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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 18h

Same goes for those raising awareness about an #OngoingPandemic ignored by all governments. We need to stop siloing #ClimateChange from public health emergencies; the former is caused by greed, the latter leads to fascism. And so here we are -

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BirdLife International @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Discover the State of the World’s Birds!🐦 This sixth edition by BirdLife International focuses on migratory birds and their flyways, and what they reveal about the state of nature, the drivers of biodiversity loss, and the solutions needed to reverse declines.🗺️ Find it here👉 sowb.birdlife.org

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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The St Helena Plover (aka the Wirebird) "is found nowhere else on Earth but the British Overseas Territory of St Helena, which is a small island situated in the South Atlantic" -

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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"The shared goal for the three projects is to establish colonies across Europe. These colonies will be connected by migrating birds, to form breeding pairs of different lineage and creating a robust gene pool to ensure survival" - @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Rare northern bald ibises take flight in human-led European migration project

Micro aircraft used to help guide birds to Spanish stopover as part of efforts to create sustaining migratory population

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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#BlackVultures "have a huge range through North & South America, ...but they're rarely if ever spotted as far north as #Mayo [ #Yukon], at roughly the same latitude as Iqaluit. In fact, the species is typically not found anywhere in Canada" - www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Black vulture, rarely seen in Canada, 'all the buzz' in Mayo, Yukon | CBC News

Cameron Eckert, president of the Yukon Bird Club, wasted no time in deciding to make the five-hour drive from Whitehorse to Mayo to see the unusual visitor. The last time a black vulture was reported ...

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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In the early 1990s, I volunteered as a trained rape crisis counsellor in a small city in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Decades later, I still think about the some of the survivors, their stories, & how nothing has changed. So all this, everywhere 👇

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Uphill Into A Headwind (he/him) @intoaheadwind.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Trying to Catch Up 🧵, Haines Junction to AlCan Border. My last big thread left off with nice smelling alfalfa fields outside of Haines Junction, Yukon. From there, I continued on the Alaska Highway, with some nice mountain views along the way. #BikeSky #BicycleTravel #Yukon

Photograph of mountains with snowy peaks beyond the pine trees of a boreal forest

Photograph of mountain peaks with snow against a pale sky

Photograph of boreal forest and snowy mountain peaks under a partly cloudy blue sky

Photograph of thick snow on rocky mountain peaks. The snow and ice form a sheer cliff that seems like it should fall as an avalanche

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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Safeguarding biodiversity is an important part of the energy transition" - Karen Krijgsveld, bird ecology researcher at Wageningen University & Research www.wur.nl/en/news/came...

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Camera system sheds new light on bird collisions at sea

Thermal cameras and AI can detect potential bird collisions at offshore wind turbines, providing rare data on bird movements at sea.

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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"We cannot reverse the digitization of everything. What we have to do is convert the design of software from brittle to resilient, from heedlessly headlong to responsible, & from time-corrupted to time-embracing. These are intractable problems", known about since 1999 - longnow.org/ideas/escapi...

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Escaping the Digital Dark Age

Digital storage is easy; digital preservation is not.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Lucy Ogden, ceramic artist living and working in Shoreham by Sea on the south coast of the UK #WomensArt (via Instagram)

Four white plates with angular images of black birds all against a wood backdrop

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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Frustratingly, we already have air cleaning technologies that could substantially alleviate many of these illnesses, yet we remain curiously reluctant to deploy them at scale" - mattersofperspective.substack.com/p/can-air-cl...

mattersofperspective.substack.com

Can air cleaning technologies help eliminate COVID? Perhaps, if we think more about the population scale than individual spaces.

It’s all about the exponentials

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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"In a recent study, our lab examined viral mutations in this case & uncovered an unexpected result: the effects of these mutations were inconsistent with the usual warning signs we expect to see in a virus adapted to infect humans" - #H5N1 #AvianFlu theconversation.com/how-does-a-b...

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How does a bird virus infect a person? Surprising findings from B.C.’s human case of H5N1 avian flu

The human avian flu case in B.C. demonstrates there is much to learn about the complex factors that may result in a virus developing the ability to infect humans.

