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Birds, Beasts and Flowers! @birdsbeasts.bsky.social · 11h

Teenage Vermillion flycatcher trying to grow his first mustache. #birds

Young Vermillion flycatcher - a red and black bird with a black mask - perched on a branch.

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Birds, Beasts and Flowers! @birdsbeasts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yellow bird in the yellow light. Orchard oriole in the golden hour. #birds #birdsonbarbwire

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Birds, Beasts and Flowers! @birdsbeasts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Mrs. Painted bunting eating a Texas persimmon in the Texas summer... They taste good to her. They taste good to her. #birds #nativeplants William Carlos Williams www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51653/...

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Birds, Beasts and Flowers! @birdsbeasts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

They're all writing, writing "John Keats" over and over again. Listen close and you can hear the light-winged Dryad of the trees. Or at least his close relative. #nature #Birds #naturephotography #Keats #poetry

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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Want to know what happens behind the scenes to make a single bioGraphic feature story? Buckle up! A 🧵(1/6) For this feature, @judeisabella.bsky.social started out by securing funding through @pulitzercenter.org and collaboration with @lanacioncom.bsky.social and @thefern.org ...

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The Unwilding of Patagonia’s Pollinators | bioGraphic

In a region synonymous with wilderness, native bumblebees are being replaced by industrial worker bees—and ecosystems are paying the price.

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Birds, Beasts and Flowers! @birdsbeasts.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Lone juvenile Mississippi Kite migrating through Texas... "Hey, you down there, which way is Mississippi?" "Is that where I'm supposed to be going?" "And what's with these spot on my chest?" #Birds #LightAndShadows #BirdOfTheDay

Young Mississippi Kite in a tree looking down at the photographer, me.

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Birds, Beasts and Flowers! @birdsbeasts.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If I'm not mistaken, this is where Horton heard the who. Buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis) growing in the garden. #nativeplants

A photo of a button bush (Cephalanthus occidentalis) looking suitably otherworldly.

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Birds, Beasts and Flowers! @birdsbeasts.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Big ol' Water moccasin coming at me... nah, she's just off to do some fishin'. Good luck, lady.

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Birds, Beasts and Flowers! @birdsbeasts.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

There are some good looking sparrows in this world, but this one is probably the best looking. Black-throated sparrow. #birds #birdsonbarbwire

Black-throated sparrow sitting on barbed wire.

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Birds, Beasts and Flowers! @birdsbeasts.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Behold my cuteness. Lady Vermillion flycatcher. #birds

Female (or juvenile) Vermillion flycatcher perched on velvet weed.

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Birds, Beasts and Flowers! @birdsbeasts.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"Yeah, I catch flies too." Scissor-tailed flycatcher and Vermillion flycatcher sharing an afternoon wire. #birds

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Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Briefly popping my head back in to unveil the cover of my upcoming book, LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale. It’ll be out on April 6 in the U.S. and April 29 in the U.K. and you can pre-order it right now! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757705... 1/

A book cover featuring a beautiful closely cropped portrait of an Anna's hummingbird. The cover says LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale, by Ed Yong. The image also says US: 4/06/27 and UK: 4/29/27

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Birds, Beasts and Flowers! @birdsbeasts.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This is for the woman with the two off leash poodles chasing the plovers off the beach at Malibu Lagoon today who told me dogs were allowed on the beach. This too, “Fuck you.” #birds

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Birds, Beasts and Flowers! @birdsbeasts.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Back in the Chaparral with my old friends. Now off to find those clown birds. #birds

Screenshot of Merlin bird ID with typical chaparral birds.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Watching the worst people in the world wreck everything is so very disheartening.

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Birds, Beasts and Flowers! @birdsbeasts.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

A garden should be judged by the number of Cuckoos it contains. This is a good garden. #birds #nativeplants

Yellow-billed Cuckoo on a fence in a garden.

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Tom Kimmerer, PhD @tomkimmerer.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Encouraging news came this week of a reinvigorated program to restore blight-resistant American chestnut. If successful, this would be the biggest news for our eastern forests since the chestnuts were wiped out before 1950. This is reason for optimism.

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The Return of American Chestnut? American chestnuts have been a part of my life since I was a kid. We would buy fresh roasted chestnuts from street vendors in Baltimore. I didn’t know it but by the t...

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Birds, Beasts and Flowers! @birdsbeasts.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Depressions in the proterozoic rocks of the Llano uplift are particularly good for catching water after a rain... and those little pools are particularly good at keeping your Black-throated sparrows clean. #birds

Photo of a Black-throated sparrow wet after taking a bath.

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Birds, Beasts and Flowers! @birdsbeasts.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Texas Persimmon (Diospyros texana) in Texas - as it should be. This one an absolute unit. Every yard from Brownsville in the south, east to Waco, west to Terlingua, and North to Brownwood should have one of these... if only to please me and the raccoons. #nativeplants

Photo of a small tree - the Texas Persimmon - looking lush.

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Birds, Beasts and Flowers! @birdsbeasts.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

They're called Caracaras (Cara being spanish for "face") because they have two faces; a left face and a right face. #birds

Caracara in the top of a tree looking left.

