Liv MW
@field-daze.bsky.social
Nature lover, conservation biologist, and comic-maker (www.tailsfromthefield.net). She/her. All posts/opinions are my own.
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Today’s a great day to look for lichens. Download Lichens in Nova Scotia: A ‘how-to’ guide for beginner naturalists museum.novascotia.ca/collections-...
December 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Today’s a great day to look for lichens. Download Lichens in Nova Scotia: A ‘how-to’ guide for beginner naturalists museum.novascotia.ca/collections-...
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Hi, we see you scrolling 👀
Take a break and spend a few minutes outside this week looking for mushrooms, lichens, and other fungi near you! (And don't forget to let us know what you see by sharing your photos on iNaturalist. 🍄✨)
Take a break and spend a few minutes outside this week looking for mushrooms, lichens, and other fungi near you! (And don't forget to let us know what you see by sharing your photos on iNaturalist. 🍄✨)
November 10, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Hi, we see you scrolling 👀
Take a break and spend a few minutes outside this week looking for mushrooms, lichens, and other fungi near you! (And don't forget to let us know what you see by sharing your photos on iNaturalist. 🍄✨)
Take a break and spend a few minutes outside this week looking for mushrooms, lichens, and other fungi near you! (And don't forget to let us know what you see by sharing your photos on iNaturalist. 🍄✨)
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Our Stewardship Coordinator Liv Monck-Whipp explains what phenology can teach us this Fall season - and how you can help! https://nsnt.ca/blog/fall-is-the-time-for-phenology/
📷 Photo credit: Marian Bell Whitcomb.
#Biodiversity #HalifaxNovaScotia #Conservation #iNaturalist
📷 Photo credit: Marian Bell Whitcomb.
#Biodiversity #HalifaxNovaScotia #Conservation #iNaturalist
October 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Our Stewardship Coordinator Liv Monck-Whipp explains what phenology can teach us this Fall season - and how you can help! https://nsnt.ca/blog/fall-is-the-time-for-phenology/
📷 Photo credit: Marian Bell Whitcomb.
#Biodiversity #HalifaxNovaScotia #Conservation #iNaturalist
📷 Photo credit: Marian Bell Whitcomb.
#Biodiversity #HalifaxNovaScotia #Conservation #iNaturalist
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“Over the last 20 years, @ncccnc.bsky.social has restored native habitat on former agricultural fields & modified lands in Norfolk County, southern Ontario. All that conservation work set the stage for our research.”
New blog post by @uottawa.ca’s Lily Charles.
natureconservancy.ca/advancing-co...
New blog post by @uottawa.ca’s Lily Charles.
natureconservancy.ca/advancing-co...
October 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
“Over the last 20 years, @ncccnc.bsky.social has restored native habitat on former agricultural fields & modified lands in Norfolk County, southern Ontario. All that conservation work set the stage for our research.”
New blog post by @uottawa.ca’s Lily Charles.
natureconservancy.ca/advancing-co...
New blog post by @uottawa.ca’s Lily Charles.
natureconservancy.ca/advancing-co...
Belated #FieldworkFriday post - doing some fieldwork yesterday I saw literally hundreds of these Mauve Stinger Jellyfish in the shallows. A new species for me, and so pretty!
October 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Belated #FieldworkFriday post - doing some fieldwork yesterday I saw literally hundreds of these Mauve Stinger Jellyfish in the shallows. A new species for me, and so pretty!
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Make plans to visit Pjila'si, now on view at the Museum of Natural History. More than just a gallery, it's an interactive space that celebrates Mi'kmaw culture. Come to engage, learn, and reflect on the knowledge, skills, and adaptability of the Mi'kmaw people throughout history and to this day.
September 25, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Make plans to visit Pjila'si, now on view at the Museum of Natural History. More than just a gallery, it's an interactive space that celebrates Mi'kmaw culture. Come to engage, learn, and reflect on the knowledge, skills, and adaptability of the Mi'kmaw people throughout history and to this day.
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The buff-tip moth (Phalera bucephala) has mastered a very particular kind of camouflage.
When they close their wings up, they resemble a broken twig.
Native to large parts of Europe, there's regional pattern variation that reflects the local tree species. This one best resembles birch twigs?
When they close their wings up, they resemble a broken twig.
