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Writing: www.nicholaslund.com Books: Dinosaurs to Chickens: How Evolution Works (2024); The Ultimate Biography of Earth (2022); American Birding Association Field Guide to the Birds of Maine (2022) Purchase here: https://tinyurl.com/yfpfzjrx

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I don’t know birders did before @tommysiegel.bsky.social! The best.

Proud of this book. Get your copy here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/nick-...

05.03.2026 18:11 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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wow, I’m in love with @thebirdist.bsky.social’s latest book, β€œWorld Without Birds” β€” an essential read for the next generation of conservationists! (just bought copies for my niece and nephew)

leave it to the brilliant Nick Lund to make a book about bird extinction hopeful and fun!

05.03.2026 16:13 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Yes!!!! Enjoy!!!!

02.03.2026 23:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Nick’s new book, β€œWorld without birds”

Nick’s new book, β€œWorld without birds”

Latest from @thebirdist.bsky.social just arrived. I’d throw a party, but I’m all out of mealworms.

02.03.2026 20:43 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

hmm good question

02.03.2026 16:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Is Your State Bird a Stupid State Bird? What It Should Be Instead. I drove over a bridge from Maryland into Virginia today and on the big β€œWelcome to Virginia” sign was an image of the state bird, the northern cardinal ...

The first thing I ever published was inspired by my ire at the yellow bill on the cardinal on a Welcome to Virginia sign www.slate.com/articles/hea...

02.03.2026 02:48 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Cardinal with a yellow bill!!

02.03.2026 02:13 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes!

02.03.2026 01:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hahaha oh man

02.03.2026 01:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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let’s count the errors!

1. Loon in a tree
2. Snowy Owl in a tree
3. made up black bird
4. Northern Cardinals hardly β€œnorth woods” birds they barely range into Canada…

What else

02.03.2026 01:03 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 0
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my retirement plan is just suing this seed company for false advertising if I can’t attract Siberian Nuthatches to my feeder in Maine

01.03.2026 02:45 πŸ‘ 41 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I think maybe it was a book discussion club? Like a wine and cheese and mealworm type social thing? I’m okay with it.

27.02.2026 17:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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came up to check the feeder today and startled some birds reading my new book WORLD WITHOUT BIRDS!! How’d they even get a copy, it’s not out until March 3?!?

Maybe they preordered at the link below, like you can too! tinyurl.com/srwswrcb

27.02.2026 16:39 πŸ‘ 80 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

call me Dense Brain

25.02.2026 13:31 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Lol baked bean can

24.02.2026 19:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

12.02.2026 16:31 πŸ‘ 10353 πŸ” 3080 πŸ’¬ 162 πŸ“Œ 419
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Searching for Birds An interactive story about the birds that capture our curiosity, told through data, visuals and illustrations

Really enjoyed this Searching for Birds data visualization from
@nadiehbremer.com
and team. Lots of great info (and I wouldn't have guess the species estimated to be the second most-numerous in the U.S. if given 50 tries)
searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com

13.02.2026 14:55 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Great stuff, eBird! A new feature highlights the Iconic Birds at a particular hotspot.

11.02.2026 23:14 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah closest equivalent here I think

09.02.2026 03:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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retired NFLer Tony Gonzalez with binoculars and a computer generated bird in a Super Bowl ad night

09.02.2026 03:02 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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a short story about a mouse and an owl

05.02.2026 13:33 πŸ‘ 50 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
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never a doubt

03.02.2026 16:13 πŸ‘ 28 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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juvenile Herring Gull

30.01.2026 21:02 πŸ‘ 41 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

β™₯️

29.01.2026 01:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

They’ll be fine

27.01.2026 21:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just rewatched a bunch of the Listers guy’s unlisted videos, available only via QR code from their book. Just the funniest shit. Laughing just now at the one where they follow the falconer through suburban Arizona and marvel at his dog’s balls. Cinema.

27.01.2026 01:08 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

This will be the 12th year since 2000 that a team named after a bird will play in the Super Bowl

26.01.2026 03:46 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

it’s actually a happy book!

22.01.2026 12:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Lol yes whoops

22.01.2026 12:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s actually a happy book!

21.01.2026 22:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0