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Dan Baldassarre
Профиль VivelyDoctor of Birds at SUNY Oswego. Opinions = mine, not representative of NY state government. I run a banding station: @rcbobirds on IG.
Bury them under the jail www.fox13news.com/news/st-pete...
St. Pete Beach mothballs: Two men arrested in plot to disrupt nesting shorebirdsTwo men face criminal charges after state wildlife investigators uncovered a plot to scatter over 1,000 toxic mothballs across St. Pete Beach to disrupt a vital shorebird nesting area.www.fox13news.comGreat piece here by @brendonstuff.bsky.social on the need for widespread use of bird-safe glass to prevent window collisions theconversation.com/bird-safe-gl...
Bird-safe glass must become the norm to prevent collisions with buildingsIn Canada, tens of millions of birds are killed annually by crashing into glass on buildings.theconversation.comCool cool cool link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Closure of the Strait of Hormuz may trigger a bioinvasion super-spreader event - Biological InvasionsThe ongoing conflicts in the Middle East are causing substantial humanitarian, economic, and geopolitical impacts and disrupting global trade. While the human and economic effects remain the focus of ...link.springer.comBlumstein has always been goated and this confirms
David HoFacing federal science budget cuts, biologist Daniel Blumstein resorted to uploading marmot videos to OnlyFans to raise funds for his marmot research. However, when he uploaded his driver’s license for verification, OnlyFans informed him that his appearance didn’t match the marmots in the videos.
Incredible work 👏
Andrew IwaniukNew paper out today led by @gallinaciega.bsky.social We show that seed-eating songbirds have enlarged a somatosensory nucleus, especially the part associated with the tongue, suggesting that seed-cracking is dependent on a fine sense of touch. #ornithology #neuroethology doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
H-index currently on a rocket ship to the moon 🚀 huveta.hu/server/api/c...
Cranes!!!
Wilson Ornithological SocietyHere it is: the logo for our *2027* meeting, planned for March 17-19 in Kearney, Nebraska (to coincide with Sandhill Crane migration)! The logo was designed by Gracie Boe, an undergraduate at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. Will you be joining us? wos2027.org
Casual review of the status of Earth’s birds
Nature Reviews BiodiversityNew online! Status, threats and conservation of Earth’s migratory birds