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Enzo Giordani @enzogiordani.bsky.social · 04/04/2024

Last harakeke flowering season, one of the kids in our neighbourhood named all the local tūī. When his mother showed him this picture, quick as a flash he said "oh mum, that's Lucy!" So this is Lucy. 🪶

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Gekko @ 二丁目 @gekkolicious.bsky.social · 31/03/2024

Second image of that crow in snowy sakura blossoms. Enjoy! 🌸 #photography #hamburg #nikon #sakura #snow #crow

Crow sitting on a twig in snowy sakura trees

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ThatofaRose @thatofarose.bsky.social · 21/03/2024

Excellent example! Don't do it again.

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ThatofaRose @thatofarose.bsky.social · 07/03/2024

I'm trying to get better at drawing birds - with middling success. Practice makes perfect as they say?

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Teri 🏳️‍⚧️ @silentlyclicking.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

Snapped these on a trip to Missouri.

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Steve Tronick @geefadj.bsky.social · 23/02/2024

Bird Set-up Photography (courtesy of hidden grape jelly [not jam!]). Hoping to see these beauties return in a few weeks! Grape jelly obviously does not attract Red-Shouldered Hawks or Hummers. The hawk was loudly screeching, I think, for a rat, or trying to attract a mate.

Allen's Hummingbird on our deck who obviously doesn't eat grape jelly.

Male Black-headed Grosbeak. Can always tell when they're in town by their song. They love the hummers' sugar water, so I had to widen the ports on the feeder.

"Mommy O" Female Hooded Oriole perched on our deck. We didn't know hooded orioles inhabited our neighborhood until I asked the owner of our local bird supply store to identify an oriole in a photo (not this one), and she advised us to put out grape jelly, which did the job in about 5 min!

Red-shouldered Hawk perched on the functional but "ugly branch" on our deck, calling out for a mate, demanding a rodent, or "visiting" our little dog!

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Steve Tronick @geefadj.bsky.social · 20/02/2024

Acorn Woodpecker posing exactly where he was supposed to (grape-jelly guided). Taken 20 years ago with a Nikon D70 when I first switched, with trepidation, to digital. Applied latest PS tweaks to extent possible.

Male Acorn Woodpecker who landed between flowers as hoped for. There's a cropped-out dish of grape jelly that helped guide his landing. Except for drilling holes in the deck railing and some roofing, these woodies have been gracing our house year-round since the late '90s. Can't wait for the little ones this spring.

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Cryptillian @cryptillian.bsky.social · 17/02/2024

Startlingly beautiful 💕✨

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Steve Tronick @geefadj.bsky.social · 17/02/2024

Your terrific "Wilson's Warbler. For The Institute for Bird Populations, 2022 Thank You card" reminded me that unlike the Flickers, this pretty boy conveniently posed outside of our family room (i.e. "couch capture").

Captured this Wilson's Warbler posing through the window of our family room.

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 18/02/2024

Me: what’s that black bird with the red on its wings called Bird watcher: that’s a red winged blackbird Me: holy shit

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WOLFSKULLJACK @wolfskulljack.bsky.social · 18/02/2024

Get your shift together

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John Reppion @johnreppion.bsky.social · 19/02/2024

Please stop using AI, even just for your YouTube headers and blog posts and stuff. Please. It looks generic and shit at best. It doesn't make you look professional. Quite the opposite.

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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 16/01/2024

Next week I will be on Rota, in the Northern Mariana Islands. The Black Drongo, illustrated here, is an introduced species there - but it will be my first time seeing them, so I can't help but be a little excited anyway! 🎨🪶🐡

Digital illustration of a Black Drongo, a sleek black songbird with shiny feathers and a long, forked tail.

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Alberta Claw @albertonykus.bsky.social · 09/02/2024

Diversification of certhioids (treecreepers, nuthatches, wrens, and kin), including a new name, Orthourae, for the gnatcatcher + wren clade: academic.oup.com/auk/advance-... 🪶

Diagram showing the evolutionary relationships among a group of small songbirds including the treecreepers, nuthatches, wrens, and their close relatives. A world map is shown near the bottom, with color coding corresponding to where the ancestors of each lineage are thought to have lived.

