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Plover Pastor @revbirder.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

...what if that's why Jesus commends her faith? She's going to keep having the same pointless repetitive arguments with guys who aren't really listening for as long as it takes to help her daughter. That's the only faith she has any time for. Maybe it's the only faith that really matters.

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Plover Pastor @revbirder.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

...and then I thought, what if the reason she's so quick with a snappy comeback is that she's had this conversation so many times already? Because she would, wouldn't she? She's probably going to everybody who claims to be able to heal, and nobody has any time for her, and she just doesn't quit.

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Plover Pastor @revbirder.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

A Canaanite woman from that region came out and started shouting... Matthew 15:22a, NRSVue This time I suddenly had the thought: Wait, was she REALLY shouting? Like, shouting shouting? Or it did just *feel* like she was shouting because nobody expected her to be, like, moderately assertive?

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Plover Pastor @revbirder.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I GOT TO HANG OUT WITH PIPING PLOVERS TONIGHT!!!

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Plover Pastor @revbirder.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

(There was a lot of swearing while walking up and down hills when I was there.)

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Plover Pastor @revbirder.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

It's a great bird, but its appearances are extremely erratic.

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Plover Pastor @revbirder.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Taxonomically, I believe that robin is more like a state of mind, but I have no actual training in this.

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cpuk (trampoline park connoisseur and occasional comic printer) @comicprintinguk.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

We certainly should be. People keep reporting this stuff as if it has meaning beyond “Sam Altman would like some money”

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Plover Pastor @revbirder.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

....we found out where it came from??? I thought it was still kind of obnoxiously ambiguous.

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Excuse me... a tiny Lapwing has toddled into your feed. 🥹

A fluffy Lapwing chick stands on a path with oversized legs and tiny feet, looking as though it's setting off on an important little adventure. Its soft cream, brown and black down contrasts with the beautifully blurred green background.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I couldn't care less about TB's share price, my guy. What I DO care about is a serious problem in public health. Nobody wants to cooperate with authorities to find where outbreaks came from! Because the person/company/country that's the most helpful & finds the problem? ALWAYS GETS BLAMED FOR IT.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Taco Bell was one of the first companies to sign the "Yes, we WILL only buy tomatoes from farms that stop doing slavery" pledge with Coalition of Immokalee Workers. @immokaleeworkers.bsky.social

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Plover Pastor @revbirder.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Right??? I'm like, oh, wait, that's not smoke and flames? That's not smoke and flames! Oh thank goodness, how beautiful!

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Carol Creech @ccreechstudio.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Very excited to have my Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis) illustration accepted into the GNSI 2026 Annual Juried Members Exhibit! First time I have made it in. 🎨🐡 See all of the amazing artwork here (and soon to be posted on the GNSI page): www.artworkarchive.com/profile/guil...

Ink and colored pencil illustration of a cardinal flower with lance-shaped green leaves on tall stem with deep red flower head.

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Plover Pastor @revbirder.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I assume it's also a certain amount of working in miserable heat and checking for ticks. And, there's a ton of skill required to identify native bees. It's good to see that being valued. (I can barely distinguish a bumblebee from a carpenter bee. I am *impressed* by people who can get to species.)

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Plover Pastor @revbirder.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Yes, exactly! I am mostly familiar with this kind of work with regards to birds, but it's the same concept. If you haven't really thought about it, it can seem rather abstract. But in actual practice, somebody is literally out there counting bees, which kind of sounds fun.

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Plover Pastor @revbirder.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

One of the things I love about this is that *someone has been counting the bees*. 🐝

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

It’s so important to remind people that we can do good smart things that help and don’t hurt.

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Brian Peterson @drbrianpet.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

This is an easy one The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Birds&Flowers Here is a a Black-throated Gray Warbler and ocotillo flowers

The bird is white and black and gray and little; a bundle of red flower at the end of an ocotillo branch

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Plover Pastor @revbirder.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

...if you're going to worry about other people thinking you're weird, you're not going to make it very far as a birder *or* as a pastor.

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Plover Pastor @revbirder.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

One time when I was at this convention center, eating a boxed lunch outdoors, I saw falcons flying around. Needless to say, I now carry all my meals outdoors. (No, it's not always a boxed lunch. You pick up your plate and you walk out with it. People are confused, but they don't stop you.)

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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Today's #BirdoftheDay is all about #texture - something I really enjoy capturing in my art, such as with this quick painting of a White-breasted Nuthatch creeping down a fuzzy lichen-covered branch. 🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt

Illustration of a White-breasted Nuthatch creeping downward along a lichen-covered branch. This small bird has a pointy little upturned bill, white face and breast that fades to chestnut on the flanks, a charcoal gray cap and blue-gray back. Dappled sunlight illuminates its back half. For Yardwatcher (ko-fi/reddit).

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Carol Pope Gordon @carolpopegordon.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Back from the beach near Fort Morgan, AL. It's hard to beat the colors of a Ruddy Turnstone in breeding plumage. 🪶

Shore bird walking on the sand. It has orange legs, black and orange on the wings, a white belly and a black and white head.

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Plover Pastor @revbirder.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I have absolutely had my professional performance evaluated at exactly this level, and not just in writing. It's so damaging, because there is no defense against "this annoys me", nor is there any way for me to act on that feedback.

