#Ornithologist

Have a budding artist or ornithologist in your home? Tomorrow, April 8th, is #DrawABirdDay and we’re here to provide some avian inspiration! There are tons of lovely bird illustrations
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It's Day One of #BlackBirdersWeek! The first ever week dedicated to visibility, awareness, and dialogue. We're kicking it off by celebrating our love of the outdoors and being #BlackInNature. Use
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Introducing William Eagle Clarke, a renowned #ornithologist and Keeper of Natural History here at @NtlMuseumsScot for 15 years. Clarke died #OTD in 1938. Grab a cup of tea and join
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Hey, White People, we need to talk. Yup, I'm white too. Wicked white. Utterly WASPy white.I have a Master of Social Work and the most valuable thing about this degree
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For reasons I won’t explain, I’ve been looking up pictures of tits on the internet (not that kind). Now... lots of them have descriptive names. For example, this is a
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Oh, #HellOfABird is trending? Smithsonian ornithologist Peri Bolton (@Periperipatus) is a Dr. Who fan AND can #SpeakBird. She gives us the calls of three species: the Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo, the Australian
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A favorite quarantine pass time is rewatching all the Disney princess movies. A take on Disney princesses as academics. #1 Princess Jasmine was definitely an ethnographer. She met Aladdin ‘in
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As a black person who deeply loves nature, I repeatedly feel unsafe in it. Dr. Drew Lanham (a black birder) captures the terror and tradeoffs. He abandoned a remote project
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I just saw someone on twitter say that if outdoor cats were a problem we’d hear about it more. Outdoor cats are a problem. There, you just heard it from
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@Alexander_Lees and co-authors are under fire for their "Parkerian shortfall in Natural history knowledge" in @AmOrnith 's journal The Auk. (Some) Scientists take offense b/c naming the shortfall after a
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By popular demand, and in honor of the 2020 #MetGala (@HFMetGala and @metmuseum) here's a look back at some of the memorable Met Gala red carpet looks. With a biology
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In 1932, Australia declared war on some Emus. The Emus fought back. It’s time for another #coronavirus history lesson from Doncaster Council. This one really is a rollercoaster, so strap
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Up now @JEvBio, @BenGFreeman1 & @CASBirdman & I show that elevational series of New Guinea kingfishers in replicate isolated mountain ranges did NOT undergo parallel ecological—but that divergent selection &
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Throughout the week our Division of Birds will help mark the #SpringMigration of our feathered friends. Today they’re giving tips on how to get started as a birder—one of the
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Today's excitement: the FedEx guy knocked on our door & said, "I smell natural gas real strongly right here." When I called the gas company, the lady on the other
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Bird count from Duddingston loch in the last week, with ongoing updates. So glad I got my binoculars before the lockdown... The magnet attraction is of course the heronry. Today
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