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Absolute barn burner of a trash post on FB. Let’s run it down real quick. 1/
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Facebook sucks. Generative AI sucks. My entire feed is this.
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HOW TO DRAW A BALD EAGLE
1. Draw a Pac-Man ghost
2. Give it a beak
3. Done
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we have so much work to do
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“They love us because they were bred by us to feel that way, and yet we hate them."
Nope. We don’t hate them, but I hate YOU, whoever wrote this.
Also, garbage AI image. Absolutely in hell right now.
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Feeling unsafe in isolated areas is what keeps many people from birding. That a leader in this community would take advantage of that isolation to commit this act -- to validate the exact fear he worked to dissuade -- is an incredible betrayal. I am sad and angry.
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My man just knocking em dead up there ♥️👏🔥
Samual an autistic student that can expertly replicate bird calls. This is his performance at his school talent show!
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I will never stop thinking about this line in the “We rediscovered Ivory-billed Woodpeckers” paper
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In conclusion, delete your Facebook and buy A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching by Rosemary Mosco.
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“Their species had already been fully domesticated and they could not survive in the wild; they lost all their survival instincts during the centuries that they lived caged by people.”
The most wrong thing I’ve ever read. There are hundreds of millions of wild pigeons.
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“Then we got telephones and we threw them out like trash. Literally, we threw them away.”
LOL no. Ridiculous for a couple reasons, one being that carrier pigeons (a tiny subset of the Rock Pigeons on Earth) had some of their most famous exploits in WWI and II, well after phones.
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“My friend grew up in New England where they have pigeons.”
Okay pigeons are literally everywhere. Dumb start. 2/
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Studying for Ecuador. This will be fun!
*opens to page one of NINE on Tyrant Flycatchers*
I have made a terrible mistake
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A luna moth blessed me with its presence this evening. Also, it sorta looks like a guy hang gliding.
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“And, they were more than pets. They carried messages. People raced them. They lived spoiled lives as honored human companions for centuries.”
LOL I mean, some were pets. The vast majority were food. C’mon.
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I'd actually say the banning of DDT in 1972 played a larger role...
A comparison of Wisconsin's occupied bald eagle nests in 1974 and 2019. The increase is attributed to the Clean Water Act
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“Apparently they also hate them. He was always saying bad things about pigeons until I pointed something out that he never thought of before."
Some people hate them. Lots of people love them. Most people don’t really notice them. Dumb. 3/
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Of all the bird photographs I’ve ever taken, this might honestly be my new favorite
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“That is why they live in cities with people instead of in a forest somewhere. It's OUR fault.“
Not even close. There are still millions of wild, undomesticated Rock Pigeons in the world, and many millions more feral pigeons living almost everywhere.
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“But they don't know how to live without us, and their instincts tell us that they should trust us. So, they continue to come up to humans and beg for food, because it's the only survival skill left in their genes.”
Lol they don’t beg for shit. They are thriving.
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"We domesticated pigeons. They are (nearly) all over the world because HUMANS BROUGHT THEM THERE.”
True! Humans have been eating pigeons for thousands of years, and have been food for cultures all over the world. They likely moved in along the earlier human farms.
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Where does the word “bird” come from? Believe it or not, it’s an acronym:
B adass
I n-air
R ecent
D inosaurs
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Birding in S1E1 of The Boys. She says she’s looking for Eastern Meadowlark but is on a forested mountain ridge. She’s going to be looking for a long time in that habitat.
I’m literally BEGGING writers to call me before they put birding in their stuff.
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Bald Eagles are a threat to loon chicks, but Ospreys are not. I’ve watched all three on the lake this weekend. Loons make a racket when an eagle appears on the horizon but don’t do anything when an Osprey does. Crazy that loons can differentiate the species from so far away.
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Absolutely insane *back of head* American Woodcock photo from Karim Bouzidi (
@southshore_raptors
on Insta) on the eBird homepage right now. Again, this is the *back* of this bird's head.
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Corvids are famous for their ability to use tools, but the Crested Jayshrike is the only one who *listens* to Tool
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HOW TO DRAW A SANDPIPER
1. Draw a chair
2. Make it into a sandpiper
3. There are no further steps
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Another consideration when thinking up new names for birds is to maybe choose something that starts with X or U, for immediate placement into children’s alphabet books desperate for good animals.
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saw a weasel but couldn’t get a clear picture because it was sprinting around looking for things to murder
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I use the "Pocket" method to separate Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers.
See a woodpecker and you're like, "yeah I could probably slip that bad boy into my pocket," that's a Downy. See a woodpecker like "Now that'd be a real challenge to get in my pocket," that's a Hairy.
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The University of Illinois Is considering adopting the Belted Kingfisher as their mascot and it’s the only good thing in the world
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spotted what I figured was a gull coming across the water towards me. it wasn't a gull.
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IMPORTANT
donald trump lost all the states with NFL bird mascots (PA, GA, AZ, MD, WA), birds forever
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Sorry to be a grinch, but this photo your aunt is sharing on Facebook isn't a "Santa Claus Bird" or a "Gynandromorphic Cardinal," it's AI.
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IMPROMPTU BACKYARD BIG DAY
If you’re quarantined or self-isolated today send me a pic of birds in your backyard, and let’s see how many species we can get.
**Must be taken today and nowhere but your backyard / feeders / out your window**
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The eBird homepage feature photo continues to be a daily source of astonishment, inspiration, and jealousy. Insane King Eider photo this morning from Cesar Ponce.
