Witness the unfolding art! 🎨 @annarosepaints features the willow sawfly, a biodiversity champion, for #WorldMigratoryBirdDay 2024. Their presence maintains nature's equilibrium 🌏 #ProtectInsectsProtectBirds

Happy #EarthDay 🌎 Among the most amazing gifts we get to observe on our planet is the migration of #MigratoryBirds 🐦 Tonight, we can look forward to another 207 million moving across the continental U.S. #MigrationMonday #WMBD2024 World Migratory Bird Day 🗺️ #BirdCast Miyoko Chu & Colorado State University

Spring signs via spotting scope!

Migration is in motion and the birds are arriving at Camas National Wildlife Refuge in eastern Idaho.

USFWS photos: Andrea Kristof

' #WaterfowlWednesday ,' a poem:

Waterfowl migration is well underway,
Many ducks will continue throughout April & May
Waterfowl migration in vibrant display
Watch as they settle on wetlands, reeds softly sway,
This duck has nested under the thistle fray!

📷Mick Hanan/USFWS

Each year, millions of seabirds return to Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in the North Pacific Ocean to nest and raise their young. Wisdom, with her well-known band number of Z333, has been doing this since the Eisenhower administration.

Tufted puffins spotted last week on the Oregon Coast!

These archival photos are from Cannon Beach’s Haystack Rock, one of the best places on the West Coast to see the popular seabirds. 🆕⤵️

Photo: Roy W. Lowe

Today we will have a unique opportunity to observe a #TotalSolarEclipse ! Let us know if you see any interesting behavior from bird and other wildlife around you. Enjoy & stay safe 😎 #InternationalDarkSkyWeek 📷Igor Zh/Creative Commons

It's #WorldOspreyWeek (WOW) & we are (un)officially declaring today the start of #FierceRaptorFriday 🦅Sorry fierce fish, ospreys (aka #seahawks ) have special traits in their feet that allow them to keep fish from slipping out of their grasp! #MigratoryBirds 📷Bill Shreve/ USFWS

It's #InternationalDarkSkyWeek 💫Did you know, most bird species migrate at night? They use the starry night sky to navigate flyways they've evolved to follow for generations! If we #DimTheLightsforBirds we help them travel safely & minimize #LightPollution 📷Rosalie Wetzel/USFWS

Laysan duck are among the most critically endangered waterfowl in the world! They mainly eat insects like brine flies they find in mudflats, another reason to #ProtectInsectsProtectBirds & their wetland habitats 🦆 World Migratory Bird Day #WMBD2024 #WaterfowlWednesday 📷John Klavitter/USFWS

What, you can’t fly backwards?

The red-tailed tropicbird, or koa‘e‘ula, is amazing in the air. During aerial courtship, small groups of the seabirds will fly forwards and backwards in circles, mixing in vertical rises and dramatic dives.

USFWS photos: Laurel Smith

Northern mockingbird are infamous tricksters with an ability to mimic other birds, frogs, and even cars! They may learn up to 200 songs throughout their life, and it takes a well-trained ear to catch them in the act.📷 Michael Schramm/USFWS #BringBirdsBack

Quick – count the seabirds!

The common murre is Oregon’s most abundant nesting seabird with more than 700,000 returning to the rocky coastline every spring. 🧵

USFWS photo: Roy W. Lowe

Don't forget to #DimtheLightsforBirdsatNight this #MigrationMonday 💡Under the full moon tonight, we can anticipate an estimated 30 million #migratorybirds will travel across the continental U.S.🌚 #LightsOut #BirdCast 🗺️Cornell Lab & Colorado State University

'The more diverse our voices and perspectives, the more innovative and durable our efforts will be'- Monica Iglecia, 1st #woman U.S. Coordinator for Pacific Birds conserving wetlands & forests from the Pacific Northwest to Alaska & Hawaii! 📷River Gates #WomensHistoryMonth