Dan Baldassarre

Feb 2, 2021 • 10 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X

90s goalkeepers as birds 🧵

David Seaman/Rainbow Lorikeet (📷 Mat Gilfedder)

Jorge Campos/Cuban Today (📷 Michael Good)

Rene Higuita/European Starling (📷 Dan Vickers)

David James/Flame Bowerbird (📷 Chris Wiley)

Oliver Kahn/Mountain Bluebird (📷 Joshua Covill)

Dimitri Kharine/American Goldfinch (📷 Adam Jackson)

Kevin Pressman/Yellow-throated Euphonia (📷 Frank Salmon)

Simon Royce/Australian King-Parrot (📷 Toby Austin)

Peter Schmeichel/Violet-backed Starling (📷 Marco Valentini)

Ian Walker/Lilac-breasted Roller (📷 Ian Davies)

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Dan Baldassarre

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Nobody:
Not a single person:
Nary a lone individual:
Me: Here's the definitive list of the best bird species in each of the 251 taxonomic families 🧵

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Dan Baldassarre

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🔥 TOP-TEN SEXIEST BIRDS LET'S GO! 🔥

10. Lilac-breasted Roller. A no-brainer. This bird will knock your damn socks off. It has colors I'm not entirely sure we have words for.

📷 David Turko, eBird

9. Steller's Eider. Entire YouTube makeup tutorials are devoted to the smokey eye. Too bad this duck perfected it 15 million years ago.

📷 Marco Valentini, eBird

8. Marvelous Spatuletail. When commitment to looking sexy gets a bit out of hand and you casually evolve a tail twice as long as your body? That will earn you the number 8 spot.

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Dan Baldassarre

Jan 20, 2022

Thanks in part to #BirdTwitter, my @sunyoswego #Ornithology syllabus is complete! Students will be reading papers from @branchinalong, @WildlifeMcCoy, @sexinnature, @martinwikelski, @CaiafaMarcos, @lyrebirdlab, @ederry1, @teamswiftparrot, and @honeyguiding. What a lineup!

Topic #1: "how birds evolve", paper by @branchinalong et al. on the genetic basis of chickadee spatial abilities sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Topic #2: "feathers and plumages", paper by @WildlifeMcCoy on the anatomy and evolution of super black plumage journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/22…

Dan Baldassarre

Jan 31, 2021

#WoodshopWednesday

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Just call me Jesus Christ 🙏

Dan Baldassarre

Feb 4, 2020

Been getting a lot of emails from this predatory journal lately, so I decided to submit this manuscript. Stay tuned. 🤞🤞🤞 longdom.org/entomology-orn…

I'm hoping to be added to their Field Ornithology special issue.

To be fair, I really want to know what makes a bird tick...