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Tr Tom @heyteachertom.bsky.social · 1d

Birds of the Pacific Northwest for Kids, out today! @timberpress.bsky.social
#birds #fieldguides #birdsofthepnwforkids

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 1d

Your moment of calm: A white-tailed kite hunting above the Tomales Bay Trail, near Point Reyes Station.

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Bird Alliance of Oregon @birdallianceoregon.bsky.social · 2d

Save the date for 45th annual Wild Arts Festival at Wingspan Event Center in Hillsboro on December 6 & 7!

Just in time for the holidays, you can purchase nature-inspired art, meet some of your favorite authors, and find great items in the Silent Auction.

👉Tickets on sale: www.wildartsfestival.org

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Dexter Patterson aka Wisco Birder @wiscobirder.bsky.social · 5d

Get your copy today! 📖🫶🏾🪶

timberpress.com/titles/dexte...

A joyful collage celebrating Birds of the Great Lakes by Dexter Patterson. The compilation includes photos of readers smiling and holding the green pocket-sized book in various cozy and everyday settings. In the top row, a mother and child pose with their copy while wearing blue caps, a woman reads the book with glasses on, and a photo shows the book beside a whipped-cream-topped iced coffee. The middle rows feature close-up shots of the book’s cover, readers relaxing with it, an open page showing a “Snowy Owl” spread, and a curious basset hound staring at the camera while someone holds the book. The collage also includes images of readers posting about their preorders and sharing excitement online, along with the repeated text “Birds of the Great Lakes” in green lettering. The overall tone is warm, enthusiastic, and community-focused, showing people and pets enjoying the new bird guide across different moments and places.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 9d

Portland... such a hard-scrabble hellscape there's hardly time to look out for wasps and put up signs so everybody can get along... let alone hand draw the wasp amid all the chaos...

CAUTION in all caps on a sign with a hand-drawn illo of a wasp, attached to a piece of wood carefully positioned inside an orange caution cone.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 11d

Your moment of calm this morning, in totally unwartorn Portland. Cedar waxwings lit by the sun, preening on branches.

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Bird Alliance of Oregon @birdallianceoregon.bsky.social · 13d

Big legal victory for the Streaked Horned Lark! A federal judge ruled that the USFWS’s decision to list the bird as “threatened” instead of “endangered” was unlawful. This decision offers new hope that the lark will finally receive the stronger safeguards it urgently needs. bit.ly/StreakedHorn...

Legal Victory Puts Streaked Horned Lark on Path to Greater Endangered Species Protections

In response to a lawsuit by the Center for Biological Diversity and Bird Alliance of Oregon, a federal judge found that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s 2022 determination that the streaked horned...

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 16d

With AI, the race to hedge bets, or outright say stupid shit like "we're like the dinosaurs before the asteroid, we need to adapt", is so incredibly dangerous because the stakes are so high across multiple industries and also involve theft, excessive resource usage, etc. 6/?

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 17d

Spooky season approaches, so I'm going to repost some of my Halloween comics from years past.

A four panel comic called Happy Halloween From The Birds. In panel 1, a pileated woodpecker has pecked its huge gaping rectangular holes in a pumpkin. In panel 2, a yellow-bellied sapsucker has pecked a face using its standard rows of small holes. In panel 3, a satin bowerbird has carved a pumpkin into a bower and placed its favorite blue candies all around it. In panel 4, a loggerhead shrike has impaled mini pumpkins on a fence's metal spikes and is saying "fight me."

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Sarah Swanson @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social · 16d

How dare it, honestly.

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Sarah Swanson @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social · 17d

It’s maybe my favorite part. (1 of 8 boxes)
It’s not hoarding if there are cute boxes.

Many colors of embroidery thread, wound onto bobbins and organized by color in a plastic box with sections.

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Sarah Swanson @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social · 18d

Everyone knows that shopping for, organizing, and using craft supplies are three distinct hobbies.

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Sarah Swanson @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social · 18d

Yessssss

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Sarah Swanson @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social · 18d

Apparently they do dive rarely, but you’re right that it would be unusual. The structure is so distinctive that I still think pintail.

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Sarah Swanson @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social · 18d

The bill and long neck are giving me pintail.

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Sarah Swanson @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social · 19d

Noooooooooo

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American Birding Association @aba.org · 21d

It's time for another episode of This Month in Birding on the American Birding Podcast! Andres Jimenez, Sarah Swanson, and some guy join host Nate Swick to discuss the latest news from the birding world.

Listen here: www.aba.org/09-39-this-m...

09-39: This Month in Birding - September 2025 - American Birding Association

www.aba.org

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Sarah Swanson @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social · 20d

I love a win-win!

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Sarah Swanson @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social · 21d

Did you…win?

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Sarah Swanson @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social · 21d

Well, I love this! (Repeats it in my head 10 times)

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Saimi Hanma ⚔️ @saimihanma.bsky.social · 23d

I've said this many times, but saying "people with autism" is playing directly into this perception because it sounds like something we caught instead of part of who we are. You wouldn't say a person with gayness or a person with maleness. Autism is no different. We are autistic, we don't 'have' it.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 23d

Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.

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Sarah Swanson @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social · 22d

I need you to “live tweet” it.

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Martha 🏳️‍⚧️ @marthaharbison.bsky.social · 23d

If you need a break from your Tuesday menty b, or if you just want to learn more about the weird shit I get up to in my free time, have I got a distraction for you! An whole doc about The Galbatross Project, female bird science, and our quest to triumph over some toddlers www.bbc.com/audio/play/p...

BBC Audio | The Documentary Podcast | Birding the gender gap

An exploration of how the study of female birds is reshaping our understanding of nature

www.bbc.com

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Sarah Swanson @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social · 22d

The good news is that the two Varied Thrushes are perfectly gay.

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Bird Alliance of Oregon @birdallianceoregon.bsky.social · 23d

Lights Out Alert! The next three nights are BIG for fall migration here in Oregon, with around 5 million birds flying through our skies nightly. Join us by turning off unnecessary outdoor lighting from dusk to dawn to reduce sky glow and help migrating birds. 🌟 📷: aeroecolab.com/oregon

Lights Out Alert for Oregon for the night of September 22 - image shows the state of Oregon entirely red. 5.5 million birds flying through Oregon skies.

Lights Out Alert for Oregon for the night of September 23 - image shows the state of Oregon entirely red. 4.9 million birds flying through Oregon skies.

Lights Out Alert for Oregon for the night of September 24 - image shows the state of Oregon entirely red. 4.8 million birds flying through Oregon skies.

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