Maddie
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Biologist and obsessive birder. CA » OR » NC. Co-leader of Feminist Bird Club Durham. she/her
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5 days ago
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I was a bit cold on the FBC walk this morning… 🤣
6 days ago
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#BirdOfTheDay
theme is
#Posted
so here’s a Carolina Wren on a fence post! 🪶
6 days ago
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This little dude came RIGHT UP TO MY FEET shortly after taking this photo and I’m very upset I did not get a video of said encounter. 😂 Ruby-crowned Kinglet. 🪶
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Nicolas Gonzalez
9 days ago
The Great Backyard Bird Count is February 13-16 this year. Starting right *NOW* however is a great webinar about how to participate and why joining this global community science event is important for bird conservation.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhB4...
#GBBC
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How to Participate in the Great Backyard Bird Count 2026
YouTube video by National Audubon Society
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhB4CPoo4-E
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I am prefacing this by saying that I am known to dislocate my shoulders on a semi regular basis and it usually is not a problem. No pain, goes back on its own. However yesterday I dislocated one of them and I am in a lot of pain with certain movements. The joys of aging! 😬
10 days ago
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We did finally get some last night. Just a couple inches which is pathetic next to the rest of the state 😂
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14 days ago
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Did see a mink run across the frozen sections of the lake today though!
14 days ago
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Man this is bullshit. I wanted the snow!
14 days ago
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Lord Googoo Truther
15 days ago
Doesn’t matter if you’re a US citizen or “legal”, if AI facial recognition says you’re not, you’re gone. Anyone but especially people of color in the United States is at risk of being disappeared to a distant concentration camp at any time
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#BirdOfTheDay
today is
#FavoriteOfTheMonth
so here’s some shots I got of a Northern Mockingbird getting ready to pluck a berry off a juniper tree. 🪶
15 days ago
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Eastern Bluebird getting a drink off a manhole cover this past weekend. Seems to have been the only water not frozen! 🪶
17 days ago
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Northern Mockingbirds are also borbing out in this weather. What a cutie! 🪶
19 days ago
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I do not understand why we are open today, we have not had a single client come through lmao
19 days ago
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Jen Cross
20 days ago
Some fun snowflakes from the
#winterstorm
today.
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Well I was not expecting to see one of these guys today. What are you doing here now?? Cape May Warbler. 🪶
20 days ago
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The ice has started
21 days ago
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#BirdOfTheDay
with some Wilson’s Phalaropes walking (in circles, of course 😂). 🪶
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22 days ago
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teagan white
24 days ago
The Boundary Waters, one of the largest wilderness areas left in the US, is at risk! The House could vote to overturn a ban on polluting sulfide-ore mining at the headwaters TODAY, setting a precedent for extraction on other public lands. Contact your reps right now and ask them to vote NO on HJ140!
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Simon Little 🍁
26 days ago
"Join my peace club"
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We’ve got two very different predictions for this weekend’s winter storm…
24 days ago
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Ngl lie y’all, I’m pretty homesick for Oregon.
27 days ago
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Found a leucistic Dark-eyed Junco today. 🪶
28 days ago
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about 1 month ago
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One of the first birds I photographed in 2026 was this pair of Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers. 😍 🪶
about 1 month ago
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Last bird photographed in 2025 was this adorable little murder bird. A male American Kestrel! 🪶
about 1 month ago
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I’m a little late with the new years posts so here’s my
#facefriday
from NYE. I need to get my hair thinned out, I’m starting to look shaggy.
about 1 month ago
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Alright alright
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about 1 month ago
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about 2 months ago
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Just a MacGillivray’s Warbler in North Carolina in December. A cool find today, and my first time actually photographing this species (despite seeing them the years I lived in Oregon 😂). 🪶
about 2 months ago
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Merry Christmas! I’ve been busy moving (finally settled in) so haven’t been doing much birding. Here’s a Northern Flicker! 🪶
about 2 months ago
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Cri 🕊🐝🐜📝🎭⚽😷
2 months ago
#BirdOfTheDay
#WinterBirds
Going with "Classic Winter Bird + Surprise! Winter Bird" (well, not a surprise in my yard, but often surprising to folks)
#becurious
#birds🪶
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Jack Maynard(he/him)
9 months ago
We lept out early and
#birded
all day, nearly 300 miles and 16 hours. Saw several first-of-year species and took some nice photos. Here's a Western Kingbird we saw in Warm Springs, Oregon, More pics tomorrow, including some hard-to-see woodpeckers!
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I don’t know how your northerners do your Christmas Bird Counts out in the snow. Did one yesterday with a high of 41°, though it felt much colder wort the wind chill. 🥶
2 months ago
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I love Cedar Waxwings. They’re such beautiful birds. Here’s one actually in a cedar tree! 🪶
2 months ago
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Wendy Miller
2 months ago
Good morning! 🪶
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Nicolas Gonzalez
2 months ago
Audubon's Christmas Bird Count starts this Sunday and runs through January 5th. This is a 126-year tradition that has built a critically important, long-term dataset on bird populations across the US and much of the western hemisphere. It's also fun and wholesome.
www.christmasbirdcount.org
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Audubon Christmas Bird Count
A hemispheric community science program with a century of history behind it.
https://www.christmasbirdcount.org
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Man moving suuuucks
2 months ago
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Here’s an Eastern Bluebird chowing down on some cedar berries. 🪶
2 months ago
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There’s a vet office down the road from my place and they have a billboard that they always put dumb jokes or phrases on. The current one is “whiskers on fleek, holiday chic” 🤣
2 months ago
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I know I am on the young end of this to be happening, but man hot flashes SUCK.
2 months ago
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We had to say goodbye to Truffles today. I hope you’re hanging out with Devo and your sister again now. I love you my sweet old (18 1/2 years) lady. 🥺
3 months ago
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Been a minute since I’d seen a Loggerhead Shrike. 🪶
3 months ago
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I’m looking forward to the four day weekend coming up. I do not feel like being at work at all this week though. 😂
3 months ago
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Jeff VanderMeer
3 months ago
Big surprise. The corruption is baked in.
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YEAAAAAH!!!
3 months ago
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli
3 months ago
THE SKY IS ON NOTICE: The best time to see it is the next several hours. Go find pretty sky! share in a moment with humanity that isn't sadness and rage!
www.gi.alaska.edu/monitors/aur...
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Bird Alliance of Oregon
3 months ago
If you spot two male Northern Flickers facing off, bills raised and calling “wicka,” you’re seeing their famous wicka dance! This flashy display helps them defend territory and sometimes impress a nearby female. Most duels end peacefully when one flicker outdances the other winning the territory.
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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦
3 months ago
Happy Exploding Whale Day for those who celebrate :)
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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️⚧️
3 months ago
Thinking a lot about how poorly our brains recognize long term subtle changes, like climate change or biodiversity loss. We've lost something like 1 out of every 4 individual birds in the US since 1970, more for some species. There should be at least 25% more birds around you right now.
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