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  I'm a bit obsessed with #butterflies at the moment, going out every day to observe and photograph them. I found Red admirals to be surprisingly tame! 😍🦋😍 #naturephotography #butterfly #nature

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  The immense work required for feeding chicks can cause serious overheating in #birds. 🥵 Researchers explored the consequences for both the parents and their chicks. Read more in my latest blog post for Beaks & Bones 👇 https://beaksandbones.substack.com/p/keeping-cool (Original study: https://www.jstor.org/stable/48582897 ) #BeaksAndBones #science #biology #ornithology #birdsofmastodon #scicomm

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  Brand new #research found that iron-containing cells in pigeons' livers may help them sense the Earth's magnetic field. #Nature is weird. 🤯 #Birds are amazing. 🐦 Read the full story in my latest Beaks & Bones post. 👇 https://beaksandbones.substack.com/p/pigeon-macrophages Original study: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ady2486 #BeaksAndBones #science #birdsofmastodon #scicomm #ornithology #pigeons

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  Jetzt könnt ihr den Vogel des Jahres 2027 wählen! 🐦 🪶 https://www.vogeldesjahres.de/ Ich bin Team Kranich. Wen wählst du?

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  Retrieving cached food requires much more than just remembering where you buried your snacks. Scrub jays also remember what they cached and when—and retrieve perishable snacks first! 🐦🧠🩵 👇 Learn more in my latest post for Beaks & Bones! https://beaksandbones.substack.com/p/episodic-like-memory (Original study: https://www.nature.com/articles/26216) #BeaksAndBones #birds #science #research #scicomm #ornithology #jays

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  Only one day left until October! 🍁🧡🍂 Last year was the first year I finished the #Inktober challenge—31 ink drawings in 31 days! This year, I’ll go fully avian and use the #Birdtober prompt list by Andrea Holmes (aholmesartstudio.com). LET’S GO! Anyone else planning on doing Birdtober, Inktober, or any other drawing challenge? Let’s connect and do this together! #birds #birdart #ink #drawing #illustration #sciart

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  Here we go! Day 1 of my Ink-Birdtober challenge. 🪶🐦🍁✒️ We start with the Lilac-breasted Roller from Africa. (reference photo by Laya Clode from Unsplash) #inktober #birdtober #birds #birdart #sciart #birdsofmastodon #ink #drawing

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  Day 2 of my Ink-Birdtober challenge. 🪶🐦🍁✒️ The beautiful little 'I'iwi! (reference photo by Melissa McMasters from Memphis, TN, United States, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons) #inktober #birdtober #birds #birdart #sciart #birdsofmastodon #ink #drawing

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  Day 3 of my Ink-Birdtober challenge. 🪶🐦🍁✒️ The Resplendent quetzal! (reference photo by Carlos Damian from Unsplash) #inktober #birdtober #birds #birdart #sciart #birdsofmastodon #ink #drawing

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  Day 4 of my Ink-Birdtober challenge. 🪶🐦🍁✒️ The Gouldian finch! (reference photo by William Warby from Unsplash) #inktober #birdtober #birds #birdart #sciart #birdsofmastodon #ink #drawing

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  The Club-winged manakin produces a courtship song without even opening his beak. 🤯 Learn more in my latest article for Beaks & Bones! 👇 https://beaksandbones.substack.com/p/singing-feathers Based on this original study: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0382 #birds #birdsofmastodon #science #biology #ornithology #evolution #scicomm #BeaksAndBones

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  In my latest blog post for Beaks & Bones, I cover research that showed how extreme climate events can affect the #evolution of #songbirds through a fascinating chain of events. Read the full story here: https://beaksandbones.substack.com/p/drought-induced-evolution original study: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adj4478 #scicomm #birds #birdsofmastodon #BeaksAndBones #science #research #climatechange

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  Let’s spread a nice #bird fact in the Mastodon universe! 🪶 Illustration by Maja Mielke. Ballpoint pen on paper, colorized digitally in #Krita. #sciart #birdart #digitalillustration #illustration #natureart #birds #birdsofmastodon