#BirdGlamour is going old-time black-and-white movie with the Bridled Titmouse! A year-round resident of the southwest US and Mexico, the Bridled Titmouse forages with other species (chickadees, nuthatches, vireos) in oak forests. They're the only member of the family Paridae (titmice and chickadees) in North America that uses cooperative breeding to raise young. #sciart #scicomm #BirdGlamourOfNorthAmerica

#BirdGlamour continues Goose Glam with the Emperor Goose! If you want to see the Emperor Goose, you’ll have to head north: the summer habitat of the Emperor Goose is around the Bering Sea, Alaska, and northeast Russia, with 90% of geese nesting on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. They dine on mussels, barnacles, eelgrass, and sea lettuce. They are currently listed as a Vulnerable Species, but their numbers have been slowly increasing since 2017. #BirdGlamourOfNorthAmerica #SciArt #SciComm

I’m celebrating my recent #BirdGlamour lifer of the Say’s Phoebe! This buff-orange-bellied flycatcher is found in farmland, prairie, and dry tundra habitat. They have a diet that is almost entirely of insects (avoid using those insecticides!) Did you know that Say’s Phoebe coughs up pellets of indigestible insect parts, much like owls cough up pellets of fur and bone? There are many bird species of birds that cough up pellets, including sea birds, corvids, and birds of prey! #SciArt #Scicomm

#BirdGlamour 's Goose Glam continues with Jack Black's nemesis bird (we all have one!) in "The Big Year," the Pink-footed Goose! The Big Year is a competition to see how many birds you can see in the continental US and Canada, so why does a bird that breeds in Greenland, Iceland, and Svalbard and winters in western Europe count in The Big Year?
Look, we've all become lost at one point. Sometimes Pink-footed Geese get lost during migration and end up in eastern North America! #SciComm #SciArt

#BirdGlamour will be late today because this guy (thinks he) is hunting mice in our garden tarps.
#CatsOfMastodon

My first #BirdGlamour video filmed using my new phone! Featuring the Glam of the Pink-footed Goose, Jack Black's nemesis in "The Big Year"! #sciart #scicomm
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMYcvJe7W/

#BirdGlamour's Goose Glam continues with a Look-Alike: the Cackling Goose! Cackling Geese were once thought to be a small subspecies of Canada Goose. Cackling Geese are smaller, have shorter stubby bills, and have a higher-pitched honk than Canada Geese. In true bird fashion, they will hybridize with Canada Geese, which makes them even more difficult to tell apart! They nest along Artic ponds & streams, & sea cliffs in the Aleutians. Ash, of course, was present as Artistic Su-purr-visor! #SciArt

The Golden-crowned Kinglet #BirdGlamour video is on TikTok!
#scicomm #SciArt
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMYWN72Ks/

#BirdGlamour's Goose Glam continues with Ross's Goose! I Wintering in south-central US and breeding along the Arctic coastlines, look for these small white (white morph) and white and brown/black (blue morph) geese with migrating flocks of Snow Geese as they forage in fields during stopovers on their migration from the US to the Arctic Circle. Females incubate the eggs while the males stand guard! #BirdGlamourOfNorthAmerica #SciArt #SciComm #ScienceMUA

#BirdGlamour Patron Sneak Peek at my Glam Resupply!
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The latest #BirdGlamour video is up! I hope you enjoy the Glamorous life of the Golden-crowned Kinglet!
#SciArt #scicomm
https://youtu.be/zoEhJ1BNnZ8

This is my ultimate goal (other than better filming gear) in terms of #BirdGlamour videos: I LOVE the video I collected of the Virginia Rail!
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMYpk5ufB/

#BirdGlamour Sneak Peek at the newest YouTube video (finally!!)

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#BirdGlamour loves the Goose Glam of the Egyptian Goose! More closely related to shelducks than geese, Egyptian Geese call the continent of Africa home. They're very territorial & aerial battle any intruders! Popular captive birds, they are seen in Europe & North America because captive animals do escape & are adaptable. The Egyptian Goose was listed as an "Invasive Alien Species of Union concern" in 2017 in Europe and can't be imported, bred, used, or intentionally released in Europe. #SciArt

#BirdGlamour loves Arctic-breeding birds & the Brant is no exception! You may see them along the East and West Coasts, eating eelgrass and large green algae, as they migrate to breeding territories on the Arctic Coasts. You may have a chance of seeing Brants: they are becoming a more common sighting in flooded fields and salt marshes closer to human habitation. They form life-long pairs (social monogamy) but will mate with other Brants during the mating season.
#BirdGlamourOfNorthAmerica #SciArt

A short intermission from Duck #BirdGlamour, brought to you by Pygmy Nuthatches! They love ponderosa pine forests in western and southern North America, including south BC! I haven't seen one here yet, but I hope to change that! I may have seen them near Boulder, Colorado, but I really need to see one here! Pygmy Nuthatches form large extended family group flocks, and family members will help their relatives care for the young!
#SciComm #SciArt #BirdGlamourOfNorthAmerica

#BirdGlamour Patron Sneak Peek at the upcoming Glams!
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#BirdGlamour flocks into Goose Glam with the adorable Barnacle Goose! These geese breed on the Arctic coasts of Greenland & Siberia and in winter in NW Europe. Did you know that in the 12th century people thought they spawned fully grown from Goose Barnacles? Images like this one from the Topographia Hibernica (c. 1188 CE) are common in bestiaries of the time! Of course, Ash was involved as Artistic Consultant. #GlamorousByNature #CatsofMastodon #SciArt #SciComm

#BirdGlamour 's Duck Glam continues with the Fulvous Whistling-Duck! This species only started seriously nesting in the US after the commercial cultivation of rice in the 19th and early 20th centuries. These tree-roosting ducks have more goose-like proportions that those of many ducks. They will also form mated pairs that will last for several years. Fulvous Whistling-Ducks filter tasty plants and invertebrates using the lamellae (tooth-like structures) on their bills. #scicomm #SciArt

#BirdGlamour continues Duck Glam with the Black-bellied Whistling Duck! These long-legged ducks spend more time walking or perching in trees than any other duck! They're cavity nesters that form lifelong pair bonds with their mates. Females sometimes lay their eggs in other nests, in a behavior called "egg-dumping." #BirdGlamourOfNorthAmerica #SciArt #SciComm