The Birdist
@thebirdist
Writing: www.nicholaslund.com Books: Dinosaurs to Chickens: How Evolution Works (2024); The Ultimate Biography of Earth (2022); American Birding Association Field Guide to the Birds of Maine (2022) Purchase here:
Learn your Short-billed Dowitcher subspecies! Hendersoni birds have extensive orange underparts, while Rickey Hendersoni birds wear A’s gear and steal a ton of bases
checked out some flowers today being pollinated by this guy, a bee-mimic drone fly, and another bee-mimicking fly. Zero actual bees.
There are several good candidates for Senate in Maine, but Shenna Bellows is the only one confirmed to have bird safe windows
they call them Yellow Warblers because you yell “Ow!” when you soon one
Friend of a friend caught a huge Largemouth Bass that had just swallowed a goddamn BIRD.
When you’re an ebird reviewer questioning my sightings, this is who you’re questioning
Wishing David Attenborough all the love on earth today for his 100th birthday. Watching Blue Planet changed my life when I was 18, as his incredible work has benefitted the lives of so many other creatures -- humans and otherwise -- around the planet.
This Red-rumped Swallow I saw in Spain this week is posing like a @tommysiegel.bsky.social drawing.
A real underdiscussed species, the Bronzed Cowbird puffs up its neck feathers and turns itself into an evil hunchback as part of its territorial display. Bronzed Cowbird | National Butterfly Center, TX | April 2, 2026
I saw this Long-billed Dowitcher feeding with most of its head under water
So much fun at the Texas Library Association conference today talking about WORLD WITHOUT BIRDS. I’m proud of this book, proud to work with @workmanpub.bsky.social, and so impressed by all the incredible librarians working in Texas.