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Daryll Marie
@daryllmarie.bsky.social
Bioacoustician & PhD candidate using sound to study baleen whale movement ecology 🐋 Wildlife photographer, birder, nature nerd 🪶
IG: instagram.com/avianinclination
Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/daryllmarie
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Today I passed the final step toward candidacy, my proposal defense, after completing my comps this past spring. It’s official! 🥹🧪 #PhDlife
Ya’ll have seen my Florida and Hawaii series, so now it’s time to share birding videos from a place near and dear to my heart. Bird with me in San Diego County! 🌿🪶
February 20, 2026 at 1:06 AM
Absolute banger scaup views today in Dover, New Hampshire 🪶🌿
February 17, 2026 at 11:23 PM
The one distant snowy owl photo our group got (photo cred to my friend Tom for this one!). You can see how difficult they can be to spot in this landscape, especially at a distance and with this landscape in all directions! 🪶🌿
February 16, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Back at Parker River, MA today and finally got my lifer snowy owl!!!!!!! It was a distant scope sighting so no photos, but winter isn’t over yet…

Lots of fun glamour shots of other species! Pictured: horned lark, lifer eastern towhee, northern cardinal, and white-throated sparrow 🪶🌿
February 14, 2026 at 8:54 PM
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If you need me, i’ll be looking at pictures in one of @daryllmarie.bsky.social ‘s feeds:
January 8, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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I'm gonna just stick to the Birds feed today, step away from the firehose of stressful news. If anyone else is overwhelmed with all that's happening all the time, I suggest finding a dedicated space for something that centers you, and taking a breather.

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January 8, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Hawks photographed mid-scritch are so endearingly ridiculous 🪶🌿 Red-shouldered, taken in Fallbrook, CA.
January 3, 2026 at 6:27 PM
More red-shouldered hawk action here in southern CA! 🪶🌿
December 30, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Some recent SoCal birds 🪶🌿 pictured: northern shoveler, spotted towhee, Nuttall’s woodpecker, & red-tailed hawk.
December 29, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Lifer Say’s phoebe 🌿🪶 Ramona Grasslands Preserve, CA. Also saw my first canvasbacks and western meadowlarks today, definitely time for lifer pie 🥧
December 23, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Lifer Ross’s geese! 🪿🪶🌿 Ramona, CA… not one of their common haunts!
December 23, 2025 at 3:52 AM
This red-shouldered hawk treated me to a solid hour photo session this morning! Obsessed with this shot of the half deployed nictitating membrane 🤯🪶🌿
December 21, 2025 at 8:36 PM
This week I completed a successful trip out to sea! This was my 8th trip so far & my 1st without my PI 🦑🧪

Between offshore work, my proposal defense, a Florida trip, presenting in Hawaii, NSF NRT work, & wrapping up the semester, it’s been a busy 1.5 months 😅 off to SoCal to relax (& go birding 🪶)!
December 19, 2025 at 11:43 PM
These guys are so glam! One of my lifers from south Florida, a tricolored heron 🪶🌿
December 19, 2025 at 11:27 PM
More monk seal cuteness! 🌿🦑🦊
December 13, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Hot tip: you can visit Honolulu on a business trip and still do some awesome birding! 🪶🦑🌿
December 13, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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Come birding with me, a series! To begin, a few episodes from Florida (with more to come). I’m still figuring out IG Reels, particularly the auto-closed captions, so bear with me!

South Florida, pt 1 🦑🌿🪶
December 11, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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"Mods are asleeep, post vent"
December 12, 2025 at 10:42 PM
A red-vented bulbul 🪶🌿 photographed in Honolulu, Hawaii!
December 12, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Come birding with me, a series! To begin, a few episodes from Florida (with more to come). I’m still figuring out IG Reels, particularly the auto-closed captions, so bear with me!

South Florida, pt 1 🦑🌿🪶
December 11, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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This morning I got the best in flight surf scoter shots of my life thus far. Great weird duck season for in flight shots!

A solid 20 other people near me, no one else ever tried.

We must organize more bird photographers to be down with the clown. 🪶
December 6, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Lifer snow buntings! 🚨

Also lifer red-necked grebes, horned grebes, and common goldeneyes! Plus 23 other species today 🪶🌿 made birding in snow and 8°F weather worth it! 😤
December 9, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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my default feed when I open the app is just photos of birds
December 8, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Thank you to @whysharksmatter.bsky.social for bringing me along for the ride on this incredible trip tagging a bull shark and a nurse shark! Still over the moon about seeing these beauties 🦑🌿🧪
December 6, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Guys, I saw not one but a group of FIVE Hawaiian monk seals! Trip made! 🥹 taken with a zoom lens to maintain a respectful distance 🦑🌿🦊
December 6, 2025 at 3:59 PM