#Avian

Intriguing_Ike

AkinolaIkeoluw1

Á ò rí’rú eléyì rí, a fií dé rù b’omo ni; unprecedented is just a word, there’s really nothing new under the sun!I am going to share with you snippets

lcamtuf

lcamtuf

Thread: it is always tempting to claim that things could've been better weren't it for the incompetent people in charge. But the right course of action is usually clear only

Blue Canaries

CanariesBlue

(thread)1. The 1918 Influenza epidemic was dubbed the Spanish Flu. Check out the recommendations. Did you know that the CDC recreated the Spanish Flu in 2005?? 2. STATEMENTUnmasking the 1918

Liz Specht

LizSpecht

#Covid19 is among the most serious challenges humanity has ever faced, and enormous work lies ahead of us to get this outbreak under control. But in parallel, we need to

SJ. Puechmaille

Bats_Chiroptera

Are #Bats and #Rodents special reservoirs? New study found that "Animal orders of established importance as zoonotic reservoirs including bats and rodents were UNEXCEPTIONAL, maintaining numbers of zoonoses that closely

Ken Qualkinbush

KQualkinbush

@FlatEarthEffect @TheFlatEartherr @HappyBigGrin https://youtu.be/Md6Dvxdr0AQ you should watch this movie again. Everything they’ve been saying and had us doing the same. Yet there weren’t any zombies or people dying in reality.

Catherine of Leeds

PeopleofLeeds

Back in February a pair of Mistle Thrushes nested on a traffic light(!), with their eggs hatching during #StormDennis. Mistles are early nesters (they're known as Stormcocks), but this was

Tom Andrews

WeVotedToLeave

Government producing masks, but are they effective against viruses? Are they made to N95/FFP2 or N99/FFP3 standards? If not why not?https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8515735/State-owned-factories-capacity-churn-FIVE-MILLION-face-cove

seeemilyplay

ILOVETINY

CLASSIFYING COVID-19A look at the UK government's classification system for disease - A THREAD 1. The UK government has a policy for classifying certain diseases as 'high consequence infectious diseases'

Kev

dunnokev

What I've done in lockdown:#4: Controversially, I've been shifting Turtle Dove baselines.On one exercise walk saw local birder Trevor- who (at social distance) told me been discovered in last few

Casey Michel 🇰🇿

cjcmichel

Yellow Warblers, Tree Swallows, and a restive Peregrine Falcon spotted at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. A) Obey leash laws (especially in birding areas).B) Please keep your cats indoors. C) Don't

Karine Princé

Karine_Prince

New paper out in 𝐁𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 "Long-term effectiveness of Natura 2000 network to protect biodiversity: A hint of optimism for common birds"#ProtectedAre

Patrick_Leigh_Presents

PLeigh_Presents

Not sure if Q would be used for cup sizes, given how bra sizes work. This picture has plenty on the milk-producing abilities of these gals, which... yeah, ok, but,

Dr Sarah Taber

SarahTaber_bww

It's time for an important reminder: chickens have one (1) hole.Poop & pee (birds kinda do both at the same time, so there's not that much of a distinction): same

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

Okay, I'm seeing a lot of "the end is nigh"-type posts as well as a lot of people misunderstanding this story, so let's talk about "pandemic potential" for #influenza viruseshttps://www.bbc.com/news/health-532187

Sizwe sikaMusi

SizweLo

The Swine (Spanish) Flu of 1918 is the most lethal pandemic ever to hit Earth, 200 times deadlier than the 2019 coronavirus, killing 21 million in the first 4 months.