Declan Troy

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ShoutItOut birds calling out.
Gray-winged Inca-finch: A tanager (he's screaming I'm not a finch) endemic to arid northern #Peru. 🪶

I was surprised it wasn't the jaeger with the capture.

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The Roar of the Cave Bear! #WorldWildlifeDay

This brown lemming found itself exposed on a patch of snow when a jaeger came by. The lemming backed into a "cave" and looked as fierce as it could. The jaeger passed up on the meal. Utqiaġvik #Alaska 🦊

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The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #PerfectLighting.

Perfect lighting can mean a lot of conditions depending on what one wants to capture but evening light, especially for birds with lots of white is hard to argue against. Drake Bufflehead ready for action. Anchorage #Alaska 🪶

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Today's #birdoftheday theme is #FourOrMore

I ran out of fingers so there must be more than 4 in this shot. Formation Landing by Western Sandpipers: This wee flock was on their way through the Copper River Delta #Alaska I must visit there again. 🪶

Audubon sketches of five commonly seen winter birds in eastern Interior Alaska with the Tanacross Dene names annotated. Left to right: jîiz (Canada jay), ts’egąąg (chickadee), dįįts nęy (redpoll), taatsą́ą’ (raven), thuls̲h̲iid (boreal owl).

Commonly seen winter birds in eastern Interior Alaska with their rightful Tanacross Dene names. Bird sketches courtesy @audubon.org #Dene #Language #Alaska #Birds

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #PrimaryColours any bird with a primary color in their plumage

Meet the Broad-billed Hummingbird. It has all the primary colors, at least when the light hits it from the correct direction. Jalisco #Mexico 🪶

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-15° here now 🥶

Decision time, to take the plunge or not. It did. Polar Bear, I think it was in Greenland waters. #InternationalPolarBearDay 🦊🦑

All good things must come to an end. I still had a few more days at sea but this was among the last of the Light-mantled Albatross (my favorite) I saw. Look forward to the next time. Southern Ocean, east of the Falkland Islands. 🪶🦑

Apparently it is up for daily rentals, you could go find out.

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Southern Giant Petrels are remarkably variable in plumage from dark brown to almost white. I don't know the origin but birds of this morph are sometimes called White Nellies. At sea, east of the Falkland Islands. 🪶🦑

mmmmm, pussy willows

Robert Cushman Murphy famously wrote in 1912, "I now belong to a higher cult of mortals, for I have seen the albatross"

The great albatrosses like this Southern Royal Albatross never cease to impress when seen coursing effortlessly over the ocean. Southern Ocean, east of the Falkland Islands. 🪶🦑

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #RuffledFeathers, birds with feathers out of place

Short-billed Dowitcher (caurinus) doing the undescribed "Marilyn Monroe over the subway air vent" display. Anchorage Coastal Wildlife Refuge #Alaska 🪶

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The #BirdOfTheDay theme today of #BirdsInTheirElement

Where else would a Spruce Grouse be but in a spruce tree? Anchorage #Alaska 🪶

The nemesis seabirds of many a birder visiting the Southern Ocean are the Prions. They can be tricky to identify to species under ideal conditions, even more so as they dart between the waves. I'm calling this one an Antarctic Prion, seen mocking the spray west of South Georgia 🪶🦑

Caught in the act of shearing water

Thanks. I'm a bit of a larophile so I'm biased in also thinking they are gorgeous.

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For @alan678.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay theme of #WingsOverWater

A Silver (aka Red-billed) Gull cruising at sea in the vicinity of the Snare's Islands, New Zealand

There are numerous confusing small seabirds across the Southern Ocean but the Blue Petrel isn't one of them. When struggling identifying all the prions, the distinctive white-tipped tail of this petrel is a welcome sight. West of South Georgia 🪶🦑

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