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Jen Britton
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Yinzer in Philadelphia | photography | sustainability in higher ed | multispecies justice | social studies of space | star trek/friend of desoto | follow for today in tardigrade news
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One of my fave birbs, a cactus wren
#photography #birbs
A cactus wren is perched on a branch of a cholla cactus - the wren is facing the camera, sitting gin the left side of the frame, and turning his head to look towards the right. The background is an out of focus blend of green and brown vegetation.
January 19, 2026 at 2:33 PM
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This little roan colt at Little Book Cliffs was part of a band of bays and buckskins.
#photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc
A 6 months or so old light blue roan colt drinks from a small stream in an arid landscape while in the background three bay and buckskin horses face away from the camera grazing on some sparse grass. In this wider angle shot of the little roan colt approaches the stream and we can see the brown walls of a canyon rising up around the horses.
January 19, 2026 at 2:20 PM
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I like to yoga with Adriene right here in my house but if you like your yoga in a studio, here are tips about how to avoid fascist garbage yoga experiences.
January 19, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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(1) With my little research team I gave a talk yesterday about our most recent paper and one of the points we make w/r/t multispecies justice is that it does not matter whether or not modern horses are "native" to North America.
#photography #wildhorses
In a gently rolling sagebrush landscape with a low mountain ridge in the distant background and a light blue cloudy sky, a black and white pinto horse is cantering left to right in the grams with his mane and tail lifting in the wing.
January 19, 2026 at 1:52 PM
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Wild ponies planning the next item on their collective morning agenda, which they identified as "cross this water to graze on the next island over."
Rachel Carson Reserve
#photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc
Four wild ponies are standing on a muddy sandbar in a coastal tidal zone. They are standing next to each other, generally facing the camera but with their heads in different positions. They are considering the shallow water surrounding them. The background is low coastal trees with a water tower in the distance.
January 19, 2026 at 1:49 PM
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In the Onaqui Mountain wild horse range, a long billed curlew meanders along the edge of a water source.
#photography #birbs #wildlife
Small in the frame, a long billed curlew is walking along a dirt berm in the lower right quadrant of the frame. The setting is high desert with an out of focus broad valley in the distance and a partly cloudy light blue sky. We are a little closer in on the curlew in this image but the background is an out of focus brown mountain with a little bit of sky above. There is a large rock opposite the bird in the lower left corner of the image.
January 18, 2026 at 2:56 PM
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One of the wild ponies of Shackleford Banks
#photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc
This is an upper-body shot of a bay pony whose mane and forelock are a bit faded to dark brown by the sun. The pony has a blaze on his face and he is trotting along the base of a grass covered sand dune. The line of tall dunes rises in the background, with a clear light blue sky above.
January 18, 2026 at 2:52 PM
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A black necked stilt pokes around in one of the ponds at the Riparian Reserve in Gilbert, AZ
#photography #birbs
A black necked stilt - a smallish shorebird with slender long orange legs, black plumage on top and white underpants, and a slender black bill, is taking a slow step in shallow pond water with her head down as she looks for a meal.
January 18, 2026 at 2:50 PM
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A wild burro resident of Custer State Park in South Dakota's Black Hills
#wildburro #bonkersforburros #photographyA
A medium gray and very shaggy wild burro is standing in tall grass. She is oriented such that she is facing left to right in the frame. Her posture is relaxed with her neck sort of low but she is looking ahead of her at something with mild curiosity.
January 18, 2026 at 2:47 PM
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I love this guy so much. Many wild horse photographers call him "Cyrus" and I call him Okona because he is outrageously rakish and handsome. He lives in Salt Wells Creek.
#photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc
A curly dark buckskin stallion with a blaze and two hind stockings is walking right-to-left in a somewhat oblique angle to the camera. He is in a sagebrush setting, with a low mountain ridge and clear blue sky in the background. This image is a closeup head and shoulders portrait of the same stallion. We can see his curly mane and forelock in more detail as well as the constellation of battle scars on his neck and shoulders. His expression is relaxed and cheerful.
January 18, 2026 at 2:45 PM
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Watching a nazzi bleeding and crying while being run out of town is *chef kiss*
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Lmfao 😂 Jake Lang is experiencing the finding out phase in Minneapolis.
January 17, 2026 at 8:45 PM
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Urban's band in Theodore Roosevelt National Park
#wildhorses #photography #wildhorsepc
A band of six wild horses plus a young foal is standing on a knoll in a prairie landscape. They are varied colors - a couple of chestnuts, a couple of bays, a pinto, and a gray, and the foal is chestnut colored. They are standing together to swish flies and the wind is gently lifting their manes and tails.
January 17, 2026 at 7:21 PM
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From White Mountain, a super duper pretty young bay mare
#photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc
A bay mare with a blaze marking and two hind socks and a little bit f curl in her mane and tail is trotting along a gently sloping sagebrush covered hillside with a clear light blue sky above; she is moving left to right in the frame. The bay mare is shown still trotting, but a little closer-up, and she has tilted her head to look towards the camera. Now the mare has come to a stop and is standing alert but also unconcerned as she looks at the photographer, with the wind lifting her mane and tail a little.
