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BirdladyASW
@birdladyasw.bsky.social
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Wild bird content, art, morriña!
artista, fotógrafa, antifascista, feminista (intersec)
saving wild birds sometimes, somehow in environmental policy - how did that happen?
GER/EU based

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BirdladyASW @birdladyasw.bsky.social · Nov 22
Ahhhh, nobody moves! 🥹
Hello, my many new followers. Engage with me and I might follow back if your content suits my eco'birds'n'art timeline. Starterpacks are quite something😅. I'm terrified by so many people! Please, be kind!
(We usually use ALT text when posting art or photos here :). I do so!)
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Photo of a wryneck with drawn on arms holding its heart it ripped off of its chest. It's blushing. Letters say: "My heart. 1000"
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emha.bsky.social
'Der iranische Wissenschaftler Madani klagte, die Iraner verlören ein Naturerbe, das älter sei als die persische Zivilisation.'
Echte Verluste.
www.deutschlandfunk.de/brand-in-den...
Bitte um Hilfe - Brand in den hyrkanischen Wäldern im Iran
Der Iran hat das Ausland um Hilfe beim Löschen eines Großbrandes in den hyrkanischen Wäldern gebeten. Die Wälder erstrecken sich über etwa tausend Kilometer entlang des Kaspischen Meeres im Iran und i...
www.deutschlandfunk.de
November 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
birdladyasw.bsky.social
So...snow is falling, all around me, me is playing, having fun, with mini snowman. ☃️🥰 plus a wren from yesterday's walk.
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Mini snow man with physalis in front of a house and a garden with many physalis and a bird's feeder. Street, lit by street lights, with timber frsming houses and Carsten on one side na a wall with a mountainside park behind. in the middle of the street is my silhouette wrapped in a cape. Wren on a frosty twig.
November 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
birdladyasw.bsky.social
Had a lovely walk in today's frost.
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Sparrowhawk in an alder tree lit by the sun. Sparrowhawk in an alder. Frontal. Back of a sparrowhawk with visible white dots. Sparrowhawk a little bit zoomed in.
November 22, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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luzini.bsky.social
Huhu #kleineKunstklasse habt ihr davon schon gehört?!

www.livarto.io/creative-sun...
Das Größte Kostenlose Zeichen Event - The Creative Sunday
10.000 Gleichgesinnte vereint! Meld dich kostenfrei an und sei am Sonntag, den 30. November, um 11 Uhr live dabei, wenn tausende online und gemeinsam kreativ werden.
www.livarto.io
November 20, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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witmerlab.bsky.social
Highly recommended! I just finished a cover-to-cover read, and it's a great addition to the avian sensory ecology literature with excellent discussions of the links between brain & behavior. I prefer reading paper books (better retention) but the whole thing is freely downloadable! bit.ly/482xPZm 🦉🧠
"Bird Brains and Behavior: A Synthesis" book by Georg Striedter & Andrew Iwaniuk, surrounded by birds skulls and 3D printed brain endocasts of, from left, ostrich, golden eagle, African grey parrot, American crow, and wild turkey. The pale turquoise endocast is that of a New Caledonian crow.
November 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Cis cyclists decline award because trans women were excluded: We “ride with all women”

