Comic. [3-column table with headers Period, My Favorite Part, and My Biggest Complaint] [Row 1] P: *Precambrian*, MFP: Life develops, MBC: Snowball Earth episodes [Row 2] P: Cambrian, MFP: Trilobites!, MBC: Evolution could stand to calm down a little [Row 3] P: Ordovician, MFP: Earth might have had rings, MBC: Scary volcanic eruption in North America [Row 4] P: Silurian, MFP: First land animals, MBC: Earth’s newfound mold problem [Row 5] P: Devonian, MFP: Big mountains in Boston, MBC: Yeah, sure, what those giant killer fish needed was *armor* [Row 6] P: Carboniferous, MFP: Cool forests, MBC: Bugs too big [Row 7] P: Permian, MFP: Pangea, MBC: Google “The Great Dying” [Row 8] P: Triassic, MFP: Tanystropheus [dinosaur with extremely long neck next to tiny person for scale], MBC: Damage to Canada still visible from space at Manicouagan [Row 9] P: Jurassic, MFP: Birds, MBC: Parasitoid wasps [Row 10] P: Cretaceous, MFP: Raptors, MBC: Raptors [Row 11] P: Paleogene, MFP: Pretty horseys!!!, MBC: Paleocene-eocene thermal maximum [Row 12] P: Neogene, MFP: Forests of *Dracaena* Dragonblood Trees, MBC: Zanclean Flood [Row 13] P: Quaternary, MFP: Burrito invented, MBC: Whoever picked this name for the third period of the Cenozoic

Geologic Periods

xkcd.com/3120/

The cover of a book called The Birding Dictionary: A Tongue-in-cheek guide for people who find themselves obsessed, against all logic and reason, with birds, with a quote from David Sibley that says "Best. Dictionary. Ever" and a drawing of a Vermilion Flycatcher pooping on a pair of binoculars.

Do you like birds? My new book THE BIRDING DICTIONARY is out today wherever you buy books! This little book is deeply silly and full of love, and I hope you'll laugh and maybe enjoy an obscure fact or two.

Might be - might not 😁

I see them!!! Liar!🤣

Petition: Increase funding for people with Parkinson’s and implement the "Parky Charter" We want the government to take the decisive five steps set out in the Movers and Shakers' "Parky Charter" and to fulfil the Health Secretary’s promises.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71... After just 2.5 days we’re not far short of 10,000 signatures on the #ParkyCharter petition - please sign and share

All kinds of wildlife situations are reported to Wildlife Rescue, this is one of the more unusual cases!⁠ 🦆⁠
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This Mallard seemed to have a stick impaled in his side. We had prepared to send him for surgery but the medical team found the stick was actually stuck around him, like a harness!⁠

If you're in the Great Lakes area (Canada or US) and you've got some volunteer time to identify and count #birds and/or #amphibians, the Marsh Monitoring Program needs you! Sign up in Feb for monitoring in the spring www.birdscanada.org/gl_mmp

What a lovely talk. Ao interesting to listen to both of you. Please, do it again. I so enjoy learning with u

Hard to say: maybe seeing my first wild Snowy Owl and my first wild American Pelicans. Last spring 4 lifers in 4 minutes with rock wren, canyon wren, chukar and Brewers Sparrow - always Orcas and the first twin baby sandhill cranes that both grew up under my watch 🥰.

#CBC #christmasbirdcount2024 finished first Christmas Bird Count of the season. Whopping 86 species in my area in Ladner/Delta BC. Best result for a long time. Nothing super crazy but a great variety.

How Christmas Bird Counts Help Shape Science One hundred and twenty two years of Christmas bird counts is helping track changes in bird behavior.

Today marks the start of the 125th annual Christmas Bird Count!

To help you prepare, check out this conversation from 2022 about how long-term records aid scientists in tracking changing bird patterns.

Hab bereits die Gleiche Erfahrung gemacht. Bin mit relativ wenig Energie unter den Klassenbesten im Moment. Lerngruppen sind ok aber nicht mein Favorit, Mathe stimmt!!! Motivationen stimmt auch und ich finde wir sind anders organisiert und effizienter.

Ich bin an einem Forschungsprojekt für Kolibris in Kanada beteiligt und beginne ein zweites im kommenden Frühjahr.

Du machst mir mut, ich hab das gleiche vor mit Biologie/ Oekologie

Ja ‘Green Apple’ als Haarwaschmittel und Conditioner

Ja gibts noch - jedenfalls hier in Kanada

Klingt vllt komisch, aber wenn sie älter ist, Blasenentzündung abklären lassen. Hatte ich im Bekanntenkreis so.

Äirfendwann so mit 35 oder so, naja jetzt bin ich 48 🙈

Der Bruch 1/2 mit Wolken geschrieben auf blauem Himmel.

Oh nein! Ein Wolkenbruch!

#snx

@littlepanda.bsky.social danke noch mal - bin heil angekommen 😁