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Mostly birds. Happiest on Linosa or in the Neotropics

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ottaviojanni.bsky.social @ottaviojanni.bsky.social · 20h
With Lars Jonsson's illustrations, one of the best bird ID articles of all time
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Hengxing Zou @hengxingzou.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
In our new perspective paper @pnas.org, we show how the comments you put in eBird/iNaturalist can help ecologist with collecting much-needed data on species interactions: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Large language models unlock the ecology of species interactions | PNAS
Species interactions shape population dynamics, geographic distributions, evolutionary trajectories, and responses to environmental change. Yet dat...
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Samuel Jones @seijones.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
whats that expression - like a gosling off an eagles back? WILD paper for natural history sickos among us (should be all of us) #ornithology bioone.org/journals/jou...
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Migration Ecology Group @migecol.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Great project 💪 with @joewynnbirds.bsky.social @pauldufour80.bsky.social @genmig.bsky.social & many others! We study yellow-browed warblers in Europe: where from, where to, what happens in winter & spring – could a new migration route evolve? 2 birds sampled on Helgoland so far. #birdmigration
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John Walters @johnwalterswildife.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Buff-breasted Sandpipers Calidris subruficollis feeding on craneflies, Davidstow, Cornwall
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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What the front page of an actual newspaper looks like (as opposed to a tax-dodging billionaire's political tool staffed by shills and bootlickers)
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ottaviojanni.bsky.social @ottaviojanni.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Soon enough they'll be finding their way to tamarisks, fennel clumps and carob trees on Linosa, as well
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Climática @climatica.coop · 28/09/2026
"El calor extremo es un asesino invisible. (...) Sin embargo, se siguen ilustrando las olas de calor con imágenes de niños bañándose en fuentes. Este es el error".
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Las olas de calor no son divertidas. Por qué debemos cambiar la forma en que las mostramos - Climática
Carles Porcel destaca un aspecto clave de nuestra línea editorial: no mostrar fotos alegres para ilustrar una noticia sobre una ola de calor.
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Will Smith @willjsmith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's nice that this little note (first published in May) is an editor's highlight in Ibis. A fun mini-project (following on from a side-quest to find 'doves with white bums' among millions of grey-arsed ones, whilst on holiday on Fuerteventura....) @jezierskimt.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/ibi....
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Feral Barbary dove phenotypes are lost following Eurasian Collared Dove invasions
Interactions between different non-native species can have positive and negative effects on their invasion potential and ecological impact. Here, we infer interbreeding of feral African Collared Dove...
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Andrés Cuervo @amcuervo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What a study! congrats all authors, especially the incredible Liliana Dávalos #bats #cienciacriolla @labdavalos.bsky.social
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Graham Appleton @wadertales.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
LPO is calling for permanent shooting ban for #Curlew and Black-tailed Godwit. This would provide protection for thousands of both species that winter in and migrate through France. Background: wadertales.wordpress.com/2018/07/30/b... Map shows tracks of Curlew returning from France to breed in UK.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
1/ People keep saying AI is inevitable. History disagrees. Plenty of technologies were called unstoppable, and societies stopped them or shrank them down to a niche. A thread 🧵
evitable
adjective
uk  /ˈev.ɪ.tə.bəl/ us  /ˈev.ə.t̬ə.bəl/

able to be avoided or prevented:
He believes that world war is evitable.
Inevitable suffering due to persecution is to be distinguished from evitable sickness.
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ottaviojanni.bsky.social @ottaviojanni.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Soglitelle's come a long way since I first started birding there 20+ years ago, they'll come back from this, too 💪
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Reuters @reuters.com · 23/09/2026
Israeli bulldozers smash Palestinian olive trees ahead of annual harvest reut.rs/4hnTnnM
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Israeli bulldozers smash Palestinian olive trees ahead of annual harvest
Palestinian villagers wailed over the mangled remains of their olive trees on Wednesday after Israel's military uprooted them with bulldozers, days ahead ​of the annual olive harvest, normally a source of joy for Palestinians ‌in the occupied West Bank.
