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Dani Shaw @danishaw.me · 09/09/2026

Also while you're there, check out her fantastic darned pages (tiny and tender) collection of handmade notebooks including WNBA themed items available for sale: www.tamrynspruill.com/darned-pages...

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Dani Shaw @danishaw.me · 09/09/2026

Unboxing #TheW tomorrow with @tamrynspruill.bsky.social… 30 years of the #WNBA documented for the first time — a tremendous historical literary feat she achieved and I’m so proud of her. A few signed copies still available at www.tamrynspruill.com/store/p69/th... #booksky

Two large cardboard shipping boxes sit behind an orange and white WNBA basketball.

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Dani Shaw @danishaw.me · 31/07/2026

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Dani Shaw @danishaw.me · 23/12/2025

current wallpaper of Astro + Roux (when they're not cuddling with @tamrynspruill.bsky.social)

Two cats curled up and sleeping in a round gray fluffy bed. One is gray with white paws and the other has tabby markings and is brown, yellow, gray with black stripes and white paws.

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Dani Shaw @danishaw.me · 10/11/2025

#MusicChallenge #BirdSongs 🪶 Violet Sabrewing Campylopterus hemileucurus Very large, spectacular, and aggressive hummingbird of humid forests in highlands and lowlands of neotropics. Feeds at flowers and roadside trees. Song is "cheep tsew cheep tik-tik tsew cheep" w/ explosive notes. 📷wirestock

Vertical closeup shot of a Violet Sabrewing bird perched on a tree branch sticking it's tongue out. Male’s amazing purple plumage often looks blackish overall, but when it catches the light—wow! Very large, thick arched bill. Big, flashy white tail corners.

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Dani Shaw @danishaw.me · 06/11/2025

#MusicChallenge #BirdSongs 🪶 European Greenfinch Chloris chloris Feathers of yellow + green. Inhabits wooded habitats, including parks, gardens, and farmland. Forms flocks in autumn + winter. Although sociable, they may squabble at the feeder. Chattering song w/ buzzy “dzweeee” calls. 📷tomek61

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Dani Shaw @danishaw.me · 01/11/2025

#MusicChallenge #BirdSongs 🪶 Great Curassow Crax rubra Large, pheasant-like bird from the Neotropical rainforests. Distinctive curly crest. Males sing from high up: a very low-pitched, subliminal, booming song. Mostly eliminated by hunting. Found in protected parks/very remote areas. 📷wirestock

Black and yellow Crax rubra bird perched on a tree branch. Not likely to be confused if seen well. The male is black with a curly crest, a white belly, and a yellow knob on its bill (as shown); females come in three color morphs, barred, rufous and black.

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Dani Shaw @danishaw.me · 31/10/2025

#MusicChallenge #BirdSongs 🪶 Malayan Banded-Pitta Hydrornis irena Broad red-orange eyestripe glows like lava on this shy, jewel-like bird. Thin tiger-like barring. Forages quietly on dense lowland forest floors. Most common calls are a quiet roar + short, descending “pr-r-r-r-r”. 📷panuruangjan

Photo of a female banded-pitta on a tree with a green background, This colorful bird has a black head with a yellow/orange streak above the eye, an orange-red nape, a lemon-yellow, white throat, a chest barred with orange and black. Males show blue on the belly. The back is brown and the tail is blue (more prominent blues in males). Found around south-eastern Asia.

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Dani Shaw @danishaw.me · 30/10/2025

#MusicChallenge #BirdSongs 🪶 Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis Common roadside raptor across N. America. Perches atop telephone poles, light posts, + trees. Slow, graceful wing beats interspersed w/ gliding. Expert hunter, relying on keen eyesight + powerful talons. 📷 @leciamichelle.bsky.social

This Eastern adult hawk, perched on a tree in fall, has brilliant reddish-orange tail and pale underparts with dark marks across belly. Western birds are typically darker. Immatures do not have a red tail.

More beautiful photography from Lecia Michelle at leciamichellephotography.com.

