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Jiří Švestka photography @jirisvestkaphoto.bsky.social · 7h

🦉 Do you love owls as much as I do?
Show me your favorite owl photo — wild or rescued, recent or from your archives. Let’s see how big our owl-loving community really is! 💫📸
#nature #birdlife #owl #tawnyowl
@birdnote.bsky.social
@mybirdcards.com
@abcbirds.bsky.social
@bci-journal.bsky.social

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Manhattan Bird Alert @birdcpk.bsky.social · 4h

On Saturday a tip from a follower led friends of Central Park's Lost Budgerigar to nearby Morningside Park where we saw what most probably is her, looking and behaving as usual, and seeming to be in good health as she foraged peacefully. 🦜 💛

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Susan The Mol @littletoucan.bsky.social · 5h

Once I saw the legs I thought Jacana.

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Birds of the world 🌍🦜 @mybirdcards.com · 1d

Name this bird! 🤔 (See alt-text for clue) 🌍 #NameThisBird #MyBirdcards | #birdsoftheworld #birds ❤️🦜

"I'm a waterbird from Africa, nicknamed the "lily-trotter" for my habit of walking across floating vegetation. My secret is my extremely long, thin toes that spread my weight. My plumage is mostly a chestnut colour, and I have a prominent blue frontal shield. What bird am I?" 2.5 Flash (Edited)

https://pixabay.com/users/josibo-4625330/

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Birds of the world 🌍🦜 @mybirdcards.com · 8h

New addition! 🌍 Wattled Starling (Creatophora cinerea) #AfricanBirds | #WattledStarling #CreatophoraCinerea | #Starlings #StarlingFamily #PerchingBirds 📷: Photo by dragh🦉 #MyBirdcards | #birdsoftheworld #birds ❤️🦜

🌍 Wattled Starling (Creatophora cinerea)

The Wattled Starling is a medium-sized bird, mainly grey with a white rump and black flight feathers. Breeding males sport a distinctive featherless yellow and black head with dangling black wattles on the crown and throat. It is a nomadic species distributed widely across eastern and southern Africa, preferring open, arid habitats and grasslands. Highly gregarious, they are found in large, erratic flocks that move in response to abundant insect food sources, such as locust swarms, and they breed colonially. No subspecies are recognised. 2.5 Flash (Edited)

Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)

Fun fact: During the breeding season the male bird becomes almost completely bald on its head and develops dramatic, fleshy, black wattles on its forehead and throat. These features recede and the feathers grow back once the season is over!

📷: Photo by dragh via Pixabay
https://pixabay.com/photos/starling-bird-animal-feathers-8925834/

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Susan The Mol @littletoucan.bsky.social · 5h

Peekaboo.

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 6h

Good morning! 🪶

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Molly Bangles @mollybangles.bsky.social · 1d

Look at these guys 🪶🌊

Long-billed Curlews, San Simeon CA, September 2025

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𝕊till 𝔸ndy really @squirlykat.bsky.social · 1d

No wonder they call them a charm!
King Harry’s on the moor this afternoon
#Birds

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Susan The Mol @littletoucan.bsky.social · 19h

Very sweet, for a second I thought they were flowers.🥰

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Shawn Thomas Photography @understudy77.bsky.social · 1d

Day six of my National Aviary bird portrait week. A White-cheeked Turaco, native to East Africa. They eat mostly fruit and hop through branches. Their green color comes from a unique pigment.
#birds #nationalaviary #birdphotography #avianlife #birdfacts #wildlifephotography

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning! 🪶

Three burrowing owls standing together, two are looking at the camera, one is looking up in the air.

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Kelvin Noden @nikonkelv.bsky.social · 1d

Curlew with an irritating problem 😂🥰 #birds

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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 1d

This male Green Honeycreeper posed right in front of my in the secondary forest platform at @tapirvalley.bsky.social this morning.

#birds #nature #costarica

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Ann @stellarpics.net · 2d

What's in a name. #Secretarybird named in the 1800 after male secretaries that wore gray tailcoats, dark knee-length pants and carried goose-quill pens behind their ears. Sorry for the video shake. Happens when you are in a jeep with a bunch of excited birders. #birds #Kenya #Africa #wildlife #Nikon

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Ann @stellarpics.net · 2d

#Secretarybird -- This bird is on the endangered list so really excited we were able to find and image. This is tall crane-like terrestrial raptor. It hunts for reptiles and small mammals which it stomps with its powerful legs. #birds #Tanzania #Africa #wildlife #Nikon

Secretarybird is shown walking with long strides. It has a hooked, gray beak, red face, and dark, quill-like feathers in a crest on its neck. Its tail has two long central feathers that trail behind its gray and black body.

Secretarybird captured spotting possible prey. Black crest of feathers on neck are flared out.

Secretarybird bent over looking for possible prey. Image shows red face and dark, quill-like feathers that form the crest on the back of the neck. Body of the bird is mostly gray and black.

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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 1d

Quetzals and macaws are OK, I guess, but the best bird in #CostaRica is the Northern Bentbill.

At @tapirvalley.bsky.social this morning

#birds #nature