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Andrew Harrop @ahjharrop.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A detailed discussion of Lesser Kestrel identification (in English): #BirdingScotland marcduquet.com/wp-content/u...
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bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Song divergence and a gleaming white iris reveal four species in a widespread Neotropical understory bird (Clibanornis rubiginosus, Furnariidae) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Alexander Lees @alexanderlees.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This mechanism likely partially explains interannual variation in vagrancy too (coupled with weather systems and lemming numbers).
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
AI is screwing up journal papers: Journal editor asks authors of 10 submitted papers to meet and discuss their paper. Of the 7 that showed up, 3 were unable to answer basic questions about the paper and 3 had difficulty when asked further questions on technical details… medium.com/@TmlrOrg/ask...
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Asking Authors About Their Own Papers
By Nihar B. Shah
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Alexander Lees @alexanderlees.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Our new paper led by Leo Miranda in @science.org - Comparing #Amazon protection strategies reveals that avoiding deforestation is most cost-effective for carbon storage, while avoiding forest disturbance yields the highest benefits for #biodiversity 🌎🪶🌴🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Protecting tropical forests is more cost-effective for biodiversity and climate than restoration
Halting deforestation and promoting restoration are at the core of strategies to confront the biodiversity and climate crises in tropical forests. Avoiding forest disturbances is also critically important but has received far less attention, and there is ...
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Giulia Masoero @giumasoero.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
2026: exceptional #HeatWaves across Europe🔥 #WildlifeRescue centres have felt it, with sharp spikes in #swift nestlings admitted! Project info and survey (5min, 23 languages) by 31 October: giuliamasoero.github.io/project/resc... Please share! @vogelwarte.bsky.social #ClimateChange #BirdConservation
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Saving swifts, understanding climate | Giulia Masoero
A collaborative project with wildlife rescue centres across Europe to understand how heatwaves and extreme weather affect swift nestlings and fledglings, using large-scale rescue and admission data.
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jim mallet @wtf-r-species.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
@wiley Do I have questions I'd like answered with AI about this Wiley publication I just looked up? NO! I bloody well do NOT want the AI version, I just want to ready the paper. But is there a way to say no? Of course not! Please do not intrude on my science this way, Wiley!
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Benedetta Catitti @bcatitti.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
🚨Preprint alert! 🚨What if your study animal doesn't know the landscape yet? Standard movement models such as SSA assume it does. In our new study we let it learn instead, and put "learner" against "omniscient" head to head (1/4) doi.org/10.64898/202...
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old wildlife illustrations @wildlife.nathan.fun · 06/09/2026
Monograph of the Paradiseidae, or birds of paradise and Ptilonorhynchidae, or bower-birds. London: H. Sotheran & Co., 1891-98. (source: biodiversitylibrary.org/page/487353…) #nature #illustration #art
Monograph of the Paradiseidae, or birds of paradise and Ptilonorhynchidae, or bower-birds.
London: H. Sotheran & Co., 1891-98.
https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48735302�
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Adrian Kettle @akettle.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
A non birding day today as was at the annual Yell show, that was until Roger Riddington found an Egyptian Nightjar at Eastshore! Juv male Pallid Harrier into roost at Brow marsh on the way home. Not bad for a non birding day!
