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Meredith Swett Walker
@meredithswalker.bsky.social
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I am an unrepentant proselytizer for science & nature and inept watercolorist. Got a Ph.D. in bird behavior & hormones then morphed into a mom, science communicator and non-profit aide-de-camp. She/Her
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Dan Mennill @dmennill.bsky.social · 17h
Our Motus Audio recorders are picking up some unusual migratory activity this Halloween night... Scarlet Tanagers and Rose-breasted Grosbeaks passing over our night flight call microphones! 🎃🕊️ Keep your ears to the skies Natalie and Madison!
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Meredith Swett Walker @meredithswalker.bsky.social · 15h
a woman in a black shirt is pointing up at the word this in pink letters
ALT: a woman in a black shirt is pointing up at the word this in pink letters
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Meredith Swett Walker @meredithswalker.bsky.social · 16h
A legend really
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Meredith Swett Walker @meredithswalker.bsky.social · 16h
In Fruita, CO- Mike's hometown- we celebrate him annually with the "Mike the Headless Chicken Festival" 🪶
musicadamt.bsky.social Adam Music @musicadamt.bsky.social · 16h
The only headless bird anyone needs is Mike.
Mike the Headless Chicken lived for 18 months without his noggin.
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Christie Wilcox @nerdychristie.bsky.social · 2d
If you've ever crunched wintergreen life savers in the dark to see flashes of light, you already know about mechanoluminescence. Some materials work similarly that aren't crystals. That and more from @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti...
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Nate Swick-or-Treat @n8swick.bsky.social · 3d
Has anyone ever seen a hybrid of Blue-winged Teal and Green-winged Teal and why isn't it called a Teal-winged Teal?
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 4d
I've got some events coming up! Come say hi.

Lincoln MA, Nov 1: www.massaudubon.org/programs/dru...

Keene NH, Nov 15: harriscenter.org/conservation...

Sudbury MA, Nov 20: www.svtweb.org/outdoor-voic...
Upcoming events: Lincoln, MA, November 1, 2 pm: Book talk at Drumlin Farm (free!) Keene, NH, November 15: Keynote at Monadnock Region Natural History Conference Sudbury MA, Nov 20, 6:30 pm: Book talk for Sudbury Valley Trustees at Sudbury History Center (and there's an angry canada goose hissing at you)
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 4d
Apparently this weekend's rain really put the Ailanthus webworm moths in the mood. Photo from the new UT Hill Country Field Station.
Macro photograph of two elongate moths, sitting end-to-end on a purple flower spire, against a brilliant blue sky. The moths' wings are orange interrupted with black-margined white bubble markings.
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Janosch H. Irrlichtwinter @irrlichtwinter.bsky.social · 5d
Day 25 of #invertober
House Centipede

this is my third attempt at the leggy guy... too much segments for my end-of-month brain.

#invertober2025
drawing of a orange-beige centipede on green paper. There are lots of legs. Each leg is segmented. The centipede's body is segmented, too. Too much segmentation going on.
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Roxanne Darling 🍁 @roxannedarling.bsky.social · 8d
@theferocity.bsky.social !!!
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Meanwhile, somewhere in the beautiful province of British Columbia, 🍁Canada🇨🇦 #Canada #wildlife
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 8d
Halloween costume ideas for birders.
A comic called halloween costume ideas for birders. In panel 1, labeled easy, there's a person labeled northern cardinal wearing a party hat, a beak, and red clothes, and a person labeled roseate spoonbill wearing pink clothes and a wooden spoon on their nose. In panel 2, labeled harder, there's a person labeled merlin sound ID wearing a big green circle with a microphone modeled after the button on the merlin sound ID app, and a person labeled hybrid green x blue jay wearing a complex costume with a mask and robe and hat modeled after a recently discovered hybrid bird. In panel 3, labeled challenging, there's a person labeled baltimore oriole nest wearing an enormous accurate woven oriole nest suspended from their arms and shoulders, and a person labeled african jacana carrying chicks with a hideous costume of long-toed bird feet hanging from their armpits. In panel 4, labeled hot, there's a person labeled high quality spotting scope who is shirtless and is wearing a spotting scope mask on their head, and a person labeled sexy owl pellet wearing an owl pellet top and bottom with a mouse skull on their head.
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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 10d
Omg look at the outside 18 minutes ago!!!! 😭 😭

Zero edits. Straight from the camera. 🪶
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Peter Nguyen @dptbirder.bsky.social · 11d
RIGHT?!? Look at this mango with legs 💀
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Meredith Swett Walker @meredithswalker.bsky.social · 11d
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Michael Davis @miklextic.bsky.social · 11d
Liferpie! Common Black Hawk Spotted in Ventura County, CA! Way out of it's range!!! I'm literally shaking! #birds
A Black hawk with a strip of grey in the center of it's tail feathers perched on a telephone pole.
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Wilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · 11d
This is your periodic reminder that The Wilson Journal of #Ornithology can waive Open Access fees on a limited number of Review, Perspective, and/or Methods papers each year! Contact the journal editors with a presubmission inquiry if you're interested.
Call for Review, Perspective, or Methods Papers—Open Access Fees Waived
The Editors-in-Chief of The Wilson Journal of Ornithology invite prospective authors to submit presubmission inquiries for Review, Perspective, or Methods papers that we can publish Free Open Acces…
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 11d
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Meredith Swett Walker @meredithswalker.bsky.social · 12d
I do this too! Because I never have fresh ginger when I need it and when I try to stock it, it ends up withered in my fridge because I don’t use it fast enough.
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Molly Bangles @mollybangles.bsky.social · 13d
Look at these guys 🪶🌊

Long-billed Curlews, San Simeon CA, September 2025
Two Long-billed Curlews foraging on the beach - large shorebirds with long necks and impossibly long bills - in profile, facing each other, their down-curved bills forming two arks, also reflected on the wet sand
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Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 13d
San Diego California: Police Dept. thanks the citizens for peacefully protesting. Once again there were zero arrests.
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Meredith Swett Walker @meredithswalker.bsky.social · 13d
I love that!
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 13d
A woodcut of a bird beside the text "WHY WOULD WE LISTEN TO AN EXPERT INSTEAD OF A DUMB MOTHERFUCKER WHO TALKS REALLY LOUD"
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Jeremy BOO! Yoder 🎃💀🕷️ @jbyoder.org · 14d
On the one hand this Wilson's warbler (Cardellina pusilla, in Discovery Park this summer) is a strong candidate for trickiest bird I've photographed to date, but on the other hand, I've still never gotten a photo of an American Robin I'm totally happy with 🪶🌿

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A small mostly yellow passerine with black primaries and tail and a bit of a black cap just visible, perched on a twig among green leaves
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Meredith Swett Walker @meredithswalker.bsky.social · 14d
I’ve tried to grow these from seed but luck. I really want some!
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WildGorillaMan @wildgorillaman.bsky.social · Nov 24
There is power in disdain
Weird art of a frog riding a snail Text: Block hard, block often LET GOD READ THEIR SHIT
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