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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 1h

Much obliged, Deb, it's now on my list 😊 And may I reciprocate with another seabird-themed book, about the eggs of guillemots (way more fascinating than it sounds!) - www.theguardian.com/books/2016/a...

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The Most Perfect Thing: Inside (and Outside) a Bird’s Egg by Tim Birkhead – review

The eccentric lives of or egg collectors have inspired an exquisite book

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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 5h

"But it’s not the point for it to actually be funny or good. The point is that it’s trying to deal a death blow to labor. It’s trying to render individual cartoonists obsolete because we cost money and take time".

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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 6h

And in #Iceland, which houses the breeding site of the world’s largest Atlantic #Puffin colony on Heimaey Island - "...Equipped with flashlights, cardboard boxes and gloves, the folks in Heimaey head out in the dark during puffling-fledge season": www.snexplores.org/article/baby...

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Wayward baby puffins get help from a community-led Puffling Patrol

Fitted with ID tags or tracking devices, birds from one Iceland colony give scientists an eye into puffins’ largely unknown lives at sea.

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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 6h

...where, "Each night during the fledging season in August, volunteers from local communities & those who have travelled far & wide to participate in the program, patrol the community ‘hotspots’ searching for stranded juvenile Atlantic #Puffins": cpawsnl.org/puffin-petre...

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Puffin & Petrel Patrol – CPAWS-NL

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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 6h

In other words, since we subverted the course of nature, we can no longer stand by and "let nature take its course". That' why, in Canada & Iceland, people are helping #Puffins. "The Witless Bay Ecological Reserve [in Newfoundland] is home to North America’s largest colony of Atlantic Puffins" -

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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 6h

"And so I feel that we have an ethical responsibility as stewards of the Earth to do something where we can. That’s why we’ve developed these restoration techniques. If we hadn’t done that, we wouldn’t be documenting #Puffin recovery, we’d be documenting extinction".

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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 6h

"The climate crisis threatens almost all the world’s roughly 11,000 species of birds, but its consequences have particularly dire significance for #Seabirds, whose life cycle is so intimately connected to the timing & abundance of their food supplies": www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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How the quirky puffin became a symbol of the climate crisis – and hope

In an extract from his new book, the nature historian explains how technology could help the seabird survive

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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 7h

I live in s suburb of #Whitehorse, surrounded with #BorealForest. I have zero illusions about the increasing risk of a #Wildfire sweeping through: either to prevent it, or halt it. Zero. bsky.app/profile/yuko...

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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 7h

"Simply put, nothing can stop one of these firestorms except a change in the weather or a lack of fuel" -

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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 8h

You can download the full position description and application at the website here - mousefreemarion.org/wp-content/u...

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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 8h

Dream job for 2 lucky #FieldAssistants - "This is a rare chance to live & work on one of the world’s most extraordinary & remote islands while contributing directly to the conservation of a globally important ecosystem" @birdlifesa.bsky.social #SubAntarctic #MarionIsland

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Thijs Kuiken @thijskuiken.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 (bird flu) reported a person exposed to infected dairy cattle in Yakima County, Washington State, USA. The infected person has not experienced severe illness and is in isolation at home. www.yakimacounty.us/2417/Media-R...

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Media Releases | Yakima County, WA

Yakima Health District Media Release library to the public

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Betty C. Jung @bettycjung.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Killed by H5N1.

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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Okay. So I will miss spending summer of 2027, catching & releasing a horde of these little critters on the edge of a #Whitehorse golf course - #MonkeyWrenchGang, sort of nah not really...

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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

"Gardeners [of #Whitehorse] can be reassured for next summer: red-backed #Voles have a three-to-four-year population cycle, and a crash is predicted next year": whatsupyukon.com/yukon/yukon-...

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Rodents Beneath Our Feet

Heather Milligan loves working with rodents including the Yukon's population of northern red-backed voles in places like Kluane Nationa Park.

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Doug Rutherford @dougrutherford.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Kluane Lake reflections. #Watercolour on paper, 12x16 inches. #Watercolor #YukonArt Painting of the day 2421.

Painting of Ruby Range mountains reflecting on Kluane Lake, Yukon, Canada.

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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

In the book, he talks about 3 types of attention: voluntary, involuntary, & social attention. Perhaps this use of "constrained" references Odysseus's attempt to sail past the sirens: "Bind me, to keep me upright at the mast, wound round with rope..."

