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#News: A #study of cavity-nesting #birds in #Ecuador shows the influence of #deforestation on their habitat and reproductive success. Nest boxes could help. #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/08/230823165355.htm


#News: Scientists have discovered two new species of poisonous #birds in #NewGuinea's rainforest. Genetic changes in these birds mean the Regent whistler Pachycephala schlegelii and Rufous-naped bellbird Aleadryas rufinucha now possess a powerful neurotoxin in their feathers. Help them to survive #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife #biodiversity https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/03/230331120619.htm


#News: University of St. Andrews #research finds #Africa's #birds of prey are facing an #extinction crisis with declines among nearly 90% of 42 species examined #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4wildlife #Together4Forests https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/01/240108125901.htm


Happy New Year!!!
This is my last shot of 2023: rainbow bee-eater in Myall Lakes NP in Eastern #Australia enjoying a cicada

#biodiversity #birdphotography #wildlife #birds #birdsofmastodon #bird #ecology #rainbow


"Winter Song" is my new #painting about those bright winter days of lemon and pink skies, when the air is clear and cold, and the #birdsong rings louder than ever.

As well as the little robin belting out his sweet song, I've included other winter birds: fieldfare, waxwing, redwing, and (my favourites) starlings.

Thanks for looking. 🙏

#snowscene #winterbirds #watercolour #restrictedpalette #wintertrees #winterlandscape #robin #waxwing #starlings #birds #birding #winterbirding


Kiwi’s wild budgie cousins live >10K miles away, so we improvise. #birds


It's obvious that she will stay there until https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/9463 is fixed so that she can scroll through more #birds 😀


Flash is a male Kestrel, utterly gorgeous, I photographed him at a rescue centre a few years ago, being so close to him was such a privilege, he of course was totally non plussed lol #Kestrel #Raptor #BirdOfPrey #RescueBird #RescueCentre #Birds #BirdsOfMastodon #Photography #PortraitPhotography #AltText


Beautiful bird. The ones by you are a different color, ours here in central Florida are gray. Here is a gray adult and tan baby going through my yard back in April 2018. I am fortunate to have them as regular visitors most all year.
#nature #photography #birds


For a closer look at these incredible #birds, I took this photo of a Sandhill Crane in 2019. /2
#nature #photography


Today we drove to Bellevue, MI to witness the annual fall migration of thousands of Sandhill Cranes. Turn on your sound to listen to their calls, which can be heard up to 2.5 miles away.

These magnificent #birds nearly disappeared a century ago due to overhunting, but populations rebounded & are now stable in MI.

Sandhill Cranes are among the oldest living birds on Earth with a wingspan of up to 6 ft. Aldo Leopold described them as "nobility, won in the march of eons."


Buildings are extremely deadly for migrating #birds every year, but they can be designed & updated to minimize collisions. https://birdcast.info/news/major-collision-event-in-chicago-4-5-october-2023/


Superior Vocal Learning in Birds Linked to Better Problem Solving and Bigger Brain Size #AnimalStudies #birds https://www.ecowatch.com/songbird-vocal-learning-problem-solving-brains.html


I glanced at my screen & momentarily got excited mistaking Hurricane Lee for an Andean Cock-of-the-rock in the news. https://abcbirds.org/bird/andean-cock-of-the-rock/

Personally, I’d enjoy more #birds antics as top stories.


Madge was kind enough to pose for me as I snapped this photo. I've been slowly earning trust with a few crows over the past months. They are so incredibly smart!

#photography #birds #crows #wildlife #crazycrowlady


Be ungovernable, like birds who make nests OUT OF ANTI-BIRD SPIKES. A new study describes resourceful Dutch & Belgian corvids besting evil architecture by stealing metal anti-bird strips and using them like thorny twigs, to construct their homes.

Like thorns, the spikes may protect their nests from predators.

