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Zoo & nature photography. Carrion Ecology is a happy place. There's gonna be scavengers scavenging.

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 17h
I have been a guest at conventions where, during the pre-con walk through, my handler has pointed out the bar and mentioned how some guests are "more fun" and "get asked back," then names only men. Because a lot of female guests aren't comfortable hanging out around alcohol with strangers.
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DWMM Photography @dwmmphotography.bsky.social · 14h
Now we have reached the 5th of Octcrowber.
American crow flying past a winterized aspen tree.
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Dee @mochamustelid.bsky.social · 15h
#Birdtober Day 5, Musical! Birds are full of sounds, here are some birds that are good at the sound making. Screaming counts as a sound right? #BirdtoberClub2026 #Photography #Birds
Bell's Vireo in mid song at Sweetwater Wetlands Park in ArizonaWhite-faced and Fulvous whistling duck being all too adorable together.
Oregon ZooSong sparrow, Ridgefield NWRScreaming piha, doing what it does best. Pretty sure this guy was perched right at the entrance to the aviary.
San Diego Zoo
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DWMM Photography @dwmmphotography.bsky.social · 14h
Musical is today's #Birdtober theme, so I thought I'd show a little song. #BirdtoberClub2026 #Photography #Birds
Backlit yellow-headed blackbird singing on a cold morning, the breath of his song visible.
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 15h
Looks like there’s an mRNA vaccine against pneumonic plague. Eat your heart out, RFK Jr. advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Novel Bivalent mRNA‐LNP Vaccine for Highly Effective Protection against Pneumonic Plague
The study investigates mRNA-lipid nanoparticle vaccines targeting Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague. Combined F1+LcrV mRNA vaccination elicited robust immune responses and protected mice....
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DWMM Photography @dwmmphotography.bsky.social · 15h
@tkingfisher.com Do you have a brand recommendation for watering timers? I would love to automatically distribute the collected kilogallon of rain, but online reviews these days...
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Kevin Butler @milesnaismith.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I don't remember who recently posted this, but it fits.
A ghost holds a thing of french fries and talks about potatoes.
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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 05/10/2026
We need to reinvest in the rule of law, because the other ways of processing our collective trauma are gonna suuuuuuuck.
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Dee @mochamustelid.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Helmet time! The colors for the outfit are always interesting. Looking forward to finishing the helm. #chocobo #CrossStitch #Embroidery
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Dee @mochamustelid.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#Birdtober Day 4 is Fruit eater. Birds make excellent seed dispersal. After they grab and consume a fruit, they'll deposit the seeds elsewhere for new plants to grow later on. #BirdtoberClub2026 #Photography #Birds
Military Macaw from the ABQ Biopark ZooA palm cockatoo at the Denver ZooToco toucan from the Woodland Park zooCassowary from the San Diego Safari Park
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DWMM Photography @dwmmphotography.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It is Scavenger Sunday, and we're walking.
A male Andean condor walking towards the camera at the San Diego Zoo.
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DWMM Photography @dwmmphotography.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
For #Birdtober day 4 Fruit-eater here's a palm-nut vulture. Native to Africa, the fruits of oil and Raffia palms make up a majority of their diet. #Birdtoberclub2026 #Photography #Birds
Palm-nut vulture perched.
Zoo Boise
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DWMM Photography @dwmmphotography.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
And now we have the 4th of Octcrowber.
A pair of American crows perched on a sign saying "DANGER KEEP BACK OF FENCE" that is trying to discourage people from letting the waves of the Pacific Ocean eat them on the coast of Oregon. There is always at least one person not heading the sign every time I visit this spot.
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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
It's October. Time for Flying Adventure Gourd to make an appearance again. Watercolour and coloured pencil, 64 × 89 mm, 2020.
Watercolour and coloured pencil drawing of a green gourd with a pair of wings and little sprouting limbs, wearing a red sash and a belt adorned with mysterious-looking sigils and objects.
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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
With Halloween coming up, it's time for the reminder to avoid buying/using fake spiderwebs. They can entangle and entrap birds. There's some good alternative ideas on this web page ... birdlife.org.au/news/bird-sa...
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Bird-safe Halloween decorations - BirdLife Australia
How to celebrate Halloween with bird-friendly decorations.
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.
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DWMM Photography @dwmmphotography.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
@tkingfisher.com in text nobody has to hear you try to enunciate guira cuckoo.
a bird with head feathers that would do a mad scientist proud, with back feathers spread for sunning.a perched bird with head feathers that would do a mad scientist proud
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DWMM Photography @dwmmphotography.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
On the 3rd day of #Birdtober the subject is Dive, so here is a black-crowned night heron doing some plunge diving. #BirdtoberClub2026 #Photography #Birds
A black-crowned night heron diving face first into a pond to fish.
