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Carl Bovis @carlbovisnature.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Interviewed by Digital Camera World about Regina and the offensive Pigeon! 😅😁⬇️ www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/...
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After a unique viral photo, nature photographer tells us how the "surreal experience" of being blocked on social media was hilarious – and we think he has a point!
Carl Bovis gave an exclusive response to DCW after his photo went viral – becoming known as an 'offensive pigeon'. No, really...
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Carl Bovis @carlbovisnature.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Just under 5 hours left to order something from my shop and be in with a chance of winning one of my 2027 birds calendars! 😀 Here's my shop; www.carlbovis.com/shop-3 😊🐦❤️
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Serene Journey @serenejourney9.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This week in animal research: FDA moving toward human-based research; COMPACT Act + PA Beagle Bill target dog and cat research; New Ridglan + Marshall developments; 130 CDC monkeys need a new home; and more: via @riseforanimals.bsky.social riseforanimals.org/news/news-oc...
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Animal Research News Roundup: October 2, 2026
This week in animal research news: an FDA move to drop "animal" from its drug-testing rules, a question about what happens if AI treats us the way we treat animals, a look inside a primate lab where c...
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Serene Journey @serenejourney9.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I just saw a map of the 1,300+ factory farms in California at FactoryFarmWatch.org. I encourage you to check out this informative map and learn more about how factory farms are impacting our state. You can also contact your legislators through the site to ask them to take action.
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The #1 resource on factory farming in California
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Carl Bovis @carlbovisnature.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Found a bird egg... 😁 #birds Here is my little bird shop; www.carlbovis.com/shop-3 🐦
Close up of a male Bearded Tit in the shape of an egg
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British Nature Guide @britishnatureguide.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Somali Thrush from Somalia on ebird for #BirdsSeenIn2026
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🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦 @joycomes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Prothonotary Warbler 14cm Breed S Ontario's Great Lakes Canada, S US Migrate: Central America, E Mexico, N South America. uniquely a cavity-nesting bird female incubates 14 days parents feed 15days in the nest, and 4 weeks after fledging Diet insects invertebrates fruits, seeds, and nectar.
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Buitengebieden @buitengebieden.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Blue-footed boobies.. 😊
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Vegan FTA @veganftaofficial.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Cat and cow besties?! 🐱🐮 🎥 VeganFTA with clip from welcomehomeanimalsanctuary (IG) #kittycats #cowstagram #bestiesforlife
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Chinstrap penguins on Zavodovski Island in Antarctica suffers ‘enormous population crash’ down by two-thirds since 2011, "equivalent to half a million breeding individuals being lost from that island,” due to climate crisis with Winter temps 20C above normal www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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World’s largest penguin colony suffers ‘enormous population crash’
Chinstrap penguins on Zavodovski Island in Antarctica down by two-thirds since 2011, probably due to climate crisis
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Serene Journey @serenejourney9.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Want to help animals used in research? Contact your U.S. Senators to share your views on H.R. 2821 and the FDA Modernization Act 3.0. Take action now: actionnetwork.org/letters/sena... via @riseforanimals.bsky.social
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FDA Has Taken a Step. Congress Could Make It Law.
Want to help animals used in research? Contact your U.S. Senators to share your views on H.R. 2821 and the FDA Modernization Act 3.0.
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Carl Bovis @carlbovisnature.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Do you prefer close up photos of birds, or more distant ones showing them in their environment?🤔 I will always photograph & share whatever I see, whether close or distant, but I wondered what you preferred?😊🐦 #birds 🪶 You can buy my 2027 birds calendars here; www.carlbovis.com/2027-birds-c... 😊🐦
Male Blackbird with cocked tail on a brick wall Distant male Blackbird on a fence post by a meadow
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Carl Bovis @carlbovisnature.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Can you please do me a favour🙏 Just click this link & have a quick look at my bird shop: www.carlbovis.com/shop-3 No need to buy anything, but you might see some ideas for Christmas 😉 Sorry for mentioning the 'C' word already, but as a small business, I need to plan ahead.🐦🙏❤️
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Carl Bovis @carlbovisnature.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A stunning Glossy Ibis! 😍 Taken this weekend at RSPB Ham Wall in Somerset.😊 A few years ago, this was a very rare bird in the UK, but they have started to increase on the Somerset Levels where I live, and will soon start showing up elsewhere, just like the Egrets have! 😀🐦 linktr.ee/carlbovis
Glossy Ibis looking for small creatures in the mud
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Palm Oil Detectives | #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
#HumanRights and #animalrights are under attack in #conflict zones. Rights defenders are being jailed, persecuted, in some cases made to “disappear”. Stay in solidarity with them. Take action! 🗣️🌿✊📣 #ClimateActionNow #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social wp.me/pcFhgU-8YC
#HumanRights and #animalrights are under attack in #conflict zones. Rights defenders are being jailed, persecuted, in some cases made to “disappear”. Stay in solidarity with them. Take action! 🗣️🌿✊📣 #ClimateActionNow #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect https://wp.me/pcFhgU-8YC
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Serene Journey @serenejourney9.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This week in animal research news: NIH invests in non-animal research, UW-Madison faces scrutiny over monkey welfare, UMass is sued over research records, Pennsylvania’s Beagle Bill advances, and more. via @riseforanimals.bsky.social riseforanimals.org/news/news-oc...
