You never know what you'll find on somebody's dashboard.
14 toucans found inside a car dashboard complete rehab
The colorful tropical birds are highly prized in the illegal wildlife trade.
popsci.com
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You never know what you'll find on somebody's dashboard.
14 toucans found inside a car dashboard complete rehab
The colorful tropical birds are highly prized in the illegal wildlife trade.
popsci.com
Poetic excerpt from a new book on birds.
Billions of Birds Have Vanished in a Generation
thewalrus.ca
A very impressive parrot.
nytimes.com
nytimes.com
Even more reasons to visit Scotland.
Verifying Device
thetimes.com
It's puffin season!
Atlantic puffins are returning to shore. Here’s how to see the fleeting spring spectacle.
After months at sea, the orange-beaked birds are gathering along coastal cliffs in a short but sensational migration.
nationalgeographic.com
It's puffin season!
Atlantic puffins are returning to shore. Here’s how to see the fleeting spring spectacle.
After months at sea, the orange-beaked birds are gathering along coastal cliffs in a short but sensational migration.
nationalgeographic.com
On the long history of birds and humans working together.
Attention Required! | Cloudflare
foreignpolicy.com
Maybe instead of putting googly eyes on your takeout container, you could simply share your fries with a hungry seagull?
Why drawing eyes on food packaging could stop seagulls stealing your chips
New research shows that displaying a pair of eyes on food packaging can be enough to stop some gulls pinching your food.
theconversation.com
Very resourceful.
Seabird nests built with plastic waste off the coast of Germany: Photo of the week
The northern gannet, a seabird that lives across the northern Atlantic Ocean, typically builds its nests from seaweed and other aquatic plants. But more recently, its nests have started to include plastic material fished from the ocean. Martin Brogger, a researcher at Argentina’s Institute of Marine Organisms Biology (IBIOMAR), photographed several gannet nests containing plastic […]
news.mongabay.com
Reading recs for Seabirders.
Six Essential Books About Birds
A few years ago, more or less on a whim, I started following a group of scientists who were studying a small seabird on an island off the coast of Washington State. The bird, called the rhinoceros …
lithub.com
How ravens rob wolves.
Ravens Don't Just Follow Wolves – They Memorize Kill Sites Across Vast Distances
"We've underestimated them."
sciencealert.com
Happy National Loon Day!
St. Paul shop creates 'National Loon Day'
kare11.com
Today's good bird news.
Critically endangered kākāpō parrot has standout breeding season
A total of 59 healthy kākāpō chicks have hatched over the last few weeks, according to the latest tally by Aotearoa New Zealand’s Department of Conservation. This marks one of the most successful recent breeding seasons for this critically endangered bird, whose last breeding season was four years ago. The kākāpō (Strigops habroptilus), a flightless bird […]
news.mongabay.com
An art project I can get behind.
Portland officials announce 'Wildwood: Follow the Crows' art trail downtown in August
Portland will once again host a citywide art trail coming this summer.
katu.com
Technically, not about birds.. But very cute.
Tiny recording backpacks reveal bats’ surprising hunting strategy
By listening in on their nightly hunts, scientists discovered that small, fringe-lipped bats are unexpectedly able to efficiently take down prey nearly their own size.
theconversation.com
A new book very relevant to Seabird interests.
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seattletimes.com
You can bird anywhere, even the big city.
A Chronicle of Coexistence with Birds
americanscientist.org
Please nominate Seabird for bird of the year.
Bird of the Year | Poorly Drawn Lines
Comics by Reza Farazmand
poorlydrawnlines.com
Birds!
The Best of Bird Photography: 2025 SINWP Winners
The competition aids bird organizations.
petapixel.com
Some stunning bird portraits.
Marvin Heinzel Gets Up-Close and Personal with Characterful Avians
Brandenburg-based photographer Marvin Heinzel captures a wide range of avian personalities in high-resolution detail.
thisiscolossal.com
Portland, birds, comics, this post has it all.
An Illustrated Ode to Birdhers, a Portland Bird-Watching Group
“We're not just looking at the bird, but thinking: Where are we?”
pdxmonthly.com
You had me at "weird bird mouths."
Weird bird mouths go all the way back to the first avian dinosaur
150 million years ago, Archaeopteryx changed evolutionary history.
popsci.com
Homes for humans can also be homes for birds.
Swift bricks to be installed on all new buildings in Scotland as MSPs back law
Rest of UK has resisted calls to make builders install bricks that provide nesting for swifts and other endangered birds
theguardian.com
Hail the filoplume.
nytimes.com
nytimes.com
The story behind the metaphor...
When Canaries Actually Worked in Coal Mines
When Canaries Actually Worked in Coal Mines: These feathery gas detectors became beloved pets in the dark depths
nautil.us
Happy National Bird Day!
National Bird Day 2025: Signals of a changing world
National Bird Day 2025 highlights how bird population changes reveal environmental stress and ecosystem health worldwide.
earth.com
A hero to owls everywhere.
Meet the man who ended owl shootings at US airports
Before Norman Smith intervened, birds were being shot to prevent engine-failure tragedies. Thanks to his help, hundreds of snowy owls have been rescued
thetimes.com
A collection of the year's best bird photography.
