Intriguing to see some Northern Gannets off Noss, Shetland yesterday showing black iris coloration linked to a previous Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) H5N1 infection. Top left clockwise some birds fully black and some <25% black. Lower left a normal individual. #birdflu
Picture of the Week 2023
This weeks winner was taken by CBWPS picture editor Tony Mills! Its not often that you can get such close views of Little Auk in Cornwall so we all agreed it was top contender and this weeks winner. Well done Tony!
https://t.co/ZBKl4IaxFL
Bald eagle courtship involves elaborate, spectacular flight displays. These include swoops, chases, and cartwheels, in which they fly high, lock talons, and free-fall, separating just before hitting the ground
[📹 Mark Smith: https://t.co/WL6x1stEgG]
This rare footage shows whale sharks feeding on baitballs in the presence of other predators. 😲
Our satellite tags have revealed whale sharks sometimes travel 3500km away from Ningaloo Reef to the Gulf of Carpentaria!
📹 | Ocean Collective Media and Emily Lester
#BestOf2022
Estimados @petrogustavo y @agaviriau: Pagar @Colfuturo está casi IMPOSIBLE. Las cuotas por cuenta del dólar están por las nubes. Desde allá no dan respuesta (o ayuda) alguna diferente a "cambie la deuda a pesos".
Presidente @petrogustavo, Vice @FranciaMarquezM y @GustavoBolivar El aumento del precio del Euro/Dólar en el último año nos tiene a todos los que hacemos el doctorado en el exterior gracias a los creditos-Beca de @MincienciasCo "pariendo micos" Nos vendría bien una ayudita extra.
This is the first-ever still picture of the only sea anemone known to live in ice. 🤯
How the anemone manages to penetrate the ice with its soft body – or even survive there – remains a mystery.
📸 Laurent Ballesta #WPY58 Portfolio Award winner
In 2018, three colleagues and I published a front-cover paper in @PNASNews
It has > 170 citations as of 2022, and it was a success that might not have happened:
• We had $0 budget
• We had no PI (Principal Investigator)
• We had no credentials
[Here's how we did it] 🧵
América es un sueño y también una gran ironía. Cristóbal Colon la encontró sin quererlo. Amerigo Vespucci le dio su nombre a pesar de que el continente ya estaba habitado, y el Nuevo Mundo es tan viejo como el resto del planeta.
Comparto en este hilo 25 mapas para conocerla...
A spectacular sight 1225m (4019 ft) beneath the waves off Baja California as EVNautilus encounter the amazing Halitrephes maasi jelly.
(Video EVNautilus)
Daniel Mideros (Ecuador) is #WPY58's Animals in their environment winner for his poignant image, 'Spectacled bear’s slim outlook'.
Daniel set up camera traps along a wildlife corridor to show the disappearing natural landscape with the bear framed at the heart of the image."
Our winner in the Behaviour: Invertebrates category is Karine Aigner's (USA) image, The Big Buzz, which shows the flurry of activity as a buzzing ball of bees, competing to mate, spun over the hot sand in Texas. #WPY58