Journal
Ring-necked parakeets: alien menace or victim of xenophobia?
Ring-necked parakeets are now a common sight across much of Britain, and whether they belong here is disputed. The Guardian has a long read on the debate: Alien menace…
The Loon’s Necklace
The Loon’s Necklace (1948), directed by F. R. Crawley. A Tsimshian legend of how the loon (lom) got its white necklace, acted out in masks around a hundred years old. It…
Fadia’s Tree
Trailer for Fadia’s Tree (2022), directed by Sarah Beddington.
Arctic Skua (Stercorarius parasiticus) (kustlabb) Bjuröklubb
Arctic Skua the scientific name, parasiticus, describes how the bird eats. Skuas are kleptoparasites. Rather than catch a fish, they find a bird that already has one and…
Kvarken Log app
Kvarken Log test scan. June 2026. I’ve been building a field tool for the Godzilla expedition. A GoPro on the bow takes a photograph every 60 seconds through the day…
Imagining Godzilla residency trip
The catamaran Godzilla. Photo: Tivon Rice / I magining Godzilla . I've been selected to join Imagining Godzilla for a four-day leg this summer. The residency is run by…
Inget annat än blommor
Foto: Simon Gran Danielsson Granskog faller ljudlöst ned från himlen. — Jan Wolf-Watz Colin Egglestons Long Weekend (1978) följer ett australiskt par som behandlar ett…
I Saved a PNG Image To A Bird
Benn Jordan turns a picture of a bird into sound, then gets a starling to sing it back. An image stored in a bird.
Boids
Craig Reynolds developed the Boids program in 1986 and published his seminal paper "Flocks, Herds, and Schools: A Distributed Behavioral Model" in 1987 at the ACM…
WATCHING PEOPLE WATCHING BIRDS
Poster for Watching People Watching Birds (2026), a film by Ulrike Franke and Michael Loeken. Official selection, CPH:DOX 2026.
SEPALE Bird Sanctuary
Recently I’ve had the pleasure of spending some time with the artist Ana Kun , who is based in Timișoara. In her own words: “My practice takes me to both art shows and…
“Speak, Bird, Speak: Seeds, Birds, and Memory”
When artist Areej Huniti visited Umeå as part of the IASPIS residency, I attended her talk at the artist-run gallery Verkligheten and spent time in conversation with her…
Birders of Palestine
A heartfelt initiative supporting Palestinian birdwatchers — especially in Gaza and the West Bank — who continue to document wildlife despite the toughest of…
EuroBirdPortal.org
This interactive map from EuroBirdPortal.org shows the migration and distribution of Bohemian Waxwings ( BOMGAR ) over the last 52 weeks. Counts: The map displays…
Between Moon Tides
Between Moon Tides (2025), directed by Jason Jaacks. Volunteers in Rhode Island raise saltmarsh sparrow nests above the rising tides.
Skomer at night
Manx shearwaters (mindre lira) coming back to their burrows on Skomer after dark, filmed by the Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales. On Rùm the same noise was once…
How to tag a cuckoo in Cumbria
A short film by the photographer Toby Smith (2016), made alongside the British Trust for Ornithology’s satellite tracking of cuckoos (gök). One tagged bird, Patch, flew…
The White (leucistic) Reindeer
Our encounter with a white reindeer on Ratan Island in Västerbotten County is a poignant reminder of the deep connection between the Sámi people and their land. The…
The open vertebrate project
The openVertebrate project, oVert for short, is an initiative to provide free, digital 3D vertebrate anatomy models and data to researchers, educators, students, and the…
Earth species
Our work to decode communication of other species builds on the extraordinary advances we are seeing in AI being applied to human language, which we are extending to the…
Icarus & Move Bank
ICARUS stands for International Cooperation for Animal Research Using Space . Scientists taking part in the ICARUS initiative are working together to study the behavior…
Ive started to help with the editing of the Fåglar i Västerbotten, a publication from the Västerbttens Ornitologiska Förening.
Why Hollywood loves this creepy bird call
Vox on the call of the loon (lom), and why films keep using it, often in places no loon would ever be. Made by Marie Cascione, 2021.
Spillkråka (Black woodpecker) Haga Umeå
Whilst walking in our local cemetery, I came across a black woodpecker’s nest. Its head was poking out, as if on lookout. The nest itself was a deep hole inside a large…
Are crows the ultimate problem solvers?
From Inside the Animal Mind , episode 2 (BBC, 2014), presented by Chris Packham.
Nils-Aslak Valkeapää - Goase Dušše (excerpt)
An excerpt from Goase dušše (The Bird Symphony) by the Sámi poet, artist and joiker Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, made from the sounds of birds and land in Sápmi. It won a…
