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A great blue heron perches atop an oak tree

Great Blue Heron spotted creeping around the top of a tree.

Found at the Japanese Camelia Garden in Micke Grove Regional Park

A Kingfisher sat on a post, bringing up a fish pellet.

A Kingfisher bringing up a pellet, lovely.....

Everyone posts the glamorous side to this beautiful bird, but not today! 🤣

#birds #birdphotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography

A domestic mallard seen wading in a pond. It has a brown head and body, a white neck, and a grey beak with brown eyes

Mallard moment at Micke Grove Regional Park

Cedar waxwing. I don’t think I ever got the head feathers to look so distinct before.
#waxwing #ilovebirding #birding #birds #FDT #Colorado #bird_photography 🪶

Hey that’s me

A young White-crowned Sparrow isn’t yet showing its crown - that will appear during its winter molt - but it is already skilled at snatching a bug. #birds_matter #birds

A couple northern pintails amidst a brown swampy marsh. They are waterfowl with light blue beaks, brown heads, white necks with white underbellies, and grey on the top of their bodies/wings

Northern Pintails at the Cosumnes River Preserve! They sure love their wetlands #birdsofbluesky

A few black-necked stilts and a teal hang out at the Cosumnes River Preserve wetlands. Not pictured is a whole gaggle of northern pintails

A great blue heron and a great egret have a stare down in a brown marshy wetland

Great blue heron and a great egret at Cosumnes River nature reserve. Hanging out with some teals, Dowitchers, and northern pintails (more pics to come)

These are my favorite bird!! They winter in the Central Valley :)

A bird with three or more colors for #BirdOfTheDay? How about about a Zebra Finch - all that AND spots!
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Looks like a willow flycatcher? Could be wrong

A Curlew in the autumn colours of the saltmarsh at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve @sussexwildlife.bsky.social
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A fall Belted Kingfisher
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Portrait of a Bewick’s Wren. Just a very ordinary little bird, but still a sweet sight. #birds_matter #birds

Splash of colour ...

A great blue heron sits in the middle of a small piece of marsh land among the reeds. In the background is a floating boat dock

I almost thought this fellow was a statue with how still it was standing. It was likely looking for a bite to eat. Taken in Stockton, California

#greatblueheron #birding

Small California Towhee bird on playground surface.

California Towhee was seen hopping around a small toddler playground. Emeryville, California.

#birds #nature #eastcoastkin

Downy Woodpecker

Staring the task in the face...

Anna’s hummingbird

Bird migration forecasts show predicted nocturnal migration 3 hours after local sunset and are updated every 6 hours. These forecasts come from models trained on the last 23 years of bird movements in the atmosphere as detected by the US NEXRAD weather surveillance radar network. In these models we use the Global Forecasting System (GFS) to predict suitable conditions for migration occurring three hours after local sunset. These maps also show precipitation forecasts (outlined and shown in grayscale). Note, areas forecast to experience precipitation and bird migration may overlap, and predictions for migration intensity may be highly variable in these locations. Colorado State University and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology currently produce these forecasts. Leon Levy Foundation, Edward W. Rose Postdoctoral Fellowship, and the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission supported this research, with additional support from University of Massachusetts Amherst and University of Oklahoma. The BirdCast project was created with grant awards from the National Science Foundation and subsequently supported by awards from Leon Levy Foundation.

Some birds can even hear infrasound, low-frequency sounds produced by storms. Birds as tiny as hummingbirds migrate--and yet have such incredible capabilities.

Info on BirdCast: birdcast.info. Between local sunset and sunrise you can also watch live maps: birdcast.info/migration-to.... #birds 🌎

Egg-citing news! Nine fuzzy California condor chicks hatched at our wildlife conservation center this season. Eventually, they'll be released into the wild to boost the population of this critically endangered species.

A deep, vivid blue bird with black wings, tail, legs, and beak perches in profile facing left near the top of green vegetation filled with thin green leaves like a bottle brush against a softly blurred background of greens and whites.

He may not be the original bluebird of happiness, but he's blue, and he makes me happy.

Indigo Bunting

#MondayBlues #birds #nature #wildlife #photography #BlueSkyMonday

A Golden-crowned #Sparrow for #SparrowSunday! #birds #photo

Two swallows in flight facing each other with their beaks open, with out-of-focus ground in the background with another swallow and puddles.

Two tree swallows having an aerial argument
🌎 Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area, CA
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A Green Heron catches a little fishie. It’s very tiny, so it then catches another … and another …. and another …. #birds_matter #birds

American goldfinch

Gouldian Finch.

The Gouldian Finch (Chloebia gouldiae), also known as the Gould's Finch or the Rainbow Finch, is a colourful passerine bird that is native to Australia.

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