Auke-Florian 🪹

Auke-Florian 🪹

@aukeflorian.nl

🌍 Biologist, 🪺 Studying strange animal nests, 📚 Author, 🧠 Doing science communication daily, 🏛️ Loves natural history, 🔥 Documenting the Anthropocene 🌐 www.aukeflorian.nl 📍 Leiden, The Netherlands

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Bird nests made from anti-bird spikes?! 🤯 Hi, I'm a nest researcher 👋 and new here on BlueSky, sharing the craziest #bird nests I've ever found. 👀 Today, I’m sharing my discovery of rebellious birds that build nests out of anti-bird spikes. And honestly, it's like telling a joke... A thread. 🧵

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broad-tailed hummingbirds built a nest atop a tea light on a friend's front porch. one bird fledged yesterday, and one kiddo (who I saw flying, too) was hanging around for more food from mom #birds

For someone born in 1992, this is shocking to see. Sure, David Attenborough may look back on his looooong life and say that the world has changed drastically, but it has done so even within my lifetime… 🫣

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Mer de Glace 1992 | 2026 Largest French glacier, 32 years ago and today! 😭 Glacier retreat 100% due to anthropogenic activity over this period! 📷 via @MiguelMorenatti

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Holiday in the climate emergency. No that’s not AI or edited, just a snapshot I just took with my phone on Lacanau beach in France. What future will this boy grow up in? It is in our hands, but time is running out.

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Let's share something positive! Last week, I was a judge in a seagull-imitation competition (dream job!!), and this was the juvenile winner. Isn't she amazing?! 🤩 "Three, two, one ... 🐦"

Working in the library and having your headphones suddenly disconnect is embarrassing in itself, let alone when you're watching a Jane Goodall documentary and the whole quiet workplace suddenly echoes with screaming chimpanzees. Jane would have loved this. 🐵

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A disconnected headphone, in a way, gives a glimpse of personality to the anonymous people around you in a library. You hear pop song lyrics or a line from a rap song. You always expect a headphone user to listen to music. But now they think of me as the guy who listens to constant screaming. 😱

Working in the library and having your headphones suddenly disconnect is embarrassing in itself, let alone when you're watching a Jane Goodall documentary and the whole quiet workplace suddenly echoes with screaming chimpanzees. Jane would have loved this. 🐵

Just imagine the awkwardness as these loud screams suddenly emerge from my laptop. 'It's chimpanzees', I mumbled to the person next to me, but it didn't help a lot 🫣

I just hope a brave natural history museum managed to get hold of one of the dead ducks found in the reflective pool. It would be such an iconic specimen to turn into a museum piece that reflects current American politics. 🦆

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Neat find at the Tundra habitat! 🪹 Our keepers discovered an old bird nest woven with an unexpected mix of polar bear fur and muskox guard hair, some of which is shed alongside their incredibly soft qiviut each year. 📷: Animal care staff Russell