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Meredith Swett Walker
@meredithswalker.bsky.social
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I am an unrepentant proselytizer for science & nature and inept watercolorist. Got a Ph.D. in bird behavior & hormones then morphed into a mom, science communicator and non-profit aide-de-camp. She/Her
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instbirdpop.bsky.social
Each year IBP holds a photo contest for our seasonal employees. This photo of a Brown Booby by Asch Nighthawk took 3rd place this year. Asch was a member of our Tropical MAPS crew, monitoring birds on the island of Rota, CNMI in the western Pacific. 🪶🌎🧪
Photo of a Brown Booby flying just overhead against a blue sky by Asch Nighthawk. Caption on photo says "Brown Booby by Asch Nighthawk 2025 Rota, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands"
November 11, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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burrowingowl.bsky.social
What do you get when you cross a red-tailed hawk with a turkey vulture? 🪶
Red-winged blackbird mobbing a turkey vulture as they are both passing a red-tailed hawk. It looks like the turkey vulture's head is on the hawk.
November 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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burrowingowl.bsky.social
Seriously? 🪶
Northern harrier flying by with a look of complete disdain.
November 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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theonion.com
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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susiedent.com
Word of the Day is ‘catchfart’ (17th century): an obsequious individual who sucks up to the boss and always follows the political wind.
November 7, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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skwinnicki.bsky.social
I was excited to share a write-up about my friend @nickantonson.bsky.social’s recent paper regardless, but especially once I saw this title! www.popsci.com/environment/...
Woodpeckers grunt like tennis players
‘They take the pecking that we see all birds doing and take it to the extreme.’
www.popsci.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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theonion.com
Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time
Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time
November 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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raptororg.bsky.social
Meet our newest patient here at the Alaska Raptor Center, a Northern Pygmy Owl named King Owlbert by his rescuers. Owlbert arrived with a drooping wing, making flight difficult. We’ve given him a supportive wing wrap, plenty of tasty mice, and time to heal. #small #owls #adorable
November 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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tkingfisher.com
“I am very tired and I just got out of the bath but if you post this picture on the internet, I swear to Christ, I will find the strength to fuckin’ END you.”

Share an angry bird and the curse you think it embodies.
A curve-billed thrasher on a birdbath who is having something of a bad feather day
November 2, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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dmennill.bsky.social
Our Motus Audio recorders are picking up some unusual migratory activity this Halloween night... Scarlet Tanagers and Rose-breasted Grosbeaks passing over our night flight call microphones! 🎃🕊️ Keep your ears to the skies Natalie and Madison!
October 31, 2025 at 1:43 PM
meredithswalker.bsky.social
In Fruita, CO- Mike's hometown- we celebrate him annually with the "Mike the Headless Chicken Festival" 🪶
musicadamt.bsky.social Adam Music @musicadamt.bsky.social · 11d
The only headless bird anyone needs is Mike.
Mike the Headless Chicken lived for 18 months without his noggin.
October 31, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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nerdychristie.bsky.social
If you've ever crunched wintergreen life savers in the dark to see flashes of light, you already know about mechanoluminescence. Some materials work similarly that aren't crystals. That and more from @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti...
October 29, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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n8swick.bsky.social
Has anyone ever seen a hybrid of Blue-winged Teal and Green-winged Teal and why isn't it called a Teal-winged Teal?
October 28, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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rosemarymosco.com
I've got some events coming up! Come say hi.

Lincoln MA, Nov 1: www.massaudubon.org/programs/dru...

Keene NH, Nov 15: harriscenter.org/conservation...

Sudbury MA, Nov 20: www.svtweb.org/outdoor-voic...
Upcoming events: Lincoln, MA, November 1, 2 pm: Book talk at Drumlin Farm (free!) Keene, NH, November 15: Keynote at Monadnock Region Natural History Conference Sudbury MA, Nov 20, 6:30 pm: Book talk for Sudbury Valley Trustees at Sudbury History Center (and there's an angry canada goose hissing at you)
October 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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alexwild.bsky.social
Apparently this weekend's rain really put the Ailanthus webworm moths in the mood. Photo from the new UT Hill Country Field Station.
Macro photograph of two elongate moths, sitting end-to-end on a purple flower spire, against a brilliant blue sky. The moths' wings are orange interrupted with black-margined white bubble markings.
October 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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irrlichtwinter.bsky.social
Day 25 of #invertober
House Centipede

this is my third attempt at the leggy guy... too much segments for my end-of-month brain.

#invertober2025
drawing of a orange-beige centipede on green paper. There are lots of legs. Each leg is segmented. The centipede's body is segmented, too. Too much segmentation going on.
October 27, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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roxannedarling.bsky.social
@theferocity.bsky.social !!!
psycohousecat.bsky.social 𝒑𝒔𝒚𝒄𝒐𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒕 @psycohousecat.bsky.social · 19d
Meanwhile, somewhere in the beautiful province of British Columbia, 🍁Canada🇨🇦 #Canada #wildlife
October 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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rosemarymosco.com
Halloween costume ideas for birders.
A comic called halloween costume ideas for birders. In panel 1, labeled easy, there's a person labeled northern cardinal wearing a party hat, a beak, and red clothes, and a person labeled roseate spoonbill wearing pink clothes and a wooden spoon on their nose. In panel 2, labeled harder, there's a person labeled merlin sound ID wearing a big green circle with a microphone modeled after the button on the merlin sound ID app, and a person labeled hybrid green x blue jay wearing a complex costume with a mask and robe and hat modeled after a recently discovered hybrid bird. In panel 3, labeled challenging, there's a person labeled baltimore oriole nest wearing an enormous accurate woven oriole nest suspended from their arms and shoulders, and a person labeled african jacana carrying chicks with a hideous costume of long-toed bird feet hanging from their armpits. In panel 4, labeled hot, there's a person labeled high quality spotting scope who is shirtless and is wearing a spotting scope mask on their head, and a person labeled sexy owl pellet wearing an owl pellet top and bottom with a mouse skull on their head.
October 23, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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banditelli.org
Omg look at the outside 18 minutes ago!!!! 😭 😭

Zero edits. Straight from the camera. 🪶
October 22, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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dptbirder.bsky.social
RIGHT?!? Look at this mango with legs 💀
October 21, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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miklextic.bsky.social
Liferpie! Common Black Hawk Spotted in Ventura County, CA! Way out of it's range!!! I'm literally shaking! #birds
A Black hawk with a strip of grey in the center of it's tail feathers perched on a telephone pole.
October 20, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social
This is your periodic reminder that The Wilson Journal of #Ornithology can waive Open Access fees on a limited number of Review, Perspective, and/or Methods papers each year! Contact the journal editors with a presubmission inquiry if you're interested.
Call for Review, Perspective, or Methods Papers—Open Access Fees Waived
The Editors-in-Chief of The Wilson Journal of Ornithology invite prospective authors to submit presubmission inquiries for Review, Perspective, or Methods papers that we can publish Free Open Acces…
wilsonsociety.org
October 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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in-otter-news.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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mollybangles.bsky.social
Look at these guys 🪶🌊

Long-billed Curlews, San Simeon CA, September 2025
Two Long-billed Curlews foraging on the beach - large shorebirds with long necks and impossibly long bills - in profile, facing each other, their down-curved bills forming two arks, also reflected on the wet sand
October 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM