IOB & ICB
We celebrate & Tosha Kelly(ICB & IOB author)
(@)BirdBrainTosh on X for

fineartamerica.com/featured/co

& read her IOB co authored work

No guts about it: captivity, but not neophobia , influences the cloacal of house
Kelly et al

doi.org/10.1093/iob/obac010

#scientist #artist #sciartseptember #phenotype #microbiome #sparrows

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aiwendil1892 · @aiwendil1892
219 followers · 1163 posts · Server birds.town

Blackbird and sparrow feeding on elderberries. Unfortunately a very blurred photo 🙁 because of the distance.

#blackbirds #sparrows #elderberries #birdsofmastodon #latesummer

Last updated 1 year ago

Fiona · @GreenishFinger
822 followers · 1054 posts · Server mas.to

Sat this morning with a cup of tea watching these sparrows do my gardening for me. Like most colleagues they get along just fine apart from the odd spat.

This is why I love to leave lots of areas in the garden untouched. After the pollinators are done with the flowers, and I’ve taken some seeds for next year, the birds get their time. Precious nature.

#wildlife #ecosystem #garden #nature #birdwatching #sparrows #birds #silentsunday

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Ministry of Floof SG · @mof_sg
117 followers · 152 posts · Server kopiti.am
Phred Benham · @TheSaltySparrow
93 followers · 33 posts · Server ecoevo.social

Exciting work from Chloe Mikles' undergraduate thesis is finally out in
conservation genetics! Chloe sequenced whole genome sequences from 39 Song Sparrows in the San Francisco Bay Area
to explore the genetic basis of local adaptation and adaptive capacity among the 5 subspecies
found in the region.

Evolutionary divergence and adaptive capacity in morphologically distinct song sparrow subspecies
link.springer.com/article/10.1


#ornithology #ConservationGenomics #sparrows #saltmarshes

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Albatrossity · @Albatrossity
1356 followers · 1313 posts · Server lor.sh
Simone · @simone
53 followers · 271 posts · Server mastodon.green
Mike Torr · @macronencer
117 followers · 1141 posts · Server mastodon.scot

Weird absence of
and other birds noted today. I put out food this morning at 0700 - it's 1411 and it's almost untouched. I haven't seen the farm cat about at all. I wonder if the sparrowhawk has returned? Or maybe my neighbour fed them today :)

I've seen a pigeon, and heard some corvids... but the small birds have deserted me. Bizarre.

Does sparrow behaviour include sudden mass migrations to new territories?

#sparrows

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Lilith 🍀Spatz🍀Sparrow🍀Birds · @Lilith
158 followers · 1685 posts · Server nrw.social
Vivienne Dunstan · @vivdunstan
919 followers · 1351 posts · Server mastodon.scot
Vivienne Dunstan · @vivdunstan
862 followers · 1288 posts · Server mastodon.scot
schamspeare · @schamspeare
64 followers · 847 posts · Server mstdn.social

An unexpected discovery I made after feeding in the park for a month, testing to see if they would recognize me and start approaching me, is that will also do just that. In fact, compared to crows, who remain aloof and standoffish even when they've become acquainted with you, sparrows are positively effusive. No coyness, no excessive pride — when they see you, they come right away. Not only that but they recognize me even with sunglasses on. Crows don't seem to.

#Birds #sparrows #crows

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Sara Faye · @thebirdchannel
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lady troodle · @TriciaScott
82 followers · 705 posts · Server toad.social

I have the cutest sparrow fledgling hanging out in my back garden. It has to fear, no awareness, no flock. I can walk right up to it, it’ll look at me and keep on munching on the bird table or pottering around on the grass. Then it flies behind the shed or onto my roof until it’s peckish again Can birds be deaf? I’m turning into it’s bodyguard to stop it being predated. Slight obsession and not sustainable. What should I do? @RSPBEngland

#birdsofmastodon #sparrows

Last updated 1 year ago

settima · @12pt9
129 followers · 775 posts · Server social.horrorhub.club

As always, buried under a tree so it can fly off.

#sparrows #Birds

Last updated 1 year ago

This is Eugene. Eugene is a regular finch*, but his eyebrows** are magnificent. Snack away, Eugene!

*TIL these little dudes are finches, not sparrows. Edited for accuracy!

** I know birds don’t have eyebrows. Let me have this fantasy, and also he is named for Eugene Levy, patron saint of magnificent eyebrows.

#birds #BirdsOfMastodon #birdstadon #sparrows #birdfeeder #eugenelevy

Last updated 1 year ago

Adrianna Tan · @skinnylatte
3549 followers · 6537 posts · Server hachyderm.io

A white-crowned sparrow, singing

(Pacifica, California)

(Nikon D810, Nikkor 200-500mm)

#Birds #birding #sparrows #WhiteCrownedSparrow #touchgrass #california #pacifica #photography

Last updated 1 year ago

Hans · @Hagukh
1685 followers · 627 posts · Server mas.to

Young Chipping sparrows are discovering our garden

#garden #sparrows #birdwatching #birds

Last updated 1 year ago