JJ Millibeter @millibeterjj.bsky.social · 05/03/2024🪶🦉At the height of the covid lockdowns, I jumped on my bike a few ties in the driving rains, because this Red-necked grebe was spotted 10kms away. And because I needed to be outside. That too... (Roodhalsfuut, Podiceps grisegena) 0100
JJ Millibeter @millibeterjj.bsky.social · 01/03/2024Song thrush. It does what it says on the package. Sings and is thrush. (zanglijster, Turdus philomelos) 041
Reposted by JJ MillibeterSimon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 01/03/2024The IEA just published two fascinating reports Here are some of the best charts 1/ Clean energy is growing twice as fast as fossil fuels 6214104
JJ Millibeter @millibeterjj.bsky.social · 29/02/2024🦉🪶 'I want your clothes, your boots and your motor cycle!' -"You forgot to say Please!" This black-necked grebe (Podiceps nigricollis) failed the Terminator audition. Got the looks for a movie career, though. (Geoorde fuut) 0130
JJ Millibeter @millibeterjj.bsky.social · 28/02/2024🪶🦉 Great Crested Grebe. She is the lady your friends warned you for. A killer with the stiletto smile. You know you are going to suffer, but you can't turn your eyes away from so much beauty. (Fuut, Podiceps cristatus) Afrikaans: kuifkopdobbertje. Really. 45012
Reposted by JJ MillibeterEnzo Giordani @enzogiordani.bsky.social · 14/02/2024A tūturiwhatu (New Zealand dotterel) chick. So cute. So vulnerable to predators. There are only 2,500 adults left, which makes them rarer than kiwi. If the sign at the beach says keep your dog on a leash - don’t think you know better. Keep your dog on a leash. 27219
JJ Millibeter @millibeterjj.bsky.social · 25/02/2024🦉🪶 The cuckoo. The bird that really spiked my interest in the natural history of species, and how they evolve. They are not very common in Belgium anymore, judging by how hard it is to hear their unmistakable call. (Koekoek, Cuculus canorus) 0131
JJ Millibeter @millibeterjj.bsky.social · 23/02/2024🪶🦉 Just my luck that my favorite bird is probably the hardest to capture in a picture, and is only around in these parts for 100 days a year. Swift (Apus apus, gierzwaluw) 1100
JJ Millibeter @millibeterjj.bsky.social · 21/02/2024🦉🪶Common pheasant? Common Eileen! An imported species, but a beauty in itself. (fazant, Phasianus colchicus) 0101
JJ Millibeter @millibeterjj.bsky.social · 20/02/2024🪶🦉I mean, why did they call all of our birds here the "common this" and the "common that"? This wonder of nature shouldn't be called a "common" crane. By the way, 50.000 of 'em are leaving Spain right now, to sail over France and hopefully Belgium on their way to Scandinavia. (kraanvogel, Grus grus) 1112
JJ Millibeter @millibeterjj.bsky.social · 19/02/2024🦉🪶Almost that time of the year again, when the coots produce these carnivalesque chicks. Adorable. (meerkoet, Fulica atra) 0150
JJ Millibeter @millibeterjj.bsky.social · 17/02/2024🪶🦉Rose-ringed parakeet, enjoying some winter sunshine in an Antwerp park, where they established a feral colony in the last decade. They seem to perform assembly flights above the city at dusk, before roosting together. (halsbandparkiet, Psittacula krameri) 0184
JJ Millibeter @millibeterjj.bsky.social · 15/02/2024🦉🪶 The common moorhen, indeed quite common around here year round, will soon start claiming their breeding territories. Which can be a feisty shakedown. (waterhoen, Gallinula chloropus) 0131
JJ Millibeter @millibeterjj.bsky.social · 14/02/2024🪶🦉 Looking at the business end of the grey heron, it is clear that if they were 5x bigger, or we were 5x smaller, there wouldn't be 8 billion of us. I beg you not to google "heron impaling rat/mole". (Blauwe reiger, Ardea cinerea) 0161
JJ Millibeter @millibeterjj.bsky.social · 12/02/2024Imagine your scientific name sounding as cool as Nycticorax nycticorax. In English, they call you not just the Night Heron, but even the Black-Crowned one! YOU ARE A SUPERVILLAIN! And then Dutch just call you: "kwak". KWAK. And you don't even quack...🦉🪶 58821