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Miguel Clavero @chikichanka.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The Mughal artist Ustād Manṣūr, produced in the 1620s what is probably the most lively painting of a dodo. In fact, It is possible that he used live individuals as models, since two dodos where transported to the Mughal court in the early 17tn c
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J Hanlon @jahanlon.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Spring 2026 highlights from my birding/ #wildlife notebook
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Peter Santema @petersantema.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
New #ornithology paper out in @royalsocietypublishing.org! We show that female dotterels can move across large distances within a single breeding season in search of mating opportunities, visiting up to five different sites (median: 3) and travelling up to 1000 km between sites (median: 71 km). 1/n
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old wildlife illustrations @wildlife.nathan.fun · 01/09/2026
A monograph of the Nectariniidae, or, Family of sun-birds London: Published by the author, 1876-1880. (source: biodiversitylibrary.org/item/113608) #nature #illustration #art
A monograph of the Nectariniidae, or, Family of sun-birds
London: Published by the author, 1876-1880.
http://biodiversitylibrary.org/item/113608�
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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
New paper in @bou.org.uk's Ibis: there is still no comprehensive database of bird type specimens. Many major collections have no published type catalogue at all. Where they exist, they're often print-only, partial, or decades out of date. 🧵
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
AI Guy Asks AI To Help Him Read Difficult Books
4 panel comic

Panel 1: Orange Guy holds up book and says “I’m gonna read a book”

Panel 2: Orange Guy looks at book cover and says “hmmmmm”

Panel 3: Orange Guy types a query into his phone

Panel 4: Close up on phone screen reveals AI responding with “a chocolate factory is a factory made of chocolate”
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Wendy Valencia Montoya @wendyssae.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Help communities in Colombia after the Earthquake! www.gofundme.com/f/solidarity...
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Donate to Solidarity with Colombia After the Earthquake, organized by Wendy Valencia, Laura Baena
A recent 7.4 earthquake in Colombia has left many communities… Wendy Valencia, Laura Baena needs your support for Solidarity with Colombia After the Earthquake
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Ethan Gyllenhaal @ethanofthegulls.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Group project from the @jdmanthey.bsky.social lab that I led is out in Molecular Ecology! We used whole-genome data to understand Pleistocene forest refugia in central Africa in Yellow-whiskered Greenbul, a species found across most forest habitat in the region: doi.org/10.1111/mec.... 🧵
Map showing the study taxon, an olive bird with yellow "whiskers" coming down from its bill, and a map of Africa with three colored points representing West, Central, and East populations.
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Birds of the World | The Cornell Lab @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
A most interesting thing about the rediscovery of the Red Weaver by James Apolloh Omenya & Simon Odhiambo in Kenya is that they had taken the Sound Recording workshop offered by eBird and captured the FIRST audio of the bird ever, using equipment donated by Cornell Lab! ebird.org/news/red-wea...
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Documenting a Lost Bird: First-ever Recordings of Red Weaver Collected with Merlin Bird ID - eBird
Kenyan birders James Apolloh Omenya and Simon Odhiambo located the Red Weaver, a species that hadn’t been documented since 2014. They collected the first known recordings of the species using the Merl...
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ottaviojanni.bsky.social @ottaviojanni.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Li mortacci
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American Bird Conservancy @abcbirds.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
FOUND! 🔍 Red Weaver rediscovered in Kenya! The striking Red Weaver has been documented for the first time since 2014. Supported by an Ornis Birding Expeditions x Lost Birds Expedition Grant. More: abcbirds.info/3RTJhSS @rewildorg.bsky.social @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social
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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
new paper (my first w/ a Tok Pisin abstract)! our 2024 camera trap record of the rare New Britain Thrush prompted a review of all known observations of the species since its description—a mere 15 total. led by MS student Jason Gregg for the brand-new Journal of Lost Species: doi.org/10.66264/3c8...
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I Heart Noise @iheartnoise.bandcamp.com · 03/08/2026
www.reddit.com/r/Music/comm...
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From the Music community on Reddit: Brendan Canty Says "Never Say Never" to Fugazi Reunion: "I Wish We Can All Be Out There Playing"
Explore this post and more from the Music community
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Stewart @stewchat.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
If you arent already, get started with analogue birding, it's the way forward!😃👍
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Callen M. Inman @callen-inman.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Cool paper on a question that I’ve wondered about for a while. Since the evolution of mimicry is dependent on the experience of predators and not on spatial proximity of mimics and models per se, allopatric mimicry can evolve when predators are migratory: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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Allopatric coevolution: Migratory predators may facilitate mimicry between geographically nonoverlapping species | PNAS
A natural assumption in evolutionary biology is that to coevolve, species must interact with each other and should therefore co-occur. However, man...
