Tim O'Connell

Dankjewel voor het delen van zo'n fantastische foto!

^I think this thanks you for sharing such a terrific photograph, Mary, but my Dutch is only as accurate as Google Translate's.
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Thanks Joachim 😊🍀.

Look what I did there 🙃😉

Ship assistance in North American landbirds in the Western Palearctic To the end of 2023, a total of 3,084 individual North American landbirds of 94 taxa had been recorded in the Western Palearctic. The most frequent of these...

End of 2023, a total of 3,084 North American landbirds of 94 taxa had been recorded in the Western Palearctic. The most frequent of these species include Red-eyed Vireo, American Pipit & Yellow-billed Cuckoo

Read more: britishbirds.co.uk/journal/arti...

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So far, 26 people liked, but did not share, this wonderful photo.

Repost here = like elsewhere. Sharing is caring; WE are the algorithm here.

PLEASE: BlueSkyers, get in the habit of reposting ANYTHING you see that is potentially interesting.

#BirdsSeenIn2026

#Rode_Wouw
#Milvus_milvus
#Red_Kite in the #Netherlands .

#Vogels #Birds

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@britishnatureguide.bsky.social

The exchange of weeds is thought to play a role in reinforcing the bond between the pair while also forming part of the early stages of nest-building behaviour. By presenting vegetation, the birds rehearse the gathering of material that will soon be used to construct their floating nest among reeds or aquatic plants.The performance rarely lasts long. After the upright dance, the pair settle again onto the water, drifting apart before resuming their quiet patrol of the lake.

The exchange of weeds is thought to play a role in reinforcing the bond between the grebes while forming part of the early stages of nest-building behaviour.

#ukbirding #BirdOfTheDay #ThePhotoHour #BirdsSeenIn2026 #wildlifephotography #PhotographersOfBluesky #BlueskyPhotography #ukwildlife #birds

I think we should allow Trump to choose Iran’s next leader as long as the rest of us can choose America’s. Because it’s clearly far too important a job to be left in the hands of Americans.

A curious otter peers out at me from the bankside of the River Devon in #Clackmannanshire

Grosbeak Weaver, Kisoro, Uganda markscheflen.com #weavers #birdsofafrica #grosbeaks #birdsseenin2026 #bitdsofeastafrica #kisoro #seedeaters. #biodiversity #conservationphotography #grosbeakweavers

Humpback whale recovery is changing who fathers the calves A new study shows that as humpback whale populations recover from past whaling, older males are gaining a major advantage in reproduction. Early in the recovery, breeding groups were dominated by…

Humpback whale recovery is changing who fathers the calves www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... 🧪🦑🌎

Marsupials previously thought extinct for millennia discovered in New Guinea The chances of finding one mammal species thought to be lost was ‘almost zero’ and finding two is ‘unprecedented’, biologist Tim Flannery says

Celebrate the positive when it comes along:
Two charismatic marsupial species that had been thought extinct for 6,000 years are alive in rainforest in remote West Papu
www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🧪

Cover image of the 5 March 2026 issue of Science Magazine. Koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus), such as this mother and 7-month-old joey from Queensland, Australia, embody a genetic paradox. Populations rich in diversity are declining, whereas those with little variation are expanding and rapidly reshuffling their genomes. These findings reveal that diversity alone does not determine resilience. Instead, a population’s fate depends on several evolutionary processes unfolding across generations.

Genome sequencing in 418 koalas from 27 populations across Australia shows that, though they still have low diversity due to past decline, there are clear signs genetic recovery is underway.
Escaping bottlenecks: The demographic path to genetic recovery in koalas www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🐨🧬😊🧪

Don't know that I've ever had a county record for a bird; maybe I'm supposed to be butterflying?!

A new Love Island? Berry bloom leads to baby boom for New Zealand’s goofiest parrot A massive bloom of rimu berries fueled a mating surge among the world’s heaviest (and strangest) parrots

Trust me, you don't want to miss the incredible photos of these goobers: 🧪 🪶 www.scientificamerican.com/article/kaka...