JJ Millibeter @millibeterjj.bsky.social · 11/02/2024🪶🦉Almost as beautiful, the little egret isn't really that much smaller than yesterday's great egret. Especially if you keep in mind the cattle egret, which is chicken-sized. Getting more common in Belgium every year. Lovely. (Kleine zilverreiger, Egretta garzetta) 0272
Reposted by JJ MillibeterDani cRabaiotti 🦀 @danirabaiotti.bsky.social · 11/02/2024I used to forget all the time, but Bluesky has this cool feature where you can get it to remind you. If you go to setting on the left hand menu you will see a toggle labelled "Require alt text before posting". If you toggle it to 'ON' it tells you when you haven't entered alt text 🧪 14518
JJ Millibeter @millibeterjj.bsky.social · 10/02/2024🦉🪶 Once, at a guided group tour of a local nature reserve, I spotted a great egret, which we call a "great silver heron", and the boomer woman beside me confidently corrected me: "no, he's white, not silver, I can see it quite clearly." I couldn't argue with that. (grote zilverreiger, Ardea alba) 1140
JJ Millibeter @millibeterjj.bsky.social · 09/02/2024🪶🦉 one more spoonful, you say? Here you go, a spoonbill in the nature reserves around the port of Antwerp... (lepelaar, Platalea leucorodia) 0255
JJ Millibeter @millibeterjj.bsky.social · 07/02/2024🪶🦉oh, the English and their stupid habit of inventing specific words for gatherings of a specific animals! What is this then, a drawer of spoonbills? (lepelaar, Platalea leucorodia) 070
JJ Millibeter @millibeterjj.bsky.social · 05/02/2024🦉🪶 A couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of watching several kingfishers speardive for a few hours... WHAT A SPECTACLE ! Even without the extraordinary colors of its plumage, anything but a "common" kingfisher. (Ijsvogel, Alcedo atthis) 090
JJ Millibeter @millibeterjj.bsky.social · 04/02/2024🪶🦉 It seems somebody was determined to get this cutie going with a massive inferiority complex. I mean, naming it the "lesser" spotted woodpecker, just because YOU ran out of inspiration ? Much rarer, and discreter, than the Great and Middle SWP's. (kleine bonte specht, Dryobates minor) 0132
Reposted by JJ MillibeterAvianWI @avianwi13.bsky.social · 03/02/2024I wonder if this Golden-crowned Kinglet is dreaming of spring? 🪶🌿 611521
JJ Millibeter @millibeterjj.bsky.social · 03/02/2024🦉🪶 After the great, the middle. Difference in size not that big. Red cap is the tell-tale sign, but juvenile GSWP have that as well, which could confuse. Much more discrete. I was superstoked to make this picture in my own garden. (middelste bonte specht, Dendrocoptes medius) 0172
JJ Millibeter @millibeterjj.bsky.social · 02/02/2024🪶🦉Time for some woodpeckers! The most common species around here (North-Belgium) is clearly the great spotted woodpecker. Not very shy, comes for the peanuts just outside my kitchen window. And usually announces itself loud and clearly. (grote bonte specht, Dendrocopos major) 1306
JJ Millibeter @millibeterjj.bsky.social · 31/01/2024🪶🦉Some birds seem to defy the laws of physics, just to be amazingly beautiful. How can a black-winged stilt have such incredibly long legs, and walk around -without snapping 'em- in the mud the whole day and still look like it's going to the prom? (Steltkluut, Himantopus himantopus) 0191
Reposted by JJ MillibeterMartin Stervander 🏳️🌈🇸🇪🏴🏛️🦉🦤🪶 @stervander.com · 29/01/2024The Eskimo Curlew (Numenius borealis) bred in the millions on the N. American #tundra, but was also hunted in the millions. It's now most likely #extinct, with the last confirmed record in 1963. Thus, ghosts for #BirdsOfTheDay in National Museums 🏴's research collections. 🪶 #birds #ornithology 🧪 34018
Reposted by JJ MillibeterJohn Carpenter’s The Alex Nevil @thealexnevil.bsky.social · 29/01/2024Gaining weight: because getting older isn’t enough of a fuck you on its own. 39329