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Dani Shaw @danishaw.me · 29/10/2025

#MusicChallenge #BirdSongs 🪶 Bearded Reedling Panurus biarmicus Known to do the splits between reeds. Wetland experts, found flying low in marshes, swamps, lakes + rivers with whirring wingbeats. Flocks often give a quiet “tue, tue”, as well as hard “tik” and buzzy “chew” calls. 📷GreensandBlues

Bird perched between two reeds with a light background. It has bright cinnamon-brown plumage, long tail, and yellowish bill; males have blue-gray head and broad black mustaches as shown. Found across areas of the U.K., Europe and Asia and remain year-round residents in their local range.

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Dani Shaw @danishaw.me · 28/10/2025

#MusicChallenge #BirdSongs 🪶 Eurasian Siskin Spinus spinus Small yellowish finch with prominent wingbars. Inhabits mixed + coniferous woodland and forests. Visits seed feeders. It is a trusting, sociable and active bird. Song is mix of twitters + trills w/ a nasal, rising “tuohweee”. 📷wirestock

Yellow songbird sitting on a branch with a light brown background. Male is distinctive with a yellow face and breast offset by a black cap and small chin patch, as shown. Female streaky overall, often with yellowish tones; note especially the yellow wing and tail flashes of both sexes.

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Dani Shaw @danishaw.me · 27/10/2025

#MusicChallenge #BirdSongs 🪶 Fire-tufted Barbet Psilopogon pyrolophus "Jewel of the Montane Forests." Strange song is loud accelerating creaking/rusty machinery revving up. Helps forest regeneration w/ seed dispersal. Prefers cooler, higher elevations. Robust, fruit-dominated diet. 📷Chun Fai LO

Beautiful emerald-green barbet perched on a branch. It has silvery cheeks, white forehead, and black chinstrap; namesake reddish tuft above the base of the bill is small and often difficult to see from a distance. Bulbous horn-colored bill has a large dark smudge down the center.

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Dani Shaw @danishaw.me · 26/10/2025

#MusicChallenge #BirdSongs 🪶 Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia Flit through dense, low vegetation/branches for food. Short and fluttering flights. Males sing throughout the year. Song is 3-4 short notes w/ trill, sounds like "maids, maids, maids, put on your teakettle-ettle-ettle ettle." 📷gjphoto1

A cute song sparrow is perched on a twig chirping and singing with a blue sky backdrop. One of the most common and widespread sparrows in North America. Fairly large with a long, rounded tail. Overall coarsely patterned with gray and brown, usually with more reddish-brown wings and tail. Look especially for thick brown streaks on the underparts and a broad dark mustache stripe.

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Dani Shaw @danishaw.me · 24/10/2025

#MusicChallenge #BirdSongs 🪶 Southern Fulmar Fulmarus glacialoides Distinctive, medium-sized silvery-gray petrel. Breeds around Antarctica, migrates to S. Africa, AUS, + NZ in winter. Often in groups near ships; feeds w/ giant-petrels at sewage outflows. Nest in clifftop colonies. 📷Image-Source

Photo of a bird in flight over water with it's wings open. Often referred to as the Antarctic fulmar, this largely gray bird features a white underbelly and distinctive patches on its wings. Note white flash in dark wing-tip, and at close range the pink bill with black tip and bluish tubenose.

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Dani Shaw @danishaw.me · 22/10/2025

#MusicChallenge #BirdSongs 🪶 Great Blue Turaco Corythaeola cristata Wonderful, cartoonish bird. Weak flier, strong climber. Move nimbly on branches through rainforest. Rarely come down to ground, only to drink or bathe. Make loud guttural 'kok-kok-kok' + soft trills. 📷 @markscheflen.bsky.social

From photographer Mark Scheflen: "Great Blue Turaco largest species of turaco, native to the tropical forests of Africa. Has striking blue and green plumage, a tall blue-black crest, and a large yellow and red bill."

More from Mark at: markscheflen.com kiboko.org

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Dani Shaw @danishaw.me · 21/10/2025

#MusicChallenge #BirdSongs 🪶 Moustached Woodcreeper Xiphocolaptes falcirostris Large, heavy-billed w/ moustachial stripe. Inhabits deciduous dry forests of Central/South America. Song is a whining series of unmelodic notes, “nk-wiirh, week! weeer, weeer, weeur, weuur.” Pest controller. 📷CaioBrito

Photo of a bird perched on the side of a tree trunk. Its plumage is predominantly a muted brown with intricate patterns that provide excellent camouflage among tree bark. The most notable feature is its striking moustache—a pair of dark streaks extending from its beak to its throat. This distinct trait gives it personality and helps in bird recognition during field studies. Body is dark brown with lighter streaks, providing camouflage. Tail is long and pointed, aiding in stability while climbing.