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www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/11/cis-...
Cis cyclists decline award because trans women were excluded: We "ride with all women" - LGBTQ Nation
“If they don’t want to ride with all women, then it’s not the kind of ride I want to be part of.”
www.lgbtqnation.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:51 AM
birdladyasw.bsky.social
On Tour with the sweetest wood pigeon. Unable to fly so far. On our way to the wild bird clinic close by.🪶
This year's wood pigeon having issues with its wings. Unable to fly so far. It's in a soft box for transport. Close up to these pretty eyes of the young wood pigeon.
November 19, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Didn't expect snow at 186 m above NHN already. 🌲☃️❄️
November 18, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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These were taken within 3 yrs at the same spot:
An Egyptian goose shortly before leaving South. We weren't able to catch it to release it from its scourge.
The cormorant suffered quite a while and was enervated when it finally ripped the hooks off of its beak.
The moorhen was released 2 days later.🪶
a young Egyptian goose's foot with a fishing line around its ankle tying the hallux toe upwards to the leg. Leg and foot are massively swallen. The young goose lifts the leg up towards the belly while standing on the other leg. Cormorant in a small river with an open beak carrying a lure looking like a fish in its beak. The hooks pierce the beak. me holding the impressive dino legs of a moorhen with a fishing lure piercing its foot. Cormorant on an old tree in water with a lure looking like a fish in its beak and with blood on its throat.
November 16, 2025 at 1:24 PM
birdladyasw.bsky.social
Lieg auf dem Bett, nasche Schoki und lausche Jimmy Scott, Dinah Washington, Aretha und lese bsky. Bin zum Metalkonzert heute Abend eingeladen, aber fühl das mal null. Lasst mich hier chillen! Es tut sooo gut!
November 15, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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falseknees.bsky.social
Kneesvember 2025 Day 8
Bagglyn is shown inventing a story with yellow and red stars in a green speech bubble. Grell is next to her looking nervous. Along the bottom of the panel, we have the blue, red, and yellow knights, all in a row. The red knight is laughing and the plumes of his helmet are touching the yellow knight's head. The snail is also there! "Errr... we are the Queen's historians, sent to record your heroic feats to relay to Her Highness" fabricated Bagglyn. "Your peasant garb is an uncanny disguise" laughed the red knight, "though I wouldn't have used so much dirt!" "Ha" said Bagglyn, "Ha ha ha ha." "I weave them historical tapestryes!" blurted Grell, "all them pretty pictures with nothin' but wee threads!" he continued, winking at Bagglyn.
November 14, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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falseknees.bsky.social
Kneesvember 2025 Day 7
Without warning, the knights erupted from the bushes and immediately subdued Bagglyn and Grell. "Who are you and why are you following us?" spat the red knight. Author note: there is an image of the blue knight shooting his crossbow in a very cool fashion The red knight marches aggressively through bushes to our peasant warblers. Bagglyn has had her red hat shot off and stuck to the trunk of a tree by the blue knight. Grell is lying prone on the ground with a blank look on his face. The yellow knight has her boot on Grell with her sword pointed directly at him.
November 13, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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falseknees.bsky.social
Kneesvember 2025 Day 6
Bagglyn and Grell are in the woods sitting on stones in front of what they believe constitutes a campfire. Grell is eating berries and Bagglyn is looking to the right. After flying for several hours, the knights stopped for lunch. Bagglyn and Grell did the same just out of sight. "I didn't know the realm were so immense!" remarked Grell, gawking at the unfamiliar landscape. "I b'lieve we passed b'yond the realm and entered the Wylds" replied Bagglyn. "The wuh?" enquired Grell at great volume, spitting out a beak-full of queasyberries.
November 13, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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falseknees.bsky.social
Kneesvember 2025 Day 5
Tiny silhouettes of birds, one in front with 5 (including flying steeds) and one behind with 2, fly in an early morning sky. There is the slightest hint of warm colours on the horizon. Oh also in the sky there's a cloud in the shape of a bird skull. The knights set off before dawn, and Bagglyn and Grell were not far behind. Ominous clouds hung over the realm, but warblers are a notoriously unsuperstitious folk, and took no notice.
November 11, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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falseknees.bsky.social
Kneesvember 2025 Day 4
The three knights are beside their respective steeds on the ground layered in yellow oak leaves. The yellow knight has a bumblebee, who is eating from a plate of flowers; the blue knight, who has a crossbow and an eyepatch, has a dragonfly who is eating from a bucket of pink slop; the red knight, speaking expressively with wings spread wide, has a snail. Later that evening, the knights packed for their queste. "I have ne'er afore encountered a Dragon" admitted the yellow knight, who fought for honour and glory, "are they large beasts?" "And where shall we seek one?" added the blue knight, who was very cool. "Friends! Worry not, for I am an expert in such matters! said the red knight, who was a great liar. Note: there is a small drawing of Grell and Bagglyn watching the knights very obviously from behind a fence.
November 10, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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falseknees.bsky.social
Kneesvember 2025 Day 3
Two peasant warblers are speaking to each other in the crowd. The first is yellow and gray-blue and is wearing a red hat, medieval-style. The second is dark gray and orange-yellow and is wearing a sort of brown tunic, medieval-style? The crowd around them are all drawn in uniform purple to make them blend in. "I wish t' see a Dragon!" exclaimed Bagglyn, a lowly worm-whistler from Mudhole, straining to see over the crowd. "I know wherein them noble knights keep their noble steeds!" replied her friend, Grell, the stable boy, "We could follow 'em in secret on their noble queste!"
November 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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falseknees.bsky.social
Kneesvember 2025 Day 2
A large crowd of birds is gathered in front of the Queen, who is an ovenbird wearing a crown and a purple cape with white furry trim. There are three knights standing at the end of the royal rug: a redstart wearing a helmet with a red plume, a yellow warbler with a belted sword and metal boots, and a cerulean warbler who has some straps but we see nothing else. There are yellow and purple bunting flags and some banners showing the Queen's image. Growing increasingly eccentric in Her old age, the Queen ordered Her three finest knights on a most dangerous queste: to retrieve the head of a Dragon!
November 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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falseknees.bsky.social
Kneesvember 2025 Day 1
Birds are flying toward a castle with several red-roofed towers built at the top of an enormous oak tree. The sky is blue and there are wispy clouds. The tree is full of orange leaves and there are red and yellow trees in the distance. The image is bordered by a red, yellow, and blue, uh... border, with little stars and patterns. On the Queen's seventh birthday, brids from across the warbler realm were flocking to Oakcliffe Castle to take part in the festivities. (The first letter is illustrated in its own cute little box, technically termed an historiated initial, like in medieval manuscripts)
November 7, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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kvl-photos.bsky.social
American kestrel landing with mating dragonflies for lunch.

