Bird Poop Thread 1: About Bird Poop !

[deaconson]

Hell know! Start an all animals but birds thread.

<sad face> all animals matter...

 

[DeaconSoDear]

Murmuration of starlings is pretty good

 

[OldGouldandBlack]

Oh hell yeah we’re getting into terms of venery.

 

[OldGouldandBlack]

 

[ConnorEl]

Cool photo

From this article:

International Garden Photographer of the Year competition 2023​

 

[birdman]

Possibly the greatest twitter thread of all time:

 

[TimmyClutch]

There is a Steller’s Sea Eagle that has been sighted in Maine. Due to the rarity of such a bird being in America, let alone on the East coast, I can only imagine everyone is looking to book tickets as soon as they can. I have not been this amped up since the Plover sighting of ‘22.

 

[ConnorEl]

Woodpeckers went nuts, stashing 700 pounds of acorns in the wall of a California home​

 

[birdman]

There is a Steller’s Sea Eagle that has been sighted in Maine. Due to the rarity of such a bird being in America, let alone on the East coast, I can only imagine everyone is looking to book tickets as soon as they can. I have not been this amped up since the Plover sighting of ‘22.

He’s actually been around New England since 2021. They think it’s the same bird that was spotted in Alaska, then Vancouver, then Texas, then Massachusetts and then in Maine and Nova Scotia over the last 2 years. It’s been in Maine and Nova Scotia pretty consistently for a long while.

 

[Biff Tannen]

This is what I'm talking about.

 

[OldGouldandBlack]

A friend/former colleague made this story map of Alachua County's birding history.

Mapping Alachua County's Birding History

This StoryMap explores notable people and places in Alachua County's birding history and the stories behind some of today's birding hotspots

storymaps.arcgis.com

 

[OldGouldandBlack]

We are canceling Audubon (racist).

 

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[OldGouldandBlack]

 

[birdman]

Fuck:

Avian influenza kills 18 condors near Utah, complicates efforts to save endangered species

The avian influenza outbreak is now taking a toll on efforts to save a severely endangered species found in Utah and other parts of the Southwest.

www.ksl.com

 

[OldGouldandBlack]

 

[deaconson]

Fuck:

Avian influenza kills 18 condors near Utah, complicates efforts to save endangered species

The avian influenza outbreak is now taking a toll on efforts to save a severely endangered species found in Utah and other parts of the Southwest.

www.ksl.com

G damn red states probably trying ivermectin.

 

[birdman]

Fledgling loggerhead shrike photo I took this morning! Mom or dad brought over an anole lizard and all three babies started shrieking and fluttering their wings.

 

[OldGouldandBlack]

It escaped! (we think)

Peregrine falcon snatches puffin at Bempton Cliffs

Photographer Dan Howe says the aerial encounter on the East Yorkshire coast was "very dramatic".

www.bbc.com

 

[OldGouldandBlack]

Currently have a researcher in studying the "gendering of birds" and she has a big Audubon out but not THE Audubon we have -- just Ornithological Biography. Still probably worth a lot.