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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Somehow, Juncos always look like they're smiling #birds

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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A pied stilt with an opinion. Gluepot Reserve, South Australia.

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Glen Grambo 🇨🇦 @glengrambo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Gracklepalooza is winding down, but it’s been a good one this year! While most are gone, there are still a few around though! This male Common Grackle was flying to the next tree over, and wanted to make sure we got a good look at his “common” colours🤣 #Birds 🪶

A male common grackle flys against a dark background. He is flying right to left and his wings are down so we can see the gorgeous purple iridescence!
His head is a vibrant blue that sets off his yellow eye!

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent

Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The theme for #birdoftheday is #blackandred so here's my contribution. 🪶

Red-winged blackbird coming in for a landing

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SeaLevelOslo @sealeveloslo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Bed and breakfast. A greenshank stops by the inner fjord on its way south. #BirdOfTheDay Alt #LongBeak #birds #photography

A greenshank resting on one leg on a narrow bank in the sea.

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Lizzie Wallis @lizziewallis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🪶📷 Helen's #birdoftheday theme today is #BestBeaks: striking colours, bold profiles, or an interesting shape. Alt: #YellowElements. Indian (oriental) darter, Anhinga melanogaster, (aka Snake Bird) doing what it does best. Keoladeo NP, Bharatpur 🇮🇳. #Twofer #ECK #birds #birdphotography

A Snake bird with a long neck lifted out of the water, tossing a silver fish. its yellow beak is wide open. Only the neck of the bird is visible, the rest is submerged under green water. The neck, beak and fish are also reflected in the water.

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taenia @taenia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

They have some really good ones, too

A cuddle puddle of Australian Wood Duck ducklings

A Pink-eared Duck with four neatly organized babies

A pair of Black Swans swimming with a group of fuzzy little cygnets

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Tom Lynch @tomlynch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#BirdOfTheDay #BestBeaks Brown Pelicans in the Florida Keys. Spectacular flying dinosaurs! #birds #birding #birdphotography #naturephotography #birdwatching

Close up of a Brown Pelican looking to the side. Three vertical colors across its head from an auburn brown tuft at the back, a stark white stripe and a brilliant yellow crown, but it is its long, harshly hooked beak, running the length of the vertically cropped photo that most stands out.

A Brown Pelican, head tilted completely backwards until it rests on its back, long hooked beak pointing nearly straight up.

A Brown Pelican staring straight ahead. Grounded in blown brown body feathers, the long vertical photo shows the extreme length of its beak which rises to a brilliant yellow drown and two knowing eyes. A vivid turquoise and blue ocean is blurred in the background, framing its entire neck and head.

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HLK 🧛 @hlkfotos.com · 02/10/2026

Hornbill in Kenya fits the...bill. Should see a few of these guys/gals today! #BirdOfTheDay #BestBeaks #YellowElements 📷🌿🪶

A photo of a yellow-billed hornbill (Tockus flavirostris) perched on a slender horizonal tree branch holding a bright green praying mantis in its large bill. It's a medium-sized black and white hornbill with spotted upper wings, a long black tail, and a long, thick yellow-orange downcurving beak with a black stripe through the center of it. It has pale yellow irises and black and white streaking on its head. There are green leafy branches in the foreground, and it's backlit by warm-hued sunlight with a pale blue clear sky in the background behind it.

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The Garden Jungle @thegardenjungle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today’s theme by Helen for #BirdOfTheDay is #BestBeaks. So here is what I consider one of the most striking and colourful beaks in the bird world that I’ve captured, the Toucan #birds #thegardenjungle #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #shropshire #UKwildlife #birdphotography #canon #photography

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Neil Cameron @neilcam57.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Helen Bennett 🌿;'s #BirdOfTheDay ALT theme is #YellowElements I think you all knew this bird was coming: Sulphur-crested Cockatoo. #ECK #birds #birdphotography #birdsofbluesky #wildlife #nature #Photography #Nikon #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBlueSky

Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (Cacatua galerita) with its crest raised at Mulligan's Flat, Canberra.

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 15/09/2026

Given all the *flails hands* you all deserve one of the most adorable pictures I took of Baby Bird Season 2026. A snowy ploverlet peeking through a little sand shrub. Perhaps a once in a lifetime shot. 🪶 🐣

a tiny snowy plover chick, about 2 inches tall, looks through a shrub as if theyr hiding, on a beach

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

On National Poetry Day, here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.

The Power of Poetry

with things falling apart
and anarchy let loose,

it was only poetry, he found,
which had any use,

so he reached for his copy
of The Complete Works of Yeats

and bludgeoned the President
of the United States

Brian Bilston

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Helena Ludwig 🇪🇺🇦🇹🎶📸 @helenaludwig.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

@robcrank68.bsky.social theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #BestOfTheMonth. A capture of a redstart, trying to catch an insect. I adore the continuous shooting mode. 😃📷 500 mm, ISO 2200, 5.6, 1/1600, +13V. #redstart #bird #nirds #rotschwanz #vogel #nature #WildlifePhotography #BirdPhotography #ECK

Ein Hausrotschwanz auf einer Mauer, der versucht ein über ihn fliegendes Insekt zu fangen.