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 15/01/2024

Spent the afternoon hiking around Deception Pass State Park, and walked past a madrone full of chestnut-backed chickadees doing adorable gymnastics to glean insects from the leaves 🌿🪶 flic.kr/p/2psvMUc

A small round bird with white cheeks, black bib and gray cap, and ruddy brown back, viewed from a low angle as it perches on a red madrone branch

A small bird with white cheeks, black bib, and gray cap, clinging to a madrone leaf with its chestnut shoulders to the viewer

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An eerie LavLobster 💜🦞 @lavlobster.northsky.social · 27/12/2023

Love this HGTV concept.

Post by vampireapologist

“I'm the host of a yet another HGTV show about renovating houses for rich people & when the couple comes to see their new beachfront property I lead them to the door in blindfolds and then I have them remove them and open their front door and behind it is nothing.
The entire house is gone.
I tell them I used the budget to restore the crucial sand dunes ecosystem that existed there before. Look, I say. There's native costal strawberry!
The wife asks if this is a joke. The husband starts crying. I tell them both this was in the waiver they signed.
They leave. I get ready for my next property.”

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Alberta Claw @albertonykus.bsky.social · 22/12/2023

New Miocene duck Lavanttalornis hassleri: palaeo-electronica.org/content/2023... 🪶

Part of a fossil of an extinct duck, preserved across two stone slabs.

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WOLFSKULLJACK @wolfskulljack.bsky.social · 24/11/2023

Sleep until spring

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Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

Studies of the giant Alamosaurus sanjuanensis, from Late Cretaceous North America

Studies of Alamosaurus in four different positions. The one on top right is a detail of the head and neck. The one on the top left is a 3/4 view of the animal walking. The one on bottom right shows the animal walking while viewed in a 3/4 pose from behind. The one on the bottom left is a frontal view of the animal with its head tilted to the right

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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

Repostober time! Here are four more favorites from previous Inktober prompts. 🎨🐡🪶

Water - an American Dipper plunges headfirst into a rushing stream, with a dark conifer forest serving as the background.

Slow - a Snowy Egret plans each careful, slow step as it searches shallow water for prey.

Tired - a sleeping Black-billed Magpie with its head tucked into its wings while it dozes on the branch of an oak tree, mostly leafless as winter starts.

Wreck - a sihek (Mariana Kingfisher) perches on the cannon of an overgrown US tank, a remnant of World War II on the island of Saipan.

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Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

A winter snow storm has caught Yutyrannus by surprise. Day 8 of my Ink-Marker sketches 🐡 🧪 🎨 🦖 #paleontology

Sketch portrait of Yutyrannus head and upper body with snow falling on its head and back

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ThatofaRose @thatofarose.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

I wish that Bluesky had a feature kind of like discord where one could just include pronouns in the tagline of the bio or you could hover over someone's profile to see them :(

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🌵Cactus Moony🌵 @artemismarama.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

#Awooootober 1: Morgue Something was moving in the morgue locker that night, and the nightshift found out what it was the hard way.

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Danea Fidler ✨Anthrocon: H03 ✨ @daneafidler.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

Been working on some client work as of late, so I haven't been able to post anything new lately. In the mean time, I'll be posting some older work here. Here's an older wildlife piece of one of my favorite avians. Cinereous Vulture Acrylic on canvas

Portrait painting of cinereous vulture facing to the side with a simple blurred background.

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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 06/07/2023

Quick portrait of a Crested Caracara 🎨 Do you ever get the urge to just drop everything and draw something, then carry on with your day? That's where this guy arose from. I love caracaras, they're endlessly fascinating. We're lucky to have these weird falcons around!

Head and upper breast of a Crested Caracara in a loose, sketchy style and warm honey-brown tones. The caracara looks relaxed, with crest lowered and orange facial skin (caracara facial skin changes color based on emotion/agitation).

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🌟 🌈 Vantid Art 🎨 🌟 @vantid.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

Distillate desperation

A grayscale colored pencil artwork depicting underwater view of a swimming, snarling wolf in colored pencil. Bubbles and reflections froth around the wolf, and it’s eyes seem to glow.

