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A nontrivial benefit of going to a country I've never visited before is literally every bird I saw was a lifer, here's one of the Eurasian moorhens that were just ... there, poking around in a patch of wetland on the TUM campus
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Yellow-rumped warbler in the orange grove at California State University Northridge
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Acorn woodpecker in Griffith Park
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Scrub oak, Quercus turbinella, with male flowers emerging, at Joshua Tree National Park in February
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A crow with opinions on the beach at Fort Worden State Park, Washington
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Why you should become a volunteer biodiversity scientist [gift link]
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Advice | Why you should become a volunteer urban biodiversity scientist
Next time you pick up your phone to snap a seflie, try grabbing a photo of the life around you.

Western bluebird in North Hollywood park
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Rock wren, Salpinctes obsoletus, staring down the paparazzi at Red Rock Canyon
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Black phoebe waiting for the next snack to fly past
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A clutch of cliff-climbing chukars at Red Rock Canyon
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Had a dinosaur encounter this morning at Griffith Park
(That’s a gopher in the heron’s beak, snapped up right out of its burrow)
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Fox squirrel on alert in North Hollywood Park
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Twisty-petaled flower and fuzzy fruits of creosote bush, Larrea tridentata
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Whitedaisy tidytips open for business in the Owens Valley
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Say's phoebe, Sayornis saya, at Red Rock Canyon State Park
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Say's phoebe, Sayornis saya, at Red Rock Canyon State Park
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House sparrow giving Tuesday the side-eye
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Desert calico, Loeseliastrum matthewsii, grows in small mounds of pink-and-white flowers framed by dusty green leaves, like scraps of floral-print cotton scattered on the desert floor
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Common blackbird, Turdus merula, on the TUM campus in Freising last month
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Western side-blotched lizard (I think?) along the Ryan Mountain trail in Joshua Tree National Park :joshua_tree:
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And here's desert woollystar, Eriastrum eremicum, from last week's jaunt into the desert
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Great horned owl roosting on the cliffs at Red Rock Canyon State Park
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Western bluebird at his most dapper in North Hollywood Park
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Scenes from a very quick Spring Break scouting trip this week, driving up the desert side of the Eastern Sierras
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Apropos of absolutely nothing, here's a flowering Joshua tree from last year's fieldwork, outside of Mojave, California, and a closeup of an inflorescence from the same season, at Saddleback Butte State Park
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