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¡Essluuurp! A male Hispañiolan Oriole drinks from a gorgeous Erythrina tree. • My Dominican Republic tour is complete. We found every currently recognized Hispañiolan endemic possible in the country, and then some. One of the
The Almighty AI has created a situation where Mad Max meets birder, meets Fight Club, meets steampunk-acid trip. 😂 Amazing! • • • • #ai #aiart #birder #birders #birdersofinstagram #model #malemodeling #malemodels #fightclub #gqm
Someday I’ll be a forest. • • • Taken during my WINGS Puerto Rico Birding tour last year. • • #birds #birder #birdersofinstagram #birderslife #explorer #birding #puertorico🇵🇷 #puertorico #carribeanlife #malemodel #n
Been kinda sleepin’ on this piece for awhile. This is the Resplendent Quetzal, one of my favorite birds of Mesoamerica. Sure maybe it’s a bit cliché to say that it’s one of the best birds in Mexico and Central America but com
My friend Mary, who knows my deep admiration for sloths, reminded me that today is International Sloth Day. • So now I’m reminding you to take it easy today, chill out, move slowly, and eat a bunch of plants in their honor. Oh and don&rsqu
Went for a solo wander in the desert rain. In between watching Canyon Wrens repelling vertical cliffs with only their toes, and Ladder-backs carving cholla skeletons to their liking, I wrote brain poetry; word play destined to be appreciated only in
Jaçanãs are shaped like long-legged gallinules, though they are genetically most similar to Painted-Snipes, so they’re actually shorebirds and not members of the order Gruiformes (cranes, rails, gallinules, etc), despite their rai
Absolutely splendid sex here in the Panamanian rainforests. Well, kinda. Frogs don’t exactly do it, like we do. These two Splendid Leaf Frogs are locked in what’s known as amplexus, a position in which the male mounts the female, grasping
Another King Eider dressed in full drag to celebrate queerness and drag queens and 🌈s and the generations of LGBTQIA+ warriors who’ve fought hard and sometimes given their lives to bring us to the present day, where it’s arguably easier
Don’t let their ornate design or pastel plumage fool you, King Eiders ain’t no softies. These ducks are absolute powerhouses. They nest exclusively north of the Arctic Circle where they spend only a short period of time inland on tranquil
Sal and I are headed back into the heart of the Guadalupe Mountains of New Mexico after almost two years away. Missing our adventure pals, Mollee and JJ. Three nights under shadowy bloodmoons and showers of fiery space rocks. There’s a secret s

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