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Animal Research News Roundup: October 9, 2026
This week in animal research news: NIH invests in non-animal research, UW-Madison faces scrutiny over monkey welfare, UMass is sued over research records, Pennsylvania’s Beagle Bill advances, and more...
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lynda Lambert @lyndalambert.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The light was fading fast in my garden this evening but I couldn't resist a few shots of the flock of eight long -tailed tits that were twittering on the fence near an open window. @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social
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Brian Stretch @brianstretch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This immature Black-winged Kite has been present for some time along the railway line just west of Olhão, #Portugal and gave fabulous views early this morning. #BirdsSeenIn2026
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julielfrost.bsky.social @julielfrost.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A sweet find on the trail yesterday: A Philadelphia vireo. #Birds #BirdsSeenIn2026 #Photography #Nature #Wildlife #BirdsOfBluesky
A Philadelphia vireo is perched on a branch, looking to the side, showing off its white stripe over its eye. The background is a muted, blurred yellow-green that compliments the bird's soft pale yellow underparts.
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British Nature Guide @britishnatureguide.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
From Sri Lanka for #BirdsSeenIn2026
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Tara @wildtara.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Asian Green Bee Eater from Udawalawe NP - lots of these lovely birds around. #BirdsSeenin2026
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Declan Troy @troydeclan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We've got ourselves a feeding frenzy. A ball of fish within diving range of Black-legged Kittiwakes. Murres, cormorants, and puffins after the deeper fish. Cape Resurrection #Alaska 🪶🦑
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Hipogrito @hipogrito.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Solitary Sandpiper Northport, Long Island, NY, USA Last year I didn't see any so I'm happy to see one in 2026. #birdsseenin2026 #birds #birding #birdphotography
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Vegan Horizon @veganhorizon.substack.com · 23/09/2026
I am so sorry I ever paid for this to happen.
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Fossilized Opossum @possum-fossil.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We're back to the classics I see
Republican: How will Dumbocrats fix this mess we made?
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
For the first time in more than a decade, Democrats have a shot at winning a trifecta and making real change. Voting rights. Fair maps. Union rights. All three are on the ballot this year.
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Palm Oil Detectives | #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The largest and heaviest #pangolin in the world is the Giant Pangolin of #Uganda 🇺🇬 #Congo 🇨🇩 #WestAfrica. Endangered by #palmoil and #cocoa #deforestation and #poaching Help them survive when u #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social wp.me/pcFhgU-7jM
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"She is an unlikely harbinger of the climate emergency: a venomous black and yellow spider who spins mysterious patterns in her webs and eats her mates for breakfast" The Wasp spider arrives in UK www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Wasp spider seen in north of England latest ‘climate refugee’ amid global heating
The Argiope bruennichi, spotted in Cheshire for first time, part of worrying trend that could threaten native species
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Carl Bovis @carlbovisnature.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm not offended, I find this hilarious! 🤣🤣
A Woodpigeon with its beak open in the rain and a screenshot of a critical comment of the photo
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ℝ𝕖𝕓𝕖𝕝𝕓𝕝𝕦𝕖 @rebelb1ue.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Karma is a bitch
Pic of MAGA Trucks 

Diesel was so cheap under Biden truckers could drive from all over the USA to DC to protest Joe.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
i don’t know how to make it any plainer that the vast majority of dem voters believe holding people accountable IS part of “getting back to work”
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Serene Journey @serenejourney9.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This week in animal research: a disturbing look inside UW–Madison’s “poultry lab,” a beautiful update from a chimpanzee sanctuary, new developments involving Ridglan and Marshall, and federal movement toward human-based research. via @riseforanimals.bsky.social riseforanimals.org/news/news-se...
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Animal Research News Roundup: September 25, 2026
This week in animal research news: a disturbing look inside UW–Madison’s “poultry lab,” a beautiful update from a chimpanzee sanctuary, new developments involving Ridglan and Marshall, and federal mov...
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Carl Bovis @carlbovisnature.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A gorgeous Short Eared Owl looking for a tasty vole from a post! 😍🐦🦉 You can buy my 2027 birds calendars here; www.carlbovis.com/2027-birds-c...
