American Avocets just hanging around #TheGathering #BirdOfTheDay

OMG EEPY DARK EYED JUNCO!!!!!

Iris with her new hut #lovebird

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Violet-green swallow #swallows #ilovebirding #birding #birdphotographt #birds #FDT #BirdWatching #birdphotography #Colorado #bird_photography 🪶

I am sure of two things: 1. they will tell the game 3 crowd not to boo trump 2. the crowd has been waiting for decades and will do whatever the fuck it wants new york city, for one night and one night only this massachusetts native is prepared to hand it to you do what you were made to do

In the latest play from Project 2025, the Trump Administration has announced plans to dismantle the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI), a $368 million network of more than 900 instruments that continuously monitor the ocean. This is a deliberate destruction of critical scientific infrastructure.

This bird is just too gorgeous. How are they even real? AI can’t conjure something this strange and gorgeous. #nature #birds

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Whiskered Treeswift. Found in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand. Elongated white “whiskers” and brows give this elegant species the appearance of a wise old man. Long-tailed and long-winged, like a cross between a swift and a swallow. 📷: @kinlfong

Happy 36th birthday to my best friend and boyfriend @garrettbugay.bsky.social. You have supported me through this hard year and I don't know what I would do without you. I love you so much 🧡🐦

Some pictures from today #biggestweekinamericanbirding #bwiab2026 #bwiab

Male Hooded Warbler singing an alternate song at #6 on Magee Boardwalk. - Patrick Maurice & Nancy Ransom

Hosting a printmaking workshop next month with Knowledge Keeper Claire 🧡

Every once in awhile I think about this Nancy comic and it makes me laugh every single time. Absolute perfection.

My cuties @garrettbugay.bsky.social 🧡🐦

(commission) chibi sparrows doing a big winter dig 🌰🍂🍃

Today is a parrot day. 7 years ago I banded this blue-crowned lorikeet in American Samoa. 6 years ago I banded this Pacific Parrotlet in Ecuador All birds handled with proper permits by trained biologists #birdbanding #parrots #pacificparrotlet #bluecrownedlorikeet

Mountain Laurel #printmaking #mountainlaurel

It was a falcony fall. All birds handled with proper permits by trained biologists #falcon #birdbanding #merlin #americankestrel

Some babes from this summer-- guesses on species?. All birds handled with proper permits by trained biologists

I miss my boyfriend so much @garrettbugay.bsky.social 🧡🧡🧡

Dunlin reflected. #BirdOfTheDay #reflections

I just couldn't resist another dose of the island endemic Tenerife Giant Orchid (Himantoglossum metlesicsianum) today with my @mariposanature.bsky.social Orchids of Tenerife group. What an outrageous species this is! #orchid #NaturePhotography #EastCoastKin

Black-throated Blue Warbler. I miss them 🧡🐦

Resplendent Quetzal. Large, spectacular trogon of humid evergreen and pine-evergreen forest in the mountains of southern Mexico and Central America. It is the national bird (and lends its name to the currency) of Guatemala. 📸: @osa_photography

Blue-and-yellow Tanager (Rauenia bonariensis)... Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia, extreme northern Chile, and Andean Peru and Ecuado..Acts as a seed disperser: ingesting fruits & defecating seeds helps forest regeneration. #ecology #science #nature #Reels #forests #conservation #birds

Hot wings

saying "go birds" but just rooting for birds in general, hope they're having fun and not catching that flu

Hummingbirds of costa rica

My study buddies

We’re in for some stressful years and we need to stay well to help others. If you’re looking for a free wellness tool, I recommend this! Breathing, meditation, stretching, and journaling options plus a task function (fill it with positive things!) to earn clothes for a bird child: finchcare.com

Some of my recent work

Hi I study birds and try to inspire others to care about birds #ornithology #fieldbiologist #birdbanding #birdringing