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Benjamin V ḍ A 🦉🦋🦎 @benjvda.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One of my favorites kingfisher, that I'm currently happy to call a neighbour.

Benjamin V ḍ A 🦉🦋🦎 @benjvda.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Banded Woodpecker on fire. Look at these red flames on the back of the head! #digiscopy #phonephotography #BirdsSeenIn2026 #birding #indonesia 🇮🇩

Chunky woodpecker perched on a thick dead branch with patches of greenish lichen. The sky is grey from the wildfire haze in the region. The woodpecker has an orange-red head, orange tainted breast and fine black and white stripes all along the underparts, greyish bill and dark eyes and forehead red wings. Banded Woodpecker- Chrysophlegma miniaceum - Pulau Belitung, Indonesia

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Benjamin V ḍ A 🦉🦋🦎 @benjvda.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

As a global kingfisher amateur, I regret you omitted its name, which is actually a *White-Throated Kingfisher* (Halcyon smyrnensis) and was mentioned explicitly on the facebook posts this was apparently copied from... www.facebook.com/100064633751...

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Benjamin V ḍ A 🦉🦋🦎 @benjvda.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Beautiful shots and this beauty is not an easy one to catch.

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Benjamin V ḍ A 🦉🦋🦎 @benjvda.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Today's #BirdOfTheDay ALT theme is #KingfisherQuest. These massive Grey Headed Kingfisher didn't mind the pre-Harmattan heat and dust in Northern Ghana.

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Benjamin V ḍ A 🦉🦋🦎 @benjvda.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Beautiful shot Sandy, and a lovely bird. Adding it to my wishlist

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Benjamin V ḍ A 🦉🦋🦎 @benjvda.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

So today, this happened. I learned on the spot to handle a fire extinguisher and put out the fire in my neighbours' house ! Thankfully, everybody's safe and sound. But the house will need weeks to clean.

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Benjamin V ḍ A 🦉🦋🦎 @benjvda.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

So many KF's in one drawing, I love it. Il use it as a bucket list for the half I haven't seen yet.

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Benjamin V ḍ A 🦉🦋🦎 @benjvda.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Is there one single color he is missing ? 😄

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Benjamin V ḍ A 🦉🦋🦎 @benjvda.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Great photo Sandy. I host a good colony of them under my roof in Jakarta. Up to 12 bats certain days. Protecting them from scared or misinformed neighbours. #BatAppreciationDay

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Benjamin V ḍ A 🦉🦋🦎 @benjvda.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Great shot Mark. I saw my very first one yesterday In SGP.

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Benjamin V ḍ A 🦉🦋🦎 @benjvda.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Beautiful sighting and well framed shot! 💙

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Benjamin V ḍ A 🦉🦋🦎 @benjvda.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

A few more nice sightings from the past few days * Blue-tailed Bee-eater (Merops philippinus) * Pink-necked Green Pigeon (Treron vernans) #BirdsSeenIn2026 #birding #indonesia

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Benjamin V ḍ A 🦉🦋🦎 @benjvda.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

📢Lifer alerts from a fantastic mini trip in Nusa Penida. * Red-chested Flowerpecker (Dicaueummaugei) * Grey-cheeked Green Pigeon (Treron griseicauda) * Bali Myna / Bali Starling (Leucopsar rothschildi) * Black-faced Munia (Lonchura molluca) #birding #indonesia #BirdsSeenIn2026 #Bali

Big green pigeon with burgundy patch on upper wings, yellow and black primaries, grey head with green eye ring, perched on a branch

Tiny flowerpecker with broad dark bill, dark upperparts, white underparts and striking red chest and rump, perched on a branch with blurred green background

Chunky white bird with yellowish bill and signature blue facial skin around the eyes, perched on a palm leaf

Sparrow-like bird with contrasting black head, white underparts and brown upperparts perched on a wall

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Benjamin V ḍ A 🦉🦋🦎 @benjvda.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Spectacular! It looks like a close up rather than telelens. Is that just an effect or a really fancy gear ?

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Benjamin V ḍ A 🦉🦋🦎 @benjvda.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

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Benjamin V ḍ A 🦉🦋🦎 @benjvda.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

African Penguin for the #BirdOfTheDay theme of #BirdsInTheirElement. Have a great Sunday or start of the week, wherever you are. #photography #EastCoastKin #Stunday

2 penguins, feet in shallow water, on a sunny sandy beach with large boulders scattered around and waves crashing in the background. South Africa 2025

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Benjamin V ḍ A 🦉🦋🦎 @benjvda.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

The contrasting yellow and blue when bill is open is incredible. In which part of Ghana did you see them @anuradhasarup.bsky.social ? I never got to see them while living there many years.

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Jerry Coyne @evolutionistrue.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

The second installment of Scott Ritchie's favorite bird photos of 2025. whyevolutionistrue.com/2026/01/16/r...

