Wikified

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It's Wiki-official: don't call it a seagull! (I don't know who is responsible for this edit, but it was rather startling to stumble upon yesterday.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-billed_gull #dontcallitaseagull #newzealand #biodiversity #gull #seagull #birds #wikipedia #taxonomy #ecology #conservation

A post shared by Abby McBride (@sketchbiologist) on May 9, 2019 at 7:03am PDT

Cited: my National Geographic blog post about New Zealand gulls (Just a Seagull? Nope, 2018) and my MIT graduate thesis (Don’t Call It a Seagull!, 2012).

Seabird style

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This week in @stylistfrance magazine: Julia is wearing Lancôme. Abby is wearing ‘eau de seabird’ and a $17 coat and some pants she's had since 1999. (Accessorized, of course, with a grey-faced petrel chick.) Link here: http://bit.ly/stylist-abby-mcbride. ABBY BIRD-AY. What? . Photo by @edinzphoto! . #seabird #fashion #sketchbiologist #style #birds #nature #wildlife #animals #fulbright #nationalgeographic #newzealand #fulbrightnz #nz #science #conservation #seabirdstory @insidenatgeo

A post shared by Abby McBride (@sketchbiologist) on Feb 1, 2019 at 6:04am PST

Endangered (by) sea lion

Possibly the most exciting ten minutes of my penguin-counting career, on an island 300 miles south of New Zealand: https://t.co/28msUIL0rT pic.twitter.com/hziV5Dl7HS

— Abby McBride (@sketchbiologist) December 3, 2018

Open Explorer

Updated Feb. 14, 2019 (#1!)

Nat Geo Nights!