Anuj Ghimire
@thebirdguy.bsky.social
Interested in Eco-physiology, Life History Trade-offs in Birds.Passionate about Scientific communication.
Birder :
Life list: 888
US list: 510
Nepal list: 383
China: 31
Birder :
Life list: 888
US list: 510
Nepal list: 383
China: 31
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Is it fair to start a GoFund me to support my adventure/exploration? Do you think I could raise money to do something like that? I have been trying to find some sponsors in Nepal, but that hasn't gotten anywhere. I do plan to publish a book out of that trip and write about biodiversity of the region
November 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Is it fair to start a GoFund me to support my adventure/exploration? Do you think I could raise money to do something like that? I have been trying to find some sponsors in Nepal, but that hasn't gotten anywhere. I do plan to publish a book out of that trip and write about biodiversity of the region
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Hi! I need a suggestion. I'm planning an exploration trip in Nepal! So basically planning to walk from the Eastern part of the country to the western part,along the Himalayas. It's a part of a pilot trip where I plan to look for the best location to start a banding station in major migratory route+
November 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Hi! I need a suggestion. I'm planning an exploration trip in Nepal! So basically planning to walk from the Eastern part of the country to the western part,along the Himalayas. It's a part of a pilot trip where I plan to look for the best location to start a banding station in major migratory route+
Hi! I need a suggestion. I'm planning an exploration trip in Nepal! So basically planning to walk from the Eastern part of the country to the western part,along the Himalayas. It's a part of a pilot trip where I plan to look for the best location to start a banding station in major migratory route+
November 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Hi! I need a suggestion. I'm planning an exploration trip in Nepal! So basically planning to walk from the Eastern part of the country to the western part,along the Himalayas. It's a part of a pilot trip where I plan to look for the best location to start a banding station in major migratory route+
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An engineer wanted to make a quiet high-speed train. “The question then occurred to me — is there some living thing that manages sudden changes in air resistance as a part of daily life?” The answer: the kingfisher. See my story today for more tales of bioinspiration. Gift link: nyti.ms/4otNQyl
November 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
An engineer wanted to make a quiet high-speed train. “The question then occurred to me — is there some living thing that manages sudden changes in air resistance as a part of daily life?” The answer: the kingfisher. See my story today for more tales of bioinspiration. Gift link: nyti.ms/4otNQyl
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Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- harris@slate.com or dm me.
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
November 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- harris@slate.com or dm me.
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
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What do you get when you cross a red-tailed hawk with a turkey vulture? 🪶
November 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
What do you get when you cross a red-tailed hawk with a turkey vulture? 🪶
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Put in your bid on Julie Zickefoose's Evening Grosbeak Bird of the Year art!
Evening Grosbeak was the 2012 Bird of the Year.
Bid here: aba.org/auctions/
Evening Grosbeak was the 2012 Bird of the Year.
Bid here: aba.org/auctions/
November 6, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Put in your bid on Julie Zickefoose's Evening Grosbeak Bird of the Year art!
Evening Grosbeak was the 2012 Bird of the Year.
Bid here: aba.org/auctions/
Evening Grosbeak was the 2012 Bird of the Year.
Bid here: aba.org/auctions/
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Support real bird artists by joining the ABA and receive the Bird of the Year issue of Birding magazine in January!
ABA.org/join
ABA.org/join
November 7, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Support real bird artists by joining the ABA and receive the Bird of the Year issue of Birding magazine in January!
ABA.org/join
ABA.org/join
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A Black-headed Gull is pictured in profile, perched on a weathered, mossy wooden post. Its dark brown (appearing black) head, red bill, and white body contrast sharply with the blurred, warm-toned background. It is calling, with its beak open #Birds #lukehaigh #birdwatching #birdphotography #birding
November 6, 2025 at 2:45 AM
A Black-headed Gull is pictured in profile, perched on a weathered, mossy wooden post. Its dark brown (appearing black) head, red bill, and white body contrast sharply with the blurred, warm-toned background. It is calling, with its beak open #Birds #lukehaigh #birdwatching #birdphotography #birding
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Your daily Avian Hybrids story!
A genomic perspective on the classic hybrid zone between Baltimore and Bullock’s Oriole
avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2021/04/03/a...
#ornithology
A genomic perspective on the classic hybrid zone between Baltimore and Bullock’s Oriole
avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2021/04/03/a...
#ornithology
A genomic perspective on the classic hybrid zone between Baltimore and Bullock’s Oriole
How much has this hybrid zone changed over the past decades?
avianhybrids.wordpress.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Your daily Avian Hybrids story!
A genomic perspective on the classic hybrid zone between Baltimore and Bullock’s Oriole
avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2021/04/03/a...
