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ecosonus @ecosonus.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

🔊 Sound on Fieldwork still matters in the age of AI. A short field report from our project with Kowen Antami in Yanachaga Chemillén, Peru. 👇

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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

1/ A new study from @lesserspotnet.bsky.social & BTO in @britishbirds.bsky.social looks at how passive acoustic monitoring is an effective way of surveying Lesser Spotted Woodpecker ➡️ www.bto.org/LSWBioacoust... #bioacoustics #ornithology @simongillings.bsky.social @hosbirding.bsky.social

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Joel Popp @poppbirdart.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

I've been hired by @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social as an illustrator through the Bartels program and I couldn't be more excited to start! This has been a dream of mine for years. My Turkey vulture has been finished for a while so I am finally sharing that too! 🐡🪶🎨 #BirdArt

A watercolor painting of a Turkey vulture. The painting has no background and is focused on the animal. It is perched with wings held out as if sun bathing. Its body is facing away with its head turned to face the viewer.

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Neil Gilbert @gilbert-lab.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

our paper on how light pollution affects bird vocal behavior is out today in Science!! w/ @brentpease.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Brooke Fitzwater, PhD (she/her) 🐟🪱🏳️‍🌈♾️ @oceanfilly.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

I am making a Starter Pack for people who are looking for PHD STUDENT POSITIONS in the biological sciences! If you wish to be added, please respond directly to this post saying you want to be added. I need at least 5 people to create the pack. Please share widely!

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Hannah Clipp, PhD @allthatwildlife.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Since the start of 2024, I have managed to photograph 8 of the 9 nightjar species that regularly occur in the USA. 🪶 Here is my 1st ever photo of an Eastern Whip-poor-will that was found day-roosting at Magee Marsh Wildlife Area this past May. #birds #birding #nature #photography #BirdsSeenIn2025

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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

I've been looking for a Least Bittern for months, and last weekend I was treated to see one flying around. Last year I saw one for the first time that year on July 5th. This year, it was again July 5th for my first Least Bittern of the year. It's a lucky Least Bittern day 🍀

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Wilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Online early in the WJO - Eastern Whip-poor-will nesting ecology: behavior of nesting adults and chick growth. (📷 by Dominic Sherony) #ornithology doi.org/10.1080/1559...

close-up photo of a whip-poor-will, an oddly shaped, gray and brown bird that blends in well with the branches it's sitting among

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Alex Sauerbrunn @birdsbyalex.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Dipper dance! A fledgling American Dipper practices its new moves. #birds #bird #nature #wildlife

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Rebecca Heisman @rheisman.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Re-upping this: If you are an ornithologist (ideally U.S.-based) who uses bird banding or BBS data in your work, I'd love to hear from you! You could comment as something like "a scientist from a state university" (for example) if you don't want to use your name.

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Krista Koeller @kristalerista.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

You mean I’m supposed to work when there are birds out there who aren’t being watched?

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Haley Holiman @rept-hal.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Green heron, taking a stroll down the boardwalk 🪶

A medium sized bird with blue,purple and gray feathers walking down a wooden path

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Constance Lee Menefee @conniemenefee.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Whip-poor-will from the CLM #PenAndInk Archives

Pen and ink drawing of a Whip-poor-will on the ground

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Haley Holiman @rept-hal.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

No thoughts, just bluebird babies 🪶

A tiny Eastern bluebird fledgling perched on a wooden fence post.

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Haley Holiman @rept-hal.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

We've been putting in the miles this week getting our #bioacoustic recorders out!

A landscape of a deciduous forest that is bright green and cloudy gray skies

An acoustic recorder mounted to a small tree. It is a small, camouflaged painted box with a microphone on the bottom

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Haley Holiman @rept-hal.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Tree swallow, Yellowwood State Forest, IN 🪶

A close up shot of a tree swallow perched on top of a nest box. It has a bright blue head, back and wings with a white belly.

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Elly Knight @ellycknight.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

New paper! We developed HawkEars, a CNN training framework and classifier for a regional community of acoustic animals - 328 bird species and 13 amphibian species in Canada. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #bioacoustics 1/n

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HawkEars: A regional, high-performance avian acoustic classifier

Passive acoustic monitoring is rapidly emerging as a dominant approach for studying acoustic wildlife, with neural networks used as an increasingly co…

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Haley Holiman @rept-hal.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

I ran into a pair of blue-gray gnatcatchers that seemed even angrier than usual. Made sense when I spotted their nest well hidden above me! 🪶

A blue gray gnatcatcher perched on a small branch. It's feathers are fluffed up and it looks ready to take off any second

A gnatcatcher nest hidden in the y-branch of a tree. It is a small cup nest made of moss and a gnatcatcher peaks out from where it sits on the nest

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Haley Holiman @rept-hal.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

🪶 Even Prothonotary Warblers have bad angles •^•

A close up of a Prothonotary warbler from below, and with its head tilted down towards the viewer. It is a bright yellow bird with gray blue wings and a gray beak.

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Anna N Osiecka 🍉 @aosiecka.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

🔊After years of Kevin Darras's et al's hard work, we are very happy to have this one out: Worldwide Soundscapes: A Synthesis of Passive Acoustic Monitoring Across Realms. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Worldwide Soundscapes: A Synthesis of Passive Acoustic Monitoring Across Realms

Aim The urgency for remote, reliable and scalable biodiversity monitoring amidst mounting human pressures on ecosystems has sparked worldwide interest in Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM), which can...

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Haley Holiman @rept-hal.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Some highlights from this week in the central hardwoods of Indiana - the summer field season has started, and I am so excited to be back!

An image of an oak forest stand with a trail running through the middle. The trees are bright green and there is new regeneration growing in the understory following last year's burn

A close up of a female Scarlet Tanager perched on a branch. She has pretty yellow feathers and darker brown wings and tail.