Revisiting Europe's temperate forests: Palaeoecological evidence for an herbivory-driven woodland-grassland mosaic biome Understanding the pre-Homo sapiens baseline of the temperate forest biome is crucial for interpreting present-day biodiversity patterns, ecosystem fun…

🧪 how very fascinating. I always think of early Europe as vast woodlands (no doubt primed by fiction).

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

That time I contributed to butterfly science!

open.substack.com/pub/tinosaur...

#biodiversity #iNaturalist #lepidoptera #ZebraSwallowtail #Oklahoma #wildlife

Thank you #Anthropic for standing up to the bully in chief!

This is the front cover of the new edition of @thelancet.com (thanks to @profstevegriffin.bsky.social for sharing) #HealthPolicy #Science 🧪🧵

With colleagues across ornithological societies and led by Nathan #Thayer, Ashley #Dayer, and Dai #Shizuka, I'm happy to share this first publication from some collaborative research we began in 2022 to study the role of #belonging in #ornithology: lnkd.in/gYGQzHer.

A King Rail in marshy reeds.

#BirdOfTheDay
birds in their element
photo by David Chernoff

A King Rail hiding in marsh reeds - certainly in its element.

A Red-Bellied Woodpecker at a bird feeder keeps a eye on the sky above, alert for the appearance of a hawk

Keeping an eye on the hawk🪶

Dipper at Nethy Bridge #birds #ukwildlife

Anticipation in birding I see value in taking your time

The TL:DR? I finally saw some real, Alberta–Texas #WhoopingCranes in #Oklahoma!

Actually, it's not all that long, and you might enjoy reading. ; >
open.substack.com/pub/tinosaur...

#birding #ConservationSuccess #ESA #USFWS #wildlife

Matching sounds to shapes: Evidence of the bouba-kiki effect in naïve baby chicks Humans across multiple languages spontaneously associate the nonwords “kiki” and “bouba” with spiky and round shapes, respectively, a phenomenon named the bouba-kiki effect. To explore the origin of t...

“Humans across multiple languages spontaneously associate the nonwords kiki & bouba with spiky & round shapes, respectively...We tested the bouba-kiki effect in baby chickens. Similar to humans, they spontaneously chose a spiky shape when hearing a kiki sound & a round shape when hearing a bouba.”😲🧪

2,500-year-old 'primitive prosthetic' found on jaw of mummified Scythian woman who survived complex jaw surgery Researchers used CT scans to peer inside a partially mummified skull and discovered the woman survived jaw surgery 2,500 years ago.

This CT-scan discovery of an ancient prosthetic in a Pazyryk woman's jaw is super interesting -- I hope the researchers fully publish it soon. But in the meantime, read my story about it! 🧪🏺

Photo of a tree branch bearing large, palmately lobed leaves on long petioles. A cluster of green-turning-red globose fuits are borne close to the stem. Hands are visible holding the branch.

Pourouma cecropiifolia (📷: michel_cortest CCBYNC4) has leaves like those of its cousin Cecropia, but the fruits are very different. The fruits don’t coalesce to form multiple fruits. This species is from the Neotropics. #Urticaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Here's another example: "likes" outnumber "reposts" by 3:1.

We The People... are the algorithm here at #BlueSky. We've got to normalize reposting over merely liking, or this place is never going to level-up to something like #ScienceTwitter once was.

#Repost
#Repost=Like
#WeAreTheAlgorithm

Killer tortoises! I showed this in my island biology lecture yesterday and it shocked the students 😱 Here's the paper describing the behaviour: www.cell.com/current-biol... 🧪🌏

U.S. FDA reverses course, will review Moderna's modified flu vaccine application Moderna said on Wednesday the U.S. Food and ⁠Drug Administration has agreed to review its influenza vaccine application, reversing an ​earlier decision.

The FDA has reversed course and told Moderna it would review its application for a new flu vaccine. 🧪 🛟

A good reminder to KEEP THE PRESSURE ON.

www.cnbc.com/2026/02/18/u...