As for common = abundant, well, unfortunately some “common” birds are not so common any more. The State of Canada’s Birds is an important report and a fascinating introduction to Nature Counts data. Dive in! 🤓 and learn about ways we can stop and even reverse declines #birds (3/4)

A wonderful story about teenage boys obsessed with birding. www.npr.org/2026/05/12/n...

‼️Help protect nocturnally migrating birds as they pass through your region by turning off all non-essential lighting from 11:00PM tonight until 6:00AM ‼️✊🐤🙌 high bird migration is expected in Chicago area next 3 nights, please keep lights out for birds, bats and insects

ASHRAE has a new infection control resources page, provided as a service to the public. A large library on engineering controls for a healthy indoor environment. www.ashrae.org/technical-re...

Since they don't know what the end product is supposed to be, beyond reducing protections and taking control, one can only suppose that the end goal is to sell off and destroy the province. Who needs safe drinking water in a decade if they can make a buck now? #onpoli #Water #Conservation

The most underdiscussed policy for managing both the affordability and the climate crisis. Energy efficiency for the win.

We're thrilled to share that we've succeeded in securing conservation status for the land we steward at Birds Canada in Long Point, Ontario, helping support Canada’s goal of protecting 30% of lands and waters by 2030.

The Vitacore CAN99 Headband Respirator is a good choice if you have a smaller or thinner face. 😷 Until May 23, get 10 white masks for only $13.99 or 10 black masks for only $22.99. Don’t miss out! ⏰ buymask.ca/collections/wildfire-smoke-protection #WildfireSeason #WildfireSmoke #CanadianWildfires

All this is good, but also please make distinctions between automation (a thing we've had for a long time!), newer types of purpose-built machine learning models for things like figuring out all the ways you can fold a protein, and LLMs. Don't refer to them all as "AI" because they're not the same!

Precautionary Principle Stepping Down To Spend More Time With Family

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@robcrank68.bsky.social has set today's #BurdOfTheDay as #Raptors. Really though, #EveryDayIsRaptorDay. Here's my handsome friend

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #HappyMother’sDay 😊

To finish off our first week, we have a post on one of the biggest problems facing modern infrastructure projects. open.substack.com/pub/infrasto...

Oh noes!! Just in time for World Migratory Bird Day tomorrow! 🙈 🪶

If all the news about the hantavirus outbreak has you searching for something you can do: wear a mask; and if this passes and it turns out you don’t need it to protect yourself from a hantavirus pandemic, it will still protect you from the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

2/ and both times the doctors ordered what I needed (not what the NP and physician assistant suggested) Why is our healthcare system paying other practitioners instead of just paying the specialists? Why did the others, my family doctor didn’t request a consult from, waste my time?

Health care admin bullshit I'm ranting about today: A specialist clinic that automatically declines referrals if the patient doesn't DOWNLOAD AN APP to provide the same info I've already sent. Who decided THIS would be the barrier to care? What a shitty & unethical way to manage long waitlists.

The Hummingbirds have crossed Lake Erie! Just had my FOY Ruby-Throated Hummer in the yard! 🥳 #Birds #Migration

Always such a treat to see an owl 🦉 😍

Truer (sadder) words have never been spoken.

Pay attention #Ontario to those with chronic health conditions requiring ongoing medications. Might be wise to check with your health care provider about the viability of providing you with a yearly prescription or numerous repeats to avoid the #DougFord fee of $26. #onpoli #DougFordFailsOmtario

Apparently this post I made in 2020 will always be the most widely read thing I ever wrote .

Being literate in AI and being a customer of consumer gen AI are two entirely different things and there are a lot of people urging everyone to become customers and calling it becoming literate.

Privatization has done such damage to public services in the UK. Look at water or rail as examples. It beggars belief that Carney could see what's happened in the UK & say, "We need this!" Carney didn't run on this and he's using the Trump crisis as cover for his ideological, small govt views.

Read the room: decoupling from fossil fuels is the future, not wasting taxpayers dollars on a dying industry.