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Dee @mochamustelid.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#Birdtober Day 3 is Dive! I actually managed to get a couple of birds that do some diving, and got a few diving shots. #BirdtoberClub2026 #Photography #Birds
A Forster's tern makes a calculated decision before diving into the water.
Benton Lake NWRA harlequin duck dives into the water with two other floating near it. Harlequin ducks are diving ducks, meaning that they go totally beneath the water to forage for food vs. dabbling ducks that bob on the surface.
Yellowstone National ParkA common loon bobbing on the water's surface. 
Newport, ORA brown pelican dive bombs into the water for its food. A city-scape is behind the pelican
San Diego area California
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DWMM Photography @dwmmphotography.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It is Octcrowber the 3rd.
An American crow perched in a tree surrounded by fall foliage of red and orange.
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DWMM Photography @dwmmphotography.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
@tkingfisher.com I wish to again emphasize the adorableness of the Pueblo Zoo's cinereous vultures.
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DWMM Photography @dwmmphotography.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A bit of what my feed seemed like for a bit with today's #Black&Red theme for #BirdOfTheDay
A winter swarm of red-winged blackbirds at the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge.
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secondlina // Lord of Crows @secondlina.com · 04/10/2026
💡Oh my gosh, brainstorm.💡
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Woodland Park Zoo @woodlandparkzoo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A beary friendly reminder, the zoo is closed today, Saturday, October 3, 2026 for our OktoBEARfest (21+) event. There are still a handful of tickets if you want to join us: zoo.org/oktobearfest
A four-panel collage: Top left shows a person filling a glass at a beer booth. Top right features a grizzly bear standing on grass. Bottom left depicts a bear sitting on a rock. Bottom right shows a close-up of a person in traditional attire holding a beer mug with "Big Bear" visible on the badge.
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Aled Thompson @aledthompson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Daily birds 78 - Firehawks
top left is a brown falcon, bottom left is a black kite and right is a whistling kite, each holding a burning stick and trailing smoke against a pale yellow background.
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Dee @mochamustelid.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Spotlight for the monochrome birds! Day 2 of #Birdtober is Shades of Grey! A lot of attention is given to super colorful birds because they're so eye catching, but the grey birds are also pretty neat. Like that songbird down there that skewers its dinner. #BirdtoberClub2026 #Photography #Birds
Canada Jay, which was previously known as the grey jay, and honestly a name I prefer because you can find this bird in the US too!
There are a BUNCH of other nicknames for this bird, camp robber, whiskey jack, moose bird
Yellowstone National ParkLoggerhead shrike
Bosque del Apache NWRGrey gull
Oregon ZooHarpy Eagle
World Center of Birds of Prey
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Holly 🦆 Birdy Nature Journal @hermitthrush13.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’m back! Gonna share some October art prompts I’m making as part of #BirdtoberClub2026 and #Witchtober2026 over on instagram. I’m combining prompts from both challenges. Get ready for some witchy #birds! October 1 - todays prompts are Aerial Insectivore and Candle, so I drew a Common Nighthawk 💜
An illustration showing the front view of a nighthawk looking up and to its left. There is a candle lit in front of it, the piece is in purples and deep pinks, except for the yellow and orange glow from the candle.
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DWMM Photography @dwmmphotography.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It is the 2nd of Octcrowber.
A perched American crow.
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DWMM Photography @dwmmphotography.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
For Shades of Gray #Birdtober I'm going with a Gray Jay. (Yes, some Very Important Ornithologists decided this wasn't the species name. But I don't agree (because only endemic species should be named after geography) and don't have to follow their rules here.) #BirdtoberClub2026 #Photography #Birds
close up photo of a gray jay
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Hawaiʻi Pacific Parks Association @hawaiipacificparks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Holei Sea Arch had been showing signs of instability for years. In 2022, large surf from Tropical Storm Darby took a chunk of the natural sea arch and park rangers warned it could collapse at any time. #HVNP #HoleiSeaArch
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Hawaii's famed Holei Sea Arch is gone forever
The arch is believed to have been 550 years old.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 02/10/2026
What are we even doing anymore, people
A four pack of Oreo chicken and waffle flavored cookies
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DWMM Photography @dwmmphotography.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Octcrowber anyone?
Silhouettes of pine trees with a perched flock of American Crows against a sky colored with an orange predawn glow
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If the argument for women should know better than to go into a rape den like a frat house, explain to me why a rape house like a fraternity is allowed to exist at all.