January 17, 2026 at 6:43 PM
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Snow geese at sunrise
Bosque Del Apache National Wildlife Refuge
#photography #wildlife #birbs
Against a bright orange sunrise sky we see the black silhouettes of two snow geese in flight. They are flying one behind the other and for both birds their wings are swept upwards. They are flying over a line of low trees. Against a bright orange sunrise sky we see the black silhouettes of two snow geese in flight. They are flying one behind the other and for both birds their wings are in the downwards part of the flapping cycle. They are flying over a line of low trees.
January 17, 2026 at 6:38 PM
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Happy #Caturday with one of the Sweetwater Wetlands bobcats!
#photography #nature #wildlife
Moving from left to right, a bobcat is walking stealthily among a tree trunk, a fallen branch, and some desert undergrowth, looking in an alert fashion to the right side of the image.
January 17, 2026 at 6:35 PM
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Super controversial hot take about Starfleet Academy:

It's fun and awesome and I'm so happy to have another new Trek!
January 17, 2026 at 1:43 PM
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January 16, 2026 at 11:17 PM
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Mutual scritchins on Sable Island
#photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc
In this wide angle image, there are two wild ponies, small in the frame, in the lower right-center of the image. one is a light bay and the other is a rich colored palomino. They are facing each other and using their teeth to scratch each other's withers. The wind is lifting their manes and tails a little bit. They are standing in a landscape of very tall grass covered sand dunes, with bright blue sky seen in the top left corner of the image.
January 16, 2026 at 2:20 PM
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Foxy's Gift and Sapphire are the last members of Assateague Island's dwindling state line band. They've been together for years, what a power couple, although here Foxy's Gift is a little grouchy having failed to get Sapphire to walk in the direction he preferred 😂 #photography #wildhorses
A chestnut pony stallion is walking left to right in the frame, with a somewhat cranky expression. He has a small star marking on his face. He is walking across the base of some sparsely grassy beach sand dunes, and there is a clear light blue sky above. A chubby bay pony mare walks across beach sand, with small dunes just behind her and a farther-away pine forest in the distant background. She is walking left to right in the frame, looking relaxed and cheerful. The sky is clear and light blue.
January 16, 2026 at 2:08 PM
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This handsome boy is a Salt Wells Creek bachelor, who was running with 3 other buddies in the southern area of the HMA.
#photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc
In a sagebrush steppe ecosystem, and low mountains in the background, a black horse with a blaze and hind socks walks from right to left in the frame, looking generally very cheerful. The sky is partly cloudy and light blue. This is a somewhat closer-in image of the black horse. Now he has a little arch to his neck as he continues walking across the frame of the image.
January 16, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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MEEP MEEP I am required by law to type that every time I share a greater roadrunner image. Sabino Canyon, Arizona.
#photography #birbs
A greater roadrunner is looking alert, and standing on a beige colored boulder, with an out of focus wash seen faintly out of focus in the top of the image.
January 16, 2026 at 1:57 PM
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A young cottontail rabbit, Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge
Let's abolish ICE.
#photography #wildlife
A close-in portrait of a young cottontail bun, shot at ground level. The bunny is sitting in green grass with some fallen leaves, all out of focus. She is facing right to left in the frame and we can see a little bit of reflection of the surrounding pine trees in her eye.
January 16, 2026 at 1:54 PM
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Early morning with the White Mountain herd
#photography #sunrise #wildhorses #Twildhorsepc
It is sunrise, with the sun just coming up over the horizon, with a band of grazing horses backlit in the orange light. The sky is cloudy and orange, and there is a foal standing directly in line with the sun so we see her silhouette among the silhouettes of her grazing herd mates.
January 15, 2026 at 3:57 PM
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Pronghorns in Salt Wells Creek; despite common references to them as antelopes, they aren't antelopes at all - their closest currently-existing relatives are giraffes.
Let's all get in touch with congressional reps today to demand ICE gets abolished.
#photography #wildlife
Two pronghorns, a buck and a doe, are standing together amid sagebrush and tall green and brown grass. Two pronghorn does are standing together in a sagebrush and grass setting, in a gently sloping valley. A pronghorn buck is standing right in the frame, facing to the left and looking generally towards the camera. His setting is a gently sloping valley of grass and sagebrush.
January 15, 2026 at 3:54 PM
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A black phoebe in the Gilbert Riparian Reserve
with love to my pals in Minneapolis
#photography #wildlife #birbs
A small black songbird with white underpants is perched on a tree stump, in the lower right quadrant of the frame, looking up to the left. The background is out of focus tan and green shrubbery. A black phoebe, a small black songbird with a short black bill and white underpants, is perched on the side of a mesquite trunk, almost center in the photo, facing the camera, and looking to the right side of the frame. The phoebe is perched on the side of the mesquite tree, near the center of the image, but now is looking up towards the upper left corner of the frame.
January 15, 2026 at 3:14 PM