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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

"Information is abundant; attention is scarce. Information is theoretically infinite, while attention is constrained. This is why information is cheap and attention is expensive" - Chris Hayes, The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource @chrislhayes.bsky.social

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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

And as for Ivan Goncharov's Oblomov, I am stilling trying to track down a decent translation on Kindle (Stephen Pearl/Alma Classics, or Marian Schwartz/Seven Stories Press + Yale University Press) - www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/297155...

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Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov | Penguin Random House Canada

For fans of Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation, the classic Russian novel about an indolent aristocrat who spends most of his days in bedA Penguin Classic

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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

If you're looking for novels for our bleak zeitgeist, peppered with undertones of self-preservation & suspended animation, I highly recommend: Ottessa Moshfegh's My Year of Rest and Relaxation - www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/561517...

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My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh | Penguin Random House Canada

From one of our boldest, most celebrated literary voices, a shocking and tender novel and a New York Times bestseller.

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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

And it isn't just the houseboat that is sinking. The reputation of the previous co-owner & builder has also taken on water: Daniel Gillis is now a registered sex offender - www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Jail time for Yellowknife artist convicted of physical and sexual assault | CBC News

Judge Robert Gorin sentenced Daniel Gillis in Yellowknife Friday to five-and-a-half months of jail time for sexually and physically assaulting a Yellowknife woman.

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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Back in 2013, the houseboat called The Floating B&B, was something to behold - youtu.be/Tu6k1tD6CJE?...

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The Floating B&B, Yellowknife

YouTube video by Daniel Gillis

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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

When we lived in #Yellowknife a while back, I had a soft spot for the houseboat community, & a lot of sympathy too, as I watched them haul "honey buckets" to shore in -30. So herewith a very northern tale of a sinking houseboat (not in this image from 2019) - 📷 Tania J. Spencer ©️

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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

"...we are heading into dark times, and you need to be your own light. Do not accept brutality and cruelty as normal even if it is sanctioned. Protect the vulnerable and encourage the afraid. If you are brave, stand up for others. If you cannot be brave – and it is often hard to be brave – be kind".

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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I highly recommend sipping your morning brew from these mugs by @deadder.bsky.social: they have helped alleviate a little of the teeth-gnashy, forehead-whacking, head-shaking, eye-popping incredulity that happens 2 seconds into scrolling in 2026 - 🍁🇨🇦❤️🍁🇨🇦❤️🍁🇨🇦❤️🍁 printmerch4u.com/products/de-...

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De Adder Designs "Message to America" White Mug 15oz

White ceramic 15oz coffee mug featuring original printed artwork by renowned editorial cartoonist Michael de Adder, illustrated in 2026. Microwave Safe.

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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Because 👇 bsky.app/profile/yuko...

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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

In 🇨🇦 Canada, we also need a national conversation about our ever increasing electric bills -

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

'The Pond' by Dee Nickerson contemporary English painter who explores themes of living in the countryside #Womensart

Painting featuring a woman and her cat standing next to a pond surrounded by trees as birds fly overhead

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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

And then in 2026, Helen too, joined that camp - bsky.app/profile/hele...

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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

However, Helen didn't always get it right, & on Twitter, we bumped heads over her uncritical view of US virologist, Angela Rasmussen, who (unlike Helen) had underestimated #COVID. An exasperated tweet by COVID-aware 🇨🇦 doc, Lisa Iannattone MD, FRCPC -

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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Helen famously tweeted in Dec 2019 that a mystery pneumonia in China was giving her “SARS flashbacks" -

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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"Argentinian physicist Gabriel Mindlin uncovers a hidden extinction – not of species, but of memory – and sets out to revive vanished melodies before they disappear forever": www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Dream of Birds – documentary

What happens when a forest loses its birdsong? Following clues hidden in the sounds birds make while asleep, Argentinian physicist Gabriel Mindlin uncovers a hidden extinction – not of species, but of...

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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"Insects are the subject that John shoots in his academic role within the @cam.ac.uk " - www.john-brackenbury-photography.com

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Nature Photography | John Brackenbury Photography

Seeing Small

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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

...For me, it’s a new kind of macro image. It’s a fisheye lens, but with a tiny focal length, much smaller than any focal length you’d find in normal photography.'"

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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

...that increases the depth of field. It creates effectively a macro image but with ‘infinite’ depth of field. You can have a macro subject in the foreground with everything in the background nearly in focus.

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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

...that he calls the ‘insect-eye lens’, & which attaches to the camera via a Pixco C to N1 adaptor. 'The set up looks very simple but it took me years to get to that simple solution. It enables me to move very quickly. It also has a small sensor, which is important because...

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