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Molly Bangles @mollybangles.bsky.social · 19h

Look at these guys 🪶🌊

Long-billed Curlews, San Simeon CA, September 2025

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𝕊till 𝔸ndy really @squirlykat.bsky.social · 15h

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 · 10h

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

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Shawn Thomas Photography @understudy77.bsky.social · 20h

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 · 22h

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

#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

Small olive-green bird with a pale gray throat and large dark eye perched on a curved vine, tail down, against a soft green background with a purple blur.

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Pam Williams @pamkeenwilliams.bsky.social · 1d

Frazzled Friday! That's how I roll!
Tricolored Heron
Fish Haul Park, Hilton Head SC
#birds

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Manhattan Bird Alert @birdcpk.bsky.social · 1d

Astoria the Wild Turkey raises her wings in The Battery. 🦃 ❤️

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H. HOSSAMELDIN @hanyhossameldin.bsky.social · 2d

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Crab Plover "Eurasian Curlew"
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#bird #oiseaux #nature #capture #naturephotography #naturelovers #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #planetbirds #waterbirds #wildlife #art #video #youtube #seabirds #PhotographersOfBluesky #Curlew #crab #plover
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Crab Plover "Eurasian Curlew"

YouTube video by Hany Hossameldin

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Birds of the world 🌍🦜 @mybirdcards.com · 2d

🌏 Fire-tufted Barbet (Psilopogon pyrolophus) #AsianBirds | #FireTuftedBarbet #PsilopogonaPyrolophus | #Barbets #OldWorldBarbets #AsianBarbetFamily #WoodpeckersAndRelatives 📷: Photo by BeanKurt🦉 #MyBirdcards | #birdsoftheworld #birds ❤️🦜

🌏 Fire-tufted Barbet (Psilopogon pyrolophus)

The Fire-tufted Barbet is a moderately large, predominantly green bird, noted for the fiery orange tuft of feathers above the male's bill and a yellow and black "necklace" on its throat. Distributed in the montane forests of Peninsular Malaysia and Sumatra, it typically forages in the high canopy, feeding on figs, other fruits, and arthropods. Its distinctive call is an unusual cicada-like buzzing. No subspecies are recognised. 2.5 Flash (Edited)

Fun fact: Like many barbets, its diet is mostly frugivorous (fruit-eating), and it has a particular fondness for figs. This makes it an important agent for seed dispersal in its forest habitat.

Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)

📷: Photo by BeanKurt via Pixabay
https://pixabay.com/photos/fire-tufted-barbet-bird-branch-6245618/

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 1d

seasonal repost of this squirrel i saw

a gray squirrel walking on green grass while holding three big nuts in its arms

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Matthew Paulson @matthewpaulson.bsky.social · 1d

Crested Caracara in Flight 🪶

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Denise A. Johnson Photography @denisephotography.bsky.social · 1d

A female northern cardinal stopped by for a quick pose.
#birds #northerncardinal #birdphotography #naturephotography

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Matthew Paulson @matthewpaulson.bsky.social · 1d

Crested Caracara in Flight 🪶

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning! 🪶

Burrowing owl facing away from the camera, wings spread out. The wind is lifting him into the air.

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Alan H @alan678.bsky.social · 2d

Good morning, it’s time for #BirdOfTheDay and the theme is birds with #character and the alternative is #Urban , so birds photographed in an urban environment. Good luck!! #birds #photography #EastCoastKin

Close-up of a rook’s head and upper body, showing its glossy blue-black plumage, pale greyish bill, and bare patch of skin at the base of the beak. The feathers shimmer with hints of violet in the light, while the softly blurred green and brown background highlights the bird’s sharp, intelligent expression.

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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 2d

Such a cool experience today at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica

This Crested Owl was actively hunting in the middle of the day, which I have never seen before. It had some feathers in its talons and the neighborhood birds were not amused.

#owls #birds #nature

Close-up of a crested owl perched in dense green foliage, showing white eyebrow tufts, orange facial disk, and a hooked beak as it looks upward.

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Janet Drew @jedrew.bsky.social · 3d

#birdinthebush x 2 for #BirdOfTheDay - courting southern crested caracaras. They played the imitation game for some time before one of them got fed up and flew off. #birds

A pair of souther crested cararcars perched on a branch in foliage - seen in Torres del Paine in October 2018. Their finely striped chests and yellow beaks show well.

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Brian Smith @briansmith-photos.bsky.social · 2d

#BirdoftheDay and #Skinnylegs, but with knobly knees for sure. This young Royal Tern wanting some attention. And @robcrank68.bsky.social and @alan678.bsky.social suggested we name them. It has to be Harry.

A young Royal Tern, feathers floofed up and wanting to be fed. Head down and forward, bill open, wings held a little from the body. On a sandy beach.

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MA Drinkwater @madrinkwater.bsky.social · 5d

#BirdOfTheDay #LongNecks #egrets #southerncalifornia #birds #naturephotography #photography 📷 🪶

The neighborhood Great Egret from the neck up.

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Yard Gone Wild @yardgonewild.bsky.social · 2d

Opossum would like everyone to know
if you live somewhere where you can leave the leaves-
that’s where the tastiest snacks are😄

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