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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I still love this one... 😄
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Mariposa Nature Tours @mariposanature.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Whose Friday could do with a cheerful start? A small selection of the jewels of the Gargano Peninsula, the Ophrys bee orchids, we've encountered in the past couple of years on our Orchids of the Gargano Peninsula tour. #bloomscrolling #orchids www.mariposanature.com/tours/botani...
A collage of Ophrys bee orchids seen in the Gargano © Jon DunnA collage of Ophrys bee orchids seen in the Gargano © Jon Dunn
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Ethan Gyllenhaal @ethanofthegulls.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This came out in the middle of the move to Cleveland, but my work on the under-appreciated starling genus Aplonis is out in MPE. These understated island-loving starlings hide plenty of biogeographic intrigue and taxonomic complexity: doi.org/10.1016/j.ym... 🧵
Graphical abstract for the paper summarizing some of the findings, including paraphyly of a Sundaland/Wallacean group of starlings and recent divergence of the Polynesian starlings and their diverse plumage patterns.
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Prosanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
From collections to conservation: the indispensable role of natural history museums The IUCN Species Survival Commission has published a Position Statement on the vital role of biological collections in biodiversity conservation iucn.org/news/202607/...
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From collections to conservation: the indispensable role of natural history museums
The IUCN Species Survival Commission has published a Position Statement on the vital role of biological collections in biodiversity conservation: a formal acknowledgement that natural history museums,...
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German Ornithological Society @dornitholges.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Now online in Journal of #Ornithology First records of migration route, phenology, and nonbreeding locations of the Desert Purple Martin (Progne subis hesperia) Open Access link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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First records of migration route, phenology, and nonbreeding locations of the Desert Purple Martin (Progne subis hesperia) - Journal of Ornithology
Purple Martins (Progne subis) are long-distance migratory, aerial insectivores facing population declines, yet critical gaps remain in our understanding of the full annual cycle for all recognized sub...
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Birds of the World | The Cornell Lab @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
🧵 The Search for Lost Birds is looking for young, adventurous birders to lead expeditions to find “lost” bird species. Currently, 121 birds lack any scientific documentation for a decade or longer (70+ are entirely missing from the Macaulay Library!) Continued... searchforlostbirds.org
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Home
Search for Lost Birds
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Benjamin Freeman @benjaminfreeman.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
fantastic study! & I want to especially commend the authors on this lovely sentence: "We want to acknowledge the late Peter Raven... for the decades of leadership he showed in global conservation going to joust in Washington on all of our behalf so we could play in the mud with bugs and seeds."
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Dan Baldassarre @evornithology.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
This is deeply offensive to me on a personal and professional level. I would rather die than teach an online class with a "Socratic tutorial chatbot".
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Christopher Witt @msbbirds.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Demography lesson.
Several dozen Lesser Black-backed Gulls lounge on the beach near the Cape May Point State Park, illustrating a variety of age-specific plumages; lighthouse in background. July 25, 2026.
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Met4Cast @met4cast.net · 24/07/2026
Are things supposed to spill outside of bell curves? The temperature anomaly this summer across Europe is nothing short of exceptional. I still feel that we’ve seen a step change in our climate over the last decade.
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Giulio Betti @giuliofirenze.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Cos’altro deve succedere? Nei primi sette mesi del 2026 l’Europa ha registrato eventi meteorologici estremi di ogni genere: ondate di calore senza precedenti, superiori addirittura al 2003; anomalie di temperatura record sia dell’aria che marine; incendi incontrollabili; 1/6
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