Salt marsh enthusiast, coastal ecology conservationist, and general ocean freak
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Euthyphro
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These tiny little birds have stared down the threat of extinction, nor’easters, and rising storms that wash out their nests and keep coming back— we can defeat the fascists!
Another beautiful day in the salt marsh! We’ve got ducklings!
If you have never seen a plover you may have a hard time imagining the size of the babies— think cotton ball on a pair of toothpicks!
What we do not have is any blue crabs 😔
The only thing I have ever found that can stand up to the horrors and despair is to find what you love and double down on it. To that end, here’s some baby piping plovers
Imagine the huge outcry if such wholesale annihilation were being perpetrated on land-based wildlife.
But because it's happening at sea – almost everywhere, not just Scotland – it goes barely noticed, year in, year out.
We're used to conservatives claiming people protesting ICE (and getting gassed and beaten and killed for it) are violent mobs.
Now HERE's a REAL violent mob - sicced on brown people by Hitler-saluting Elon Musk - and they've been downgraded by the Prestige Press to "protestors."
It's too obvious.
Now I'm googling. "Blue crabs were found to be effective predators of green crabs, killing them in half of trials." Very cool.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
