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Hey #envhist! Parks Canada is ending its library services+ “decommissioning” its collection. We stand to lose a valuable set of materials that reveal if and how the Agency fulfilled its mandate (or didn’t). Read more here+write the Minister @juliedabrusin.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2026/03/10/c...

Ding-dong! The Dutch Fish Doorbell needs you to help migrating fish A Dutch lock is closed for the spring, and its employees want you to tell them when migrating fish come knocking by ringing a digital doorbell

A Dutch lock is closed for the spring, and its employees want you to tell them when migrating fish come knocking by ringing a digital doorbell

Hand holding a bird study skin of an oriole

Of course, I dug into the bins of birds and exchanged emails with a retired ornithologist for hot tips on where to find wood ducks at the end of March.

Child standing at a table on which some taxidermy specimens of birds are placed, as well as a bin of bird study skins of ducks.

I recently joined the Peterborough Field Naturalists @ptbonature.bsky.social with my child and was happy to witness taxidermy as a tool for hands-on learning for the “junior naturalists” last weekend at Trent University. #animalhist
Most of the tags read “window collision” as cause of death.

Restoration ecology fieldwork is delightful and deeply creepy in equal measure.
#Histsci #envhist

Searching for Birds An interactive story about the birds that capture our curiosity, told through data, visuals and illustrations

Searching for Birds, an engaging visualization of eBird and Google Trends data that reveals human curiosity about birds. [searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com]

The Unruly Politics of Glitter In the visual arts, glitter has been used to make the presence of such marginalized identities impossible to overlook.

In the late 1930s, Henry Ruschmann patented a high-speed machine for cutting photographic prints, which produced small, glossy cellulose “schnibbles” as waste. His employees took these fragments home to use as artificial snow, and glitter was born.

Yes! I think I can make this. Sounds fantastic.

1/ The NYU Wild Animal Welfare Program is hiring a Postdoctoral Associate!

The NYU Wild Animal Welfare Program is currently seeking a postdoctoral associate to join an interdisciplinary research project focused on wild animals in urban environments.

CFP: The Invisible Image: Photography and the Unseen (Liverpool, 18-19 Jun 26)

https://arthist.net/archive/51566

Parakeets feeding on Welwyn barn wall display Amazonian behaviour Ornithologist Jack Baddams says the video is “really cool”.

“A flock of ring-necked parakeets that were filmed feasting on the wall of a 19th Century barn were echoing Amazonian feeding habits…near Welwyn in Hertfordshire.” [bbc.com]

Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in multiple ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

Mid century wood duck housing design! Four photographs demonstrating the design and installation of a galvanized metal pipe wood duck nest box. It’s got a cylinder base and a cone shape roof.

This booklet features info on the latest research on wood duck conservation using nest boxes, how to build and install them yourself, and various designs to do so.

Hand holding booklet “Housing for Wood Ducks,” published by the Illinois Natural History Survey (1953). On the cover is a painting of two Wood Ducks using an artificial bird nesting box made out of wood.

Currently reading the booklet “Housing for Wood Ducks,” published by the Illinois Natural History Survey (1953) and want to know more about the making, circulation, and use of natural history circulars from the mid cent. Any suggestions for readings/info on this topic? #envhist #histSTM

Wow! Congrats Simone!

We love the cover too! That’s an anonymous European red deer being transported from the Southern Alps of New Zealand by helicopter for the venison industry, c. 1970s. The photographer, Bryan Bassett-Smith has lots of harrowing stories involving tranquilizers, deer, helicopters

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Sharing some praise ☺️ “An essential and timely intervention. The authors demonstrate how global processes have always been more-than-human events and, by centering animals, they offer exciting, cutting-edge vantages on crucial global histories.”—Daniel Vandersommers

✨Globalizing Wildlife✨: A call to reconceptualize globalization and wildlife through their entanglements. The volume presents a range of geographically- and species-diverse case studies spanning from the 1870s to the present day to show that globalizing wildlife is far from a homogenous process.

Globalizing Wildlife Humans have always incorporated wildlife into processes of work, capture, and exchange. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, globalization became t...

So proud to have co-edited the forthcoming volume, “Globalizing Wildlife,” with @rafdebont.bsky.social and Tom Quick 🌎🌍🌏🐀🦜🦏🐅🦦 from @uncpress.bsky.social in their series Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges

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So many amazing humans contributed to this book, writing about all kinds of 🌎🌍🌏 animals: rhinos, chimps, parrots, horses, rats, monkeys, bees, otters, mongoose, tigers, elephants, pigeons, bears and more! #animalhist

Andy Goldsworthy. His work at the Getty Research Institute for the solstice oculus was destroyed by their sprinkler system …

Inside Goodall’s cabin at Gombe. Piles of books, skulls of apes and other animals, empty wine bottles and candles.

One of Goodall’s bookshelves, with a stuffed baboon toy.

Old chimp feeding station at Gombe.

Besides the chimps, the material legacy of her research there was especially memorable for me. Her cabin (and all the books, skulls, and objects collected by her and others over the years), her son “grub”’s house that kept him safe from the baboons, the old feeding station. #animalhist

Entranceway to Gombe National Park, Tanzania in 2019. “Care, conserve and protect for future generations”

Thinking about Jane Goodall, and grateful to have spent time at Gombe as a @anthropogeny.org graduate student in 2019.

Love the title!

These are incredible! Are they still used by p. martins or just for show now?

"This is an essential text for scholars working on environmental, animal, scientific, and segregation histories in South Africa and beyond". The first review of my book is out on Animal History. A big thank you to Mia Uys for this generous review.
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Self portrait of William Finley and Herman Bohlman with two golden eagles. The photographers sit at the edge of a large nest, five feet wide, where two young golden eagles sit. One holds a camera while the other a box of glass plates.

Sharing my fav photo from my research on the work of Herman Bohlman and William and Irene Finley: A self portrait with golden eagles, taken from 158 feet up a sycamore tree, 1904. #animalhist

Poster for “Interspecies Interactions in the Visual Arts (1550-1914) Collaborations, Experiments, Oppositions” international symposium held May 21-23, 2025.

Excited to talk #animalhist with other art historians today at the “Interspecies Interactions in the Visual Arts”symposium, org by @claralanger.bsky.social and Oriane Poret. I’ll be speaking about seeking a “bird’s eye view” in avian photography, and finding (un)wanted encounters.