Plastic patrol

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I wrote a story about a seabird (guess the species!) that is monitoring plastic pollution all over the Arctic: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/a-hardy-seabird-is-helping-to-detect-plastic-pollution-in-the-arctic/ #LivingBirdMagazine @CornellBirds #northernfulmar #seabird #sketch #watercolor #bird #arctic #seabirdstory #wildlife #nature #science #conservation #plasticpollution #painting #art

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(Here’s the story.)

Decoy factory

Helping out at the @audubonsociety decoy factory – Laysan Albatrosses in progress #ornithology pic.twitter.com/Ke8unf9pxa

— Abby McBride (@sketchbiologist) April 27, 2017

Zee and the Moray

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Borneo bird gallery

Yellow-breasted Warbler mother feeds her newly fledged chick

A Collared Owlet and I were both roaming the forest at 6:30 a.m.

Little Cuckoo-Dove nesting by the road through Kinabalu Park

Fruithunter female on the nest

Nest searchers like Elise Zarri start work before dawn every morning

Bird bander Kristen Oliver measures a Bornean Stubtail's stubtail

Yellow-breasted Warbler

Yellow-breasted Warbler nestlings

Good morning, Borneo

Morning glories above Pandanus Trail

White-throated Fantail, sans tail

Nobody enjoys a caterpillar like a Chestnut-hooded Laughingthrush

One of Mount Kinabalu's many rodents, who like to find bird nests as much as we do

Eyebrowed Jungle Flycatcher

The endemic Bornean Whistler

The only way to reach an Orange-headed Thrush nest

A Mountain Leaf Warbler is nesting nearby

The peaks of Mount Kinabalu

View from Kinabalu

The 2017 field crew of Dr. Thomas Martin (center, yellow shirt)

Snowy-brow frown

A male Snowy-browed Flycatcher, whose mate is probably building a nest in the vicinity #borneobirds #ornithology pic.twitter.com/f8ZWOFUmYD

— Abby McBride (@sketchbiologist) March 4, 2017