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Rosemary Mosco
@rosemarymosco.com
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Nature comics (Bird and Moon). Books about nature. Talks. Bird facts. rosemarymosco.com She/her.
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I’m really enjoying seeing these in the wild.
thatgalcarolyn.bsky.social thatgalcarolyn @thatgalcarolyn.bsky.social · 1d
Day two at @oddmallpnw.bsky.social repping BloödCheëp, Frightful Molt-Demon of the Cursed Abyss by @rosemarymosco.com ❤️

Evergreen Fairgounds in Monroe WA!
10-5 today! Come buy weird stuff!
@thatguyjames.bsky.social is here too! ❤️
November 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Busy week in the studio! Here’s a bird I made goofing around instead of working and some things that caught my attention:

✨ open.substack.com/pub/jacobsou...

#kidlit #kidlitart
A weird bird in a folktale-like style
November 7, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Boston area folks, FYI: www.instagram.com/p/DQuXRookYJ...
Community Vigil, support our neighbors detained by ICE at Allston carwash, today at 6 pm, Intersection of Cambridge St. and Brighton Ave. Please wear white in solidarity. @LUCE_hotline, 617-370-5023, lucemass.org
November 6, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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As another UN climate conference begins, I'm seeing even fewer Americans than ever talking about climate change, which is what the fossil fuel companies want. News groups are firing climate reporters and that doesn't help. Don't stop bringing this up. It hasn't gone away www.bbc.com/news/live/cw...
Starmer warns 'consensus is gone' on fighting climate change as leaders gather at COP30 - follow live
Prince William says the climate threat is
www.bbc.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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There's a special horror to having an optometrist tell you "I noticed that you don't blink very often"
November 3, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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I need to draw
A crab and shrimp with knives threaten the artist. It's an atmosphere where you have to draw some crustaceans to feel safe.
November 1, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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By popular demand: I've opened a Kickstarter for a HOP T-shirt!

If I get 50 preorders I'll do a print run!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/201...
HOP Shirt
A T-shirt with the legendary Portland frog rendered in the style of Shepard Fairey's iconic Obama HOPE image
www.kickstarter.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Just went to a talk by the amazing @rosemarymosco.com !! I feel full of bird inspiration (and puns)
A picture of the book, “The Birding Dictonary”, by Rosemary Mosco. The cover is yellow with black text and there is a cartoon illustration of a Scarlet Flycatcher with a pair of binoculars. Inside the cover of the book, “The Birding Dictonary”, by Rosemary Mosco. It is white paper with black text and a cartoon illustration of two doves with a pair of binoculars. There is a a hand written note and the author/artist’s signature.
November 1, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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If you take the time to read the whole Gates memo (which I did), the bulk of the content was mostly solid and encouraging. Really!

It was the FRAME that was off--very off, from the first line.

And when your framing is off, then how you make decisions and set priorities is off. THAT'S the problem.
My quote from an Axios interview, stating that: People often think of climate change as a separate bucket at the end of a long row of other buckets of problems we're trying to fix that are wrong in the world," Hayhoe told Axios. This includes poverty, disease and access to clean water. "Climate change is not a separate bucket," Hayhoe said. "The reason we care about climate change is that it's the hole in every bucket."
October 30, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Melissa Stewart is THE queen of nonfiction!
mstewartscience.bsky.social Melissa Stewart @mstewartscience.bsky.social · 14d
Woo-hoo! It's publication day.
@charlesbridge.bsky.social Signed copies available at @silverunicornbooks.bsky.social
Thank you to the third grader who inspired the book.
October 28, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Haha amazing
petercashwell.bsky.social Peter Cashwell @petercashwell.bsky.social · 14d
This probably isn't the photo @rosemarymosco.com wants showing off her amazing BLOODCHEEP t-shirt design, but it's the one I've got.
Man wearing BLOODCHEEP t-shirt, holding up phone and horns.
October 27, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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I'm working on my next edition of my small monthly newsletter. It's the best way to follow my work given all the chaos of the internet these days buttondown.com/rosemarymosco
October 27, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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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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Massachusetts folks: I'm doing a free book talk at Drumlin Farm in Lincoln next Saturday at 2pm www.massaudubon.org/programs/dru...
Book Talk and Signing: Rosemary Mosco's The Birding Dictionary
With more than 160,000 members and supporters, Mass Audubon protects over 41,000 acres of land throughout Massachusetts, saving birds and other wildlife, and making nature accessible to all. We welcom...
www.massaudubon.org
October 27, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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i hate gay halloween…two skeletons??? how would that even work
October 25, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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My wonderful Patreon subscribers always get a behind-the-scenes process post about each comic. Subscribe to my Patreon for cheapy cheap to see sketches and get a glimpse into into my logic (or lack thereof) www.patreon.com/posts/about-...
About the new comic: Halloween costume ideas for birders | Rosemary Mosco
Get more from Rosemary Mosco on Patreon
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October 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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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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I'm working on a comic and my search history includes "peromyscus skull" and "sexy cartoon lady"
October 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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american wizcock
October 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Anyone know what this might be? Egg case? Seed? Some sort of weird Sternorrhyncha? I keep seeing them in my sifted litter, sometimes with a hole in it. Leaf litter collected in Southern VA in September.
Small sandal-shape object magnified under a microscope. Has a few light brown splotches on cream background. Small sandal-shape object magnified under a microscope. Light cream color with impressed lines around the edge. Small sandal-shape object magnified under a microscope. Side view showing a cream top part connected to a brown-black bottom half.
October 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Please help, folks.

That storm was devastating. Wrecked our roof, and we're so much further away.

The folks hit in Alaska were hit so hard, and really need help.
napaaqtuk.bsky.social Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 28d
Western Alaska was hit hard by the recent storms. Houses floated away in Kipnuk, houses flipped over, people lost everything from the flooding that came with the storms. Please donate if you can. This group has a long history of supporting AK communities.

alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...
October 16, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Did you know I have a Patreon? I'm so grateful for the folks who support my monthly comics, and they get a special process post for each comic. $5+ supporters get an extra post about an obscure creature; past ones have included Halobates and the Paradoxical Frog(!)
www.patreon.com/c/birdandmoon
October 17, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Western Alaska was hit hard by the recent storms. Houses floated away in Kipnuk, houses flipped over, people lost everything from the flooding that came with the storms. Please donate if you can. This group has a long history of supporting AK communities.

alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...
October 13, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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There needs to be more coverage of this in the news. I have read so many stories bout this on Facebook, first hand stories of the terror of that storm, and very little coverage n media.
www.facebook.com/100000960660...
Screenshot of a Facebook post. Photo is an elderly woman holding a child on her ap on a couch with flood water around them. Both are wearing jackets inside. Text says: This was after our 1st drift.. staying put for awhile. Our 3rd and final drift was terrifying. House moving fast then we started spinning in circles. While we were spinning in circles my oldest daughter was just staring at me while I held onto my younger two. Kipnuk doesn't look like kipnuk anymore, like more than 3/4 of the homes displaced, power poles fallen. It smells like stove oil outside. Contaminated
October 14, 2025 at 9:27 AM