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Dani Shaw @danishaw.me · 21/10/2025

#MusicChallenge #BirdSongs 🪶 Siberian Jay Perisoreus infaustus Charismatic. Found in lichen-rich coniferous forests. Usually quiet. Feeds on seeds, berries, carrion, insects also takes eggs and young of small birds. Often accepts food handouts from humans and can be quite tame. 📷wirestock

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Dani Shaw @danishaw.me · 19/10/2025

#MusicChallenge #BirdSongs 🪶 Serendib Scops-Owl Otus thilohoffmanni Very small rufescent owl, with yellow-orange eyes, and light speckles on the underparts. Although tuftless it shows “false” ones when alert. Song is a short “woOLoo”. Found in humid rainforests of Sri Lanka lowlands. 📷nsamenvato

A pair of Serendib scops owls, an endemic and rare species, perched on a green branch. One is facing the camera and the other is looking over it's shoulder back at the camera. The head is uniformly rufous, while the indistinct facial disk is brownish-rufous. Eyes are orange-yellow and each surrounded by a black ring. Eyebrows are whitish. The cere is fleshy-pink and the relatively long bill is ivory-white.
Upperparts are rufous brown, spotted blackish overall, with some paler areas around the blackish spots. Wings and tail feathers have rufous outer webs and mostly blackish inner webs. Flight and tail feathers have broad, evenly spaced rufous and blackish bars.
Breast is pale rufous with uniformly distributed triangular blackish spots. The belly and undertail-coverts are paler than the breast, and are without spots. Legs are feathered pale rufous to about the middle of the tarsus, with the lower half and toes bare and pinkish white. Claws are ivory-white.

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Dani Shaw @danishaw.me · 19/10/2025

#MusicChallenge #BirdSongs 🪶 Dark-eyed Junco Junco hyemalis Abundant, neat, flashy little sparrows found on forest floors + under feeders in N. America. "Snowbirds" of the middle latitudes. Distinct crisp markings + bright white tail feathers in flight. Flock is called a "blizzard." 📷wirestock

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Dani Shaw @danishaw.me · 17/10/2025

#MusicChallenge #BirdSongs 🪶 Hoatzin (reptile bird, skunk bird, stinkbird) Opisthocomus hoazin S.American bird with strange features. Has an unusual digestion method, unpleasant smell, clumsy movement. Untidy crest of long, spiky, orange feathers for a "punk rock” look. Noisy. 📷Charles J. Sharp

Large bird perched on a tree looking to the back. The sides of the face are pale blue to sky blue in color and have no feathers. The eyes are dark red. The undersurface of the neck and body is buff or orange. The wings are dark brown, grey, or black, except for the outer feathers, which are a lovely red to rusty-red color. The sides of the body under the wings are orange or a shade that is referred to as “rufous-chestnut.” The tips of the dark tail feathers are buff to yellow.

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Dani Shaw @danishaw.me · 16/10/2025

#MusicChallenge #BirdSongs 🪶 White-Throated Kingfisher Halcyon smyrnensis Known for conspicuous perching on wires and exposed perches. Common in South Asia. Loud calls in the mornings. Male courtship: flicking open wings to expose white wing mirrors. Female: rapid kit-kit-kit call. 📷panuruangjan

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Dani Shaw @danishaw.me · 15/10/2025

#MusicChallenge #BirdSongs 🪶 Hooded Crow Corvus cornix Crafty and adaptable corvid, who thrives in diverse habitats across Europe/Asia. Famous for distinctive two-toned plumage. To eat, they drop mollusks/crabs to break them. Scottish called empty sea urchin shells "crow's cups". 📷GreensandBlues

Crow in a green field perched on a rock looking to the side at the camera. The Hooded Crow is a distinctive bird with a grey body, black head, wings, and tail. It has a sturdy build and a thick, slightly curved black bill.

