Laura Moth @lauramoth.bsky.social · 30/08/2026@atlanticbirding.bsky.social #BirdoftheDay #parenting Barred owl Dad retaining final authority over the distribution of a rat 4689
Laura Moth @lauramoth.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Lovely Sora having a stroll about the park; why lovely Sora should not have a stroll about the park 141
Laura Moth @lauramoth.bsky.social · 08/06/2026One month of owlet. Watching airplanes, ambushing ants, chasing entirely unconcerned squirrels. 162
Laura Moth @lauramoth.bsky.social · 31/05/2026That uncanny feeling when the words "brood parasitism" first flash across your mind 030
Laura Moth @lauramoth.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Rereading Nick Groom's marvellous The Vampire: A New History 030
Laura Moth @lauramoth.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Lobaria. Sheldrake: “Lichens are places where an organism unravels into an ecosystem… they never stop lichenizing; they are verbs as well as nouns.“ 1193
Laura Moth @lauramoth.bsky.social · 22/02/2026The bones of full 50 men lie STREWN about its lair... 110
Laura Moth @lauramoth.bsky.social · 31/10/2025"When I called Donald Trump Idi Amin, I thought I was paying him a compliment," Soyinka said. "He's been behaving like a dictator." Wole Soyinka is a riot. (One that Trump's spineless henchmen can't shut down.)bbc.comNigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka says his US visa revokedThe 91-year-old Nobel laureate in literature has been a critic of Trump's immigration policy. 041
Laura Moth @lauramoth.bsky.social · 25/10/2025So glad to hear that @chloedalton.bsky.social is writing a new book, Pet, about human-pet relationships and the wild counterparts of the animals we keep. We need a subtle voice like hers to stir conversation on this. 040
Laura Moth @lauramoth.bsky.social · 20/10/2025At a former golf course in the Coachella Valley that’s being rewilded – Greater Roadrunner and Green Heron 141
Laura Moth @lauramoth.bsky.social · 07/10/2025“Desertas petrels make some of the longest foraging trips ever recorded in any species, travelling 12,000 km… And, not only do the birds travel vast distances – they also put ‘themselves exactly in the right place at the right time to be run over by a hurricane’.”bbc.comRiders on the storm: The birds that fly into hurricanesWhen hurricanes pass over the ocean they churn up creatures from the deep – a chance to feast for predators brave enough to weather the storm. 270
Laura Moth @lauramoth.bsky.social · 03/10/2025An Oregon oak ecosystem - Acorn Woodpecker, California Scrub Jay, and Great Egret 141
Laura Moth @lauramoth.bsky.social · 31/08/2025European herring gull doing a worm dance, St. Stephen's Green, Dublin (sound on for the '80s version that plays in my head) 161
Laura Moth @lauramoth.bsky.social · 16/08/2025From the wonderful Nugrybauti, short fiction by @lidiamiles.bsky.social in the fungi issue of @orionmagazine.bsky.social 151
Laura Moth @lauramoth.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Golden-crowned kinglet, Oregon – with bright yellow feet showing off its carotenoid-rich diet. 171
Laura Moth @lauramoth.bsky.social · 04/08/2025Lovely iridescence on this common grackle (Banff, Canada) – purple, bronze, cobalt, and much more in the UV light humans can't see. 170
Laura Moth @lauramoth.bsky.social · 13/07/2025Barred owlet trying to tug a rat tail away from dad, Vancouver, Canada 170
Laura Moth @lauramoth.bsky.social · 09/07/2025“Under Trump, manifest destiny is back with a vengeance. Now, Canadians can experience a taste of Indigenous life with the president’s threats to turn Canada into the 51st state.” -Niigaan Sinclair, from an essay in the latest issue of @cangeo.bsky.social 010
Laura Moth @lauramoth.bsky.social · 02/07/2025“Anthropomorphism, at its best and most fluid, is not just a recognizing of the human in the creaturely but is a recognizing also of the creaturely in the human. In this form, anthropomorphism becomes the recognition of kinship.” - @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social ❤️❤️❤️ 061
Laura Moth @lauramoth.bsky.social · 16/05/2025Angry rufous hummingbird cooling off on its little swing 020
