In my excitement at finally seeing these Tibetan Snowcocks, I took neither a good photo nor a video! This was up at 17,000 ft with Gokyo Lake below and Everest somewhere in the background! #birdoftheday #winterbirds #birds #eastcoastkin #wildlife #nature #scape #bluesky #mountains #video #pheasant

Projected Spatial–Temporal Habitat Patterns of the Lady Amherst's Pheasant (Chrysolophus amherstiae) Under Climate and Land Use Change | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶

Feral horses aren’t well-studied in Alberta. But large populations of the invasive equids in the foothills of Alberta may be outcompeting native elk and bighorn sheep. Read more 👇

Trade in feathers is enormous and global. www.anothermag.com/fashion-beau...

9th International Galliformes Symposium - 27-29 October 2026 in Pokhara, Nepal. www.pheasant.org.uk/second-calli...

White-tailed fish eagle near Tromso, Norway. #birds

Yellowbill stork near Limpopo River, South Africa

Cape white-eye in Kruger National Park.

Dark-capped bulbul in Kruger National Park. #birds

Blue waxbill--Southern cordonbleu in Kruger National Park. #birds

I would say this guy is full of crap. First I don’t believe he has democratic friends. Second, he knows damn well Kirk espoused the exact opposite of this. apple.news/A9HBnTYebQjO...

I warned this wasn’t a joke. Now, Trump loyalists are running covert ops to destabilize Greenland & rattle Denmark. It sounds like a bad Hollywood movie...but it’s apparently U.S. policy, straight from the Oval Office.

Maun, Botswana. Female spectacled weaver. #birds

The disaster of the pet trade. apple.news/AHDAKrxwaTyC...

This is just the tip of the iceberg. The pet trade of exotic animals has not upside. apple.news/As0kfSW9aRMS...

Eleven people arrested with 400 kg of peacock feathers! inshorts.com/en/news/11-a... @galliformesorg.bsky.social

africageographic.com/stories/why-... Why captive breeding won’t save wild parrots - Africa Geographic

www.indiatodayne.in/manipur/stor... @galliformesorg.bsky.social

I can’t recommend this enough. UNBREAKING, a new project from @lizneeley.bsky.social & co, documents & explains our many concurrent institutional collapses. It’s beautifully executed work, full of intellectual & moral clarity. 3 pages are live, more will come. It’s SO GOOD, & I learned so much.

Massive declines and local recoveries: First range-wide assessment spotlights ending egg-taking as key to the survival of the Macrocephalon maleo (Maleo) | doi.org/10.1093/orni... | Ornithological Applications | #ornithology 🪶

Impacts of Wild Pigs on Space Use and Movements of Wild Turkeys During Autumn and Winter | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