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they were the first birds I saw when I entered the park (the hummingbirds were at the gate), and they all left immediately onto their next destination as I got set up, so glad I got some shots of them! the friend I was with is from the mountains so she had never even seen any pelicans before.

The lake the pelicans were at, after they they all took off.

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🐦 American White Pelican, #122 🗺️ Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve, Nevada 📷 Sony a6700 w/ Sony E 70-350mm lens #birds #birdphotography Last thing I expected to see in the desert was a bunch of Pelicans, but after talking to the staff I was told they like to stop here on the way to Lake Meade

American White Pelicans stretching their wings

American White Pelican in flight over lake, with Snowy Egret hiding behind in the foliage

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New Life #121 was what Bird ID is telling me is Costa's Hummingbird, kinda far pic, but I'll take it. Apparently very similar to Anna's

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The Hummingbirds at the park all seemed to be a gorgeous shade of reflective green

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🐦 Anna's Hummingbird, #120 🗺️ Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve, Nevada 📷 Sony a6700 w/ Sony E 70-350mm lens #birds #birdphotography shaking off the laziness I'm feeling from a post-Vegas trip and finally posting what I saw at the preserve there were a lot of hummingbirds there! new lifer 120 for me!

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blippy @blippy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

🐦 Great-tailed Grackle 🗺️ Las Vegas Strip, Nevada 📷 iPhone finally gonna post pics tbh I couldn't tell the difference between these and the Boat-tailed Grackles back home, their eyes are supposed to be paler yellow than the boat-tailed grackles, but I didn't get a chance to capture one w big camera

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went to noche latina near Fremont street to root for Mexico, and then went to see red jumpsuit apparatus for a free show at Fremont street. fist bumped K when he ran through the crowd pretty cool night

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blippy @blippy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

also if you’re ever in the area and love birds, I strongly recommend checking out the Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve. aside from being beautiful and full of birds, today was their tortoise Tino’s 18th birthday, so they had a little bday party going 😭

Red Rock ornithology Bird walk setup overlooking the lake

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blippy @blippy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

saw so many birds today in the nevada desert, but having trouble getting them off my camera w/o a computer. can’t wait to be home so I can Bird Post

view from Henderson bird viewing preserve

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Limpkins' diet consists mainly of large snails and you can find the shells littered all over our park

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🐦 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 🐦 Limpkin 🗺️ South Florida 📷 Sony a6700 Sony E 70-350mm #birds #birdphotography posting more from last weekend since I'm heading off on a work trip to the west coast tmrrow, so I hope I'll have new birds to post🙏 that limpkin was being chased by another limpkin for its snail

Blue-gray gnatcatcher, on tree branch with foliage in background

limpkin in flight with a large snail in its beak

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🐦 American Redstart 🗺️ South Florida 📷 Sony a6700 Sony E 70-350mm #birds #birdphotography more from this past weekend: a closeup of a female American Redstart shaking her distinct black & yellow tail feathers. the males are black / orange and very distinct

female american redstart perched on branch

female American Redstart shaking her distinct black & yellow tail feathers

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i always struggle with these because for all but the most obvious questions i always feel like there's a caveat that makes me likely to answer "IDK maybe"

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picked up the egret, it has such an Amano vibe, I love it I have yet to hang up the woodpecker but it's sitting here on my desk overlooking my bird feeders

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that's really interesting considering Anil definitely knows how unpleasant and antisocial Tressie's behavior is when it happens to him

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But like… why the dunk-quote with replies off? What does that do except encourage people to be assholes? It specifically precludes any meaningful conversation. It rules out the possibility that I could be acting in good faith. And it’s not hard to find plenty of evidence that I try to do so.

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more Great Egret shots from Saturday: #birds

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Limpkin vs Great Egret, live at the shady marsh

a Great Egret aggressively faces off against a disinterested Limpkin, in front of a lake with lilypads

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Yeah, I wasn't expecting to see one today, I suppose this is when they start showing at my park, a happy surprise! Hope you get to see one soon as well!

belted kingfisher spots throughout the year at my park

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🐦 Prairie Warbler 🗺️ South Florida 📷 Sony a6700 Sony E 70-350mm #birds #birdphotography my favorite shot from yesterday was of this female Prairie Warbler, she was positioned so perfectly in the sun for me it also helps that the weather has been nice so I've been able to stay longer past sunrise

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I had one stop by my bird feeder the other day, which I found unusual since they've mostly migrated from here and I don't really see them anymore, was a nice surprise!

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blippy @blippy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🐦 Belted Kingfisher, #118 🗺️ South Florida 📷 Sony a6700 Sony E 70-350mm #birds checked our local park yesterday for newly migrated warblers, and instead found a Belted Kingfisher unfortunately only got UFO footage, as an iguana that was sharing its branch startled it and made it leave the park 😥

belted kingfisher in flight. the brown 'belt' indicates it is a female kingfisher

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me when I come back from the park having seen a bird

fire emblem: fortunes weave. Bird petting minigame showing Perfect Bird Time

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blippy @blippy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

why dont you go yell at your wife about it, get your house in order before you come for ours

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blippy @blippy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ahh, I get what happened here now. My account's name is 'blippy', I have red hair and post about birds It seems like you were thinking you were responding to Alejandra, who is someone else unfortunately It doesn't happen often but I can see how someone who likes to yell at women can get mixed up

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blippy @blippy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🐦 Juvenile Yellow-crowned Night Heron 🗺️ Dr. Von D. Mizell-Eula Johnson SP 📷 Sony a6700 Sony E 70-350mm #birds second weekend in a row running into a juvie Yellow-crowned Night Heron, at a different park. this one looked like he could star in his own shonen anime. believe it!

Closeup of juvenile Yellow-crowned Night Heron, on parking lot gravel, with foliage in background

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This is what the outside my front door sounds like, I can hear them from the living room 😅

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one of these is not like the others

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They're a bit larger than the Plovers, with a distinct plumage that sets them apart. But what really IDs them is their single minded behavior to just flip everything

Ruddy Turnstone, flipping a large solidified piece of seaweed

Ruddy Turnstone, flipping rock, with Sanderlings in the background

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🐦 Ruddy Turnstone, #116 🗺️ Dr. Von D. Mizell-Eula Johnson SP 📷 Sony a6700 Sony E 70-350mm #birds these lil guys were so funny, systematically flipping every stone or piece of debris on the beach. name well earned. I was running out of storage space but I need to go back and get more footage of em

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www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Piping... really sad, the ones I saw were in a protected state park beach, so hopefully they can bounce back here

The 2025 State of the Birds report lists Piping Plover as an Orange Alert Tipping Point species, meaning that it has lost more than 50% of its population in the past 50 years and has shown accelerated declines within the past decade. Partners in Flight estimates a global breeding population of 8,400 individuals and rates the species a 16 out of 20 on the Continental Concern Score. In the Great Lakes region, they are listed as federally Endangered and along the Atlantic Coast and Great Plains they are listed as federally Threatened.

Population declines are due to direct and unintentional harassment by people, dogs, and vehicles; destruction of beach habitat for development; predation; and changes in water levels that affect availability of nesting habitat. Conservation efforts focus on protecting nests and nesting habitats by placing exclosures around nests to reduce the risk of predation or trampling. Other conservation efforts focus on predator control, controlling human recreation near breeding sites, and restoring breeding sites such as sandbars. This has helped stabilize populations, especially along the Atlantic Coast, but the population in the Great Lakes region hasn't yet reached its stated recovery goals of 150 breeding pairs.

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