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Plover Pastor @revbirder.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I always think that if I get up before dawn to go birding then I'll have a wonderful experience and I'll think to myself, "why don't I do this more often?" I always end up drinking coffee in my car, vaguely fantasizing about more sensible hobbies that don't start until at least noon.

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Plover Pastor @revbirder.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Which trail is that? I'm not seeing a trail by that name on the map.

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Plover Pastor @revbirder.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I'll never forget that moment, before vaccines were fully available, when so many people who were eligible in the first couple of rounds stopped caring about protecting people who weren't eligible yet. It was "protect the most vulnerable!" only as long as they thought that meant themselves.

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Plover Pastor @revbirder.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I've heard of this, but I've never actually seen one. Sneaky of you to post the photo and not mention it! 😅

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Plover Pastor @revbirder.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

...that bird is yellow, isn't it??? Is that what they normally look like where you live?

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Plover Pastor @revbirder.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

It's almost like most of us are here for reasons other than wanting online political influence. 🤔

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Plover Pastor @revbirder.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Thanks! I prefer not to give any location information, even vaguely, because there's only the one population in the state.

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Plover Pastor @revbirder.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Thanks for this! In my line of work, I see so many congregations that are still taking ineffective precautions against surface transmission, while completely ignoring the air. That early messaging really has a huge impact.

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Plover Pastor @revbirder.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

We need to stop assuming that airborne transmission is rare/unlikely, and start teaching what airborne transmission actually looks like, so that people can take the kinds of precautions that are actually helpful, rather than wasting time on hygiene theater.

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Plover Pastor @revbirder.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Thanks! Fortunately my phone still knew where I was, so it was just a matter of meandering in approximately the right direction.

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Plover Pastor @revbirder.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

It is pretty wild watching the intersection of birding and public health, two of my major interests in the last few years, although only one of those was by choice. I imagine this is how public health professionals have felt this whole time. 😬

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Plover Pastor @revbirder.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Maybe it turns out that the landfill is the source! But we don't seem to actually know that yet. Acting like we do know is not good science, and it does not help people make good decisions.

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Plover Pastor @revbirder.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

This seems like the latest iteration of "it only kills people with pre-existing conditions". If the source of the infection is a landfill, then I can feel totally safe, because I would never go there. But it seems likely to have been something much more mundane, which is much more unsettling.

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Plover Pastor @revbirder.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Hantavirus is in the country, but there have not been any confirmed cases in the province, apparently. There have, however, been many confirmed cases in a region that the couple visited earlier in their trip. It's rare, but known.

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Plover Pastor @revbirder.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Birding at a landfill usually means watching from outside, where you might not even be able to SEE any piles of trash, and the landscape is often quite pretty. You're not standing in a plague pit!!! This is awfully close to blaming the victim, and it's also bad for the livelihood of local guides.

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Plover Pastor @revbirder.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Finally, at least SOME consideration of the actual logistics of birding at a landfill. As far as I can tell, the entire justifications for the landfill theory is "going to a landfill is weird and gross". You don't actually go inside the landfill! www.nbcnews.com/world/south-...

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Birders push back on hantavirus fears tied to Argentine city

Some guides and locals have expressed doubt that birding tourism in Ushuaia played a role in the outbreak that killed three passengers on a South Atlantic cruise ship.

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Plover Pastor @revbirder.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I don't think that's been confirmed, it's just speculation because going to a landfill sounds weird. The couple visited many locations that are just as likely, if not more likely, to be the source. Birding at landfills does not normally involve getting that close to the actual trash.

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Plover Pastor @revbirder.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Everybody talks about the warblers. Not enough people are talking about the vultures, so they are taking matters into their own...uh...talons? KAYAKS BEWARE!!! 🪶

A turkey vulture perched on a big green sign that says "CAUTION KAYAKS"

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Plover Pastor @revbirder.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Success! I have found the rare hybrid orchid! I am unstoppable! ...I have no idea how to get back to my car. 😅

Andrews lady's slipper orchid, with a pale yellow pouch surrounded by three twisted sepals, heavily streaked with purple

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Plover Pastor @revbirder.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

What I really want is to see one where the slipper part is noticeably yellow. That will be a sign that even I, a total amateur with zero training in botany, will not be able to miss. ...this is easier said than done. www.flickr.com/photos/tanne...

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Andrew's lady's slipper orchid (Cypripedium x andrewsii var. andrewsii)

The very rare Andrew's lady's slipper orchid (Cypripedium x andrewsii var. andrewsii), a naturally occuring hybrid between the small yellow (C. parviflorum var. makasin) and small white lady's slipper...

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Plover Pastor @revbirder.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Can you even tell once it starts to wilt????

small white lady's-slipper orchid, with a white pouch surrounded by three twisted yellow sepals, slightly streaked with purple

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Plover Pastor @revbirder.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Are these sepals dark enough for this plant to count as a hybrid?

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Plover Pastor @revbirder.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Here's another one! I followed the trail of orchids on a meandering path, an endless, slightly damp treasure hunt. There are dozens and dozens. I'm so thrilled with every single one, that I've started writing in present tense just thinking about it.

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