Adult (L) and juvenile (R) Wilson's Phalarope. An Osprey was flying by. Mono Lake, CA #birds #shorebirds
Nils Warnock
@dunlin.bsky.social
Ornithologist. Especially interested in shorebirds and migration. Based in California with affinity for Alaska and Rhode Island. Unless noted, photos are my own. All photos taken with Sony RX10 IV or iphone.
Congratulations to Drs Jeffery L Larkin & Nils Warnock for winning AOS 2026 Ralph W Schreiber Conservation Awards for conservation-related contributions to ornithology. https://americanornithology.org/aos-announces-2026-award-winners-for-research-service-conservation-publication/ #AOSAwards
Always a treat when you get to see as well as hear the beautiful Yellow-breasted Chat. Only the second one I have seen here at Cypress Grove, Marshall, CA. #birds
Warning – a disturbing picture. Take care of your fishing gear! It can kill wildlife. A Double-crested Cormorant that got its head stuck in a crab trap and then got tangled in a tree with deadly results. Marshall, Tomales Bay, CA.
A flock of migrating Bonaparte's Gulls that came in for a rest and drink at Point Reyes National Seashore today. #bird
The no-spots, Spotted Sandpiper hunting invertebrates. Should be molting into breeding plumage (=spots) soon. Marshall, CA #shorebirds #birds
I have been looking for this Anna's Hummingbird nest for the past week. I finally found it less than a meter off of the path I walk almost every day. Marshall, CA #birds
Shorebird migration is on here along the central California coast. A flock of Hudsonian Whimbrel making the move. #birds #shorebirds
The strike - Great Egret in the process of catching a stickleback. Point Reyes National Seashore, CA #birds
She just froze and stared at me. A female Anna's Hummingbird that I suspect has a nearby nest. Marshall, CA #birds
New article in Oikos with a global review of annual survival for waders comparing estimation methods and phylogeny. Survival increases with body mass but decreases with migration distance and during past 40 years. Team led by @dillensegerg.bsky.social. #ornithology #waders doi.org/10.1002/oik....
As #CMSCOP15 starts today, AFP highlights the Hudsonian godwit, one of the world’s most extraordinary migratory birds which has declined 95% in just four decades, showing why international action matters now more than ever. In English: www.france24.com/en/live-news... En français : f24.my/Bog9
Can nations save the shorebird that flies 30,000 km a year?
Chasing an endless summer, one shorebird species undertakes a grueling annual journey from the Arctic to the tip of South America and back -- a feat increasingly fraught with peril.
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Western Sandpiper that is just beginning to molt into its breeding plumage. The count down begins. Abbotts Lagoon, Point Reyes National Seashore, CA. #shorebirds #birds
Thank you co-authors! Happy to have this one out. nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Three decades of western sandpiper stopover dynamics during northward migration on the Pacific Coast of North America, 1992–2022
Shorebirds typically spend more time fueling and refueling during migration than they spend in actual flight, and consequently their stopover ecology has important implications for fitness and conser...
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Nice! Previous BTO longevity record for Curlew was 32 years 7 months, set in 2011. Blog with longevity records for other waders: wadertales.wordpress.com/2018/01/16/w... #ornithology
Curlew Action@curlewaction.bsky.social · 5mo agoA female curlew in the New Forest has become the oldest known living curlew in the UK, a powerful reminder of just how long these birds can live, this individual is almost 34 and was ringed in 1992. Read the story: buff.ly/DAunaSV
Half a smelt is better than no smelt. Our local Osprey brought his/her half eaten fish to the nest tree. Cypress Grove, Marshall, CA #birds
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Breeding shorebird surveys in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska, suggest population declines over two decades for most species
Abstract. Shorebird populations are declining globally but it generally remains unclear how those declines translate to changes at the regional scale. We c
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