#ornithology
A genomic perspective on the classic hybrid zone between Baltimore and Bullock’s Oriole
avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2021/04/03/a...
#ornithology
Angry little furball
Jungle Owlet
Chitwan National Park, Nepal
Jan 1, 2025
Jungle Owlet
Chitwan National Park, Nepal
Jan 1, 2025
November 6, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Angry little furball
Jungle Owlet
Chitwan National Park, Nepal
Jan 1, 2025
Jungle Owlet
Chitwan National Park, Nepal
Jan 1, 2025
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Ornamentation is associated with social costs in male red-backed fairywrens (Malurus melanocephalus) | doi.org/10.1093/behe... | Behavioral Ecology | #ornithology 🪶
November 4, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Ashy Prinia
Chitwan National Park, Nepal
December 31st 2024
Chitwan National Park, Nepal
December 31st 2024
November 3, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Ashy Prinia
Chitwan National Park, Nepal
December 31st 2024
Chitwan National Park, Nepal
December 31st 2024
White -winged Scoter
Fargo, ND
November 1, 2025
Fargo, ND
November 1, 2025
November 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
White -winged Scoter
Fargo, ND
November 1, 2025
Fargo, ND
November 1, 2025
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My awesome grad student Shashank and I wrote this paper trying to look at broader patterns of HT in TEs. HT is happening everywhere! DNA transposons jump further than other classes! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Recent horizontal transfer of transposable elements in Drosophila
Transposable elements (TEs) are genetic elements also known as "jumping genes" that increase their copy numbers within a host through various mechanisms of transposition. TEs can also move between spe...
www.biorxiv.org
October 31, 2025 at 3:58 PM
My awesome grad student Shashank and I wrote this paper trying to look at broader patterns of HT in TEs. HT is happening everywhere! DNA transposons jump further than other classes! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Fargo sunset and a Northern Shrike
October 30, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Fargo sunset and a Northern Shrike
Saw-whet Owls are back in town!!
Almost looks like he/she is smiling... probably happy to be back in town!
Almost looks like he/she is smiling... probably happy to be back in town!
October 29, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Saw-whet Owls are back in town!!
Almost looks like he/she is smiling... probably happy to be back in town!
Almost looks like he/she is smiling... probably happy to be back in town!
October 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Ebird down for a tini-tiny bit haha
October 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Ebird down for a tini-tiny bit haha
Going through my old photos and found this beautiful White-throated tit! One of the three Aegithalos tits (Long-tailed tits) in Nepal!
October 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Going through my old photos and found this beautiful White-throated tit! One of the three Aegithalos tits (Long-tailed tits) in Nepal!
Striated heron (previously) (Butorides straiate) from Asia is now the little Heron (B. atricaplilla)
This photo is from my last visit to Nepal!
Herons in the genus Butorides have been divided into:
Green Heron
Lava Heron
and the Little Heron
This photo is from my last visit to Nepal!
Herons in the genus Butorides have been divided into:
Green Heron
Lava Heron
and the Little Heron
October 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Striated heron (previously) (Butorides straiate) from Asia is now the little Heron (B. atricaplilla)
This photo is from my last visit to Nepal!
Herons in the genus Butorides have been divided into:
Green Heron
Lava Heron
and the Little Heron
This photo is from my last visit to Nepal!
Herons in the genus Butorides have been divided into:
Green Heron
Lava Heron
and the Little Heron
I thought I was supposed to get to new lifers today
Mangrove Warbler and one of the warbling vireos...Ended up losing 2 lifers instead haha probably something from Asia?
Mangrove Warbler and one of the warbling vireos...Ended up losing 2 lifers instead haha probably something from Asia?
October 28, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I thought I was supposed to get to new lifers today
Mangrove Warbler and one of the warbling vireos...Ended up losing 2 lifers instead haha probably something from Asia?
Mangrove Warbler and one of the warbling vireos...Ended up losing 2 lifers instead haha probably something from Asia?
I finally got my Smith's Longspur (Lifer) last week...
Saw this SMLO in a Flock of LALOs...good thing I saw the white patch!
Saw this SMLO in a Flock of LALOs...good thing I saw the white patch!
October 25, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I finally got my Smith's Longspur (Lifer) last week...
Saw this SMLO in a Flock of LALOs...good thing I saw the white patch!
Saw this SMLO in a Flock of LALOs...good thing I saw the white patch!
I finally got my Smith's Longspur (Lifer) last week...
Saw this SMLO in a Flock of LALOs...good thing I saw the white patch!
Saw this SMLO in a Flock of LALOs...good thing I saw the white patch!
October 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I finally got my Smith's Longspur (Lifer) last week...
Saw this SMLO in a Flock of LALOs...good thing I saw the white patch!
Saw this SMLO in a Flock of LALOs...good thing I saw the white patch!