Caracara in the top of a tree looking right.

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

This is what it looks like to take wildlife collisions seriously. There are >40 wildlife overpasses and underpasses with fencing along the Trans-Canada Highway near Banff, Alberta. They’ve reduced wildlife-vehicle collisions by 80%, saving human & animal lives while promoting connected ecosystems.

Cars pass under a vegetated wildlife overpass along the Trans-Canada Highway (Highway 1) in Banff, Alberta, Canada.

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Birds, Beasts and Flowers! @birdsbeasts.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

For Pride Month a Rainbow Bird singing in a Brokeback Mountain scene. #birds #pride #birdsonbarbwire Painted Bunting, The Ranch, June 2026

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Birds, Beasts and Flowers! @birdsbeasts.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Neighbor drama in the tenement house. "I'll raise my kids as I see fit!, back off."

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Birds, Beasts and Flowers! @birdsbeasts.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

"Have you seen my idiot son? I left him here in the garden. Oh, nevermind, there he is." #birds Purple Martin dad in the garden. June 2026

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Birds, Beasts and Flowers! @birdsbeasts.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Ever seen a baby Dickcissel? Now you have. It's a big scary world out there buddy, but I think you'll be alright. Just fly off to the vanishing grasslands and do your thing. Come fall you can take a trip to South America. #birds

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Birds, Beasts and Flowers! @birdsbeasts.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I will ensconce myself in this bush and await for Dad to return with more tasty bugs. What could go wrong? "Look at me! I'm a bat!" Purple Martin fledgling Texas, June 2026 #birds

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Birds, Beasts and Flowers! @birdsbeasts.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Five seconds of a Yellow-billed Cuckoo in the garden dispatching a grasshopper. The Ranch, Texas June 2026 #birds

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Birds, Beasts and Flowers! @birdsbeasts.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Dickcissel watching a butterfly out by the barn. Been a faithful companion this summer, unlike those Meadowlarks who fled north leaving me all alone... Texas, June 2026 #birds

Dickcissel - a sparrow like bird - on a fence with a red barn in the background. A butterfly is also in the background.

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Birds, Beasts and Flowers! @birdsbeasts.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Can't talk now. Got a mouthful of bugs. Purple Martin June 2026 #birds

Purple martin - a type of swallow - a shiny purple bird on a fence with a mouth full of bugs.

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Birds, Beasts and Flowers! @birdsbeasts.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Lizard doing a lizard dance. I guess. Very good at it. Common Spotted Whiptail (Aspidoscelis gularis) or the Huico Pinto del Noreste en espanol... which is, admittedly, a much better name. Che Huico! Que haces?

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Birds, Beasts and Flowers! @birdsbeasts.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

"Wake up kids, dad has brought home a mess of flying insects for dinner. Looks like it's some sort of termite tonight. What do you mean, you don't like termites? You've never even tried termites. Listen your father worked hard for those termites and your going to eat some." #birds

Two Purple Martins - a type of swallow - one male and one female on the balcony of a Martin box. The male has a shitload of termites in his mouth that he as brought home for the fledglings.

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Birds, Beasts and Flowers! @birdsbeasts.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

My campaign to change the name of this bird from Dickcissel to Cheep Cheep-cheep has yet to catch on, but I've been survey all the Cheep Cheep-cheeps on the place and they all seem to be in favor of the change. Like this one at the top of a Mesquite tree. #birds

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Birds, Beasts and Flowers! @birdsbeasts.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

My scissors got wet. I hope they don't rust. Scissor-tailed Flycatcher in the rain. #birds

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Birds, Beasts and Flowers! @birdsbeasts.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Male House sparrow on a post in the rain, followed by a female House sparrow on a post in the rain, followed by no sparrows on a post in the rain. Sparrows posting you might say.

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Birds, Beasts and Flowers! @birdsbeasts.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Baby black-tailed jackrabbits are called "leverets". Here a newborn leveret attempts his first leap. Adult jackrabbits can leap as far as 20 feet... this one has a way to go. Although he is pretty fucking adorable in the attempt. The Ranch June 2026.

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Birds, Beasts and Flowers! @birdsbeasts.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

In June, the Mesquite bloom and all is alright with this small part of the world. Texas Hill Country. June 2026 #nativeplants

Photo of the long slender yellow blossoms of a Mesquite tree.

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Birds, Beasts and Flowers! @birdsbeasts.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

The sty of contentment that TS Eliot spoke of... Feral hog in his day spa taking a warm mud bath. If you watch to the end you will see him fart in the tub. You can't get this quality content just anywhere. Watch this space. Texas June 2026.

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Birds, Beasts and Flowers! @birdsbeasts.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

"What are you doing hare", I asked. "I live hare", she replied. Hares are masters of wordplay, if you only listen... and if you look deeply in the eye of this hare, you can see the porch on which I'm sitting filming a hare looking at me.

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Birds, Beasts and Flowers! @birdsbeasts.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

"I have a bug stuck on my nose, don't I." Ah, the agonies of adolescence. Juvenile Barn swallow. Texas June 2026. #Birds

Juvenile Barn swallow with bug stuck on nose.

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