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Dee @mochamustelid.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's bird time! #Birdtober starts off with Aerial insectivore. I'm kind of amazed that I managed to get flight shots of all these birds. They may not be actively eating insects, but they do consume them! #BirdtoberClub2026 #Photography #Birds
A lesser night hawk zooming through the skies on a stormy evening. Bosque del Apache NWRA tree swallow skimming the channel for insects. Bear River Migratory Bird RefugeWestern kingbirds flying after each other. Bosque del Apache NWRWhite-fronted bee eater in flight. Keepers often do insect tosses for the birds so visitors can see their areal gymnastics. 
San Diego Zoo
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DWMM Photography @dwmmphotography.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A male vermilion flycatcher for the Aerial Insectivore of #Birdtober #BirdtoberClub2026 #Photography #Birds
Male vermilion flycatcher in flight over a pond at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge.
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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The time has come to announce our BTO & Marsh Award 2026 winners for their contribution to ornithology and conservation! This evening we’re at the Society of Wildlife Artists Natural Eye Exhibition where winners will be given their award! Stay tuned! @marshawards.bsky.social
Society of Wildlife Artists Natural Eye exhibition image featuring a centre artwork of Nightjar by moonlight, showing two Nightjars on Copperfoiled stained glass on stained granite base by Rachel Taylor, with the oil artwork Goldcrest by John Foker on the wall behind.
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DWMM Photography @dwmmphotography.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This. Also you sometimes run into people with an unfalsifiable statement of "I'm right" regarding things that are falsifiable and will ignore any evidence presented counter to that (is vulture poop acidic enough to kill harmful microorganisms like their stomach acid as a totally random example)
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Aled Thompson @aledthompson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's spooky season which means I can finally bring this piece back 🎃🐈‍⬛
A pumpkin patch featuring multicoloured pumpkins, some with carved faces, and black and white cats, frogs, crows and foliage
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Dee @mochamustelid.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New month new art challenge! Going to give this Birdtober list a go, featuring me diving through all my photos. Minus one prompt that won't be photos. I bet you can guess which one. List is by @kaylafiskbirds.bsky.social (I just don't post on instagram anymore)
A prompt list featuring various characteristics instead of specific bird species to create from.
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Josh Crutchmer @jcrutchmer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
How is it mind boggling
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DWMM Photography @dwmmphotography.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A few days ago I was up in the wee hours of the morning for the Harvest Moon because I've made poor choices in what pet behaviors I give positive reinforcement to.
Harvest moon with a halo and light clouds in the predawn dark.
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DWMM Photography @dwmmphotography.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There are red-winged blackbirds being noisy in my yard, which means my winter bird food budget is not going to be enough.
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DWMM Photography @dwmmphotography.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
@tkingfisher.com important info for Saturday -> the Ramen Snacks can be found at the Daiso in Santa Fe (I think also the Santa Fe Asian Market on St. Michaels (which also had a stock of ube short bread last time I was there)) and I've seen Moon Cheese at the Cost Plus World Market by B&N.
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DWMM Photography @dwmmphotography.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Grunt sculpin are the best fish and I will fight you on this.
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João Menezes @jocateme.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Our new paper on bird vocal amplitude is out in @sse-evolution.bsky.social ! Across 123 species, we found two new contenders for world’s loudest bird: bare-throated bellbird and seriema Along with the white bellbird, both can reach jackhammer-level amplitudes! doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpag153
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Stephen Blackmoore @stephenblackmoore.com · 29/09/2026
Maybe you need some books about a man for our times, a violent, sweary necromancer with anger management issues. The Eric Carter series www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/EC2/e...
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Eric Carter
Buy books online and find book series such as Eric Carter written by Stephen Blackmoore from PenguinRandomHouse.com
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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Burrowing Owl for meraxes-of-new-albion on tumblr! Thank you for the donation! 🪶🎨 #BirdArt #SciArt The #Waymakers Challenge raises funds for @theyoungcenter.bsky.social to help immigrant kids in the US! Donate by end of day Sept. 30 - not much time left! youngcenter.donordrive.com/campaigns/Bi...
Illustration of a Burrowing Owl standing on a patch of chunky dry dirt in front of distant blurry powerlines. The owl is long-legged and standing tall, with its head tilted to the side as it peers toward the viewer with its huge yellow eyes.
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emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Amirite tho
White text on yellow-orange ombré background that reads:
Don't let Al ruin your writing.
It's your writing.
Ruin it yourself.

Amirite
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