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BeaknikPoetry 🐦
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Bird and nature photography, citizen science, biking, located in Finland. Motto: "As long as there's hope, there's hope." Born at 323 ppm.
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Arto Maatta @artom.bsky.social · 1d
Little Owl at Marsden Quarry today. I was trying to find a Yellow-browed Warbler that had been seen there earlier when I realised that I was myself a target of intense surveillance. #NEbirding @durhambirdclub.bsky.social @teesbirds.bsky.social 🪶
Little Owl sitting on a branch and staring at me.
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BeaknikPoetry 🐦 @beaknikpoetry.bsky.social · 2d
Young Honey Buzzard right above me, southern Finland.
#BirdsSeenIn2025 🪶🦅🇫🇮 #NaturePhotography
#BirdsOfPrey
A Honey Buzzard flying in the blue sky.
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Jan Null, CCM @ggweather.bsky.social · 3d
Conditions were too good tonight, with clear skies and a late moonrise, to not chase the Milky Way. It was definitiely worth the trip. Pigeon Point Light Station State Historic Park, 10/11/2025. (Tech notes: Nikon D850, 22mm, f3.2, iso 800, single 20 sec exposure)
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 5d
Like a canary in coal mine…
More than half of world’s bird species in decline, as leaders meet on extinction crisis
Biodiversity losses are growing, the IUCN reports as summit opens, but green turtle’s recovery ‘reminds us conservation works’
www.theguardian.com
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John McGowan @jmc223.bsky.social · 6d
A Nuthatch at Pepper Wood near Bromsgrove Worcestershire UK - 06-10-25 #birds #ukbirding #uknature #ukwildlife #nature #ornithology #photography #birdphotography #canon #naturephotography
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BeaknikPoetry 🐦 @beaknikpoetry.bsky.social · 5d
A Pied Wheatear taking off, a pretty rare visitor in Finland. 🪶🐦 #BirdsSeenIn2025
#NaturePhotography
A Pied Wheatear flying off from the top of a rowan tree.
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BeaknikPoetry 🐦 @beaknikpoetry.bsky.social · 10d
Blink and you'll miss it. A migrating Peregrine Falcon speeding by. #BirdsSeenIn2025 🇫🇮🪶🦅
#NaturePhotography
A Peregrine Falcon against the blue sky.
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Kate Raworth @kateraworth.bsky.social · 13d
Big Doughnutty News.
Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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BeaknikPoetry 🐦 @beaknikpoetry.bsky.social · 12d
Oh la la, Lullula arborea. Or a migrating Woodlark. Finland.
#BirdsSeenIn2025 🇫🇮🪶🐦
#NaturePhotography
#bluesky
A Woodlark flying in the blue sky.
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David Element @davidelement.bsky.social · 15d
A Cetti's Warbler Cettia cetti on a branch of the storm-felled Horse Chestnut Aesculus hippocastanum in a small London park this morning. Since this tree was toppled by Storm Henk on 2nd January 2024, I have photographed 30 species of #birds on its branches.
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BeaknikPoetry 🐦 @beaknikpoetry.bsky.social · 16d
A migrating Sparrowhawk looking for a quick takeaway meal, Finland.
#BirdsSeenIn2025 🪶🇫🇮
#NaturePhotography
A Sparrowhawk gliding in the sky with wings spread.
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BeaknikPoetry 🐦 @beaknikpoetry.bsky.social · 19d
Nutcracker, not quite as cracking a photo that I was aiming at, but sometimes you just have to settle for less. That's birding I guess 😅
#BirdsSeenIn2025 #NaturePhotography 🪶🇫🇮
A Nutcracker perched on a birch branch.
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 21d
A 7% decline in English birds in just 5 years is astonishing

The web of life is unravelling fast
Wild bird numbers continue to fall in UK with some species in ‘dramatic freefall’
Species index fell by 4% between 2019 and 2024 – although data shows woodland populations beginning to stabilise
www.theguardian.com
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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · 22d
1/ The Wild Bird Indicators, using BTO data, have been updated today by Defra! ⬇️

Sadly, the ‘all bird species’ index, comprising the population trends of 130 species, has been in a slow continuous decline in the UK since the 1970s, down by 18% and by 4% in the last five years. 📉 #Ornithology
Image of two Turtle Doves perching on branches over water, one leans down to take a drink. Wording to the left reads: Wild Bird Indicators. For populations in the UK and England, 1970 to 2024. Out now!
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Miguel A. Gómez-Serrano @gomezserrano-ma.bsky.social · 22d
🚨 New paper out in Biological Conservation 🎉
The article focuses on the legislative gap in addressing the impacts of pets on wildlife and the opportunities for bridging the gap between animal welfare and nature conservation laws in the EU framework.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Vamsi @vamzphotos.bsky.social · 23d
a rare sighting - an Austral Pygmy Owl on a rainy morning. These birds are found only in the Patagonia region of Argentina & Chile.

#birds #owl #australpygmyowl
#argentina #patagonia #nikon
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Pat Collins @pcinnm.bsky.social · 24d
American Bittern, Bitter Lake NWR, Chaves Co., NM (09/17/25)
#Birds #NaturePhotography
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BeaknikPoetry 🐦 @beaknikpoetry.bsky.social · 24d
A Great White Egret and a hot-air balloon, Baltic coast, South of Finland 🪶🇫🇮 #BirdsSeenIn2025 #NaturePhotography
A Great White Egret flying with a dark blue and red hot-air balloon in the background.
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Alida Cantor @alidacantor.bsky.social · 25d
Amazing Swift show tonight in Portland!
Every year migrating Vaux's swifts gather by the thousands and roost in chimneys like this SE Portland elementary school. And neighbors come out to watch them and cheer them on. It's a true delight.
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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 26d
Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
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Peter du Toit @peterdutoit.com · 26d
Crossing 2°C is 97% certain (UNEP, 2024)

IPCC SR1.5 (2018): “Coral reefs … projected to decline by 70–90% at 1.5°C (high confidence), with larger losses (>99%) at 2°C.”

Perry et al. 2025: “If warming exceeds 2°C, nearly all reefs (≥99%) will be eroding by 2100.

www.nature.com/artic...
Projected changes in reef accretion potential and resulting increases in water depth at 2040, 2060 and 2100 under various SSP emission scenarios.
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BeaknikPoetry 🐦 @beaknikpoetry.bsky.social · Sep 14
An Osprey, looking rather resentfully at me 😅. South of Finland #BirdsSeenIn2025 🪶🦅🇫🇮 #NaturePhotography
An Osprey with wings spread, looking straight at the camera.
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Felix W. Moll @mollfw.bsky.social · Sep 11
New paper on precise tool use learning in carrion crows @currentbiology.bsky.social. We show that—like New Caledonian crows—expert carrion crows pay close attention to the working end of their tool, suggesting tool integration into their peripersonal space. 🧵 & vids! 👇

www.cell.com/current-biol...
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BeaknikPoetry 🐦 @beaknikpoetry.bsky.social · Sep 11
A European Goldfinch and a bumblebee, late summer days, South of Finland #BirdsSeenIn2025 #NaturePhotography 🪶🇫🇮
A European Goldfinch perched on a weed while a bumblebee is flying by in the background.
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Peter Nguyen @dptbirder.bsky.social · Sep 8
Pomarine Jaeger on Monday to remind everyone not to let capitalism be a kelptoparasite of your time

You own your time and no one else. And if you want to see birds… GO SEE BIRDS!

Happy Fall Migration to those who celebrate 🥰

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Pomarine Jaeger in flight portrait
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