Did you ask for a bird fact? No, but you're getting one whether you like it or not. 🪶

This Brian Stokes person at at the University of Austin must be sitting on more pictures of this incredible hybrid green blue jay. Someone get him over here! 😭 🪶

Rota in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands

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🪶🌎🧪 Its resighting highlights the critical importance of bird banding and monitoring efforts, which provide valuable data on migratory pathways, habitat use, and conservation needs. (4/4)

🪶🌎🧪 Whimbrels are long-distance migrants, traveling thousands of miles between breeding grounds in Siberia and wintering habitats in Australasia twice every year. (3/4)

🪶🌎🧪 The bird had a metal band and two leg flags, one marked with “T0.” They shared photos in an online bird resighting group, and soon heard back from Jun Hosoya—who originally banded the Whimbrel in Torinoumi, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, on May 5th, 2024—nearly 1,700 miles away! (2/4)

🪶🌎🧪 On September 28th, Rota TMAPS banders Greta Walser and Jason Talbott observed a color-banded Whimbrel on the lawn of a church directly across from their home. (1/4)

🪶 The answer to this week's #BitOBird quiz is....Redpoll! Congrats to our winner @waxwing.bsky.social ! Don't worry if you missed it this week, we'll post another quiz next Monday at 11am ET/10am CT/9am MT/8am PT.

🦅 Bearded vultures as time capsules

Researchers found centuries-old artifacts and bones in ancient bearded vulture nests in Spain, revealing how these birds preserve ecological and cultural history.

🔗 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

#SciComm #Ecology 🧪

Here's the clue for this week's #BitOBird game! Can you ID this bird from just this little bit? (Note: we stick to North American birds, if not we’ll tell you.) 1st to reply w/ the correct answer gets bird nerd bragging rights. If you're stumped, we'll post the answer in 2 hrs 🪶

🪶 We've done these surveys for the NPS since 2004. Sadly, this contract was cancelled last week. learn more about that work here: birdpop.org/pages/pa... (2/2)

🪶Hope you have a chance to get outside this weekend!

This photo was taken by Wren Wagenbach who was on our backcountry bird monitoring crew in the Pacific NW national parks this summer. (1/2)

It does almost sound like a cricket chirp or something akin to that

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Did you ask for a bird fact? No, but you're getting one whether you like it or not. 🪶

Thank you Chris! It means a lot!

Your support now will give us time to regroup and emerge stronger from these challenging times. In the 36 years since our founding, we’ve navigated other rough waters, and we will do so again. Donate here: birdpop.org/pages/do...
Thank you for your support! 4/4

🪶 Going forward, we're using all of our creativity & ingenuity to retain as many of our staff as possible while we seek new sources of funding & projects where our staff can put their skills to work doing the quality science we have always done to support effective, evidence-based conservation. 3/4

🪶 These cuts represent a huge loss for science-based conservation on public lands, damage continuous long-term monitoring programs that have huge scientific value, and will necessitate painful staffing decisions at IBP. 2/4

🪶 If you are able, you donate here: birdpop.org/pages/do...
We lost roughly $1 million in funding without warning. Projects cancelled included all of our bird monitoring work for the National Park Service & projects w/ the Bureau of Land Management on Gunnison's Sage-Grouse, Pinyon Jays & more. 1/4

Male Black-crested Coquette at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica

#birds #nature #hummingbirds

🪶 We've posted this before, but there are probably a lot of people who could use it today. Take a minute to breathe with a Swainson's Thrush.

So true.

🪶 What cool birds or behaviors are you seeing these days?