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Writing: www.nicholaslund.com Books: Dinosaurs to Chickens: How Evolution Works (2024); The Ultimate Biography of Earth (2022); American Birding Association Field Guide to the Birds of Maine (2022) Purchase here: https://tinyurl.com/yfpfzjrx

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The Birdist @thebirdist.bsky.social · 1d

A PSA

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Weird Guys Harming Birds for Social Media Clout

I am mostly writing this post so people will have something to link to for Community Notes. Nothing is more depressing to me than the Click...

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The Birdist @thebirdist.bsky.social · 1d

DAMN dude where are you?

The Birdist @thebirdist.bsky.social · 1d

Every birder has a place that they KNOW should hold good birds but NEVER does. For me it’s the trails at Kettle Cove SP in Cape Elizabeth Maine.

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The Birdist @thebirdist.bsky.social · 1d

Me seawatching, squinting into the eyepiece of my crappy scope with getting blasted directly in the face by a nor’easter: uhhhh there’s, like, a … gull

The Birdist @thebirdist.bsky.social · 2d

They’re the most inconspicuous woodpecker, IMHO

The Birdist @thebirdist.bsky.social · 2d

Truly honored that a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker has chosen to chisel up my little backyard apple tree

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The Birdist @thebirdist.bsky.social · 5d

rules

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The Birdist @thebirdist.bsky.social · 5d

shoulda called it the Hooded Duck-Hawk Mystery then

The Birdist @thebirdist.bsky.social · 6d

Cmon man

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The Birdist @thebirdist.bsky.social · 7d

Nice work!!

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The Birdist @thebirdist.bsky.social · 7d

I keep my Maine state list on an official @MaineAudubon checklist in addition to eBird. I have just two unfilled boxes after seeing a Gray-cheeked Thrush on Saturday: Great Gray Owl and Sedge Wren (dipped on both several times).

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The Birdist @thebirdist.bsky.social · 8d

Gonna start calling Yellow-rumped Warblers “banana asses” instead of “butterbutts,” just to feel something again

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Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · 8d

May 2015. David Cameron was Prime Minister, UK an EU member, Barack Obama was US President, and this male Marsh Tit hatched in Monks Wood. Colour-ringed 28 August 2015. Photo 2 April 2016. Observed every year since. @martamaziarz.bsky.social & I saw him again today, 10 yrs 5 mo old, still surviving.

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The Birdist @thebirdist.bsky.social · 9d

Genius detectives but they can’t sniff out the difference between a hawk and a falcon 🙄

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The Birdist @thebirdist.bsky.social · 11d

really? the player? I believe you but he also didn't seem to know what he was talking about...

The Birdist @thebirdist.bsky.social · 11d

It took planning and effort!

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The Birdist @thebirdist.bsky.social · 11d

Cool link preview!

The Birdist @thebirdist.bsky.social · 11d

Genuinely baffled as to why the Buffalo Bills are posting this birding content. Not mad, just confused. Philadelphia Eagles long play?

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