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Dani Shaw @danishaw.me · 13/10/2025

#MusicChallenge #BirdSongs 🪶 In honor of Indigenous Peoples' Day, I'm sharing the Wild Turkey. Their feathers were used by the Wampanoag Tribe in traditional headdresses. Wary & magnificent they walk/run + can fly strongly. Roost overnight in tall trees. Gobble can be heard a mile away. 📷wirestock

Beautiful side shot of a wild turkey in a green field during the day. Huge, with naked head and long wide tail. A Wild Turkey can stand four feet tall, with a large, bulky body covered with bronzy, iridescent feathers. This tom (male) has a reddish blue head and a hair-like “beard” protruding from the breast. The smaller female is duller in coloration than the male. Upland game bird native to North America. More info on the Wampanoag Tribe: https://mashpeewampanoagtribe-nsn.gov/

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Dani Shaw @danishaw.me · 12/10/2025

#MusicChallenge #BirdSongs 🪶 Eurasian Penduline Tit Remiz pendulinus A very small, masked inhabitant of the wooded borders of marshes where it builds distinctive pouch-shaped nests, often over water. Easily found by its high-pitched whistled call. Widespread through western Palearctic. 📷tan4ikk

Bird facing the camera on a branch with it's wings open. It has a sharp and finely pointed bill and a relatively long tail. The head is light grey with a black "mask" through the eye. The back is chestnut brown. The sexes are very similar in appearance, but the male has a broader mask and a more rufous back.

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Dani Shaw @danishaw.me · 10/10/2025

#MusicChallenge #BirdSongs 🪶 Schlegel's Asity Philepitta schlegeli Chunky, olive-backed bird from Madagascar. Visits flowering & fruiting trees. Sits motionless for long periods, flies weakly. Call is quick, rising very high-pitched notes. Thx to @ursulaantiglobal.bsky.social! 📷Frédéric Pelsy

Bird hanging from a bulbous nest. Males have a black head, multi-colored bare facial skin, and yellow underparts. Females have pale underparts with scaly markings. More info: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/10/biodiversity-conservation-world-bird-species-declining-arctic-seals-green-turtles-iucn-uae-aoe

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Dani Shaw @danishaw.me · 08/10/2025

#MusicChallenge #BirdSongs 🪶 Slaty-breasted Wood Rail Aramides saracura Distinct slate-gray breast with a rich chestnut body. Long, slightly curved beak for probing. Slender body. Call is a quick tempo "kip-kip-kip-kow-kow". Found in Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, & Argentina. 📷diegograndi

Bird standing on one leg on the dirt ground with it's beak open. It has grey on the head and neck that extends to the bird's belly and chestnut underwing coverts, with a greenish blue bill and yellow-brown legs.

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Dani Shaw @danishaw.me · 07/10/2025

#MusicChallenge #BirdSongs 🪶 Purple Honeycreeper Cyanerpes caeruleus Very small tanager, common in forests, edges, and gardens of northern S. America. Have a long decurved bill and bright yellow legs. Males have a black mask and females a blue mustache. Enjoy a nectivorous diet. 📷Gustavo Dallaqua

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Dani Shaw @danishaw.me · 06/10/2025

#MusicChallenge #BirdSongs 🪶 Bronze Mannakin Lonchura cucullata Very social, small, passerine/perching bird of the Afrotropics. Considered a pest in grain & rice fields. Generally gregarious, but can be dominating while breeding. Song is a series of contact calls or quiet "purring." 📷Mint_Images

Three birds perched together on a thin branch, direct gaze facing the camera. A compact bird with a short black tail, and stubby black and pale grey (not distinctly bluish) mandibles. It is black to brownish black on the head, chin, throat and center of the chest, with some purple-green iridescence on the face and sides of the breast.

It has greyish brown upper parts and white underparts with irregular barring on the flanks and rump. A small green iridescent patch is present on the outer scapular feathers, besides, especially in the western race, the sides of the lower breast. Wing coverts and remiges are bordered in a paler or warmer tone.

The sexes are similar. Immature birds are dun brown above with buff head and underpart plumage. They moult into full adult plumage by age six months, when the males also begin to sing and exhibit breeding behaviour.