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ThatofaRose @thatofarose.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

A feral cat soap opera book series (Warrior Cats)

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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 25/08/2023

What if it could be Fantail Friday?? Rufous Fantails (Chamoru: na'abak/chichirika) are perfect birds. I've banded hundreds as part of a long-term research project on Saipan with @instbirdpop.bsky.social. They fill a similar niche there to warblers, flitting about gleaning insects off of leaves 🎨🐡🦉🧪

Birds are weighed at the banding station by restricting movement inside a film canister. This keeps them calm and safe and lasts only moments, and then they are quickly released. Weight tells us about the bird's health, and can be monitored over time as the bird is recaptured.

Rufous Fantail held briefly in the photographer's grip for documentation before release. The long, brilliant tail is thought to help them startle insects to capture, a behavior also seen in American Redstarts.

Illustration of a Rufous Fantail on a neutral background, in a calm posture with feathers held slightly fluffed out and tail fanned.

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ThatofaRose @thatofarose.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

Dude I’d totally want one of those hyper realistic masks of some type of canid (Wolf likely), not that is matches my fursona vibes

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ThatofaRose @thatofarose.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

The American Woodcock is also known as a BOGSUCKER???

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Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social · 18/09/2023

Sailing through the sky. Microraptor living its best life 🐡🎨🪶🧪 #paleontology

Grayscale illustration of Microraptor gliding viewed somewhat from below. The dinosaur is extending its wings and has its legs a bit forward as if it is approaching a landing soon

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Sarah @sarahjen.bsky.social · 17/09/2023

Touching grass isn’t enough. I need to feel the cold stone of cave walls. I want to smell the wet leaves under a log. I want to meet a grumpy toad. 🍄📷

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Rosi K @toherrys.bsky.social · 17/09/2023

My Tav and Karlach (aka the Ice and Fire Girlfriends) and Astarion ...and no I haven't finished the game or Karlach's story don't tell me anything I want them live happily ever after

Karlach and Astarion sitting and talking, with a tiefling Tav on Karlach's lap.

Astarion looks theatrical and says "Very happy for you both andthe paltry few decades you have left to share. As an immortal, I'll inevitably face the centuries alone"

Karlach answers "Aaw... Don't worry. I'm sure someone will kick your head in before then."

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Ruadhrí Brennan [Scaled Beast] @rubrennanart.bsky.social · 16/09/2023

Ceratopsian-wall fridge magnets. you can find them on Scaledbeast.com

Front facing Ceratopsian fridge magnets Including Triceratops, Einiosaurus, Nasutoceratops, Styracosaurus, Kosmoceratops, Centrosaurus,and Diabloceratops.

Close-up of Nasutoceratops skull fridge magnet

Close-up of Styracosaurus skull fridge magnet.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 15/09/2023

Scientifically speaking: birds are weird little dudes. Let's talk about "anting" & why all the cool birds at school are doing it. The history goes back to ornithologist John James Audubon, who documented young wild turkeys "wallowing" in anthills in 1831.

A group of all the really cool turkeys from school gathering around behind the cafeteria, passing around ants where the teachers can't watch them do it.

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 17/09/2023

saw someone typo "trans masc" as "trans mas" and now I'm like,

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Coyote / J. Stryker 🇨🇦 | Memento Vivere 🍃 @easterncoyote.bsky.social · 17/09/2023

The Conservation feed on Bluesky is live! If you're interested in being added as a contributor, just ask. More feeds are currently in the pipeline: Biodiversity, Wildfire, Corvidae, and a few others. bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Panthera Arven 🔜🇩🇪 EUROFURENCE Dealers' Den @arven.bsky.social · 26/08/2023

@arven.bsky.social "Oh you like cats? Name every cat" *challenge accepted* Mega catpile featuring every single member of the cat family❤️Can you spot your favorite? All species are (more or less) to scale. PRINTS of this artwork are COMING SOON, along with "The Howl" and "Foxes everywhere" prints❤️