Yes I can see the photo as a large gull, just the colouring looked so dark. But that could just be a photographic effect. I find identifying birds from photos often quite challenging! My eyes looking through binoculars see them quite differently!
Maybe juvenile Parasitic from the wing pattern? @jerthorp.bsky.social
B.C. is bracing for another round of heavy rain on Monday.
The Fraser Valley could see rising rivers, renewed flooding, and more road closures.
https://ow.ly/688O50XJVmj
Trees along a body of water are blanketed in snow. People stand in winter clothes and tall buildings in the background are partially obscured by the snowy haze. Photo by Janice Chung for The New York Times
Central Park was under a canvas of snow Sunday morning, with its trees, meadows and pathways frosted in a wintry icing after New York City’s first big snowfall of the season. trib.al/1iP7AJr
This is nice to hear - Bill
Merilees was an enthusiastic & knowledgeable naturalist, active for many many years in nature education for all. He was a longtime member of #bcnature (Federation of BC Naturalists). I shall check out the platform when next in #nanaimo 😊
The stock market slumped to its worst one-day showing since tariffs roiled markets in April, as President Trump threatened to impose more tariffs on Chinese imports.
📽️ WATCH: Epidemiologist Erin McCanlies spent much of the past 20 years studying how parents’ exposure to toxic chemicals affects the chances that they will have an autistic child.
RFK Jr. cut her entire division — yet promises to identify the causes of autism by September: https://propub.li/4nhXQua
An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade
Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’
Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s decision to cancel nearly half a billion dollars in federal funding for mRNA vaccine development is the "most dangerous public health decision" ever, epidemiologist Michael Osterholm said.
Canadian researchers solve 12-year mystery of sea star wasting disease cheknews.ca/canadian-res...
DOGE recently gained high-level access to a database that controls government payments and loans to farmers and ranchers across the U.S.
Researchers told Nature that long-term threats to science at Harvard University are likely to remain no matter what happens in the legal battle between the university and the Trump administration. #Academicsky 🧪
Our village street used to be a-shriek with swifts.
Today, there isn't a single one.
Please ask your MP to support the Swift Brick amendment to the Planning & Infrastructure Bill.
#SwiftBricks #MandateForSwiftBricks
#SwiftsNeedUs #NatureNeedsYou
Nice video!
'Needed to get home': Central Saanich woman seeks compensation after being denied boarding flight home cheknews.ca/needed-to-ge...
Here in Delta, BC, Canada we have a casual birding group that offers morning walks twice a week and sometimes also on Saturdays. They are popular with retired people and part-time workers. Birdwatching is the focus & we go to different locations each week. #deltanaturalists
Amazing!!! 🌸🌸🌸🌸
North 40 park, Delta, British Columbia #cityofdeltabc
“DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars.”
@joshtpm.bsky.social
Here’s the real reason why DOGE is gutting the IRS.
(Hint: it has nothing to do with “efficiency.”)
I’m kicking off my book tour for my forthcoming book NATURE NEEDS YOU - The Fight To Save Our Swifts on 27th April with the wonderful Winchester Book Festival. Will you come? Will you join the fight to #SaveOurSwifts (tickets and info below)
winchesterbooksfestival.com/events/hanna...
Image of a world map showing the journey of Cuckoo Tom when he hitched a ride on a cruise ship. Arrows show the ships journey from West Africa to the Atlantic Ocean, across to the coast of South America, past Puerto Rico, the United States, up to Iceland and to the UK. A headshot of Cuckoo Tom features, alongside the wording: Tagged, Norfolk 2023. Current location: UK. Mode of transport: cruise ship. Outline of a cruise ship in white sits over the ocean. BTO logo features top right of the image.
One of our satellite-tagged Cuckoos has hitched a ride on a cruise ship and is now in the UK, the earliest one of our superstar Cuckoos has ever reached us! 😮🛥️🧵
Joelle Pineau will leave the company in May. Pineau's successor remains unclear.
NEW: Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.
Amber Ruffin had been scheduled to perform at the prestigious gathering of political journalists on April 26 in Washington, D.C.
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside Tesla dealerships and showrooms across the United States on March 29, protesting against CEO Elon Musk’s role with Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and demanded he leave his ‘unelected’ role in the Trump administration.
A top vaccine advisor at the FDA was forced to resign on Friday. In his resignation letter, Dr. Peter Marks, wrote "truth and transparency are not desired," by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Joy Marver, in a green hoodie, standing in front of the American flag. Text reads: "'It's like being erased out of thin air.' Joy Marver spent 22 years in service to the U.S. government before being fired and locked out of her office at the Department of Veterans Affairs." Photo by Erin Schaff/The New York Times
A veteran who returned injured from Iraq continued serving by working for the VA. She now faces a crisis at home, after the Department of Government Efficiency’s cuts targeted her job. nyti.ms/4hN4q8d
