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Tony Rinaud

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🇫🇷 PhD, interested in species interactions. Omics enthusiast and bino/camera holder! He/him #BirdsSeenIn2025 challenge host, summaries: 19pm CET on Sundays! Rules & country lists: shorturl.at/vflCU Buy me a coffee: shorturl.at/jCFOX [/!\ Bird pic SPAM]

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Tony Rinaud @tonyrinaud.bsky.social · 5d

The only change in the #BirdsSeenIn2025 top 10 this week comes from England (seventh to sixth place), which is benefitting from the fall vagrants meticulously looking for rare birds lately ;)

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Tony Rinaud @tonyrinaud.bsky.social · 19h

New stuff on my interactive website about Rare birds of the Western Palearctic!

tony-rinaud.shinyapps.io/WP_rare_birds/

I just entered data from Poland 2004-2014 and all Faroe Islands!

Paying my respect to the recent find, this is the page for the White-throated needletail!

#Birding #RareBirds

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Alexis Verger 🧬🧫🧪 @alexis-verger.cpesr.fr · 1d

#womeninSTEM #womeninscience #Nobelprize

Trading cards to share, print and collect

cc @francesarnold.bsky.social @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social @jenniferdoudna.bsky.social @e-charpentier.bsky.social

link (aninfinityofhypotheses.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...)

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Tony Rinaud @tonyrinaud.bsky.social · 1d

#BirdsSeenIn2025 For Ireland

MarcM381 @aquilabirding2.bsky.social · 1d

An amazing count of 3 RED-EYED VIREOS at Tory Island.
📷 photos by Ian Young.

Tony Rinaud @tonyrinaud.bsky.social · 1d

Probably only thanks to this guy (not Macron, ahem) that I am proud to be french

Agence France-Presse @afp.com · 1d

🇫🇷 "Robert Badinter entre au Panthéon avec les lumières et l'esprit de 1789, la promesse accomplie de la révolution. Robert Badinter entre au Panthéon avec les principes de l'état de droit", a déclaré Emmanuel Macron lors de la cérémonie en hommage à l'artisan de l'abolition de la peine de mort ⤵️

Tony Rinaud @tonyrinaud.bsky.social · 1d

#BirdsSeenIn2025 For the Netherlands

Vincent Stork @vincentstork.bsky.social · 1d

Shitty pics but great find. A very realy Waxwing on my patch on #Texel today, with support cast of 2 Richard's Pipits, a Yellow-browed Warbler and a Ring Ouzel.
@patchbirding.bsky.social @birdingclimate.bsky.social

Tony Rinaud @tonyrinaud.bsky.social · 1d

#BIrdsSeenIn2025 For Ireland

MarcM381 @aquilabirding2.bsky.social · 1d

GREY-CHEEKED THRUSH, Tory island, Rep of Ireland.📷 photos by Ian Young.

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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 1d

How over- and underrepresented are different causes of death in the media?

Another way to visualize this data is to measure how over- or underrepresented each cause is.

To do this, we calculate the ratio between a cause’s share of deaths and its share of news articles.

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Tony Rinaud @tonyrinaud.bsky.social · 2d

La peur dans leurs yeux !

Libération @liberation.fr · 2d

Interdiction de la dénomination «steak végétal» : «L’objectif des lobbys, c’est de protéger le marché de la viande»

Le fondateur de la marque végétale HappyVore, Guillaume Dubois, évoque un faux-débat.

Interdiction de la dénomination «steak végétal» : «L’objectif des lobbys, c’est de protéger le marché de la viande»

Ce mercredi 8 octobre, le Parlement européen a voté pour restreindre les appellations «steaks», «saucisses», ou «escalopes» aux seuls produits qui contiennent de la viande. Un «faux débat», dénonce le fondateur de la marque HappyVore.

www.liberation.fr

Tony Rinaud @tonyrinaud.bsky.social · 2d

Malheureusement les Gazaouis n'ont plus de place pour fêter ça :/

Agence France-Presse @afp.com · 2d

🇮🇱📷 Des Israéliens célèbrent l'accord de cessez-le-feu à Gaza entre Israël et le Hamas, sur la "place des Otages" à Tel-Aviv ⤵️

Tony Rinaud @tonyrinaud.bsky.social · 2d

Please share with us! Mind to add the country it is taken and the #BirdsSeenIn2025 hashtag, so I can see them

You can also see here shorturl.at/vflCU the missing species for each country :)

Country list - Google Drive

shorturl.at

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Tony Rinaud @tonyrinaud.bsky.social · 5d

