared him to a drag queen.

Lettuce tastes great on your #July4 burger or salad. Harvesting it is an extremely difficult job because of the constant bending down and use of sharp tools. As we enjoy our holiday BBQs, let's remember the farm workers who make this meal possible. #WeFeedYou

It's so weird how everyone who says they're "politically homeless" is a far right winger who lives in NY or CA and still wants to get invited to parties

The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.

The Dems are way overdue to treat corporate news media as their personal enemies. The response to this should be a venomous sneer and the question "are you going to tell Americans the truth or just keep parroting anything Trump wants you to say out of fear he'll make you pay protection money?"

76% of Americans think democracy is under serious threat, according to the latest NPR/PBS News/Marist poll. Their faith in political leadership in the White House and Congress is low.

With a new Britain & Ireland bird atlas starting in 2027, here's a review in #BirdStudy that looked at impact & importance for #ornithology of over 600 atlas projects: A new global review of bird atlases and their contribution to knowledge: doi.org/10.1080/0006...

Mosquitoes aren’t native to Hawaii—and the malaria they brought has decimated the local #birds, including the i’iwi featured in my forthcoming DAWN CHORUS book. Loved this approach to combat the disease! www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/s...

Chris Murphy: "The CBO, nonpartisan, says it's gonna kick between 10 and 15 million people off their healthcare. And for what? To be able to afford a new $270,000 tax cut for the richest families in the country ... it's a moral abomination."

Digsuting. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Deplorable. There are 800,000 people in poverty in Alabama, 250,000 are children. Do something about that.

500 Bird Species Face Extinction Within The Next Century, study led by University of Reading, pub'd by Nature Ecology & Evolution #SciComm by @grrlscientist.bsky.social #ecology #EndangeredSpecies #birds #ornithology #conservation #ClimateChange #HabitatDestruction www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...

My chart on the history of three infectious diseases — smallpox, polio, and measles — before and after a vaccine was available.

Millions of acres of public lands are eligible for sale in the Senate budget reconciliation package (as of 6-14). This would be the largest public lands sell-off in US history, and would bypass traditional safeguards such as public hearings & environmental reviews. 1/x map: tinyurl.com/Lands4SaleMap

It’s so cool that cities are like “pweeease only turn your AC on if you’re actively dying and don’t go below 79 🥺🤘🏻💗” while the AI nobody asked for is slurping up the power grid to make 1 image of a girl with 5 tits

y'know it's kind of a tell that they think celebrating the end of slavery is DEI

If I Were Steve Yzerman (2025) - Part 1 Setting the stage for where the Wings roster is at heading in to a pivotal offseason prashanthiyer.substack.com/p/if-i-were-...

Learn more from The Wilderness Society: www.wilderness.org/articles/med.... Tell your US senators that public lands are our lands and are NOT for sale. National Wildlife Refuge makes it fast/easy: act.refugeassociation.org/a/stop-senat...? 🌎 #environment #wildlife #birds