In the U.S., recent annual estimates of bird deaths due to:

Cats = 2.4 billion bird deaths

Collisions from building glass = 600 million bird deaths

Land wind turbines = <200,000 bird deaths

Some politicians claim wind turbines “kill all the birds.”

But… they’re not really worried about birds. Rather, they prefer we stick with oil & gas over renewable #energy.

https://www.statista.com/chart/amp/15195/wind-turbines-are-not-killing-fields-for-birds/ #climatechange

The amazing camouflage of the willow ptarmigan in winter. 🤎 🤍 🖤

The photographer is Kristina Ellis.

#Birds #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon

programmers are always posting like "worked on tracking down an issue with a Flurble deployment for twelve hours. the problem wasn't in Flurble at all - it was in the Gumbies install. It turns out if you install Gumbies 3.0 over Gumbies 2.7 and don't do a cache flush on all the client spiders they'll get stuck in the crystal maze." then you look up Gumbies and the site is one of those scroll scroll scroll types with one sentence per page, like

"GUMBIES is a lean, expressive sharding sandcube for testing and deploying large scale Woodchips playgrounds.

GUMBIES automates and streamlines away watersliding phases, meaning your team can get right to the chipping.

See why Microsoft, OpenAI and Bloingo have embraced GUMBIES in their Woodchips workflows."

and you get to the bottom and you're like I want this I guess but I still don't know what it is

Some see them as morbid creatures, but I have always been struck by the quiet, dignified beauty of vultures. These Black Vultures were photographed over the past few years in Maryland, USA.

#Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Birds #Birding #BirdPhotography #NaturePhotography #Nature

Look, when it's hot out you gotta get in the pool, regardless of how crowded it is.

Canada Geese. Granville Island, Vancouver, BC. May 2022

#birds #birdphotography #photography #nature #birding

Sometimes when I go for a bike ride somewhere when I'm not specifically going out for birds I consider not bringing the camera, but then I get some kind of lovely picture and realize I have to always have it on me.

Savannah Sparrow, Granville Island, Vancouver, BC. April 2022

#birds #birdphotography #photography #nature #birding