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Adam Winer

@awiner.bsky.social

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Birder (and butterflies), music lover, (indoor) cat scritcher, Jewish dude, cryptic crossword solver, and assorted other interests. 🏳️‍🌈+🏳️‍⚧️ ally. he/him.

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Adam Winer @awiner.bsky.social · 3h

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Hiding .

This Eurasian Bittern did a pretty good job of it - at Katzensee, Switzerland. 🪶

A Eurasian Bittern hiding in similarly colored brown reeds

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Adam Winer @awiner.bsky.social · 1d

Today's #Birdoftheday are birds at #OddAngles #birdphotography #birds

A Prothonotary Warbler whose world has turned upside-down (literally and metaphorically - it's in California, where it shouldn't be)

A Prothonotary Warbler - brilliant yellow body and head and white lower belly and undertail. It's upside-down, staring at you from above.

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AVCX Classic @avcx.bsky.social · 3d

AVCX, the world’s finest puzzles and games service, and an independent media venture, has done some really cool stuff this year! A thread to brag (and to hype our mini subscription drive) …

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Adam Winer @awiner.bsky.social · 3d

Today's #BirdOfTheDay is "Pairs of the Same Birds", from @robcrank68.bsky.social . How about a pair of Eurasian Jackdaws in Bern, Switzerland? 🪶

Two jackdaws sitting on a conifer - small crows with pale yellow eyes and gray backs of the head.

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Adam Winer @awiner.bsky.social · 4d

See a pigeon, post a pigeon. #birds

(Band-tailed Pigeon, the remaining native pigeon in (most of) the US.)

Band-tailed Pigeon perched in a tree. The banded tail is not visible, but the white neck collar is.

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Adam Winer @awiner.bsky.social · 4d

If this was your find, @deborahcrooks.bsky.social , thank you! 🥳

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Adam Winer @awiner.bsky.social · 4d

Sure thing @aba.org! Not a lifer lifer, but an ABA region lifer - Sharp-tailed Sandpiper at Elsie Roemer Bird Sanctuary in Alameda, California. An Asian species, rare in CA. Found by Deborah Crooks two days ago, still here today! (ABA #691) 🪶

Sharp-tailed Sandpiper - a medium-sized shorebird, rufous cap, strong white eyeline and eye-ring, cinnamon breast only lightly streaked, yellow legs, dark bill just slightly downcurved. A juvenile, as expected - wing coverts and axillaries all rimmed in buff or rufous.

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Adam Winer @awiner.bsky.social · 5d

Yep! Takes until (per birdsoftheworld.org) April for 100% of males and females to get yellow eyes.

Birds of the World - Comprehensive life histories for all bird species and families

Species accounts for all the birds of the world.

birdsoftheworld.org

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Adam Winer @awiner.bsky.social · 5d

Probably a male Great-tailed born this summer, with some juvenile feathers not yet replaced. Note the brown eye and mostly male plumage, for example.

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Adam Winer @awiner.bsky.social · 6d

Red-shouldered Hawk, in my backyard. 🪶 Uncropped.

Head of a Red-shouldered Hawk, looking left

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Adam Winer @awiner.bsky.social · 16d

Here's what I mean by the distribution of black on the wings from a single frame in your video - classic winter sanderling.

Adam Winer @awiner.bsky.social · 16d

Seriously, 100% sanderlings. Pale gray above except for black at the bend of the wing and in the primaries is classic fall/winter. (See attached photo.) None show the tapering, downcurved bill of Western S. Behaviorally, playing at the surf line on a beach is a strong hint too.

Sanderling in winter plumage - pale gray above, with dark at the bend of the wing., white below. And on sand

Adam Winer @awiner.bsky.social · 17d

I think יש and אין are the better pair, but I do indeed get the idea!

Adam Winer @awiner.bsky.social · 17d

Def. Sanderlings. Easy way to tell is Sanderlings are 73% cuter than Western Sandpipers. (Science!)

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Adam Winer @awiner.bsky.social · 17d

Also, Satisfaction by Otis Redding. And Satisfaction by Cat Power. And Satisfaction by Bjork & PJ Harvey.

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Adam Winer @awiner.bsky.social · 17d

It's an Otis Redding original! Shows just how mind-blowing Aretha was - how do you outdo Otis [bleep]ing Redding so thoroughly that everyone forgets it's his song?

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Adam Winer @awiner.bsky.social · 18d

Pygmy Nuthatch, I believe

Adam Winer @awiner.bsky.social · 18d

A limb removed from a living lizard would take this over the top.

Adam Winer @awiner.bsky.social · 19d

The Atlantic is where I first learned James Fallows and Ta-Nehisi Coates's names and read their work. It's also why I know JS's name. Don't know how to parse that.

Adam Winer @awiner.bsky.social · 19d

Blocked and reported.

(Shudder)

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Adam Winer @awiner.bsky.social · 20d

San Francisco *now* has some excellent bagels, but it emphatically didn't previously.

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 24d

Supreme Court: of course states can regulate, and restrict access to, medical procedures if there’s a compelling public interest

Colorado: (bans conversion therapy for minors)

Supreme Court: no not like that, we only meant abortion

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JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · Sep 28

So exhausting..

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Adam Winer @awiner.bsky.social · Sep 28

We are spoiled here in California to share our space with these gorgeous creatures - Red-shouldered Hawk 🪶. The form in California is particularly elegant - so much so it's been considered a possible split as Elegant Hawk (Buteo elegans). This one was especially unconcerned with my presence.

The head of a Red-shouldered Hawk - brick red on its belly and shoulders, shading into a pale gray face with many long darker streaks.

Adam Winer @awiner.bsky.social · Sep 20

Underrated post!

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