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Birds of the world 🌍🦜

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What bird am I? 🤔 (See alt text for clue) 🌏 #WhatBird #BirdID | #birdsoftheworld #birds ❤️🦜

"I am the largest bird of prey in Australia. My wingspan can reach up to 2.8 meters (9 feet). A key feature, which gives me my common name, is the distinctive shape of my tail. What bird am I?" Gemini 3 (Edited)

📷: Photo by pen_ash via Pixabay
https://pixabay.com/users/pen_ash-5526837/

November 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM

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Birds of the world 🌍🦜

@mybirdcards.com

Answer: Wedge-tailed Eagle (Aquila audax) 🌏 #MyBirdcards | #birdsoftheworld #birds ❤️🦜

Wedge-tailed eagle - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

November 26, 2025 at 1:16 PM

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Miguilim irmão do Dito 🇧🇷 🦜🐦‍⬛🦉🌵🌿

@josegalo.bsky.social

Boa noite, seus pica-pau-do-campo (Colaptes campestris)

📍 Leandro Ferreira, MG, Brasil
📅 08/2025
#birdsoftheworld

November 26, 2025 at 1:42 AM

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Tom Cadwallender

@tomcadwallender.bsky.social

#WaderWednesday Solitary Sandpiper in Brazil. #birdsoftheworld #birds

November 26, 2025 at 7:43 AM

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zeca

@zecapagodinhe.bsky.social

parece q ele ta usando alfaiataria

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

What bird am I? 🤔 (See alt text for clue) 🌏 #WhatBird #BirdID | #birdsoftheworld #birds ❤️🦜

November 25, 2025 at 8:36 PM

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Linda Barnia King

@lindaking78.bsky.social

Light-morph Krider’s Red-tailed Hawk…rarely seen here…found it in the lower Yakima Valley…western red-tails have many more color morphs than eastern birds…
#birds #ornithology #audubon #PNW
#BirdsofBlueSky #BirdsoftheWorld
#birdphotography #TheWildImages
#WestCoastPhotography #photography

November 25, 2025 at 7:36 PM

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Neil Cameron

@neilcam57.bsky.social

The Superb Fairywrens (Malurus cyaneus) were both active and numerous at Jerrombomberra Wetlands when I was there on 23 November
#Canberra #ACT #Australia #birds #ausbirds #AustralianBirds #wildoz #nature #wildlife #birdpic #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #BirdPhotography #Photography

A small male bird with a long tail, white underparts, black chin and ears and beak, and a vibrant blue head and cheeks sits on a strand of barbwire against a grass background

A small male bird with a long tail, white underparts, black chin and ears and beak, and a vibrant blue head and cheeks sits on a branch amid leaves

A small male bird with a long tail, white underparts, black chin and ears and beak, and a vibrant blue head and cheeks sits singing on a branch.

A small somewhat drab female bird with a lwhite underparts, brown head and an orangeish ring around eye sits on a branch amid leaves

November 25, 2025 at 11:44 PM

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James Falletti

@jamesfalletti.bsky.social

Carolina Wren (Thryothorus ludovicianus)

📍Laurel Hill County Park (Secaucus, NJ)
🗓️ November 19, 2025
📸 Nikon D500 | 200-500mm

#Birds #BirdsSeenIn2025 #Nature #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Audubon #JamesFalletti @nature.org @abcbirds.bsky.social @aba.org @mybirdcards.com @billpaquin.bsky.social

November 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM

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Adrian

@adrianw-photo.bsky.social

This Pacific Race brown Pelican was very cooperative in posing for me. #birds #birdphotography #birdsoftheworld #nature #wildlife #NaturePhotography #BirdWatching #photography

This image of a Pacific Race pelican shows of its colorful plumage with bright yellow head feathers.

November 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM

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🏳️‍⚧️ Camila Reis

@devquefotografa.bsky.social

🇧🇷 Araçari-banana
🇺🇸 Saffron Toucanet
🔬 Pteroglossus bailloni (Vieillot, 1819)
📍 Eldorado/SP/Brasil
#Birds
#BirdWatching
#BirdsOfTheWorld

Araçari-banana
O araçari-banana (Pteroglossus bailloni) é uma espécie de ave piciforme da família Ramphastidae.

Nome Científico
Seu nome científico significa: do grego pteros = pena, asa; e glössa = língua; pteroglossus = com língua emplumada; e de bailloni = homenagem ao advogado, naturalista e coletor de espécies francês Jean Francois Emmanuel Baillon (1744-1802). ⇒ Ave com a língua emplumada de Baillon.

Características
Mede de 35 a 39 cm de comprimento, e seu peso, entre 156 e 169 g. O bico apresenta vários tons de verde e amarelo. Há uma área vermelha ao redor da parte mediana da maxila, com margens em verde difuso que, gradualmente, se torna azul-acinzentado. A região perioftálmica é vermelha e contrasta com os olhos de cor amarelo-pálida. A região dorsal apresenta-se recoberta por verde-esmeralda e oliva, com o uropígio vermelho. O bico do macho é maior do que o da fêmea, que também é diferente na coloração: o verde tende mais ao oliva e ao acinzentado. Assim, as cores do macho são mais vivas.

