I cut my Neotropical birding teeth in Loja in the mid-1990s and the hornero's is just about the very first bird song I learned as it was such a prevalent sound, amazing that it is so under-represented in Macaulay! I think I might have one on cassette somewhere.
π¦ποΈ How did vibrant Amazonian parrot feathers end up in a desert tomb on the Pacific coast of Peru 1,000 years ago? Our new paper on @natcomms.nature.com reveals they didn't just trade feathers, pre-Inca societies transported live macaws and parrots across the Andes!π www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Praticamente gli USA sono diventati un regime teocratico guidato da un folle che sta bombardando un regime teocratico guidato da un folle con lβaiuto di un altro regime teocratico guidato da un folle.
Not a bug but a feature in this new war of choice. What Trump requires is a major terror attack on American soil prior to the midterm elections. Declared state of emergency. Disruptions in voting. Political dissent challenged and even prosecuted.
His war has primed the pump as intended.
Stop literally everything.
Steve Albini's Fugazi sessions, widely bootlegged and full of lore, now available officially for the first time.
fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini...
come for the first time in history that Ted Cruz and Purple Martin populations have been meaningfully linked, stay for the spectacular paper. Well done team!
The only North American record of the extinct Slender-billed Curlew Numenius tenuirostris Alexander L. Bond, Paige R. Langle Abstract An historical record of the extinct Slender-billed Curlew Numenius tenuirostris from Ontario, Canada, is quite exceptional, being the only North American record. Its inclusion in North American, Canadian, or Ontarian avifaunal lists is patchy, and the specimen has not been assessed against current identification criteria. We show that the specimen is extant, in the collection of the Buffalo Museum of Science, and is indeed a Slender-billed Curlew. Here, we compile the history of the specimen and its collector in the wider context of the ornithology of the Niagara Region.
New paper in @britornitholclub.bsky.social - Paige Langle and I highlight (and confirm the identity!) of the only North American record of the now-extinct Slender-billed Curlew (1/4) bioone.org/journals/bul... #ornithology
This is an absolute abomination.
The comment process is a little kludgy, but the link below is a great guide. It took me under a half hour to respond to both (hideous) proposals.
If you've ever looked up at the night sky in wonder, do this.
How great to hear Neapolitan on KEXP!
More hybrids. Today on the Texas coast. FulvousxBlack-bellied Whistling Duck. The barred rump is particularly intriguing.
18) Sweet et al. 2025. Repeated, irreversible evolution of ant-following behavior across Neotropical avian families. Evolution (doi.org/10.1093/evol...)
Barrington Levy performing Under Me Sensi on No. 73 in 1985. Yes, they had songs celebrating cannabis on kids TV back then. Also look out for Sandi Toksvig and Nicholas Parsons joining the audience for a joyous skank
putting this up in my room like a movie poster
Tempesta senza fine.
Il flusso perturbato che da un mese schiaffeggia mezza Europa non solo non si placa, ma Γ¨ intenzionato addirittura a rilanciare.
Tra giovedì e domenica due profonde depressioni atlantiche transiteranno sul vecchio continente coinvolgendo in maniera diretta anche l'Italia. 1/8
Some excellent goose watching in North Norfolk over the last week. A notable influx of White-fronted, Barnacle and Tundra Bean Geese joining the Pinkfeet flocks. The Netherlands is most likely the origin of these birds. Certainly livened up the grey weather.
βFour of my children just evaporated,β Badran said, holding back tears. βI looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?β
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
La gravitΓ del cambiamento climatico in un grafico.
Premessa per comprendere lβeccezionalitΓ del dato che sto per riportare.
Grazalema, in Andalusia, Γ¨ una delle localitΓ piΓΉ piovose della Spagna, in media cadono circa 1700 mm lβanno. 1/5
Best birding magazine out there
Give this a listen www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ssi... not sure I have heard anything genuinely new in music for 40 years. This is unclassifiable and brilliant
Sadly it is also used in an EasyJet add that plays before *every single video* I watch on youtube
βGenerative AI is going to be part of the infrastructure of authoritarianism. Stopping data center and fossil fuel plant construction is going to be antifascist work from here on out.β
I'm sure Elon Musk would not care that putting "a million satellites into orbit to form vast, solar-powered datacentres" would essentially end the utility of the celestial compass for animal navigation π·π¦ββ¬ππ
I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what
A field guide to the East Asian-Australasian Flyway, edited by Yong Ding Li and Sayam Chowdhury, expected December 2026.
Coming soon around December 2026: the first book I've ever contributed to!
Great job Gunnar and colleagues. This is the frustration and beauty of working with tropical diversity, and it is also the tragedy that we are losing so much diversity before observing and describing it. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Read every word of that exchange.
There is no doubt of their intention.
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Rusty Lark rediscovered in Chad, after 94 years!
Superchunk did a really nice cover of this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNTH...
One of the world's best birds, no joke.
That one pintail looking like it showed up at the wrong party.
