The kite show that the Black Belt Birding Festival is legit.

there is literally no amount of caveats or careful wording that will protect you from stupidity or bad faith, so you might as well say things straightforwardly and strongly to begin with.

LMAO

Everybody’s upset because it’s Argentina but I’m glad that gets called. Get it out of the game.

Colombia the latest to learn that Center Backs should not take penalties until they absolutely have to.

It was a heart breaker in the end but I would have rather gone out like Egypt did than like the US did.

What a heart breaker for Egypt. Pretty sure that’s not a foul on Salah though.

I mean there’s really no question anymore that Messi is the greatest but my god how does he keep coming up with this stuff?

I’ll go to my grave, I think, believing that 36 hours of Balogun insanity fucked with this team’s makeup. Which at the end of the day is no more than they deserve and is also an indictment of that makeup.

Donald Trump, please come out as a dook fan

Brand new pair of Swarovski bins. First time I take them out for a Breeding Bird Survey and I lose one of the objective lens covers.

Australia learning why you never send CBs to take pens before you absolutely have to.

Ecuador versus Mexico is bird flag versus bird flag.

The World Cup is the best. Just the absolute best.

I can’t believe there are people who want to get rid of pen shootouts.

Hey the New York Times likes bird podcasts, including mine. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/a...

7 Podcasts About the Joys of Bird-Watching

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When I started writing about birds online over a decade ago — the effort that, over time, brought me to my current gig with ABA — I did it pretty much entirely to get free bird books. I have succeeded beyond my wildest dream to the extent that I have almost run out of shelf space. Dream big kids.

“go back to the moon but this time we have really good cameras” was a fantastic idea

Paul Byrne@theplanetaryguy.com · 4mo ago

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

ethical people should not be using right wing propaganda websites owned by white supremacists

They keep making up awards to give our stupid baby president to keep him from throwing his plate on the floor and none of it stops him from throwing his plate on the floor.

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Mike Johnson: Tonight we have created a new award. We are going to do something we've never done before. We will honor him with a new award. He is the first ever recipient of the America first award. That is this beautiful golden statue here, appropriate for the golden era.

Join me and @n8swick.bsky.social Nate Swick at NOON Central TODAY! We'll be working through some tricky IDs—sandpipers, ducks, hawks, geese, and parrots!—taking your questions, and more, on @aba.org ABA's What's This Bird LIVE! www.youtube.com/live/AbszNvh...

What's This Bird LIVE! March 13, 2026

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how broken inside must you be to watch the speech out of anything other than professional obligation

Was driving down the highway yesterday and saw a Common Raven fly over and land on a billboard next to a pair of Black Vultures and the raven was *significantly* bigger than the vultures and something about those birds together rocked me to my very core and I've been thinking about it all day.

There’s an odd aversion in the Reddit birding community to pishing, putting it up with abuse of playback in terms of potential bird stressors to be avoided and I can’t say I get it.

If the executive branch can unilaterally cut off federal funding to specific states the union has already been dissolved.

This is the most bonkers snake behavior I have ever seen. I am legitimately gob-smacked. www.reddit.com/r/whatsthiss...

From the whatsthissnake community on Reddit: [Malaysia] What snake is this? Didn’t know they are such organised climbers...

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I once heard Black Bears described as "bigger, dumber raccoons", and nothing I've ever seen has suggested that wasn't a bang-on characterization.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 8mo ago

A California man found the underside of his house in disarray. It turned out that a 550-pound black bear had moved into the crawl space. trib.al/y7jyZmk

A reminder to leave Twitter. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/goodbye-tw...

Goodbye, Twitter

Yeah, I’m done. Elon’s just awful.

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Max Berger@maxberger.bsky.social · 9mo ago

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

That’s me! In honor of the Grue Jay I came up with a list of other potential hybrids that’d have cool names. Mt favorite was Smooth-billed Ani x Groove-billed Ani aka the Smooth Groove Ani aka The Steely Dan Ani.

American Birding Association@aba.org · 9mo ago

Another This Month in Birding episode is out! Listen to Jennie Duberstein, Nick Lund, and Brodie Cass Talbott to discuss casual eBirding, hybrid Jays, and what bird to patronize on Halloween night: www.aba.org/09-44-this-m...

Has anyone ever seen a hybrid of Blue-winged Teal and Green-winged Teal and why isn't it called a Teal-winged Teal?