JJ Millibeter @millibeterjj.bsky.social · 25/01/2024🦉🪶 And stop calling us "common terns"! We are Top Gun terns! Aren't we, Iceman?!? And WE ARE DANGEROUS! (visdief, Sterna hirundo) 061
JJ Millibeter @millibeterjj.bsky.social · 24/01/2024🪶🦉European herring gulls. Clearly not in the mood to be misidentified. And I am not very good at gull determination. We call 'em "silver gulls" but never to their face. We're not crazy, you know... (zilvermeeuw, Larus argentatus) 091
JJ Millibeter @millibeterjj.bsky.social · 23/01/2024🦉🪶 From afar, the lapwing looks like a black-and-white bird with a flying disorder, but up close, it is far more colorful. Still unable to fly straight, tho. (kievit, Vanellus vanellus) 1181
Reposted by JJ MillibeterAndrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 22/01/2024It would be totally wild if the very first experimental deep-sea mining project came within a half marathon of dredging up the world's largest cold water coral reef. A reef we wouldn't even know existed for 4 more decades. Anyway, that's exactly what happened.southernfriedscience.comThe world’s largest cold water coral reef lies beside the first experimental deep-sea mining test ...In a region once thought to be so ecologically uninteresting that it was viewed as a useful testbed for deep-sea mining equipment, NOAA researchers have detected what could be the world’s lar… 315996
JJ Millibeter @millibeterjj.bsky.social · 22/01/2024🪶🦉Black-tailed godwit. Sounds like a Captain Haddock profanity. We just call it "grutto", and the Dutch consider it their national bird. (Limosa limosa) 080
JJ Millibeter @millibeterjj.bsky.social · 21/01/2024🦉🪶 Beautiful in red, white and black. And quite noisy when they're nesting just overhead on your office roof. But I love the sound. Reminds me of the beach, even 120km inland. (scholekster, Haematopus ostralegus) 0143
JJ Millibeter @millibeterjj.bsky.social · 19/01/2024🦉🪶 He probably doesn't know that his parents named him after a sanderling, but there you go, Idris Elba... (drieteenstrandloper, Calidris alba) 0181
JJ Millibeter @millibeterjj.bsky.social · 17/01/2024🦉🪶 whimbrel, wondering where his next lunch is hiding. (regenwulp, Numenius phaeopus) 0120
Reposted by JJ MillibeterDanny @mardigroan.bsky.social · 17/01/2024Who called it defiantly baking with a sourdough starter rather than the path of yeast resistance? 03311
Reposted by JJ MillibeterNoHomers @nohomers.bsky.social · 16/01/2024Rise of fascism vs climate change, I just can't pick a side they're both so exciting 031
JJ Millibeter @millibeterjj.bsky.social · 13/01/2024🪶🦉A ruddy turnstone, in winter plumage. Very active, not very shy, chipping away at the moss on the pier. (Steenloper, Arenaria interpres) 060
JJ Millibeter @millibeterjj.bsky.social · 11/01/2024🪶🦉Another designer bird, the beak seems to be drawn by a calligraphist, and even the name suggests finesse: the avocet. *Vincent Vega-voice:* Mademoiselle l'Avocet. (Kluut) 051
JJ Millibeter @millibeterjj.bsky.social · 09/01/2024🪶🦉If he is really into feeding you all the fish your heart desires, Miss Tern, you should refer to him as "common" but rather as "Mr Right and Right-now" tern! (Visdief, sterna hirundo) 130
JJ Millibeter @millibeterjj.bsky.social · 07/01/2024🪶🦉Mister plova plova! Little plover, I guess. I al not very good with these little waders. 060
Reposted by JJ MillibeterRaysident Evil @sireviscerate.myatproto.social · 06/01/2024TODDLER: MINE! MINE! MINE! ME: I hope someday you can see past your obsession for physical possessions. Greed is a-- *explodes* TODDLER: I tried to warn him. 123354
Reposted by JJ MillibeterAshley @ashleysays.bsky.social · 06/01/2024Happy trump wanted to hang Mike pence day to all who celebrate 053
JJ Millibeter @millibeterjj.bsky.social · 05/01/2024🦉🪶 Brent goose, barely recovered from the whole 50 shades of grey frenzy. (Rotgans, Branta bernicla) 030
