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Nate Swick @n8swick.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I don’t get it. Is this a new Savannah Bananas opponent?

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The Birdist @thebirdist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Posting again for the afternoon crowd! Popeye! Pornography! Angela Lansbury! Red bow ties! Dennis the Menace! "Dweeby little friends!" Two kissing mini-thrushes! Honor scroll! Tweed! Outer space! It's all there in my history of birding on the silver screen! www.audubon.org/magazine/his...

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How Movies and TV Made Birdwatchers Uncool—and Then Cool Again

A century of screen history shows how heroic conservationists became tweed-clad caricatures, and when Hollywood finally started to ditch the tired trope.

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Nate Swick @n8swick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Did it move? I wonder if it’s some sort of taxidermied bird thats been painted.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 01/10/2026

Gen Zers and Millennials have found renewed interest in birding, which provides them with a low-stress, low-screen outdoor activity, Rachel Gutman-Wei reports. She and the bird enthusiast Ryan Zucker grabbed their binoculars and headed to New York's Central Park to see all the birds they could spot.

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Nate Swick @n8swick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you delete your eBird account, eBird still has your data and you permanently lose access to it. Who wins and who loses in that scenario and to what end?

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Nate Swick @n8swick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

You know you can just let him fade into irrelevance. That is also an option for you.

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Nate Swick @n8swick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

10% of the respondents are from Utah, if anyone questions if the methodology skews left..

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Nate Swick @n8swick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

They call Chicago the City of Big Shoulders but all the Red-shouldered Hawks I saw were normal sized.

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American Birding Association @aba.org · 11/09/2026

Tune in to watch What's This Bird? Live! with Nate and Greg today at 1 PM ET! www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8VO...

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What's This Bird LIVE! September 11, 2026

YouTube video by American Birding Association

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 11/09/2026

Pretending the days after Sept. 11, 2001 were some kind of gauzy Hallmark special when we came together as a country is nauseating and ahistorical. The country went completely insane and has not recovered

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Nate Swick @n8swick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

If Chicago area birders are interested, I, along with what will probably be the entire @aba.org staff, will be birding Montrose next Wednesday morning.

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Nate Swick @n8swick.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The ideological whiplash of this court over the 20 years I’ve lived in this state has been bonkers.

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Nate Swick @n8swick.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Did not really know what to expect going in. Ended up having a great conversation.

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Nate Swick @n8swick.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Look, let's just call it a trade in-kind.

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Nate Swick @n8swick.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I'm not sure what is going on but Macaulay Library is so freaking difficult to access these days and I don't know why that is.

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Nate Swick @n8swick.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Does that last thing really work? Asking for a friend…

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Nate Swick @n8swick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Excellent people. Excellent conversation.

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Nate Swick @n8swick.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

There’s a brand new one going up in North Carolina so he’s either stupid or lying.

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American Birding Association @aba.org · 20/08/2026

New podcast episode! Nashville-based singer/song-writer Bonner Black is confidently making her way in the worlds of both music and birding. Her fourth studio project is a 5-song EP titled "Little Bird in a Big Sky," which releases on August 20th. Listen here: www.aba.org/little-bird-...

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Little Bird in a Big Sky with Bonner Black - American Birding Association

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Nate Swick @n8swick.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Everything is just so weird right now.

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Nate Swick @n8swick.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Meanwhile, I guess eBird is not allowing previews for links anymore.

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Nate Swick @n8swick.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I love it when rare birds produce weird photo opportunities, as with this New Mexico 1st South Polar Skua that turned up at a random high elevation lake in the Sacramento Mountains. macaulaylibrary.org/asset/663182...

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Making sure you're not a bot!

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Nate Swick @n8swick.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I’ve been driving for 30 years and every car I’ve had except for one has been a hatchback.

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Nate Swick @n8swick.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I was struggling a bit for items to discuss on the American Birding Podcast so on a lark I asked ChatGPT for topical items only to have it suggest subjects that were clearly pulled from recent episodes of the podcast I host.

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Nate Swick @n8swick.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The kite show that the Black Belt Birding Festival is legit.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

there is literally no amount of caveats or careful wording that will protect you from stupidity or bad faith, so you might as well say things straightforwardly and strongly to begin with.

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Nate Swick @n8swick.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

And they looked the best against Argentina! Really makes you think.

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Nate Swick @n8swick.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I think defenders should be incentivized to not kick out wildly at loose balls they can’t see well, especially close to the goal.

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Nate Swick @n8swick.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I don’t know. I don’t think flopping is as big of an issue because getting clipped in the ankle or stepped on with metal studs while you’re running at full speed is “minimal contact” but still hurts like hell for several seconds so I don’t blame players for going to ground for that stuff.

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Nate Swick @n8swick.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Yeah I hear that. I assume the YC was for excessive force, but the force only appeared excessive in the first place because of the dive so it shouldn’t have been a YC and on and on.

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Nate Swick @n8swick.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Embellishing a response to contact is not the same thing as simulation under no contact, which is in the Laws of the Game as a cautionable offense.

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Nate Swick @n8swick.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Attempting to deceive the referee by simulation is in the Laws as something that is required to be cautioned. It’s almost never called without VAR though. Honestly, this seems like the only situation you could do it, since I guess VAR is there to confirm a yellow card?

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Nate Swick @n8swick.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

They’re not “constantly diving “ under no contact, though.

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Matthew Doyle @mattdoyle.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Everybody’s upset because it’s Argentina but I’m glad that gets called. Get it out of the game.

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Nate Swick @n8swick.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Probably because too many of their best athletes are playing [checks wikipedia] err netball?

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Nate Swick @n8swick.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Agree 100%. I think one of the under-appreciated reasons US has lagged behind other soccer nations is because we don’t have many parents who know the game, maybe played it at a High School level, as well as they know other sports. We’re maybe in our 2nd generation of soccer knowing. It takes time

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Nate Swick @n8swick.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I think pay to play is negatively affecting rec sports far more than it’s negatively affecting the development of players that become national team level talent. Those players in the second group are playing for free in MLS/USL Academies right now.

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Nate Swick @n8swick.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Good thing Switzerland hasn’t learned it either.

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Nate Swick @n8swick.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Colombia the latest to learn that Center Backs should not take penalties until they absolutely have to.

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Nate Swick @n8swick.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

It was a heart breaker in the end but I would have rather gone out like Egypt did than like the US did.

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Nate Swick @n8swick.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

What a heart breaker for Egypt. Pretty sure that’s not a foul on Salah though.

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Nate Swick @n8swick.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I mean there’s really no question anymore that Messi is the greatest but my god how does he keep coming up with this stuff?

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Nate Swick @n8swick.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

What do the Dutch have to do with anything?

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Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I’ll go to my grave, I think, believing that 36 hours of Balogun insanity fucked with this team’s makeup. Which at the end of the day is no more than they deserve and is also an indictment of that makeup.

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Nate Swick @n8swick.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Sorry but that makes even less sense with regard to Pulisic. 2025 was his best season as a pro.

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