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   Jon Sullivan (joncounts@mastodon.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 15:47:13 JST Jon Sullivan

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   There’s a project on #iNaturalist specifically to track beak deformities in birds. There’s always some background of mutations in wild populations and it’s important to know that it’s not getting worse.

   https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/birds-with-deformed-beaks

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     Jon Sullivan (joncounts@mastodon.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 15:47:14 JST Jon Sullivan

     Here’s a house sparrow that we saw in the Canterbury town of Culverden, NZ, on our undergraduate ecology field trip last month. One of the students, William Harland, is a fantastically skilled photographer and got this great photo of it and uploaded it to #iNaturalist. This is long-billed syndrome and happens when the beak doesn’t stop growing. This house sparrow surprisingly seemed to be managing to feed.

     https://inaturalist.nz/observations/260356186

     #birds #HouseSparrow #nz #mutation $#deformity

     Adrianna Tan repeated this.