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Me: Here's the definitive list of the best bird species in each of the 251 taxonomic families 🧵 Struthionidae: Somali Ostrich
📷 Dan Bormann

🔥 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

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…

90s goalkeepers as birds 🧵

David Seaman/Rainbow Lorikeet (📷 Mat Gilfedder) Jorge Campos/Cuban Today (📷 Michael Good)

#WoodshopWednesday 👀👀👀

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.