Best of 2025: 33 Spectacular Bird Photos That Won Major International Awards - 121Clicks.com
Explore the best of 2025 with 33 spectacular bird photos that won major international awards, showcasing breathtaking moments and top wildlife photography.
121clicks.com
On the long fascination with bird sex.
Bird sex fascinated medieval thinkers as much as people today
Modern researchers know about the cuckoo’s cross-species brood parasitism – but one Roman emperor observed this more than 700 years ago.
theconversation.com
Not as cool as photographing every seabird, but still pretty cool.
Meet the Woman on a Mission to Photograph Every Species of Hummingbird in the World
In less than a decade amateur photographer and Hummingbird Spot founder Carole Turek has photographed more than 250 hummingbird species, including one that was long considered extinct.
audubon.org
New evidence for how birds sense magnetic fields.
Has birds’ mysterious ‘compass’ organ been found at last?
Multiple lines of evidence suggest that pigeons sense magnetic fields by detecting electric currents in their inner ears. Multiple lines of evidence suggest that pigeons sense magnetic fields by detecting electric currents in their inner ears.
nature.com
A really well-done piece on a conflict in Canada that took on a life of its own, bringing in conspiracists of all kinds, obscuring what may or may not have been a case of genuine governmental overreach.
Who Would Want to Kill 314 Ostriches?
How the plight of a few hundred birds in Canada became an all-out fight for freedom
theatlantic.com
Please don't shout at the seabirds.
Seagulls more likely to leave you alone if you shout at them, researchers say
Researchers have found that shouting is more effective than speaking when trying to scare off seagulls
abcnews.go.com
Bird news and Portland news in the same link!
Oregon Barred Owl Attacks, by the Numbers
Portland hikers are getting dive-bombed.
pdxmonthly.com
Scientists have yet to understand the role of this app in the circular seabird economy, but we're sure it's important.
One moment, please...
oceanographicmagazine.com
Seabirds: better together.
Antarctic seabirds have an ingenious way of finding prey in the vast and desolate Southern Ocean | Discover Wildlife
Different species flock together, using team work to sense food in the forbidding seascape, a new study finds.
discoverwildlife.com
On some very impressive seabirds.
Riders on the storm: The birds that fly into hurricanes
When hurricanes pass over the ocean they churn up creatures from the deep – a chance to feast for predators brave enough to weather the storm.
bbc.com
Some of this year's best wildlife photography, including a few birds.
Gallery | Wildlife Photographer of the Year | Natural History Museum
Browse the WPY winning images in our immersive gallery. Use the filter tab to customise your search
nhm.ac.uk
Bringing back Puget Sound puffins.
Saving Puget Sound’s puffins: Bringing these ocean ambassadors back from the brink
Up and down the West Coast, populations of the cute seabirds with giant noses have plummeted since the 1980s. Only in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands are the ocean-roaming puffins thriving.
opb.org
Birds in impressive street art.
Birds! (14 Photos) - STREET ART UTOPIA
Which one is your favorite?
streetartutopia.com
Birbs!
Just a moment...
smithsonianmag.com
Does this count as bird news?
Baby Pterosaur Fossils Show They Died in a Violent Storm
About 150 million years ago storm winds snapped bones in the wings of baby pterosaurs, sending them tumbling to their deaths in a muddy lagoon in what is now Germany
scientificamerican.com
Even the swifts think Portland is over.
The Vaux’s Swifts Have Abandoned Their Chapman Elementary School Roost
Is it our fault?
wweek.com
Important Seabird news.
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Video Footage Accidentally Reveals the Strange Pooping Behavior of These Large Seabirds
Researchers set out to investigate how streaked shearwaters take off and instead were surprised to discover that the birds poop very frequently and regularly, which could play a role in marine ecology
smithsonianmag.com
Puzzling out the evolution of beautiful birds.
Do Beautiful Birds Have an Evolutionary Advantage? | Quanta Magazine
Richard Prum explains why he thinks feathers and vibrant traits in birds evolved not solely for survival, but also through aesthetic choice.
quantamagazine.org
If this keeps up, we'll have to add a fourth daily post to Seabird.
Artificial light has essentially lengthened birds' day
Millions of audio recordings of hundreds of bird species have revealed that artificial light is making the birds wake up earlier and go to bed later.
npr.org
Sex in birds? Apparently it's more complicated than expected.
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Sex Reversal Is More Common in Birds Than Previously Thought, Suggests Study of Australian Species
Researchers find that about 5 percent of birds studied have a mismatch between genetic and physical sex—including one male bird that seems to have laid an egg
smithsonianmag.com
A good omen for Seabird.
First-Ever Footage Shows Seabirds Catching Flying Fish Mid-Air
Two red-footed boobies were equipped with cameras.
petapixel.com
Charting the dance moves of some very talented cockatoos.
Cockatoos know 30 distinct dance moves
Ten of 21 known cockatoo species exhibit dance behavior, and one bird executed 17 unique moves.
arstechnica.com
Saving seabirds with a seabird hotel.
Arctic birders combat impact of climate change and avian flu on delicate ecosystem
In one of the top Arctic birding destinations in the world, environmental and health challenges are threatening some of the seabirds that are part of Norway’s unique coastal ecosystem
abcnews.go.com