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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst found that the bare-throated bellbird & the red-legged seriema both create songs at amplitudes above 120 decibels": www.cnn.com/2026/09/29/s...

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Scientists identify two of the world’s noisiest birds – and they’re as loud as a jackhammer | CNN

There are two new contenders for the world’s loudest bird – and scientists are not being quiet about it.

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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"When there are lots of owls, there are suddenly too many owls, and the rodent population crashes the year after. Eventually the owls don't have enough food and so they have to migrate farther south to search for food. This phenomenon is called a mass eruption": www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Record-breaking owl migration in northern B.C. leaves researchers scrambling | CBC News

A boom in mice and voles may have helped produce an unusually large wave of young saw-whet owls near Mackenzie, north of Prince George.

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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"The 2026 #WainwrightPrize Book of the Year & Illustrative Books category winner, The Book of Birds, was described by the judges as an 'utterly beautiful book to treasure', praising Jackie Morris & @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social for their exceptional chemistry" - wainwrightprize.com/wainwright-p...

wainwrightprize.com

Wainwright Prizes 2026 - Wainwright Prize

From inspiring books and remarkable authors and illustrators to passionate judges and a growing community of readers, the Wainwright Prize celebrates the stories that connect people and planet. Explor...

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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

▶️ Warmer colors on the maps correspond to more intense bird migration; ▶️ forecasts show predicted nocturnal migration ~3 hours after local sunset; ▶️ & are updated every 6 hours. * #BirdCast #Migration forecasts explicitly cover only the contiguous United States. birdcast.org/migration-to...

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Forecast Maps

Bird migration forecasts show predicted nocturnal migration approximately three hours after local sunset and are updated every 6 hours. Note, the models predict the migration intensity for birds in ac...

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Doug Rutherford @dougrutherford.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am artist in the window tomorrow at Yukon Artists at Work gallery, 4129 4th Ave., Whitehorse from 11-2. Drop in if you can.

Painting of spruce trees and the northern lights.

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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is one of those poems to resist, relent, think about during odd moments the next day, then resist again, relent, rinse & repeat: in essence, a poem that spares no one, in a good way -

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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Old #Yukon lore about why people move to the remote #North, has it that they are either fleeing from something, or running toward something -

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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

" #Yukon Hospitals are very busy. In particular, our emergency department and inpatient units in #Whitehorse continue to experience higher than normal volume & demand" -

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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Doris Bill, a former #CBC journalist and former chief of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation in #Whitehorse, said the website reaffirms that the scourge of #AI in the digital space is a free-for-all, with real-world implications" - www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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‘It’s really disturbing’: Yukoners say AI-generated website dangerous | CBC News

A website using artificial intelligence to generate articles masquerading as journalism is prompting some Yukon First Nations people to say the problem is reaching a tipping point.

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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"'Their wings are spread out, their eyes are closed, their heartbeat slows right down. They're unresponsive but alive,' is how she described the symptoms, adding some have a brown liquid foam coming out of their beaks" - www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Crows are being given naloxone after suspected drug overdoses in Prince George | CBC News

The increased toxicity of the illicit drug supply has prompted public warnings in the north-central B.C. city.

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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

While reading "There But For The", I came across this line by the precocious child protagonist, Brooke: "...like the bird that is called the #WillowWarbler which used to be widespread but now there are hardly any" - www.penguin.co.uk/books/55651/...

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There but for the

'There once was a man who, one night between the main course and the sweet at a dinner party, went upstairs and locked himself in one of the bedrooms of the house of the people who were giving the din...

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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Nothing sensible is in vogue right now, but still we blunder on...

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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Courtesy of Fanlo #Chicken Man Mkhize (1959–1995), a self-taught South African street artist from #KwaZulu-Natal, known for his sculptures made from recycled materials, wire, & animal skins -

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just thrilled to see the re-release of Cyberselfish. It’s a hell of a book. Downright prescient. The only mistake Borsook made was in writing it a couple decades before people were willing to listen.