The only change in the #BirdsSeenIn2025 top 10 this week comes from England (seventh to sixth place), which is benefitting from the fall vagrants meticulously looking for rare birds lately ;)

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Jerome Foster Photography @jefotografi.bsky.social · 5d

"Not A Common Sight" - The Stripe-breasted #spinetail is a natural #skulker. More easily seen in Tobago (but still not easy to see), in Trinidad it's hard work to see. Morne Bleu, #Trinidad.
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#birdwatching #wildlife #animals #birdphotography #caribbean #trinidadandtobago #BirdsSeenIn2025

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Howard Vaughan - blueeyedbirder.com @howardvaughanbeb.bsky.social · 5d

#Estonia for @oriolebirding.bsky.social - 3rd October 2025
A morning at Spithami watching the waves before the forests gave up some of their secrets as the sun set.
blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/10/esto... @birdinghaapsalu.bsky.social #BirdsSeenIn2025

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Howard Vaughan - blueeyedbirder.com @howardvaughanbeb.bsky.social · 5d

#Estonia for Oriole Birding - 3rd October 2025
#BirdsSeenIn2025

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anjab.bsky.social @anjab.bsky.social · 5d

Wishing you all a good week!
#Kurrichane #Thrush
#photography #nature #garden #birdwatching #Francistown #Botswana #Africa #BirdsSeenIn2025

Grey bird with a beige belly and orange chest and orange bill, sitting high up in a tree.

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Nick Bray @zootherabirding.bsky.social · 4d

Western Palearctic tick no4 was Greater Painted Snipe. I had flight views at Faiyoum followed by these much better views along the Nile at Aswan.
#BirdsSeenIn2025 #birds #birding #Egypt #zootherabirding

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Hans Bucht @hansbucht.bsky.social · 4d

Dunlin in transition to winter plumage.
#BirdsSeenIn2025
#birds

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Blessed by Birds (Lisa B.) @blessedbybirds.bsky.social · 4d

(Refugio de la Tomatera-Manabi)
Working on art in the bosque often provides memorable birding experiences. Flitting near where I worked were these species: Ecuadorian Piculet, Tropical Parula,Streaked Saltator and Necklaced Spinetail. #birds, #BirdsSeenIn2025, #Ecuador, #Portoviejo

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Hans Bucht @hansbucht.bsky.social · 4d

For todays #BirdoftheDay theme of #migration, Greater White-fronted Goose and a Tundra Bean Goose.
#BirdsSeenIn2025
#birds

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Nicola Crockford @numenini.bsky.social · 3d

On a humid, dank, dawn at Nantong Yangkou, quick bit of birding before flight home from Shanghai included a Common Hoopoe & on a little wetland, big roost of Black-crowned Night Heron, while a Pied Kingfisher hunted for brek & Black Drongo perched above the tidal flats. #BirdsSeenIn2025 #China 1/2

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Nicola Crockford @numenini.bsky.social · 3d

Around a temple at Nantong Yangkou, Spotted Dove, Eurasian Tree Sparrow, some handsome Red-billed aka White-cheeked Starlings & Oriental Magpie.
#BirdsSeenIn2025 #China 1/2

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Nick Bray @zootherabirding.bsky.social · 3d

Western Palearctic tick no5 was Nile Valley Sunbird and my only sighting was of a group of 3-4 at a flowering Acacia along the shores of the Nile near Aswan. At this time of year they are in eclipse plumage but I’ve also seen them in Oman & Ethiopia as well.
#birds #birding #BirdsSeenIn2025 #Egypt

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Dougie Preston @dougiepreston.bsky.social · 4d

Decent patch round today, with Tundra Bean, 2 Yellow-browed, Pied Fly, Lesser Whitethroat, and Sibe Chiff. Gotta be something tasty from the west hiding out there somewhere though 🤔 .... #YellBirding #Shetland

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Hans Bucht @hansbucht.bsky.social · 3d

A very cooperative Common Chiffchaff in the morning light this morning.
Ottenby, Öland
#BirdsSeenIn2025
#birds

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Howard Vaughan - blueeyedbirder.com @howardvaughanbeb.bsky.social · 3d

#estonia for @oriolebirding.bsky.social - 4th October 2025
We made our way towards Saaremaa & memories of a frozen landscape 14 years ago came flooding back but were soon to be eclipsed by 300 bugling Cranes @birdinghaapsalu.bsky.social #BirdsSeenIn2025 blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/10/esto...

Red Kite - one of two - a scarce Estonian bird

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