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Daryll Marie
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Bioacoustician & PhD candidate using sound to study baleen whale movement ecology 🐋 Wildlife photographer, birder, nature nerd 🪶
IG: instagram.com/avianinclination
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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · Nov 4
How it started vs. how it’s going

Today I passed the final step toward candidacy, my proposal defense, after completing my comps this past spring. It’s official! 🥹🧪 #PhDlife
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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
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Absolute banger scaup views today in Dover, New Hampshire 🪶🌿
A scaup drifting on the surface of the bay. Seaweed can be seen below the surface of the water and floating in the background. A pair of scaup drifting on the surface of the bay. Seaweed can be seen on the surface of the water in the foreground and background. A male scaup drifting on the surface of the bay. Seaweed can be seen below the surface of the water and floating in the background. A pair of scaup drifting on the surface of the bay, both with their bills touching the water’s surface.
February 17, 2026 at 11:23 PM
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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! 🪶🌿
A snowy owl sits blending into a snowy landscape.
February 16, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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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 🪶🌿
A horned lark, a brown bird with white belly and black markings around its head, chest, and eye. There is a yellow tint to the feathers on its face. Its standing on a dry grass ground with snow visible on the ground in the background. An eastern towhee, a bird with a black back/head, orange sides, and white belly. It’s standing on snow. A female northern cardinal, a gray bird with red wings, crest, and tail feathers. It’s standing on a bare, thin branch A white-throated sparrow, a bird with a brown back, white belly, grey chest, and black cap. It has white stripes along its head and yellow markings by its eyes. It’s standing on snow.
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
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Hawks photographed mid-scritch are so endearingly ridiculous 🪶🌿 Red-shouldered, taken in Fallbrook, CA.
A red-shouldered hawk stands atop a telephone pole, one set of talons raised to belly level at the end of a scritching session.
January 3, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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More red-shouldered hawk action here in southern CA! 🪶🌿
A red-shouldered hawk sits perched on a thick branch staring straight at the camera
December 30, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Some recent SoCal birds 🪶🌿 pictured: northern shoveler, spotted towhee, Nuttall’s woodpecker, & red-tailed hawk.
A northern shoveler (duck) floats on the surface of a pond, its reflection visible below it A spotted towhee walks across a dirt ground with scattered leaves A Nuttall’s woodpecker hangs from a plant. A red-tailed hawk soars overhead
December 29, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Lifer Say’s phoebe 🌿🪶 Ramona Grasslands Preserve, CA. Also saw my first canvasbacks and western meadowlarks today, definitely time for lifer pie 🥧
A phoebe with an orange belly perched on a sign that reads “Wildflower Loop, 0.2 miles”
December 23, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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Lifer Ross’s geese! 🪿🪶🌿 Ramona, CA… not one of their common haunts!
A pair of Ross’s geese walk in a grass field, with a dirt foreground
December 23, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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This red-shouldered hawk treated me to a solid hour photo session this morning! Obsessed with this shot of the half deployed nictitating membrane 🤯🪶🌿
A hawk stands on a telephone pole. Its nictitating membrane is covering half its eye.
December 21, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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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
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These guys are so glam! One of my lifers from south Florida, a tricolored heron 🪶🌿
A tricolored heron photographed u close from the neck up. It has a vibrant red eye and rust and white colored feathers on its neck.
December 19, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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More monk seal cuteness! 🌿🦑🦊
A monk seal sleeping on a sandy beach
December 13, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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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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December 12, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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A red-vented bulbul 🪶🌿 photographed in Honolulu, Hawaii!
A gray and black bird with red on the underside of its tail feathers perches on a branch.
December 12, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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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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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. 🪶
a black clown looking sea duck with an orange and white beak and white eyes, wings down, background edited for contract a black clown looking sea duck with an orange and white beak and white eyes, wings up, background edited for contract a black clown looking sea duck with an orange and white beak and white eyes, wings vertically up and down, profile of the face, background edited for contract
December 6, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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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! 😤
Four snow buntings stand atop a roof. The middle two are looking down at the camera.
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
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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 🦑🌿🧪
A nurse shark lays on an in water platform as researchers perform an ultrasound A bull shark lays on an in water platform during a scientific workup A flag reading “shark research” waves in the wind A closeup of nurse shark skin
December 6, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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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 🦑🌿🦊
A pair of monk seals lay next to each other on the sand.
December 6, 2025 at 3:59 PM