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Constance Lee Menefee @conniemenefee.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Contested airspace ... Hummingbird vs gray squirrel! Squirrels spend lots of time upside-down and staring - male hummingbirds guard! & feint! & guard some more ... Per Cornell's allaboutbirds[.]org the Ruby-throated Hummingbird weighs 0.1-0.2 oz (2-5 g) 🪶 🌿 #Sqrlpix

Foreground to the left is the vivid green back of a hummingbird with tail spread and wings horizontal cypress trunk with gray squirrel upside-down and blurry

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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Fiery-throated Hummingbird #CostaRica #birds #hummingbirds #nature

A small iridescent green hummingbird perched on a thin branch, its long bill slightly open against a soft yellow background.

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Gofod Gwag (empty space) 📸 @gofodgwag.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Komorebi Gorgeous light at Nunhead cemetery, London #godrays #crepuscularrays #phoro #photography #naturephotography

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Benjamin V ḍ A 🦉🦋🦎 @benjvda.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

White-headed Munia (Lonchura maja). A South-East Asia estrildid finch common in wetlands high grass. #Indonesia #BirdsSeenIn2026 🪶

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Benjamin V ḍ A 🦉🦋🦎 @benjvda.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Stunning bird. Here is his cousin from Indonesia, the Javan Kingfisher, for blue bird lovers 💙 seen a few weeks ago. #BirdsSeenIn2025 🪶

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Benjamin V ḍ A 🦉🦋🦎 @benjvda.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Is this the bluesky handle of the author? No link

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Benjamin V ḍ A 🦉🦋🦎 @benjvda.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Starting the year with a few poor shots of #birdsfromfaraway off #Java, #Indonesia Collared Kingfisher, Pacific Swallow, Brahminy Kite, Greater Crested Tern. All species enjoying the peaceful atoll life in the Sea of Java. 🪶 #BirdsSeenIn2026 #birding

Greater Crested Tern with distinct yellow bill and black crest/nape, perched on a pole in the sea

Solitary Pacific Swallow perched on a stick. Reddish pattern on head, white underparts and dark upperparts, wings and nape

Slightly patterned brown immature Brahminy Kite perched on a branch of a Casuarina tree with leaves obstructing partly the view.

Very blurry Collared Kingfisher perched on a pole in the sea with distinct greenish-blue wings, white breast and underparts and red bill.

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Benjamin V ḍ A 🦉🦋🦎 @benjvda.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Here's how Mr Dove is supposed to look like

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Benjamin V ḍ A 🦉🦋🦎 @benjvda.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

My small contribution to #birdbutt for #BirdOfTheDay. This is the beautiful Black-naped Fruit Dove hiding behind leaves. #BirdsSeenIn2025 #birding #java #indonesia 🇮🇩

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Benjamin V ḍ A 🦉🦋🦎 @benjvda.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

#indonesia 🇮🇩 Erratum: pale-blue eye, so a male. Phaenicophaeus curvirostris

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Benjamin V ḍ A 🦉🦋🦎 @benjvda.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

I had the chance of doing some deep forest birding this week. Here's my latests sight : a Chestnut-breasted Malkoha #BirdOfTheDay #mostrecent #BirdsSeenIn2025 #birds #Java #Lifer #575

Large Malkoha bird with chestnut breast and undertail, green wings and upper parts, grey head, red eye mask and yellow iris, searched on the branch in front of a cliff , with some hanging tree branches. Location: East Java

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Benjamin V ḍ A 🦉🦋🦎 @benjvda.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Absolutely love Kingfishers. I would probably have made a poster of these, if these were my shots... Until I see them all in the region 🤩

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Benjamin V ḍ A 🦉🦋🦎 @benjvda.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Nice colors playing with the golden hour

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Benjamin V ḍ A 🦉🦋🦎 @benjvda.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

#BirdOfTheDay theme, the bird #least photographed by me. This cute Triple-Banded Plover seen once in South Africa, close to Kruger NP.

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Benjamin V ḍ A 🦉🦋🦎 @benjvda.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Stunning! In which region did you find this beauty?

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Benjamin V ḍ A 🦉🦋🦎 @benjvda.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Perhaps good inspiration from Merlin Bird ID App, targeting a broad spectrum of birders...

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Benjamin V ḍ A 🦉🦋🦎 @benjvda.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Thanks @anuradhasarup.bsky.social It's a Collared Kingfisher (was hidden in the Alt Text 😀)

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Benjamin V ḍ A 🦉🦋🦎 @benjvda.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

I will never grow tired of Kingfishers. They seem smartly dressed for the fashion week, casually perched with their amazing colors, yet in a flip of a second they turn into fierceful hunters flying off to their next snack. Preybirds cannot compete. #BirdsSeenIn2025 #indonesia #mangrove #birding 🪶

Collared Kingfisher. Blue and white kingfisher perched on a mangrove aerial root on a leafy green background. Lombok, Indonesia

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