A female falcon was equipped with a satellite tracking system in South Africa before migrating to Finland. Image shows tracker data. In just 42 days, she flew over 10.000 km, at an incredible average of 230 km per day and nearly in a straight line.    

I never before realized how fucked it is that (if the ip laws don’t change), I won’t live to see any of the characters that are created in my lifetime be rebooted into an entirely new piece of media without exchanging a few million dollars worth of rights.

I've always hated when people make the argument against decreasing copyright duration because "Why do you need to use other people's characters when you can just make your own legally distinct stand-in?" and, talking to friend of the blog @o-hybridity I kinda realized how to articulate why.

Y'see, art is a conversation. Artistic works are always in conversation with past works by others, pushing and pulling on not just general ideas but the specific manifestations of those ideas in each work that inspired it, "standing on the shoulders of giants" and so-on.

So, in this framework, being forced to used a legally-distinct stand-in when the original character would suit it better, is basically the literary eqivalent of being forced to say "unalive" instead of kill on social media.

i love how long bird's legs can seem to stretch out when they're in water. it's all fluff so it reminds me of a lady in a really over the top fancy dress hiking up her skirts

Exposing his bloomers!!!!!

forgot to post these here. tears of the kingdom+long term nuclear waste storage warnings

all goofing aside I genuinely don't understand the urge to reimagine Taylor Allison Swift as a secretly queer icon when the pop music scene(TM) is like. literally overflowing with women who actually like women. Gaga and Kesha and Miley and Halsey are right there. Rina Sawayama and Hayley Kiyoko and Rebecca Black and Kehlani and Victoria Monét and Miya Folick if you're willing to get slightly less top 100. Janelle and Demi for them nonbinary takes on liking girls. like what are we doing here. like I'm not even saying you can't enjoy Taylor but why would you hang all your little gay hopes on her.

hobopeeba

Today's bird is this kea!

you came back wrong and i am racked with guilt because i cannot bear to see you like this and i should have let you rest. i loved you so much that i defied death itself but i do not think either of us are happy

sorry havent been active! been to busy for art and whatnot, but im looking to make a comeback

magpie

[ID: illustration of a magpie with blue-green wavy stripes across its body]

Breeding birds of high-elevation mixed-conifer forests have declined in national parks of the southwestern U.S. while lower-elevation species have increased, with responses to drought varying by habitat 

Harrison H Jones, Chris Ray, Matthew Johnson, Rodney Siegel

Abstract

Climate change is considered a major driver of recent avian population declines, particularly in the drought-stricken southwestern United States. Predicting how bird populations will respond requires understanding the climatic drivers influencing population density across the region’s diverse habitats. We modelled breeding-season densities of 50 bird species in relation to spring and summer drought and the timing of North American monsoon rainfall over a 12-year period (2007–2018) and across 4 habitats comprising an approximately 1,500 m elevational gradient. We estimated annual breeding-season population density in relation to climate in the previous year by fitting a Bayesian hierarchical N-mixture model to point-count data from each of 6 national parks on the Colorado Plateau. Specifically, we asked whether: (1) population trends were stable, increasing, or decreasing in the focal parks; (2) breeding densities were affected by drought or the timing of monsoon rains; and (3) climatic effects differed across habitat types and among species that molt on the breeding grounds, the nonbreeding grounds, or stopover to molt in the monsoon region of northwestern Mexico (molt migrants). Population trends varied with habitat. Species of high-elevation mixed-conifer forest declined over the study period, matching regional Breeding Bird Survey trends, likely in response to climate-related habitat loss and disturbance. By contrast, lower-elevation pinyon-juniper and grassland-shrubland species density generally increased. Effects of drought varied by habitat with elevation: mixed-conifer species responded positively to drought in the previous year, likely due to earlier snowmelt and breeding phenology, whereas pinyon-juniper species were unaffected, and grassland-shrubland species responded negatively, perhaps due to reduced nest survival. Later arrival of monsoon rains, a common prediction of climate models, had a positive effect on grassland bird densities, but a negative effect on molt-migrant densities. Late monsoon rains may result in a phenological mismatch between migration timing and the pulse of resources required to molt.

Read the paper here:

Breeding birds of high-elevation mixed-conifer forests have declined in national parks of the southwestern U.S. while lower-elevation species have increased, with responses to drought varying by habitat | Ornithological Applications | Oxford Academic (oup.com)

unsung benefit i think a lot of ppl are sleeping on with using the public library is that i think its a great replacement for the dopamine hit some ppl get from online shopping. it kind of fills that niche of reserving something that you then get to anticipate the arrival of and enjoy when it arrives, but without like, the waste and the money.

tfw no silksong

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