I wonder if they were always there or if they recolonized.
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I wonder if they were always there or if they recolonized.
NOAA logo with text Hold Fast
Spotted near NOAA ๐ (source www.reddit.com/r/NOAA/s/qfW...)
This is a few years old, but I missed it. Wow, a Horned Lark 46,000 years ago. www.geologyin.com/2020/02/froz...
Watch this when it is daylight on Torishima. Albatross live stream!! www.youtube.com/live/dJYfvbr...
We are heading back in Feb. Confirming dates. Do send me your email just in case. alvaro@alvarosadventures.com.
Some eagle photos from our Japan in winter tour. I am heading back to do a tour here in spring, focusing on migration, local breeding birds and seabirds. But this trip is all about cranes, eagles, ducks and geese and superb food. www.alvarosadventures.com/japan-in-spr...
Monterey bay whale watch and take the longer trips for Killer whale possibility
This is a super pod of Rissoโs Dolphins. Crazy unusual.
โSuper podโ of more than 1,500 dolphins spotted off California coast www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I think it is on some but not all. It is cool, a little ice blue on the neck.
Close up of a female Large Niltava in Thailand. That little blue slash on the neck sides is a pretty unique pattern found on female Niltavas.
It took us all morning, but we finally saw a Spoon-billed Sandpiper. This is on out Thailand tour - day 1!
I like it, "hydroclimate whiplash". These lows and highs that have been predicted to be a part of human induced climate change. It gets at the crazy nature of it, southern California goes from super wet to super dry. Setting up part of the scene for this horrific set of fires.
Here's a schematic I published in this 2021 piece to illustrate how even a modest delay in onset of rainy season in Southern California can dramatically amplify wildfire risk by lengthening seasonal overlap between dry vegetation and strong offshore winds during Oct-Jan. #CAfire
Genomic data reveal that the Cuban blue-headed quail-dove (Starnoenas cyanocephala) is a biogeographic relict | royalsocietypublishi... | Biology Letters | #ornithology ๐ชถ
Kelp Gulls ๐
The big pigeons in New Zealand were some of my favorite land birds. The Kereru and Parea on the Chatham Islands. Huge! And colorful.
Kell Gulls go with the flow and shift foods as needed.
Enderby Island in the Auckland Archipelago was amazing today. Endemic birds like Auckland Teal and Shags as well as Southern Royal Albatross and Hookerโs Sea Lions. What a place!
I am in New Zealand, loving the different pies available here.
I am in Tucson for a day, missing this... but getting info from home that it is sucking big time, and I am the one who likes the storms!! But it is wet and windy over HMB today. I only hope that the plants, soil, aquifers and all that need water get satisfaction, and that cool birds show up.
Atmospheric river ramping up. Stalling and dumping in Mendocino and Sonoma. Friday will be the day it could head farther south?
Wow! The level of detail one can achieve now looking at traits, and genetic history. Just wow!
Preorder. This. Book! ๐
@NWSBayArea: We'll continue to see impacts linger across the Bay Area and Central Coast through Friday. The heaviest rainfall is anticipated across the North Bay, where 10-15" of rainfall are forecast. This will result in an increased floo... https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea/status/1859249591209844989
Thanks. I am so clumsy with my guillotine, this is a good reminder. Never wanted it, ordered a Guillemot and spelled it wrong.
should have read O. barrosi (auto correct!!). Oceanites barrosi is the new species.
The Ticking Doradito, just over a decade ago it was split from the Warbling Doradito which looks like it but has a very different song. They leave Chile in winter. Presumably they go to Argentina. Yet on territory the odd "tick" sounds of this species give it the memorable English Name.
Look at this incredible satellite image of our bomb cyclone! This is such a beautiful storm, seen from space! Rarely do we get cyclones at remotely this intensity...and it's still strengthening. The NWS says its pressure is currently 955 mb, while a nearby buoy shows 74 mph winds and 950 mb. #wawx
Pincoya Storm-Petrel! We had the great luck of finding them on our recent Heart and Soul of Chile tour. I was co-author on the description over 10 years ago and sadly we still know little about this species. Our work (Norambuena et al 2024) shows it is closest to O. barroso, but distinct.
