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Alvaro Jaramillo @alvarosadventures.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I wonder if they were always there or if they recolonized.

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Miriam Goldstein @miriamgoldstein.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Spotted near NOAA 💙 (source www.reddit.com/r/NOAA/s/qfW...)

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Alvaro Jaramillo @alvarosadventures.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Some eagle photos from our Japan in winter tour. I am heading back to do a tour here in spring, focusing on migration, local breeding birds and seabirds. But this trip is all about cranes, eagles, ducks and geese and superb food. www.alvarosadventures.com/japan-in-spr...

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Alvaro Jaramillo @alvarosadventures.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

This is a super pod of Risso’s Dolphins. Crazy unusual. ‘Super pod’ of more than 1,500 dolphins spotted off California coast www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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‘Super pod’ of more than 1,500 dolphins spotted off California coast

Whale watchers capture rare footage of miles-long cluster of dolphins ‘just having a great time’

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Alvaro Jaramillo @alvarosadventures.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Close up of a female Large Niltava in Thailand. That little blue slash on the neck sides is a pretty unique pattern found on female Niltavas.

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Alvaro Jaramillo @alvarosadventures.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

It took us all morning, but we finally saw a Spoon-billed Sandpiper. This is on out Thailand tour - day 1!

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Alvaro Jaramillo @alvarosadventures.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I like it, "hydroclimate whiplash". These lows and highs that have been predicted to be a part of human induced climate change. It gets at the crazy nature of it, southern California goes from super wet to super dry. Setting up part of the scene for this horrific set of fires.

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Here's a schematic I published in this 2021 piece to illustrate how even a modest delay in onset of rainy season in Southern California can dramatically amplify wildfire risk by lengthening seasonal overlap between dry vegetation and strong offshore winds during Oct-Jan. #CAfire

Schematic from Swain 2021 depicting how even a modest (1-month) delay in the Southern California rainy season can greatly amplify wildfire risk by increasing the temporal/seasonal overlap between critically dry vegetation and the occurrence of strong, dry offshore (downsloping) winds.

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British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 09/01/2025

Genomic data reveal that the Cuban blue-headed quail-dove (Starnoenas cyanocephala) is a biogeographic relict | royalsocietypublishi... | Biology Letters | #ornithology 🪶

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Alvaro Jaramillo @alvarosadventures.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

The big pigeons in New Zealand were some of my favorite land birds. The Kereru and Parea on the Chatham Islands. Huge! And colorful.

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Alvaro Jaramillo @alvarosadventures.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Kell Gulls go with the flow and shift foods as needed.

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Alvaro Jaramillo @alvarosadventures.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Enderby Island in the Auckland Archipelago was amazing today. Endemic birds like Auckland Teal and Shags as well as Southern Royal Albatross and Hooker’s Sea Lions. What a place!

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Alvaro Jaramillo @alvarosadventures.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I am in New Zealand, loving the different pies available here.

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Alvaro Jaramillo @alvarosadventures.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I am in Tucson for a day, missing this... but getting info from home that it is sucking big time, and I am the one who likes the storms!! But it is wet and windy over HMB today. I only hope that the plants, soil, aquifers and all that need water get satisfaction, and that cool birds show up.

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Alvaro Jaramillo @alvarosadventures.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Atmospheric river ramping up. Stalling and dumping in Mendocino and Sonoma. Friday will be the day it could head farther south?

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Alvaro Jaramillo @alvarosadventures.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Wow! The level of detail one can achieve now looking at traits, and genetic history. Just wow!

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Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Preorder. This. Book! 👇

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NWS Bay Area Bot @nwsbayareabot.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

@NWSBayArea: We'll continue to see impacts linger across the Bay Area and Central Coast through Friday. The heaviest rainfall is anticipated across the North Bay, where 10-15" of rainfall are forecast. This will result in an increased floo... twitter.com/NWSBayArea/status/18592…

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Alvaro Jaramillo @alvarosadventures.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

The Ticking Doradito, just over a decade ago it was split from the Warbling Doradito which looks like it but has a very different song. They leave Chile in winter. Presumably they go to Argentina. Yet on territory the odd "tick" sounds of this species give it the memorable English Name.

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Matthew Pfab @matthewpfabwx.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Look at this incredible satellite image of our bomb cyclone! This is such a beautiful storm, seen from space! Rarely do we get cyclones at remotely this intensity...and it's still strengthening. The NWS says its pressure is currently 955 mb, while a nearby buoy shows 74 mph winds and 950 mb. #wawx

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Alvaro Jaramillo @alvarosadventures.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Pincoya Storm-Petrel! We had the great luck of finding them on our recent Heart and Soul of Chile tour. I was co-author on the description over 10 years ago and sadly we still know little about this species. Our work (Norambuena et al 2024) shows it is closest to O. barroso, but distinct.

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Alvaro Jaramillo @alvarosadventures.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Ground tyrants are the Andean equivalents of chats and wheatears. Ochre-naped Ground-tyrant in the Yeso Valley, Santiago, Chile. On our Heart and Soul of Chile tour.

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Alvaro Jaramillo @alvarosadventures.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I started to do a bit more field testing of the Xinfrared lens that clips on to your phone. This is a photo of distant cows in the field. I found many European Hares, saw a fly by Southern Lapwing and a sleeping Diuca Finch. Pullao, Chiloe, Chile. The app crashed a couple of times though.

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Mike Schatz @mikeschatz.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

I’m so proud of this work! Awesome collaboration between the Galaxy Project and the Vertebrate Genomes Project to make reference quality genomes accessible for all. 51 (!!!) new vertebrate genomes presented here means only about 70,000 left to go😀🚀 rdcu.be/dwYSO

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Alvaro Jaramillo @alvarosadventures.bsky.social · 21/01/2024

Our birding tour in India has been a blast. Tons of great birds, literally tons of mammals and some superb Indian food! We are looking forward to future tours and also visiting other parts of India. Alvarosadventures.com

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American Ornithological Society @amornith.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

BREAKING: AOS will change all English bird names currently named after people within its geographic jurisdiction—one step in an effort to address past wrongs and engage more people in the enjoyment, protection and study of birds. americanornithology.org/about/englis... #BirdNames

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The American Ornithological Society Will Change the English Names of Bird Species Named After People

AOS will change all English bird names currently named after people within its geographic jurisdiction—one step in an effort to address past wrongs & engage more people in the enjoyment, protection ...

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Erik Enbody @erikenbody.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

It's fun to get to share our new study in Science tracking nearly 4,000 Galápagos finches using genomics over 30 years! Interested in how genomics can teach us about contemporary evolution? 1/ www.science.org/doi/full/10....

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Alvaro Jaramillo @alvarosadventures.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

We did well today seeing 2 or maybe 3 Killer Whales near the Farallon Islands. They came to check out our boat and to look at us. What amazing animals they are.

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Alvaro Jaramillo @alvarosadventures.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

Heading home from offshore, after a nice sighting of Killer whales.

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Alvaro Jaramillo @alvarosadventures.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

Ring-necked Snake! Always a nice find, their red bellies (in the West) are striking.

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Alvaro Jaramillo @alvarosadventures.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

Wagtails. Early introgression and ILS has made it difficult to create a phylogeny. The punchline is that similar looking species are not necessarily related to each other. This suggests that there was a parallel evolution of similar plumages in wagtails. academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

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Alvaro Jaramillo @alvarosadventures.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

New paper and discussion on how albatross use low pitched infrasound, and move towards it. This allows the to head to areas with greater wind and waves, therefore easier travel for them! www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

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