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Red-faced Warbler

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You wouldn’t think that flamingoes are extremophiles just from looking at them. It’s like somebody tried to build the vertebrate equivalent of that fungus that lives inside nuclear reactors, and ended up with a gangly pink dinosaur with a spoon for a face.

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Here, have a spark of hope.

The reality is that no single person can fix the entirety of the current ecological imbalance that has been literally centuries in the making at this point. Yet there are so, so many of us who care, and who are doing what we can to make a difference in whatever every day to day ways we're able. I often think of conservation efforts like the Loren Eiseley story "The Star Thrower" (aka, "the starfish story"). Amid a beach full of stranded starfish, one person cannot possibly save them all, but they can spend what time they have saving those they're able.

And this study shows that these efforts do, in fact, make a difference, not just for starfish but a myriad of species. This meta-analysis of almost 200 studies definitively proves that conservation preserves and restores biodiversity, keeping more species from going extinct. It's all too easy to get entangled in the losses, but we even more need to allow ourselves to celebrate the wins.

That success is crucial to convincing governmental entities and other stakeholders that putting funds toward conservation efforts makes a significant difference and is not only worth the investment, but worth increasing. And, on a personal level, it's necessary for those of us who care so deeply for this world to know when our efforts are having an impact, to buoy us up when the anxiety and grief over ecological destruction wears us down.

There is hope. Keep it up, folks; it's helping <3

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What's the Bird?

Location: Ireland

Date: January

We ask that discussion under questions be limited to how you came to your conclusion, not what your conclusion was.

Happy Birding!

Keep the game alive! Submit a bird HERE

#idk if it was on purpose or accident #but one of those names is only 50% right!!

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Polls are back on starting tomorrow!! I will probably be annoying about them this week just to get them visible again, so tag NWW Showdown if you don't want the clutter.

#also let me know if they need re-tagged #im pretty sure so long as the original post is tagged then any reblogs will filter as well #but maybe thats just a 'tumblr broke' bug and not a feature #anyways they sat in my drafts for a full month bc i was gonna do Fun Facts and then got overwhelmed w work/school

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March 22, 2019 - Rose-breasted Chat (Granatellus pelzelni)

Found in parts of Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil, and Bolivia, these chats live in lowland forests. They likely eat mostly insects and other invertebrates, foraging mostly at middle to high levels of the forest and sometimes joining mixed-species flocks. Little is known about their nesting behavior, though their breeding season may be between January and May.

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Worm-eating warbler … Redden State Forest, Georgetown, Delaware … 5/2/21

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Chestnut-capped Warbler (Jim Merritt)

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behold: what has been taking up my time for the past two and a half weeks!

this piano was a public art commissions for the city! it's covered in dinosaurs that have actually been found (and in the case of 3 of them, discovered) in my home state of colorado. i'm super happy with how it turned out and i had a blast painting it :^)

[image id: a piano painted with various dinosaurs. the left half of the piano represents the dinosaurs in their fossilized form as bones surrounded by fossil leaves and debris. the right half of the piano is the dinosaurs alive in their natural environments. among the species featured are fish, ammonites, orthocones, a plesiosaur, pterosaurs, a brontosaurus, a triceratops, a stegosaurus, and a fruitadens]

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Art Nouveau thing I did in 2014 - Raptor Nouveau #artnouveau #dinosaur #deinonychus #raptor #art #illustration #digitalart #paleoart

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August 10, 2021 - Southern Riverbank Warbler (Myiothlypis rivularis)

These wood-warblers are found near lowland forest streams and swampy areas in southeastern Brazil, eastern Paraguay, and northeastern Argentina. They eat mostly insects and other arthropods, foraging on the ground along stream banks and on fallen logs. Though little is known about their breeding behavior, they likely build their nests from grasses and leaves and lay clutches of two eggs. The lower frequency of their songs allows them to be heard in dense vegetation and near running water.

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トラツグミ。 Scaly Thrush.

#WHAT A BABY?????

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warbler season! my collection with Bird Collective is up!

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Please read this phenomenal blog update someone in Ohio wrote about Prothonotary Warblers and their nesting.

Let's eat ice cream and think about golden-yellow swamp birds all day please.

#reblogging #w my prev tags #i just love PROW so much #never worked w them but theyre always a treat to see!! #i want some to breed at my grandmas sooooooo bad (she lives in a floodplain) #prothonotary warbler

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Here's a poll I've tried to make hyperspecfic

I have an extra (bit of) bone

I've been in the newspaper at least twice

My date of birth has the same number for day, month, and year

I had four teeth removed to make room for my wisdom teeth

I once went into an exam thinking it was one I had missed

Two of my immediate family share a birthday but are different ages

I walked into a chair at the end of my dyspraxia assessment

I am attempting university for a second time (with a different focus)

My siblings share the same blood type (I don't)

Multiple of these apply to me

None of these apply to me

Uncertainty/results

#ok not correct hut #i picked bday #bc my sister was supposed to be born on my bday and came a few days early #and my grandma is a day before me

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Beautiful example of a Louisiana Waterthrush calling at the end. Usually pretty easy to get these guys up close and calling back if you play a clear recording as they’re super territorial.

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So we all know that Tumblr is US-centric. But to what degree? (and can we skew the results of this poll by posting it at a time where they should be asleep?)

Reblog to increase sample size!