Native to large parts of Europe, there's regional pattern variation that reflects the local tree species. This one best resembles birch twigs?
September 17, 2025 at 12:20 PM
The buff-tip moth (Phalera bucephala) has mastered a very particular kind of camouflage.
When they close their wings up, they resemble a broken twig.
Native to large parts of Europe, there's regional pattern variation that reflects the local tree species. This one best resembles birch twigs?
When they close their wings up, they resemble a broken twig.
Native to large parts of Europe, there's regional pattern variation that reflects the local tree species. This one best resembles birch twigs?
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The Horned Grebe is a petite picture of poise and perfection. Not a feather out of place, she glides and dives with the grace of a ballet dancer. Until, that is, the children arrive. 🧵🪶
August 11, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The Horned Grebe is a petite picture of poise and perfection. Not a feather out of place, she glides and dives with the grace of a ballet dancer. Until, that is, the children arrive. 🧵🪶
Omg. I've been pondering how to plan food for a group field trip to a remote site. Enter my sibling, who does Burning Man. Sent me a spreadsheet with easy bulk recipes scalable to group size, including how to coordinate people helping with cooking! And the comments in the sheet are hilarious.
August 16, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Omg. I've been pondering how to plan food for a group field trip to a remote site. Enter my sibling, who does Burning Man. Sent me a spreadsheet with easy bulk recipes scalable to group size, including how to coordinate people helping with cooking! And the comments in the sheet are hilarious.
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News flash! ⚡ GBIF establishes an international task group led by Dr Lydia Jennings on Indigenous data governance to offer input and guidance for implementing the #CAREPrinciples within the GBIF network 🌱
Read more: 🔗 https://gbif.link/IDG
@localcontexts.bsky.social
Read more: 🔗 https://gbif.link/IDG
@localcontexts.bsky.social
July 28, 2025 at 7:10 AM
News flash! ⚡ GBIF establishes an international task group led by Dr Lydia Jennings on Indigenous data governance to offer input and guidance for implementing the #CAREPrinciples within the GBIF network 🌱
Read more: 🔗 https://gbif.link/IDG
@localcontexts.bsky.social
Read more: 🔗 https://gbif.link/IDG
@localcontexts.bsky.social
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As we head into a new week, please remember that your best is good enough. Try to not compare yourself to others, and don’t be misguided by other people’s material things or status. Those things matter not. If you can live each day with kindness, you are the richest soul. Rest well, my friends. 😊
July 13, 2025 at 7:51 PM
As we head into a new week, please remember that your best is good enough. Try to not compare yourself to others, and don’t be misguided by other people’s material things or status. Those things matter not. If you can live each day with kindness, you are the richest soul. Rest well, my friends. 😊
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I'm sure many I know here remember Sheila from our days on X. I'm so sad to read this news. Her advocacy influenced my thinking and was part of the inspiration for my pollinators' garden.
What a loss to her family, community, bumblebees and science.
#GiftLink 🎁
www.thestar.com/news/gta/she...
What a loss to her family, community, bumblebees and science.
#GiftLink 🎁
www.thestar.com/news/gta/she...
July 12, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I'm sure many I know here remember Sheila from our days on X. I'm so sad to read this news. Her advocacy influenced my thinking and was part of the inspiration for my pollinators' garden.
What a loss to her family, community, bumblebees and science.
#GiftLink 🎁
www.thestar.com/news/gta/she...
What a loss to her family, community, bumblebees and science.
#GiftLink 🎁
www.thestar.com/news/gta/she...
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Help monitor Common Loons. These special #birds are a part of #Canada that many of us love.
Learn more at birdscanada.org/loons
Register before Aug 1st & share this with other loon and #lake lovers.
Shareable stewardship images available at: birdscanada.mediavalet.com/portals/clls...
#cottages
Learn more at birdscanada.org/loons
Register before Aug 1st & share this with other loon and #lake lovers.
Shareable stewardship images available at: birdscanada.mediavalet.com/portals/clls...
#cottages
July 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Help monitor Common Loons. These special #birds are a part of #Canada that many of us love.
Learn more at birdscanada.org/loons
Register before Aug 1st & share this with other loon and #lake lovers.
Shareable stewardship images available at: birdscanada.mediavalet.com/portals/clls...
#cottages
Learn more at birdscanada.org/loons
Register before Aug 1st & share this with other loon and #lake lovers.