#birds #wildlife #nature #birdphotography #photography #audubonsociety
American kestrel with mating dragonflies landing on a tree stump.
November 14, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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davidbrace2.bsky.social
"Crow", pencil crayon, graphite on paper, 5 3/4 x 7 3/4", 2025 - $175(Cdn) #art #birds
A colour drawing of a crow perched on a lichen covered branch.
November 13, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Bilder der Aurora Borealis aus Lubbock Texas und Placitas New Mexico. Hätte die Aurora stattdessen Eurasien erwischt und wäre ebenfalls bis zum 33. Breitengrad gedrungen...Damaskus, Casablanca, Kreta hätten die Nordlichter sehen können. Es war ja schon krass, in Hessen mal welche gesehen zu haben.😲
November 12, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social
Meryl Smith (NY, USA, 1979)
#Herons, n.d.
Oil on canvas, 40” x 30“
merylsmith.com/herons
#BirdsInArt #ContrmporaryArt #WomenArtists
@everyheron.bsky.social 👀
painting depicting a trio of herons (grey-blue) standing together with exaggerated long legs and long necks, necks twisted together, on plain cream colored background
November 10, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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prasadnatarajan.bsky.social
Red-whiskered bulbul (Pycnonotus jocosus) on African Tulip Tree (Spathodea campanulate), Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, from my sketchbook.

1/4 Ink on Paper

#art #birds #sciart #scientificillustration #birdart #traditionalart #illustration #nature #indianwildlifeartist #scicomm #ink #sketchbook
Black spiral binding of the sketchbook, brown bamboo brush with black bristles. Black and white ink handmade work on paper, foliage of African Tulip Tree (Spathodea campanulate) and buds of the same tree. A sharp pointy bill, white throat, black iris, crown with a crest pointing upwards a sign of alertness. Flowers of the same tree blooming behind the crest. Round body of the Red-whiskered bulbul (Pycnonotus jocosus) perched on a branch of the tree, bit of the bottom part of its tail is visible. Red-whiskered bulbul (Pycnonotus jocosus) on African Tulip Tree (Spathodea campanulate), Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, from my sketchbook. My health is slowly improving, and I’m rarely in my studio. Have made a few studies using ink in my new sketchbook, watching bulbuls, sunbirds, and flowerpeckers. Watching birds from my window and balcony soothes my soul and is something I anticipate each day. The occasional koel song is delightful to my ears. This year, it seems like spring is early, and my neighboring trees started flowering in full flow. Their bright colors are a sight to behold! The Neeru Kayi mara buds remind me of my childhood days of squirting them on friends, their powerful odor, color and the victims’ reactions are such days to relive again. Sharing one page from my latest sketchbook post my surgery. Red-whiskered bulbul (Pycnonotus jocosus) African Tulip Tree (Spathodea campanulate) Title: Penance_61! Medium: Ink on paper Size: 8.1/4 x 11.1/2 inches (20.5x28.1 cms) size,180GSM Sketchbook Paper Duration: 5 Hour 56 minutes Location: Mango Grove Art Gallery/Studio, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India October 21st, 2025 Reference image: Own Reference image
November 10, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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tsupi-wbsy.bsky.social
Apparently there are photographers who chase away Japanese tits because they are not rare birds. I wish those spiteful photographers would be cursed by the great tit and never be able to take pictures of birds again.😤
tsupi-wbsy.bsky.social Tsupi_WBSY カラリーマン @tsupi-wbsy.bsky.social · 16d
以前、Twitterにいたとき「まっとうなカメラマン」の方がこぼしていた話。
とある、珍しく鳥がちょくちょく入るという緑地公園だかで、普通種で数の多いシジュウカラがくると、小枝などを投げて追っ払ってしまう写真屋がいるという。

そんな悪い写真屋はシジュウカラの呪いで一生坊主になるがいいよと思ったことでした。シジュウカラはそろそろ「仇なすぶっとい棒持ったニンゲン」を指す特定の言葉を作って、混群仲間やビジター鳥に周知させるかもしれない。
シジュウカラの口コミ力を侮ってはいけない。

#BirdArt
なんか棒持ってる人間に酷い目に遭わされたと文句を言っているシジュウカラと、それはいかんね、と話を聞いている周りの鳥たち。 奥に写真撮影の準備をする人々。 ハクセキレイは餌探しに忙しい。
November 8, 2025 at 11:39 PM
birdladyasw.bsky.social
Erstmal nach Saarbrücken und das Handy in der Bar liegenlassen. Frisch geduscht und hundsmüde noch mal hintappeln und es von der vormaligen Tischnachbarin in die Hand gelegt bekommen. War an sich n guter Tag. Gute Anreise und alles ist doch gut ausgegangen. ☺️ Betttt!!!
November 8, 2025 at 12:18 AM