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Dani Shaw @danishaw.me · 05/10/2025

#MusicChallenge #BirdSongs 🪶 Bateleur Eagle Terathopius ecaudatus Scientific name means “marvelous face, no tail”. “Bateleur” translates to “street/circus performer". Acrobatic displays & rocking flight dances. Hunt small animals & eat carrion. First raptors to arrive at a carcass. 📷diegograndi

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Dani Shaw @danishaw.me · 04/10/2025

#MusicChallenge #BirdSongs 🪶 Double-Crested Cormorant Nannopterum auritum Large waterbirds with small heads on long necks. Thin, strongly hooked bills. Their heavy bodies sit low in the water and after fishing, they hang out with wings spread open to dry. Travel in V-shaped flocks. 📷Mark Sawyer

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Dani Shaw @danishaw.me · 03/10/2025

#MusicChallenge #BirdSongs 🪶 Black Stork Ciconia nigra Known for their shy and solitary behavior, they tend to stay far from humans. Walk purposefully on the ground, with a steady stride. They perch and stand upright, often on one leg. Widest geographical range of the stork family. 📷WildMediaSK

Black stork wading in water looking down and hunting for a fish. The Black stork has long red legs, a long neck, and a long, straight, pointed red beak. The plumage is black with a purplish green sheen, except for the white lower breast, belly, armpits, axillaries, and undertail coverts. The breast feathers are long and shaggy, forming a ruff that is used in some courtship displays. The black stork has brown irises and bare red skin around its eyes.

Found throughout the Palearctic, from Spain to China during the nesting season. In autumn, they migrate south to South Africa and India to overwinter.

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Dani Shaw @danishaw.me · 03/10/2025

#MusicChallenge #BirdSongs 🪶 Warbling white-eye Zosterops japonicus Small, yellow-olive birds highlighted by very bold white eyerings. Move energetically through all levels of shrubs and trees in search of insects, fruits, and nectar. Sounds are high-pitched twitters and ‘chwee’s. 📷wirestock

Vertical shot of a Japanese white-eye bird perched on a tree branch with cherry blossoms. The warbling white-eye is olive green on its back, from anterior to posterior, and is pale green on its underside. Its feet, legs, and bill range from black to brown. It has a green forehead and a yellow throat. The white-eye has rounded wings and a long, slender bill – both of which indicate this bird to be very acrobatic. Its wings are dark brown but outlined in green.

Native to Asia; introduced to the Hawaiian Islands where it is ubiquitous in wet and dry areas from sea-level to the mountains.

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Dani Shaw @danishaw.me · 02/10/2025

more from our gull friend Skylar Diggins #Birds

Herring Gull on a pile of seaweed on the beach. It has brown feathers and a dark bill.

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Dani Shaw @danishaw.me · 02/10/2025

Hey #BirdSong folks — I’m on my honeymoon with limited access — so unable to do proper updates on the #MusicChallenge. I will catch up this weekend! Saying hi from Ptown with our new friend. American Herring Gull Larus smithsonianus Patrol shorelines & open ocean, picking scraps off surface. 📷me

Immature gull on the beach with the Provincetown Pilgrim Monument in the background. Adult has white spots in black wingtips, pale eyes, pink legs. Rather heavy bill is yellow with red spot. Head of adult is white in spring and summer, heavily streaked gray-brown in winter. This immature is all dark brown with blackish bill at first. Reaches adult plumage in fourth winter.

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Dani Shaw @danishaw.me · 30/09/2025

#MusicChallenge #BirdSongs 🪶 Cedar Waxwing Bombycilla cedrorum Named after waxy red tips of wings. Enjoy insects in summer. In fall and winter, it’s all about fruit. Loves berries and soft fruits, esp. juniper and cedar. Can be seen drunk after eating berries that have begun to ferment. 📷suemini8

Three birds on tree with red berries. They have remarkably smooth and silky-looking brown plumage. Both sexes sport a small crest as well as a black mask across the eyes. A waxwing’s lower wings, back, and tail are mostly a cold gray, but the bright yellow band at the end of the tail is an excellent field mark. The name “waxwing” comes from the waxy red tips that form on the birds’ secondary wing feathers.