Lead author Auke-Florian Hiemstra wrote an epic 🧵 about his research that's worth a read: https://twitter.com/AukeFlorian/status/1678703433900064773

Paper: https://www.hetnatuurhistorisch.nl/organisatie/publicaties/deinsea/deinsea-21/

#science #SciComm #birds #netherlands


If you are going to make a bird feeder, make it on style.
For the name of the restaurant, It's a joke based on the local magpies, who steal food from the cats in our colony, so we've made them their own place. It means “The thieving magpie” which is also a nod to a Tintín comic book.

Yeah, I’m that kind of human.
#diy #birds #recycle


Ok, there was one nice bird. These splendid wrens are difficult to photograph - they are tteeeeeny and move very quickly, and when you do get them the colours are SO bright they look plastic and fake. #birds #birdphotography #nature #photography


Have you ever watched a starling murmuration?

That’s when thousands of #birds seem to dance in spectacular formation, whirling & swirling gracefully across the sky. https://youtu.be/V4f_1_r80RY #nature #science

Scientists, engineers, mathematicians, & citizen scientists have been exploring what’s happening inside murmurations: https://theconversation.com/why-do-flocks-of-birds-swoop-and-swirl-together-in-the-sky-a-biologist-explains-the-science-of-murmurations-176194 @TheConversationUS


Little Blue Penguins (Eudyptula minor) or Kororā (Māori name) are the world's smallest penguins.

These charming birds are part of the Oamaru Blue Penguin Colony. They arrive on the beach at dusk to return to their nests for the night. (Recorded April 18, 2023) #nature #birds


Takahē once roamed across New Zealand’s South Island, but introduced predators, hunting, habitat destruction & competition for food have taken a heavy toll.

For ~50 years, these flightless #birds were presumed extinct, but they were rediscovered in 1948.

Today there are less than 500 takahē left, but numbers have been increasing through successful conservation measures.
https://www.doc.govt.nz/nature/native-animals/birds/birds-a-z/takahe/ #SharedPlanet #conservation #science


An extreme close-up of a young rook's feathers. While rook feathers are densely black, they have an oily sheen which gives them a particularly colorful appearance in the sunlight. 🖤 💙 💜 💚

Photographer — Beak and Talons Photography

#Birds #BirdPhotography #Feathers #BirdsOfMastodon


One of my favorite #birds is the endangered southern cassowary.

These shy birds don’t fly, but run fast & swim well. They have a dagger-like middle claw up to 12cm giving them a reputation as the most dangerous bird alive.

The female is larger & more colorful than the male. He incubates the eggs & raises chicks.

Cassowaries play a vital role in Australia by spreading seeds. They are among the closest living species to dinosaurs. Photo: David Clode https://www.australiazoo.com.au/wildlife/our-animals/cassowary/ #nature #SharedPlanet


Eurasian Kingfisher in coloured pencil on hot pressed paper, drawn during the gloomiest January in living memory so am loving the bright colours. Thanks to Gill Merritt for the reference photo!

#ColouredPencil #wildlifeArt #BirdArt #Kingfisher #Birds #ColouredPencils #FaberCastell #CarandAche #Derwent #FabrianoArtistico


Turns out that day-calling #crickets (as opposed to night-calling species) tune their #chirps to avoid the same #bandwidth as other nosy #insects (like #cicadas). We know #birds do this type of thing ("#acoustic #niche partitioning"). Interesting to see it in insects.

Title: The #circadian calling activity of a lebinthine cricket with high-frequency calls is unaffected by cicada choruses in the day

Link: https://peerj.com/articles/14641/


Over 50,000 years ago, our ancient cousin, Homo floresiensis, lived on the Indonesian island Flores. Popularly referred to as "hobbits,” adults were ~3 ft tall.

Soaring the skies above them, a giant carnivorous bird, Leptoptilos robustus, measured 6 ft tall with a long, sharp beak.

Did they interact? Newspapers around the world have run sensationalized headlines claiming the #birds ate hobbit babies, but scientists just don’t know. Yet. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/legend-of-the-killer-storks?loggedin=true&rnd=1671358177754 #science #history #SharedPlanet

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