An Eastern chipmunk peeking out from a log. It has the cutest, tiniest little hands

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Haley Holiman @rept-hal.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Spring is in full swing and so are the kingbirds 🪶

An adult eastern kingbird perched on a skinny tree limb. It is a striking black and white flycatcher

An adult eastern kingbird perched on a small branch. It's body and head are facing to the right

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Looking for early warblers with high-pitch trills and white tail flashes but the park is like:

The front of a Cap'n Crunch's Oops! All Berries box, but it is edited to instead say "Oops! All Juncos" and instead of the captain's face there is a hastily edited picture of a Dark-eyed Junco, with a dark gray head, black eye, and pink beak. There is also a hastily edited photo of a junco in flight, showing off their white belly and white tail-edges.

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Haley Holiman @rept-hal.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Native wildflower season is here!

Virginia springbeauty. A clump of white pink flowers on the forest floor

A close up of a trout lily - a bright yellow flower with mottled leaves

A close up of a white fawnlily - a white/pinkish flower with mottled leaves

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Dawn @dawnwes.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/White-... #watercolor #bird #sketch #doodle #postitnote #🪶 #wildlifeart

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Haley Holiman @rept-hal.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Can't go wrong with a Canada Goose glamour shot 🪶

A close up portrait of an adult Canada Goose with water behind it

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Tessa Rhinehart @tessarhinehart.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Bird #bioacoustics folks: @kitzeslab.bsky.social is hosting a hands-on "Advanced topics in bioacoustic monitoring" workshop at AOS 2025! We'll make custom sound ID models, estimate birds' positions using acoustic localization, and discuss how to use sound ID results to make ecological insights.

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Workshops & Training Opportunities - AOS 2025 Annual Meeting

The workshops and training sessions at AOS 2025 offer opportunities both for hands-on learning exercises, where participants engage in a mix of lectures and activities, and for panel discussions on a ...

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Haley Holiman @rept-hal.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Had my first #SkypeaScientist session today - 10/10, 1st graders are the best, and I wish more academics asked questions like "What is the slowest bird" and "Can you become friends with backyard birds"

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Haley Holiman @rept-hal.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Not a nightjar but they sure look like one! Very cool bird

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Pigeon Post @pigeonpost.shop · 24/02/2025

Whip-poor-will’s Dinner washi tape!

Washi tape depicting colorfully illustrated Whip-poor-wills eating big moths

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Tis the season to take a good look at the White-throated Sparrows in your yard and appreciate how cool their breeding system (four functional sexes instead of two) is: www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-ba...

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This Backyard Bird Has a Lot to Teach Us about Sex Variability

White-throated Sparrows demonstrate that traits we usually associate with sex can be influenced by genes that are not on sex chromosomes

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Sebastian Hoefer @taiapo.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

BirdNET embeddings can identify new sound classes beyond its training set, aiding invasive species monitoring, biodiversity surveys, and detecting threatened species across vertebrate groups while requiring minimal call examples and manual validation. Find out more: doi.org/10.3389/fevo... 🔈🪶🦊🐸🦎🧪🌎

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Frontiers | The use of BirdNET embeddings as a fast solution to find novel sound classes in audio recordings

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Veronica Steiner @vsteiner.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

- Gopher Tortoise Burrow - 11x14 watercolor

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

How different birds would act on a first date...a thread. (From us to you this #ValentinesDay) 💕👇

A playful illustrated title reads “How different birds would act on a first date." A disclaimer underneath states: “Not approved by RSPB fact-checkers.” The image features a cute Coal Tit perched sweetly on a blue flower. The background is a romantic shade of pink.

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Haley Holiman @rept-hal.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

#Scicomm friends, what are your best tips for giving a talk to the general public? I'll be giving my first big talk that's not for a conference next month and am excited + terrified! The audience is a local naturalist group and I'll be covering nightjar ecology/ongoing research in our lab

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Haley Holiman @rept-hal.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Cotton mouth for #snakesunday. I am very fortunate to live close to the Shawnee National Forest, where there is a major snake migration site every fall and spring (aptly named Snake Rd!)

A young eastern cotton mouth snake, slightly curled up and looking to the right

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Joel Popp @poppbirdart.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Ever get in way over your head with an illustration? Cuz I am with this turkey vulture on a very large piece of watercolor paper 😅 Work in progress! Note to self: buy smaller pieces of paper. #sciart #watercolor #birdart #birds #animalart #wip

A work in progress watercolor illustration of a turkey vulture.

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Haley Holiman @rept-hal.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I am sick of winter but never sick of round birds 🪶

A tiny spherical white-throated sparrow sits on an icy branch. It is fully fluffed up to stay warm.

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Haley Holiman @rept-hal.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Without downloading any new pictures where are you at mentally

A tiny white and gray kitten screaming furiously at the world

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Sue Luxton @kelper60.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

When it rains heavy the young King penguins look so miserable...

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Haley Holiman @rept-hal.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

No one asked, but the current record in my data for number of times a single Eastern Whip-poor-will said "whip-poor-will!" is 1,173 times in an hour. I am tired just thinking of talking for that long

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I'll add, for anyone (like me) with social anxiety, esp. around the phone: they don't argue with you! They listen and record your comment. If they agree they will probably reassure you! If they don't, they just log you and you hang up. That's it. We can do this. ❤️👊

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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Just implemented a new email sign off.

Image shows the bottom part of a sentence followed by a sign off saying the horrors persist but so do I, Wendy.

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Haley Holiman @rept-hal.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

A cozy borb to interrupt your friday morning doom scrolling (song sparrow) 🪶

A fluffy song sparrow perched on an icy branch. The photo is zoomed in and the bird is looking to the right

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