A Short Eared Owl on a post
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Carl Bovis @carlbovisnature.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Wheatear on a stone! 😀 I love this composition.... I was laying on my belly so I could get the out of focus green and buff background. 😍 Hope you like it too! Taken last weekend at the Huntspill seawall in Somerset. 🐦😊 #birds You can buy my 2027 calendars here; www.carlbovis.com/2027-birds-c...
Wheatear on a Stone
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Carl Bovis @carlbovisnature.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Female Kestrel in flight. 😍 Taken recently at the Huntspill seawall in Somerset. #birds 🪶 You can order my 2026 birds calendars here; www.carlbovis.com/2027-birds-c... 😊🐦
Female Kestrel in flight
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Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) @dxeofficial.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Bertie was lethargic and weak on a Foster Farms factory farm in CA's Central Valley. Direct Action Everywhere investigators found him just in time and today, unlike millions of others, Bertie is safe. Today's the 8th anniversary of the rescue of Rose, a hen who inspired the fight for #Rose'sLaw. 🐓
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swandiveswim.bsky.social @swandiveswim.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#Birds Rob Crank Photography @robcrank68.bsky.social covering for Alan's BOTD, says the Alt theme is #Paridae, any of the species. A favourite of mine, a Black Capped Chickadee on the tip of a Mullein (Verbascum thapsus) stalk.
A small black capped bird facing left into the sunlight, is perched on the tip of a dried flower stalk.
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Secular Talk @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Meet the Siberian long tailed tit, a tiny adorable fluffball with double eyelids. Original post
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JBC @johnbcaddell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
a #BlueTue Morning Glory #ColorADay #flowers 🌱 #JBCFlowers
backlit blue morning glories
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swandiveswim.bsky.social @swandiveswim.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#Birds #Raptor #ColourADay #BlueTue A female Merlin, backed by the most brilliant blue sky that Autumn has to offer.
A small raptor with its back to the camera and head turned to the left, is perched on a bare, weathered branch. The background is a featureless brilliant blue sky.
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Maryann - Revealing Light @revealinglight.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Republicans Senators failed time and time again to slander and lie about Jack Smith. Really vulgar display of trying and failing to assassinate Jack Smith’s character, integrity and professionalism. They came off looking like the dickheads they are…https://youtu.be/W12aV7PFit0?si=A5fLVnHokRoqb6n2
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The Way of Positive Change @waypositivechange.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Wed Sept 30th COTD is the 3 of cups. These 3 ladies are besties, they've had each other's back through thick and thin. They are stronger together in the power of three. Catching up with old friends or family is important If you can't get together today, make a call to plan the next celebratory
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Manta Trust @mantatrust.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🔬 New Science Alert Between 2018 and 2024, Manta Project Fiji, an affiliate of Manta Trust, used non-invasive drone surveys to monitor oceanic manta rays in Laucala Bay, a shallow, turbid, sediment-rich bay beside Suva, the capital of Fiji. 📄 Read the full study: buff.ly/z3xr8mO 📸 Luke Gordon
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AnnieR @anet2111.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Plans for ‘the other ballroom’ are underway. I’m on team snail. www.ft.com/content/fe5c...
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Tiny snail stalls Donald Trump’s Irish golf ambitions
US president arrives in Ireland on Saturday as environmentalists oppose his ‘other ballroom’ to protect the narrow-mouthed whorl snail
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Robb Edwards 🌱 @robedwards1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
First H5 bird flu death of endangered Australian sea lion recorded amid fears for small population South Australian authorities say case discovered on Kangaroo Island is first for species of which less than 12,000 animals remain www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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First H5 bird flu death of endangered Australian sea lion recorded amid fears for small population
South Australian authorities say case discovered on Kangaroo Island is first for species of which less than 12,000 animals remain
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Carl Bovis @carlbovisnature.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
House Sparrows deserve more love, don't you agree? 🐦♥️ #birds 🪶 You can buy my 2027 calendars here; www.carlbovis.com/2027-birds-c... 😊 Or if you don't have PayPal, here; ko-fi.com/carlbovis/shop 🐦
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KJZZ Phoenix @kjzz.org · 16/09/2026
A new report raises concerns about the number of single-family homes in the Valley that are owned by institutional investors. It also finds Phoenix is the top market in the country for build-to-rent homes. www.kjzz.org/the-show/202...
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KJZZ Phoenix @kjzz.org · 16/09/2026
The Cochise County Sheriff’s Office says protesters were arrested on disorderly conduct charges just east of the Santa Cruz County line, where a group had gathered inside a wall construction zone.
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3 arrested at border wall construction site as Arizona borderlands protests continue
The Cochise County Sheriff’s Office says protesters were arrested on disorderly conduct charges just east of the Santa Cruz County line, where a group had gathered inside a wall construction zone.
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