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

"I am the smallest and most common of my kind in North America. I have a checkered black-and-white pattern with a white stripe down my back. I am often confused with my larger relative, but a key difference is my tiny bill, which is noticeably shorter than the length of my head. What bird am I?" 2.5 Flash (Edited)

📷: Photo by IndigoBunting via Pixabay
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🦅 RichKeller Photography 🏳️‍🌈 @rihilism.bsky.social · 4h

Male cardinal, like this one from last week, are a bit goofy head-on but it's a lovable goofy.

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Paulo H Silva 📸🍉 @paulohs69.bsky.social · 5h

Good morning Bluesky
For #BirdOfTheDay theme #LongNecks a heron with beautiful colors

Syrigma sibilatrix
🇧🇷 Maria-faceira
🇬🇧 Whistling Heron

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The image is a striking photograph of a Whistling Heron standing proudly in a grassy environment, captured in vibrant natural light.
The composition is a vertical, medium shot focusing on the bird against a blurred green background, enhancing its presence. The heron stands on a bed of grass in the foreground, with its body angled slightly towards the viewer's left. Its elegant neck is extended upwards, giving a sense of alertness.

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🌍🌏 Alpine Chough (Pyrrhocorax graculus) #EurasianBirds #EuropeanBirds #AsianBirds | #AlpineChough #YellowBilledChough #PyrrhocoraxGraculus | #Choughs #CrowFamily #PerchingBirds 📷: Photo by mzter🦉 #MyBirdcards | #birdsoftheworld #birds ❤️🦜

🌍🌏 Alpine Chough (Pyrrhocorax graculus)

The Alpine Chough (also known as the Yellow-billed Chough) has glossy black plumage, a short yellow bill, and red legs. It's distributed across high mountains from Spain through southern Europe, North Africa, to Central Asia and the Himalayas, often nesting higher than any other bird. These highly social birds are renowned for their acrobatic flight and are often seen in flocks. They are opportunistic, feeding on invertebrates and frequently scavenging near tourist sites in winter. Two subspecies are recognised. 2.5 Flash (Edited)

Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)

Fun fact: The Alpine Chough is thought to nest at a higher altitude than any other bird in the world, with records of them following mountaineers up to over 8,000 meters on Mount Everest

📷: Photo by mzter via Pixabay
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Adam @atmylifeoutside.bsky.social · 23h

A further selection of images from last nights superb Pallid Harrier show down on Llanrhidian Marsh. It roamed much more widely than I’ve seen previously, including a trip right along the marsh towards Crofty and back. #birdingWales #rareBirdsUK #UKWildlife #birdsoftheworld @birdsinwales.bsky.social

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Hall Jameson @suhaja.bsky.social · 1d

Swainson's thrush. #best_birds_of_world #pacificnorthwest #birdwatching #ornithology #birdsoftheworld #swainsonsthrush #audubon #colorphotography

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👍 It's a woodpecker alright! Hint: This one might need to start shaving? 🤔😁

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👍 Close! This one might well be his younger cousin 😉❤️🦜

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👍 Would that be the lightly-haired Harry, we wonder? 🤔😁

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

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franceflo.bsky.social @franceflo.bsky.social · 1d

Yesterday I was just walking around Oaxaca( Mexico) by a little water stream , and happy to find this adult male vermilion flycatcher .
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Adult male vermilion flycatcher perched on a branch in Oaxaca ( Mexico)

Adult male vermilion flycatcher turn to the right , perched on branch in Oaxaca ( Mexico)

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James Falletti @jamesfalletti.bsky.social · 1d

Eastern Phoebe (Sayornis phoebe)

📍Teaneck Creek Conservancy (Teaneck, NJ)
🗓️ October 01, 2025
📸 Nikon D500 | 200-500mm

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Tempus_Fugit @tempus-fugit0.bsky.social · 1d

Black-capped chickadee watching me

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Tom Cadwallender @tomcadwallender.bsky.social · 1d

Nankeen Night Heron in Australia. #birdsoftheworld

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Jiří Švestka photography @jirisvestkaphoto.bsky.social · 1d

Morning in the forest 🌫️ Foggy morning, absolute silence… until this little hunter appeared. 🦉✨ Have you ever spotted a Tawny Owl in the wild?
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Emyr Wyn Jones @emyr-wyn.bsky.social · 1d

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Robin Goch yn fy helpu yn yr ardd bore ‘ma.

iPhone photo of my Robin helper in my #Doncaster garden this morning.

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👍 Interestingly, birds have a counter-current heat exchange system that transfers heat from warm to cold blood as it returns to the body. This, not much blood in their feet, fewer nerves there, and standing on one foot at a time 🤓❤️🦜

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