OK, I have kept it secret for long enough, it's time to announce the title and cover of my next book for Pelagic Publishing. It is.....🥁🥁🥁 ..... "Birds & Flowers: An Intimate 50 Million Year Relationship" Excited to see this live on Pelagic's website! pelagicpublishing.com/products/birds…

There’s been a lot of newcomer migratory (perhaps migratory) birds, passing through some of the areas I frequent, in the Civic Center locality of Downtown Los Angeles. This is the first time I’ve seen this particular species - a yellow bird, and it drinks nectar from flowers.

The folks banding at ⁦Bear Divide Migration Count⁩ shred this lovely video about the research I lead (⁦Songbirds as Pollinators: the SaP Project⁩) - check it out! Pollen collection in action 🤩 instagram.com/p/Cq3RSYeJStw/…

I am absolutely obsessed with this OCWA and it’s pollen-dipped bill. Happy spring! 🌸 inaturalist.org/observations/1…

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Another cool songbird flower foraging observation/action-shot. Shout out to all the amazing citizen scientists out there that capture shots of these oft-ignored plant-pollinator interactions! 🌸 inaturalist.org/observations/1…

Happy #EarthDay2023! Here’s an Orange-crowned Warbler enjoying a blossom.

I don't know why but this Orange-crowned Warbler stuffing its little face into this flower cracks me up inaturalist.org/observations/1…

Pollen covered Orange-crowned Warbler. I've never seen an OCWA coated like this before, but it really shows how songbird feathers can trap pollen! A beautiful photo captured by Jamie Simmons in Corvallis, OR.

Master Bander Josée Rousseau and a station volunteer taking a pollen sample from a Wilson’s Warbler at Luckiamute Banding Station (OR)! We’re looking forward to seeing what pollens this little bird could be carrying 🐥🌸 carolyncoyle.wixsite.com/sapproject

Collecting my first Colorado bird-pollen sample! we set up nets yesterday and promptly caught an Orange-crowned Warbler 🥰 looking forward to a beautiful and birdy spring

Nashville Warbler foraging in vine maple. Super cool observation, as I've observed warblers (other than OCWA) foraging in vine maple, but never had such amazing photo evidence: check out the pollen on the bill and head in the second pic! inaturalist.org/observations/1…

The amazing @annika__abbott captured this shot of a Bullock’s Oriole at one of the plum swales we’ve been observing! This bird moved between multiple flowers and multiple shrubs, gently probing its bill into the flowers. Exciting potential pollinator behavior 🌸

Ooo so much pollen on that TEWA 😮

Woah, a pollen horn (gummed up feathers from nectar) on a Prothonotary Warbler? 🤯

Swabbing for pollen and banding with a great team today! CSU_Ecology CSU Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology beautiful bird shots by @Vireos_etc #fieldwork #banding #ornithology

That's a wrap! Yesterday I sent the full manuscript of Birds & Flowers to Pelagic Publishing. But as I describe in this short blog post, the hard work does not end there, there's still lots to do! #birds #pollinators #WritingCommunity #AuthorsOfTwitter jeffollerton.co.uk/2023/06/01/tha…

inaturalist.org/observations/1… I am constantly finding gorgeous songbird flower-foraging photos but these are definitely up there as a fave 🥹

Putting the "Gold" in Golden-crowned Sparrow 🤩 inaturalist.org/observations/7…

So star-struck 🤩 A rarity for the state, this Golden-winged Warbler flew into one of the 4 nets we were able to open yesterday morning. A lifer for most of us and the first potential pollen sample taken for the species 💛 All birds handled safely and with proper permits ✨