Acadia Birding Marathon

Ghost gallery

Sunny days alternated with late May blizzards throughout the week at Mountainfilm in Telluride, Colorado (during which I had an art show, talk, and sketch walk). Read more in a post by The Fulbright Program.

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Ghost birds in Ghost Town: watercolors of the New Zealand storm-petrel (thought to be extinct for the entire 20th century) on the walls of @ghosttowntelluride. Thanks to @mountainfilm, @the_fulbright_program, and @insidenatgeo for helping me bring seabirds to the mountains. Swipe for more seabird sketches. . . Photo by Christine Zirneklis . . #newzealand #seabirdstory #fulbright #natgeo #nz #seabirds #mountains #movies #fulbrightnz #watercolor #pencil #sketch #art #birds #conservation #science #biodiversity #wildlife #mountainfilm #telluride

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Photo by Christine Zirneklis

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

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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

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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