Pov: You Are Holding A Long-tailed Tit

Bad Landing, Cornell Lab, captured by Cam Lady (Laysan albatross) (part 2)

Golden-crowned Kinglet (Regulus satrapa)

October 2, 2023

John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge, Tinicum, Pennsylvania

I'm going to choose to believe that, for once, I'm just hearing the echoes of far off fireworks. Yeah, definitely fireworks.

Swamp Sparrow Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 6 Water Lab

The Institute for Bird Populations’ 2021 Annual Report is out, which means I can finally share the full grouse painting I teased earlier! These are lekking Gunnison Sage-Grouse, an endangered species only found in a few remote, isolated areas of Colorado and Utah. I can’t wait to see how our research project on them will go!

are there animals that use cosmetics? ya know, not for stuff like protection, but actually for the ✨looks✨

bearded vultures deliberately dustbathe in the reddest dirt they can find to give themselves a bloody appearance that others of their kind find attractive!

this is also the most on-brand animal fact I think I've ever written about, BOY HOWDY.

*DEATH METAL SCREAM*

Anna’s Hummingbird (Calypte anna)

© Alan Van Norman

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Today’s birds are this Galah pair.

Northern cardinal, male … Delaware backyard … ¼/21