Banning surveillance pricing should be a no-brainer for governments. Companies shouldn't be allowed to spy on people so they can charge them more than the person standing next to them. Ban snitch pricing. Do it now. www.davidmoscrop.com/p/i-cant-bel...

Patiently waiting for the new Sandhill Cranes 🪶

Beautiful day at the Great Blue Heron Factory. 6 production lines running smoothly with their attentive operators 🪶 #Rookery

Bird friends: This is a longshot, but does anyone have extra plastic color leg bands for size 0-band birds? Avinet has been out of many colors (e.g. yellow!!) for months and I need more colors to mark Cerulean Warblers in May-June! 🐦 🧪

Did you ask for a bird fact? No, but you're getting one whether you like it or not. 🪶

I've seen this Rock Pigeon a number of times outside the hospital. I just think it's gorgeous 🪶

ICYMI: We @thenarwhal.ca spent a month investigating what Doug Ford's conservation authority consolidation means for drinking water protections. 12 sources & a leaked doc reveal the system built to prevent another Walkerton crisis is in flux. Experts are worried thenarwhal.ca/ontario-sour... #onpoli

At the end of the day, I’m a pretty simple person😂 #birds #birding

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The hedge fund that owns McClatchy—Chatham Asset Management—also has a controlling interest in Postmedia, a Canadian news conglomerate that owns & prints over 130 news titles across 🇨🇦. I couldn’t find much about Postmedia’s AI use, so I wonder if 🇺🇸 papers are testing ground given this news:

Alan says the #BirdOfTheDay is #Perches&Petals. So here's my best shot of a Tennessee Warbler, taken last year

I'd like to talk about why we've done nothing at all to clean indoor public air in those six years so those of us who depend on our brains, hearts, and immune systems working properly don't continually get reinfected.

Freedom and chile peppers - I would never use another dried one in my cooking (which is almost daily) without thinking about the women farmers! An eye-opening piece from @kamal-t.bsky.social www.npr.org/2026/04/19/g...

BirdCast is forecasting a busy night tonight on the Pacific and Central Flyways. To protect #birds, turn off non-essential indoor and outdoor lights from dusk to dawn during the full spring migration period: March 1–June 15. More information: birdcast.org/lights-out/.

from flap.org art Rosemary Mosco

📢Lights Out Alert! Tomorrow night, approximately 4.4 million birds will migrate through Oregon's skies. Help keep them safe by turning off your outside lights and drawing your blinds so they can see the stars they use to navigate to their breeding grounds. 📷: aeroecolab.com/oregon

If you think Doug Ford using taxpayer funds to buy his private jet is unrelated to his trying to have jets fly from Toronto's Island Airport, I've got a failed private waterfront spa at Ontario Place, a shuttered Science Centre, and a tunnel under the 401 to sell you. #ONpoli #TOpolo

This is why we're losing healthcare and education 🤬

Just five grocery companies account for over 75% of all food sales in Canada. This is not "free or fair competition." What we do have is consumer gouging — and now the prospect of predatory, surveillance-based pricing — in no small part because of a clear lack of competition.

Help American Woodcock Conservation in #Ontario. Spending a couple of hours surveying a roadside route will help us understand how woodcocks are faring. Learn more: www.birdscanada.org/bird-science...; Activity map (red dots need volunteers) www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/e... #Birds

Hey Canadians, this is a huge issue. This mine will pump out millions of gallons of sulphuric acid that will flow into Quetico Park, Rainy River, right up to Lake Winnipeg. It's 40km from the border. It could be Sudbury all over again for Canadian lakes. And our governments are doing nothing. read:

Any push to increase school attendance has to deal with the fact that schools are where sickness spreads - and it doesn't stay there. Forcing sick kids to go anyway will make that even worse. If they're serious, start by cleaning the air. Attendance and learning will improve as kids get healthier.

Oh, chronic absenteeism after the pandemic has risen to over 60% for high school students in Ontario? That’s because IT’S NOT AFTER THE PANDEMIC Kids are missing school because they are sick, and this is happening on a global scale. @globalnews.ca apple.news/A59EHd4IQS-O...