Vitor Piacentini
piacentini.bsky.social
Vitor Piacentini
@piacentini.bsky.social
Biólogo, ornitólogo, professor @UFMT. Perfil pessoal - Português | English | (tal vez) español (ele/dele)

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Ao menos um amigo milionário! 🙏
September 15, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Well done in the hydronym. On the other hand, he could have avoided to (mis)use “America” for US. We (true America) are way more relevant than a single country. And the lake is Ontario and the gulf is of Mexico, of course. Let’s adhere to the correct toponyms. 🙂
August 28, 2026 at 1:19 PM
Reposted by Vitor Piacentini
We propose a unified, publicly accessible database of avian type specimens, modelled on existing portals for spiders, flies and orthopterans. Better findability = better science, especially for researchers in the Global South.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #ornithology
Towards a unified publicly accessible database of avian type specimens
Type specimens represent the crucial physical reference for any scientific bird name, but type material is scattered widely across the globe, and there is still no one comprehensive source documentin....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 15, 2026 at 9:24 AM
I could not find the info on these 8 taxa. But the paragraph below made me worry the taxa could well be based on dozens of syntypes each? Do you have the original description to share?
August 1, 2026 at 10:51 PM
The first first is at Wikiaves, but presently cannot be easily found unless one has the link.

www.wikiaves.com.br/7685918
Foto Por Joseane Derengoski
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July 30, 2026 at 10:24 AM
Posta uma foto. Tem espécies terrícolas, rupícolas, e epífitas (a maioria), então muda o substrato que cada uma necessita. Em geral são plantas robustas e tranquilas de cultivar
July 18, 2026 at 12:08 AM
Very good text. Thanks and congrats for it.
July 17, 2026 at 1:02 PM
Caro Viana, não está mais aparecendo o crédito das fotos nas postagens. Deve ter dado algum bug. No Xwitter também.
June 22, 2026 at 12:52 PM
Alder with a worn tip to those old primaries, reducing P8-P7 (but P7-P6 still looks larger than P6-P5).
June 4, 2026 at 1:19 PM