Shareable stewardship images available at: birdscanada.mediavalet.com/portals/clls...
#cottages
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HEADS UP.
BSky added a feature that allows people to be notified every time you post. A fine feature!
By default, it's set to allow anyone to do this. If you are prone to stalkers though:
*Under Privacy and Security settings, you can change this to only allow people you follow back to use this.*
BSky added a feature that allows people to be notified every time you post. A fine feature!
By default, it's set to allow anyone to do this. If you are prone to stalkers though:
*Under Privacy and Security settings, you can change this to only allow people you follow back to use this.*
July 7, 2025 at 5:52 PM
HEADS UP.
BSky added a feature that allows people to be notified every time you post. A fine feature!
By default, it's set to allow anyone to do this. If you are prone to stalkers though:
*Under Privacy and Security settings, you can change this to only allow people you follow back to use this.*
BSky added a feature that allows people to be notified every time you post. A fine feature!
By default, it's set to allow anyone to do this. If you are prone to stalkers though:
*Under Privacy and Security settings, you can change this to only allow people you follow back to use this.*
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I can't even describe to you how absolutely mind-blowingly awesome it is to finally have full reign to make this Cree course a reality. Holy crapballs.
July 8, 2025 at 2:32 AM
I can't even describe to you how absolutely mind-blowingly awesome it is to finally have full reign to make this Cree course a reality. Holy crapballs.
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Everyone asks Where the Wild Things are, but no one asks HOW the Wild Things are. 😔
July 8, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Everyone asks Where the Wild Things are, but no one asks HOW the Wild Things are. 😔
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Please support if you can! 🦎
I was a scholarship winner last year and I can personally say, these initiatives make an incredible difference when it comes to pursuing our careers, dreams, and passions.
Super thankful for these initiatives and for all those who donate!
I was a scholarship winner last year and I can personally say, these initiatives make an incredible difference when it comes to pursuing our careers, dreams, and passions.
Super thankful for these initiatives and for all those who donate!
This Juneteenth, I’m asking you to support two initiatives.
1) The Expansion of #FindThatLizard. I want to travel to get more photos of more species of lizards.
2) #FindThatLizard scholarship for girls, women, and gender non-conforming people interested in herpetology.
1) The Expansion of #FindThatLizard. I want to travel to get more photos of more species of lizards.
2) #FindThatLizard scholarship for girls, women, and gender non-conforming people interested in herpetology.
June 19, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Please support if you can! 🦎
I was a scholarship winner last year and I can personally say, these initiatives make an incredible difference when it comes to pursuing our careers, dreams, and passions.
Super thankful for these initiatives and for all those who donate!
I was a scholarship winner last year and I can personally say, these initiatives make an incredible difference when it comes to pursuing our careers, dreams, and passions.
Super thankful for these initiatives and for all those who donate!
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Meet the mottled duskywing — an endangered butterfly once found across central Canada. Now rare due to habitat loss, NCC and partners have been restoring more open habitats with native plants & prescribed burns to help it (and other pollinators) thrive. #InsectAppreciationDay ✨
June 8, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Meet the mottled duskywing — an endangered butterfly once found across central Canada. Now rare due to habitat loss, NCC and partners have been restoring more open habitats with native plants & prescribed burns to help it (and other pollinators) thrive. #InsectAppreciationDay ✨
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What do we gain when we restore boglands? Biodiversity, drought and fire prevention, cleaner water, long-term carbon storage, and ecosystems that inspire you to redefine beauty. Save bogs, save ourselves.
Scohaboy Bog is shaping up very nicely after extensive rewetting. Close collaboration between state bodies Coillte and NPWS, and local landowners and community groups the key to its success.
@scohaboybog.bsky.social @npwsireland.bsky.social @greenpartyie.bsky.social
@scohaboybog.bsky.social @npwsireland.bsky.social @greenpartyie.bsky.social
May 18, 2025 at 3:12 PM
What do we gain when we restore boglands? Biodiversity, drought and fire prevention, cleaner water, long-term carbon storage, and ecosystems that inspire you to redefine beauty. Save bogs, save ourselves.