It is a native of North and Central America, breeding in open wooded areas in southern Canada and wintering in the southern half of the United States, Central America, and the far northwest of South America.

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Dani Shaw @danishaw.me · 28/09/2025

#MusicChallenge #BirdSongs 🪶 Rosy-faced Lovebird Agapornis roseicollis Famously affectionate small parrot. Mates for life. Native to woodlands of S.West Africa. Sharing these two birds for my love, @tamrynspruill.bsky.social, on our special day. It's my honor to say, "I do." Forever your dings💚💜

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Dani Shaw @danishaw.me · 28/09/2025

#MusicChallenge #BirdSongs 🪶 Hairy Woodpecker Leuconotopicus villosus Medium-sized, common in North America as far south as Panama. Black & white plumage is nearly identical to the smaller Downy, but have a much larger beak. Fond of suet. Calls are loud “peek!” or sharp whinny. 📷Matthew Plante

Male Hairy Woodpecker on a branch. They have black-and-white and boldly patterned plumage. The head has two white stripes and a patch of red on the back. The black wings are checkered with white. Their black backs have a big white patch that runs down the center.

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Dani Shaw @danishaw.me · 25/09/2025

#MusicChallenge #BirdSongs 🪶 Lilac-breasted Roller Coracias caudatus Sit on prominent perches w/ high vantage points in open woodland and lightly-treed grasslands. Amazing flight display w/ side-to-side rolling. Mostly quiet, but calls a loud guttural “gwhaaak, gwhaaak”. Found in Africa. 📷byrdyak

Colorful Lilac-breasted roller bird perched on tree branch. A chunky, large-headed bird with a lilac breast, rusty cheeks, and spring-green crown.

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Dani Shaw @danishaw.me · 24/09/2025

#MusicChallenge #BirdSongs 🪶 Crested Serpent Eagle Spilornis cheela Bird of prey, found in forested habitats across tropical Asia with broad wings and a loud, piercing call. Feed on snakes. When alarmed, they erect the crest & the head appears large & framed by the ruff, as shown. 📷Yakov_Oskanov

Crested serpent eagle or Spilornis cheela in Ranthambore national park, Rajastan, India. These are dark brown stocky eagles, with rounded wings and a short tail. Their short black and white fan-shaped nuchal crest gives it a thick-necked appearance. The bare facial skin and feet are yellow. The underside is spotted with white and yellowish-brown. When perched the wing tips do not reach until the tail tip. In soaring flight, the broad and paddle-shaped wings are held in a shallow V. The tail and underside of the flight feathers are black with broad white bars. Young birds show a lot of white on the head. The tarsus is unfeathered and covered by hexagonal scales. The upper mandible does not have an overhanging festoon to the tip.

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Dani Shaw @danishaw.me · 23/09/2025

#MusicChallenge #BirdSongs 🪶 Great White Pelican Pelecanidae A large waterbird. Fishes cooperatively in a wide arc to round up fish. Like a whale, their throat pouch catches prey & drains water out before swallowing. Eats 1.5kg of fish/day. When mating, feathers change white to pink. 📷erika8213

Great White Pelican standing on a branch in the water of the Danube Delta, Romania. It has it's wings open looking for fish. They are white in color with black and grey primary feathers. Their bodies are large with long, broad wings attached. They have a short tail, short, pinkish legs and webbed feet. There is a bare pink/yellow facial patch around their eyes. Their spectacular bills are azure blue on the top and yellow underneath where there is a large pouch. The bill has a central red stripe, and ends in a small, red hook.

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Dani Shaw @danishaw.me · 22/09/2025

#MusicChallenge #BirdSongs 🪶 Spectacled Owl Pulsatrix perspicillata Feed on small mammals, insects & birds. Hunts from branch, scans & drops to strike w/ a fast, agile pounce. Song is resonant w/ pulsating deep hoots. Sounds like sheet metal being flexed quickly. Scares easily. 📷Jestebanberrio

A Spectacled Owl is perched on a tree branch with green leaves in the background. It is large and boldly patterned, and acquired its name from the broad, broken circles of white around its yellow eyes. It is a resident breeder in forests from southern Mexico and Trinidad, through Central America, south to southern Brazil, Paraguay, and northwestern Argentina.

