Craig P

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David Attenborough should be awarded a Nobel Prize.

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You found Bloödcheëp! rosemarymosco.com/comics/bird-...

Know your Northern Cardinals — Rosemary Moscorosemarymosco.com Get to know a beautiful and beloved local North American bird, the Northern Cardinal, and its many, varied, and sometimes disturbing plumages.

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New from Abby Desmond and me in Aeon! Our original title was ‘Intelligence is not a thing’. Because where you see intelligence depends on who you are, what you know. It’s fine for humans - it’s our thing - but for animals/AI we need to be better at asking what success really means for them 🧪🪶🐝🦊🕷️🐬🏺

Why ‘intelligence’ exists only in the eye of the beholder | Aeon Essaysaeon.co Our human minds hold us back from truly understanding the many brilliant ways that other creatures solve their problems

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I know some of you need a cicada backpack 🧪🪲

Cicada Shell Backpackstore.dftba.com This Cicada Shell Backpack celebrates the coinciding emergence of the 17-year Brood XIII and 13-year Brood XIX in 2024, an event that only happens every 221 yrs! Made from durable canvas, it is the pe...

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The wise old ogre tree watching over the fireflies at Elkmont Campground, Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

What’s this little bunched up hiding dude? (Found in NW GA, underside of a goldenrod leaf) @apsciencebydan.bsky.social

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Barred Owl (Strix varia) Got a heads up on this birds location. After a short hike, I found it in gorgeous, afternoon, filtered sunlight. 🐕‍🦺😀 Nikon d850, Nikkor 500mm f/4 lens w/Nikon 1.4x teleconverter Stony Brook Reservation West Roxbury, MA 🇺🇸🪶#birds

Tiny young newt. Colors are awesome. Excuse my fingernail dirt. I was doing yardwork. 🌿🌎 interesting tidbits in notes

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Also, Bengals (CITES appendix I), pelicans (brown pelicans used to be listed)

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Minnesota Lynx

Are there other professional US sports teams named after an endangered species, or just the Florida Panthers in the NHL? (and Go Panthers) 🌿🌎

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mistakenly identified a mason bee as a carpenter bee and now their union is up my ass

Don’t know these kids, but this awesome little random day with nature deserves some likes. Get kids outside and they figure it out. youtu.be/Trko683y27o?...

Me and my friend go catfish hunting!youtu.be

Bird ID help: friend sent this from Florida. Can’t see chest or legs. Osprey or immature bald eagle? 🪶🌿

Used Merlin to call this gnatcatcher and it immediately divebombed and lit upon this fence a couple feet away. 🪶🪶🌿

Got some closeups while this carpenter bee was warming up this morning. Like little drunks when they’re cold.

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i had one of these as a kid and now i work in social media for a sewer utility. follow your dreams.

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Have a great weekend! (Keep an eye out for speeding Tree Swallows.)

My first thought was that it was AI. I had no idea India has acid-trip colored squirrels

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A Northern Cardinal wearing a snowflake on his noggin. It's called fashion ❄️

Walk finds 🌿🌎

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New England Aquarium aerial survey team sighted a gray whale off the New England coast last week, a species that has been extinct in the Atlantic for more than 200 years 🐋🦑

Gray whale, extinct in the Atlantic, seen in southern New England waters - New England Aquariumwww.neaq.org In an incredibly rare event, the New England Aquarium aerial survey team sighted a gray whale off the New England coast last week, a species that has been extinct in the Atlantic for more than 200 yea...

Anyone an expert on American robins? My house is in the middle of a nightly roost of hundreds of them, and I’ve heard and watched some fascinating stuff the past 3 evenings. 🪶 #birds #americanrobin

The weird satisfaction of REI dividend day… 🌿

Morning walk after storm, North Georgia mountains 🌿🌎

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Borb No. 6: Cedar Waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum) Borbfact: Cedar Waxings are well known for getting tipsy on fermented berries but in 2018 in Gilbert, Minnesota there were so many drunk birds causing problems that residents began calling the police for help! #borb #bird #birding

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now imagining the alternate reality in which Linnaeus used his native Swedish instead of Latin, and all of the animals' scientific names sound like Ikea furniture

And it was named Roachambeau 🪳

So I’m done with Valentines Day shopping now 🪳 bronxzoo.com/roach?L=6&ut...

Name a Roachbronxzoo.com This Valentine’s Day give them the only gift sure to take their breath away. Name a Roach is back at the Bronx Zoo.

Seems important to share this tidbit 🌿🧪🪶

Charles Darwin’s eclectic personal library is now onlinewww.popsci.com You can check out the first known photographs of bacteria, an article on a ‘hateful Colorado grasshopper,’ and more from the naturalist's vast collection.

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BlueSky is open, quote one art to promote yourself.

If you maybe didn’t learn anything new today…

Let's talk about the Balcones Escarpment & how it shaped Texas history. 300 MYA, two continents collided & formed the Appalachian & Ouachita Mountain Ranges: the latter ran from Arkansas (Ozarks) down to the Texas-Mexico border. Those mountains changed weather patterns...