Will DeMott

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We lost roughly $1 million in funding without warning. Projects cancelled included all of our bird monitoring work for the National Park Service & projects w/ the Bureau of Land Management on Gunnison's Sage-Grouse, Pinyon Jays & more. 1/4

And if I have a soul, then it’s a little piece of this amazing harmony. This spirit.. and if I have this, so does this beautiful fly, and so does this tree that we are sitting on.” -Jane Goodall (3/3)

That’s how we’re brought up. Something must have a name. But I tried very hard in that moment to just think of it as a being, as part of this natural beautiful tapestry of life. And so for me, it’s as though it’s one connected whole me and the wilderness, the wildlife around me. (2/3)

“I remember sitting in the forest one day and this beautiful fly that I have not seen before settled down on my knee. I looked at it. And my mind immediately says:, its a fly. As soon as you say it’s a fly, you take away from the magic. And yet we can’t help but do it. (1/3)

Digital painting of an overcast sky, grey-blue clouds of different shapes overlapping on a pale blue and white canvas.

We report on a dark morning: we have trouble looking away from the clouds because of how windy it is there. Each minute of moving sky contains a day, with layers of greys flying over our head at different speeds, an Etch A Sketch resetting faster than we can register.

Truly impressive number of birds migrating tonight. More than 800 MILLION birds up in the air right now❗ #BirdMigration

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🪶 Today, more than 1/3 of the federal grant $$ we were relying on to finance our science & conservation work in 2025 is paused w/ no indication of when, or if, we will be able to access it again. Your tax-deductible donation helps us weather this period of uncertainty. birdpop.org/pages/do... 1/2

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Hello Bluesky 👋 here’s a Snowy Owl I saw on new years eve 🦉