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great!
The ivory-billed woodpecker, a bird presumed to be exctinct but one that has become a kind of Holy Grail for American birders, still exists, a new study suggests. But some scientists are skeptical, saying the evidence is on this “very poor video.”
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What a day. I had a goal of seeing 700 species in the ABA Continental area (US and Can. not counting HI) since I began birding in 2005, and I reached it today. Feeling grateful for birding, family and friends, and you all. A thread:
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I wrote a birding primer for Slate, because people gotta do *something*
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From Heidi Trudell at Just Save Birds - Volunteers in Chicago found almost ONE THOUSAND DEAD BIRDS THIS MORNING AT A SINGLE BUILDING.
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everyone's on the timeline talking about how much Twitter sucks ass and whatever but where else would you get to see this picture of a Scaled Quail I took one time
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Ring-billed Gull
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A few weeks ago I had the incredible privilege to see a Willow Ptarmigan in Maine. This tundra-dwelling bird somehow found its way south all the way to the Atlantic coast. A gorgeous and obliging creature. 1/2
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when birders post pics and are like "sometimes you just need to appreciate the common backyard birds" what they're really saying is "man I haven't seen shit recently"
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From the Insta of the Rolling Green Nursery in NH ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
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Just received these images of what appears to be the STELLER’S SEA EAGLE from Linda Tharp in Five Islands, Georgetown, Maine!!!!!
@ABABirdAlert
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I want to tell you about a really cool backyard birding tool I’ve been using called Haikubox.
Sound ID tech is revolutionizing birding, and Haikubox continually listens and IDs the birds outside your home. It’s awesome.
@HaikuboxNature
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for beginner birders, the answer to "what is this bird I'm hearing" is usually "Tufted Titmouse."
for advanced birders, the answer is usually "American Redstart"
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Saw a cool mushroom while walking my dog that turned out, upon closer inspection, to be a discarded dinner roll
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awesome Snowshoe Hare encounter in northern Maine this morning
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Feeling incredibly anxious about the state of the America. How about you, I dunno, post some bird pics or something. Here's a Florida Scrub-Jay I saw one time.
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A happy day. That’s me in the middle after leaving City Hall in Portland, Maine after the City Council unanimously passed New England’s first bird safe building ordinance!
@MaineAudubon
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For those following along, apparently the Massachusetts Steller’s Sea Eagle has NOT been seen today, and was last seen flying north yesterday afternoon. Keep an eye out along any rivers in New England, esp with Bald Eagles!
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At first I thought generative AI “art” was just tacky and annoying, but fake birds flooded the internet.
Now it’s personal.
I wrote about it for
@Slate
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Big news: I think I’ve finally made up my mind that Gray Catbirds are my favorite bird
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there should be birder’s residencies like artist residences where we just get to go places and stay and look at birds uh I dunno what do you think
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Who Should Play John, Paul, George and Ringo in the Beatles Movies?
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happy Return of the Grackles Day to all who celebrate! (Birders and witches)
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The STELLER’S SEA EAGLE was spotted in West Boothbay Harbor, Maine this afternoon by Kaili Morgan. It was last seen flying to the northwest in the direction of Barters Island
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marsh behind the industrial building, wastewater treatment plant, stranger's backyard feeders, etc. etc.
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more birder boy bragging. My mom got an old globe and my son is examining it to see where different birds live ♥️
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KIDS BIRD WALK PRO TIP: if you see a vulture overhead ask the kids to lay down and pretend to be roadkill, to lure the bird down. It doesn’t work but is hilarious.
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Today a lobsterman is taking passengers out for rides to see the bird -- the only way to get a look as its been perched on the backside of an island for several hours. So cool.
Five Islands is a working waterfront, and yesterday was a busy day for local lobstermen pulling their traps for the season. They weren’t expecting hundreds of birders crowding the wharf, and it could have been an ugly scene. Instead, the mood was bemused, pleasant, and happy. ♥️
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Just finished reading an advanced copy of
@KennKaufman
’s new book, The Birds That Audubon Missed.
I LOVED it. A mix of history, biography, and ornithology, it explores the exciting age of discovery for American bird life in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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took a run to see the rare Redwing in Portland, Maine this morning and my friends it did not disappoint
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my dude and I went to see the neighborhood grackles the day they arrived
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Anyone posting AI bird images is getting blocked. I HATE them, and making them is for losers.
What do all these images have in common? Answer: they aren't real and were created within minutes by AI. I simply typed in a descriptive sentence in
@Adobe
using the program called
#Adobefirefly
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The Rock Wren I caught up with in Maine today is the most accommodating vagrant bird I've ever seen. It worked the camera like I was shooting for Vogue.
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The eBird checklists from the day before vs. the day I show up
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My message about the importance of bird mascot accuracy is finally getting through to the youth 🙌
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Filling a kiddie pool in my backyard with fish in hopes of luring the sea eagle
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Common Redpoll at my feeders is Yard Bird no. NINETY-NINE!!!!!!!!!
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It’s with a mix of pride and embarrassment that I announce that my 3-year old is a complete bird nerd. He calmed himself on the plane listening to sounds on my Sibley app, and today he woke up early to play “Put The Bird In Its Habitat.”
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Birding is like being a private eye, except instead of solving a murder you're trying to figure out what's making that weird noise in a tree
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‘Unfilmable’ Books That Hollywood Should Try to Adapt After ‘Dune’
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