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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Stop calling it a climate problem. Call it what it is: organized greed. The planet isn’t dying. It’s being killed for profit. The killers have names. And boardrooms. #ClimateJustice #StopEcocide

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Nieman Storyboard @niemanstoryboard.org · 11/09/2026

“People are so concerned about whether they’re going to be a likable character if they tell the ugly truth. [But] that’s what makes you a likable character. It makes you someone that people can relate to. It means you’re just human.” — @saribotton.bsky.social niemanstoryboard.org/2026/09/11/a...

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Author and editor Sari Botton on giving yourself permission to write personal essays - Nieman Storyboard

The editor behind the popular newsletters Oldster and Memoir Land discusses her own journey to writing a memoir, and how journalists can find their voice

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Yuko Hosaka, contemporary Japanese illustrator and printmaker #WomensArt

Artwork with stylised golden bird in flight, flying left, with a flying woman on its back or flying parralell to the bird, wearing a long greenish dress, all against a purple background

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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"To those who do not quite grasp the appeal [of birding]: 'I don’t think it’s a question of what birders are seeing that you’re not. It’s a question of what they’re feeling that you’re not'" - @margaretatwood.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

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‘Hope is a built-in characteristic’: Margaret Atwood on birds, conservation and optimism for the future

Canadian novelist has celebrated her late partner’s love of birds with a C$1m gift to a university to establish the Graeme Gibson chair in avian biology

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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Given that #Google has a near-total monopoly on web search, the pivot toward AI is functionally strangling media publishers of all sizes — creating yet another existential crisis for the industry as a whole" - #BoycottGoogle 👎 futurism.com/artificial-i...

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Google Has Its Hand Around the Throat of the Independent Media and It's Squeezing Harder and Harder

Changes to the way Google refers users to news media sites have led to a massive drop-off in organic clicks.

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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For anyone bedridden or housebound due to chronic illness (as many increasingly & invisibly are these days), you can still enjoy birdwatching by streaming this smart birding app through your TV - mashable.com/tech/birdfy-...

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Birdfy launches on Roku: How to watch your backyard birds on the big screen

Forget Planet Earth. You can now turn your living room TV into a live, 4K backyard bird documentary.

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Marianne Dhenin @mariannedhe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If you're looking for thoughtful reporting on issues facing disabled folks written by a disabled folk (that's me), please grab a subscription! newsletter.mariannedhenin.com

newsletter.mariannedhenin.com

Marianne Dhenin

Journalist, historian, writer.

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#ElNino - as measured by ONI (Niño 3.4) - is now the hottest ever recorded, with months before it peaks - peak likely about 4C - prev record is 3C data via @zekehausfather.com 1/2 dashboard.theclimatebrink.com#enso

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Climate Dashboard

Daily-updated global temperature tracker: ERA5 daily data, multi-model ENSO forecasts, annual projections, and climate models vs. observations.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

The work of contemporary #printmaker Andrea Rich #womensart

Print featuring a lifelike black and blue bird perched on a diagonal twig against a hazy grey background

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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In a world where any outstanding endeavour is reflexively commodified, you may be surprised to learn that the winner of this excellent competition only takes home a £3,000 cash prize, & the coveted (& pure) title of " #BirdPhotographerOfTheYear " - www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

theguardian.com

Winners of bird photographer of the year 2026 – in pictures

Photographers from all over the world entered more than 24,000 images into the world’s largest bird photography competition, with an image of a northern gannet bursting through the ocean’s surface tak...

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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Now that 🇨🇦 Canada's sovereignty is in the crosshairs of the #Trump regime, & we are fielding punitive tariffs & extreme vindictiveness from our former good neighbour, wartime ally, & trading partner - @mgeist.bsky.social @mark-carney.bsky.social copyright.info.yorku.ca/2022/12/gene...

General Term of Canadian Copyright Extended from 50 to 70 Years (Details) | Copyright @ York

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Chris W @mountainshots.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Moody autumn days in the southern Yukon #mountainmonday #photography

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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Here’s the thing, though: when people connect what’s happening to why it’s happening, their support for all sorts of climate action grows" - * Same goes for an #OngoingPandemic all governments continue to ignore.

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