Vocalização: Apresenta repertório extensivo de sons: “yeep” ou “yi”, “uh”, “perp”, teeee-ãp“.

Fonte: https://www.wikiaves.com.br/wiki/aracari-banana

November 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM

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OMPhotos

@120minute.bsky.social

A Cedar Waxwing 🪶 perched among the tangled branches of a multiflora rose, feasting on the bright red hips.

#birds #birding #BirdPhotography #naturePhotography #CedarWaxwing

When we were occupied the days were long and hollow.
We rose with the gray light, tilled our fields beneath the watchtowers, and spoke softly so the wind could not carry the old prayers.
The festivals were forbidden—no fires on the hills, no songs for the rivers.
The druids’ stones were toppled, their names unspoken.
Even the land seemed to sleep beneath the weight of Roman law.

Praefectus called us to the green below the Great Oak.
The old, gnarled tree spread wide on the ridge—roots older than memory, branches thick with the wisdom of age.
Its bark still bore the ghost of the old runes, though the soldiers had scraped them once.
We gathered there, thin and silent, and the Roman mounted a stone, sword at his hip.

“People of the frontier,” he said, voice smooth as river clay,
“you live in the peace of Rome.
No hunger, no chaos, no fear.
The Empire shall endure forever, and your children will praise it as you do today.”

A few near the front nodded, murmuring “Yes, lord,” because such words were expected.
The rest only watched with hollow eyes.

Then the wind shifted—from the west, the direction of renewal, where the souls of the dead sail to rest.
It came as a whisper through the oak’s leaves, speaking a language older than Rome.
Out of that breath came a trembling of wings.

A flock of waxwings fluttered down—gold and gray, hundreds of them—filling the branches above him.
They plucked the acorns and passed them beak to beak, each taking one, each giving one, until the whole tree shimmered with motion and sharing.
Someone began to hum a forbidden refrain, softly at first, then joined by others—the song of the circle unbroken.

The Roman kept speaking, but his voice was only wind in the leaves.
Our eyes had turned upward, following the birds, knowing the sign:
the old ways were stirring, and the wheel was beginning to turn again.

November 25, 2025 at 11:44 AM

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Roel Janssen 🇺🇦🍀🌹

@vrijevogel56.bsky.social

Kaneel-zwarte wever - Ploceus castaneofuscus Eng.: Chestnut-and-black Weaver, Seen and photographed 📷 in Guinea, West Africa, Macenta Guinea Forest NP #birds

November 25, 2025 at 11:39 AM

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Birds of the world 🌍🦜

@mybirdcards.com

New addition! 🌎 Black-cheeked Woodpecker (Melanerpes pucherani) #CentralAmericanBirds #SouthAmericanBirds #NorthAmericanBirds | #BlackCheekedWoodpecker #MelanerpesPucherani | #Woodpeckers #WoodpeckerFamily #WoodpeckersAndAllies 📷: Photo by Drosera74🦉 #MyBirdcards | #birdsoftheworld #birds ❤️🦜

🌎 Black-cheeked Woodpecker (Melanerpes pucherani)

The Black-cheeked Woodpecker is a medium-sized bird with a striking appearance: a black-and-white barred back, a conspicuous white rump, and a characteristic black mask or cheek patch. Males display a red crown and nape, while females only have red on the nape. This non-migratory resident is distributed from southern Mexico through Central America to western Ecuador, inhabiting the mid-levels and canopy of humid evergreen forests. They are active and agile foragers that consume a mixed diet of insects, fruits, and nectar, often moving in pairs. Known for being quite vocal and conspicuous, their behaviour includes giving a rattling call and drumming on trees. No subspecies are generally recognised. Gemini 3 (Edited)

Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)

Fun fact: Their diet is highly varied, including spiders, beetles, and ants, but they also eat substantial quantities of fruits, berries, seeds, and even sip nectar from large flowers, making them a true omnivore.

📷: Photo by Drosera74 via Pixabay
https://pixabay.com/photos/woodpecker-costa-rica-bird-nature-9849875/

ALHU

November 24, 2025 at 12:47 PM

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H. HOSSAMELDIN

@hanyhossameldin.bsky.social

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Black-winged stilt
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#bird #oiseaux #nature #capture #naturephotography #naturelovers #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #planetbirds #waterbirds #wildlife #art #video #youtube #bluesky #seabirds #PhotographersOfBluesky
@mybirdcards.com

November 25, 2025 at 8:31 AM

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Sowlenna Grace - Norvys Project

@norvysdesigns.bsky.social

I hope this isn't cheating for #TwosDay
#gulls #stives #harbour #shadow #birds #EastCoastKin

A photograph of a gull on a harbour wall. The shadow of the gull can be seen on the ground.

November 25, 2025 at 12:51 PM

Tim H

@timhopper.bsky.social

Wow, this is great!! I've been a big Bobfan since my teens (30+ years 😳) and this is up there with his best live performances of a classic folk ballad! Stick through the first verse, as he grows in confidence, and you won't regret it! Sublime beauty from the master of sublime pathos! #bobdylan