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Dani Shaw @danishaw.me · 21/09/2025

#MusicChallenge #BirdSongs 🪶 Little Corella Cacatua sanguinea Small, vocal, white cockatoo w/ erect crest. Known as Birdirra among the Yindjibarndi people, who kept as pets, or traditionally cooked & ate them. Downy feathers used in ceremonies & dances where they adorn head & armbands. 📷zambezi

Portrait photo of a little white Corella perched on a branch with a bright blue sky background. Primarily white with a small pink patch in front of the eye. Typically loud, with a slurred multi-note falsetto call. Native to Australia and southern New Guinea.

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Dani Shaw @danishaw.me · 20/09/2025

#MusicChallenge #BirdSongs 🪶 Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris Nectar connoisseur. Impressive migrants from Canada➡️Costa Rica. Fly straight & fast, can stop instantly, hover, and adjust their position up, down, or backwards w/ exquisite control. Wings beat 50x per sec. 📷mattcuda

A ruby-throated hummingbird gathering nectar from flowers. They are bright emerald or golden-green on the back and crown, with gray-white underparts. This male has a brilliant iridescent red throat that looks dark when it’s not in good light. The only hummingbird east of the Great Plains in North America.

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Dani Shaw @danishaw.me · 19/09/2025

#MusicChallenge #BirdSongs 🪶 Great Barbet Psilopogon virens Largest of the barbets. Is colorful but often appears all-dark from a distance. Sluggish & shy; sticks to dense forest canopy. Loud hooting song (series of two repetitive notes). Harsh, screaming “karrrrr” gull-like quality. 📷arjun10038

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Dani Shaw @danishaw.me · 18/09/2025

#MusicChallenge #BirdSongs 🪶 Common Nightingale Luscinia megarhynchos Nightingales are associated with night songs. Only unpaired males sing at night and only in breeding season. Can sing 180 to 260 song variations. Favorite place to nest: hazel tree. Subject of many artistic works. 📷wirestock

Beautiful shot of a Common Nightingale bird on the branch of a tree. Is 5.9 to 6.5 inches long. Plain brown with a reddish tail. The underside is white. Spends summer in Europe and winter in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Dani Shaw @danishaw.me · 17/09/2025

#MusicChallenge #BirdSongs 🪶 Greater rhea Rhea americana Much smaller, cuter + less dangerous than ostrich cousins from S. America. Named after ‘Rhea’, Greek goddess. Sloppy kisser, has a lot of saliva. Group of females w/ one male escaped a private zoo + successfully invaded Germany. 📷WildMediaSK

Greater rhea walking through savanna from side view in Pantanal, Brazil. Wild bird with long legs and neck standing in green leaves. Flightless and appears tailless. Mostly gray-brown overall with very long legs and neck and a proportionally small head. Males have a dark brown crown and blackish lower neck and upperparts. Females, as shown in the photo, have lighter plumage.

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Dani Shaw @danishaw.me · 17/09/2025

congrats! this molting cardinal from the other day just needs a party hat🥳🐦 #birds #backyardbirds #NorthernCardinal

bright red cardinal perched on a branch surrounded by green leaves in the early fall. he's molting so he has lost his tuft feathers at the top of his head.

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Dani Shaw @danishaw.me · 16/09/2025

#MusicChallenge #BirdSongs 🪶 Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus Large, striped-crown shorebird known for its long legs and curved bill. Vocals are 5-7 short rapid whistles: ti-ti-ti-ti-ti. Feed primarily on crabs and clams by probing the ground with their long bills. Breeds on Arctic tundra. 📷wirestock

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Dani Shaw @danishaw.me · 15/09/2025

#MusicChallenge #BirdSongs 🪶 Hermit Thrush Catharus guttatus Unassuming bird with a lovely, melancholy song. Forage by “foot quivering,” shaking bits of grass w/ their feet for insects. Do not enjoy feeders. Nests have been found on a cemetery grave, on a golf course + in a mine shaft. 📷wirestock

Hermit thrush perched on a wooden fence in winter. It has a rich brown upper body and smudged spots on the breast, with a reddish tail. Lurks in the understories of far northern forests in summer and is a frequent winter companion across much of southern North America.

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