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June is National #IndigenousHistoryMonth Check out our video series with Roger Lewis, former Mi’kmaq Cultural Heritage Curator at the Nova Scotia Museum. youtu.be/4yv1kUjZJEo
June 5, 2025 at 12:01 PM
June is National #IndigenousHistoryMonth Check out our video series with Roger Lewis, former Mi’kmaq Cultural Heritage Curator at the Nova Scotia Museum. youtu.be/4yv1kUjZJEo
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Come join me on a slow birding walk: ‘Folk BIRDS’ Outing in Norfolk
June 7 @ 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
This is an open, inclusive event designed for all age groups.
www.birdscanada.org/event/folk-b...
#birds #getoutside
June 7 @ 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
This is an open, inclusive event designed for all age groups.
www.birdscanada.org/event/folk-b...
#birds #getoutside
May 31, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Come join me on a slow birding walk: ‘Folk BIRDS’ Outing in Norfolk
June 7 @ 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
This is an open, inclusive event designed for all age groups.
www.birdscanada.org/event/folk-b...
#birds #getoutside
June 7 @ 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
This is an open, inclusive event designed for all age groups.
www.birdscanada.org/event/folk-b...
#birds #getoutside
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A woman at Biggest Week told me that the Eastern Foxsnake is the Blackburnian Warbler of the snakes and it was the kind of sentence that I both completely understood and realized would only make sense to a microscopic group of people of whom I'm a proud member
May 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
A woman at Biggest Week told me that the Eastern Foxsnake is the Blackburnian Warbler of the snakes and it was the kind of sentence that I both completely understood and realized would only make sense to a microscopic group of people of whom I'm a proud member
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This sent me on a bit of an etymology rabbit hole - it's amazing how many languages we get bird names from.
Cormorant comes from bastardized Latin, corvus marinus, meaning sea raven.
Gull comes from Welsh / Breton “gwylan.”
Eider comes from Old Norse “aethar”, meaning duck.
Cormorant comes from bastardized Latin, corvus marinus, meaning sea raven.
Gull comes from Welsh / Breton “gwylan.”
Eider comes from Old Norse “aethar”, meaning duck.
Fun fact the term cuckold comes from cuckoos, for their taste for laying their eggs in other birds' nests.
Unrelatedly, here's my lifer black-billed cuckoo
Unrelatedly, here's my lifer black-billed cuckoo
May 19, 2025 at 4:08 AM
This sent me on a bit of an etymology rabbit hole - it's amazing how many languages we get bird names from.
Cormorant comes from bastardized Latin, corvus marinus, meaning sea raven.
Gull comes from Welsh / Breton “gwylan.”
Eider comes from Old Norse “aethar”, meaning duck.
Cormorant comes from bastardized Latin, corvus marinus, meaning sea raven.
Gull comes from Welsh / Breton “gwylan.”
Eider comes from Old Norse “aethar”, meaning duck.
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Introducing BirdWise: a new photo-based bird ID quiz tool from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Whether you’re new to birding or refining advanced skills, BirdWise offers a flexible, self-paced way to build your visual identification abilities. Start a free trial: academy.allaboutbirds.org/birdwise/
BirdWise: Learn Bird Identification with Photo-based Quizzing
Learn the bird ID you want to know with BirdWise quizzes! Learn to ID 640+ birds in the U.S. and Canada with this self-directed, customizable learning tool.
academy.allaboutbirds.org
May 16, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Introducing BirdWise: a new photo-based bird ID quiz tool from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Whether you’re new to birding or refining advanced skills, BirdWise offers a flexible, self-paced way to build your visual identification abilities. Start a free trial: academy.allaboutbirds.org/birdwise/
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In a new @theconversation.com article, Steven J. Cooke @sjcfishy.bsky.social (FRSC) and co-authors argue Canada must grow its economy sustainably—by respecting Indigenous rights, protecting the environment, and prioritizing long-term well-being over short-term gains. #RSCVoices ➡️ bit.ly/4mcvvVX
‘Elbows up’ in Canada means sustainable resource development
“Elbows up” means many things today in Canada, including using the country’s rich natural resources more effectively to support a strong, independent economy that benefits people and society.
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May 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
In a new @theconversation.com article, Steven J. Cooke @sjcfishy.bsky.social (FRSC) and co-authors argue Canada must grow its economy sustainably—by respecting Indigenous rights, protecting the environment, and prioritizing long-term well-being over short-term gains. #RSCVoices ➡️ bit.ly/4mcvvVX