Alex Tey

1 week ago | audubon.org | Alex Tey

For most of the year, the Willow Ptarmigan lays low on the Arctic tundra, blending into the snowy landscape with its powder-white plumage. But as winter turns toward spring, the males begin to stake out territories and make their presence known.

1 month ago | rarebird.substack.com | Alex Tey

This complex of buildings on the Brooklyn waterfront—officially the Sunset Park Material Recovery Facility—is New York City’s main recycling plant and one of the largest in North America. This bird of prey—a Swainson’s Hawk, though up for renaming in the near future—is a species renowned for raptorial elegance and majestic migration. Every year, nearly all of these graceful grassland hunters fly from the North American prairies to southern Argentina and back.

Dec 4, 2024 | slate.com | Alex Tey

Science Bird flu just might have found a direct route toward infecting more humans. Health officials in California announced last week that they had found fragments of the H5N1 avian influenza virus in a retail sample of raw milk. The immediate risk posed by the bird flu virus’s presence in raw milk is limited to individual consumers who drink the stuff.

Dec 4, 2024 | yahoo.com | Alex Tey

Bird flu just might have found a direct route toward infecting more humans. Health officials in California announced last week that they had found fragments of the H5N1 avian influenza virus in a retail sample of raw milk. The immediate risk posed by the bird flu virus’s presence in raw milk is limited to individual consumers who drink the stuff. And it’s worth noting that we don’t know of anyone who has gotten bird flu from drinking raw milk or if its presence in the supply is widespread.

Nov 11, 2024 | rarebird.substack.com | Alex Tey

I’ve spent a decent amount of time identifying user-uploaded photos of North American birds on the community science website iNaturalist. Sometimes I come across observations that I save to my favorites because they show an interesting individual, behavior, or habitat. Here’s a selection of images that evoke a sense of a place in which I wish I could be, and some words about what they make me think about. July 20, 2007, 9:35 p.m.It’s cold up there in Nunavut, I imagine.