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

green day hitting the snooze button until november

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Atlantic Birding @atlanticbirding.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🪶 Rob has chosen #BestOfTheMonth as #BirdOfTheDay theme; you best shot for September - Quiet month for me; this encounter with a Juvenile Sparrowhawk was definitely the highlight #birdphotography #ECK #birds #photography #birdsofbluesky #Raptor #BirdOfPrey #Hawk

A Female Sparrowhawk sitting in a field of long grass. The bird is left of centre of the shot, facinf the camera and sitting in long grass so its bottom half is not visible.
The bird has a hooked beak with yellow at the base and bright yellow eyes. Its has a brown head with a prominent white eye stripe above the eye. Its back is brown and its breast and underbelly are whitish with strong grey-brown barring throughout.
Its is looking towards the right of the shot so that the right side of its head is shown.
In the foreground an out focus tuft of grass runs along the bottom of the frame, obscuring the bottom of the bird. Some kind of thistle can be seen to the left of the bird with pinkish flowers visible.
The background is long green grass, thistles and other vegetation

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What Bird?🦜 @whatbirds.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What bird is this? 🤔 (See alt text for clue) 🌏 #whatbird | #birdsoftheworld | #birds 🦉

A photo of a relatively large bird (25–27 cm / approx. 10 in long) perching on a wooden branch. It features a large, bright red beak, a deep brown head and neck, vibrant royal-blue plumage on its belly, and turquoise wing feathers.

Clue: This island-dwelling bird is named after its Indonesian home and shares a famous family name with a royal angler.

Fun fact: Instead of building a nest in tree branches, it digs long horizontal tunnels—sometimes up to a meter deep—into sunlit soil walls and earthen riverbanks to lay its eggs.

Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)

Text source: Gemini (Edited)

📷: Photo by feathercollector via Pixabay
https://pixabay.com/users/feathercollector-40562556/

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Mark Parisi @offthemarkparisi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Definitely go see Coyote vs Acme. So fun and so well done

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Dan Liebke @liebcricket.com · 30/09/2026

South Africa v Australia Third ODI Report Card, featuring Morpheus off the long run #SAvAUS 🏏

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South Africa v Australia Third ODI Report Card

Featuring Morpheus off the long run

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JBGarrity Photography @joegarrity.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Green Island is a beautiful scuba-diving destination off Taiwan's east coast. Just a few hours from my home by train and boat. This dive site is Youzihu Reef. #landscapephotography #landscape #seascapephotography #seascape #naturephotography #nature #ocean #marinelife #eastcoastkin #photography

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Icebergs on Fellsfjara beach at Jökulsárlón in south-east #Iceland, from Feb 2018.

Three small turquoise icebergs on a black sand beach with long exposure making the receding waves have nice white stripes on the beach. Above is grey stormy cloud with a touch of pink sunrise light.

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ElizaBOO 🎃🕸️ @elizabethh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Top tv shows but make it about birds: Falling Skies (Rejected poster for Ocean's 12) 🪶 #birds

Seagull dive bombing into the frame from the top edge. In the background is a beach with 11 wind surfers and paragliders in the ocean.

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SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Royal tern in LaJolla. 🪶

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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Top tv shows but make it about birds: #1 Beaking Bad (Black Skimmers) #birds 🌿

Three black and white birds stand on a sandy beach. Two face each other and look like they’re having an argument. One’s beak is wide open and the other has its beak up in the air defiantly.

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Lecia Michelle @leciamichelle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

On its way to terrorize some park goers.😂 #birds #photography #birdsofbluesky

Red-winged blackbird with black feathers and red and yellow feathers on its wing flies with wings tucked.

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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A sage in the sage on the stage of the fall 🪶

Allen's hummingbird on a long strand of sage, as seen through a mazd of purple and tawny sage stems

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TARA SMITHSON -Wildlife & Nature Photographer 📸 @tarasmithson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Metallic starlings migrate down from New Guinea each year to breed in the tropical north of Australia, bringing their brilliant iridescent feathers to the local rainforest canopy. 🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛ 📸 In my cousin's backyard. (I'll be back in another week or so) #birds #BirdOfTheDay #nature #wildlife

Photograph of three metallic starlings perched amongst lush green foliage and vines, their iridescent dark bodies gleaming with hints of green and purple and contrasting with their striking, piercing red eyes, with two of the birds having their beaks open mid-call as they chatter noisily with one another.

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Hipogrito @hipogrito.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Prairie Warbler Northport, Long Island, NY #birds #birding #birdphotography

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🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦 @joycomes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Eastern Screech-Owls can have both grey and red morph chicks in the same brood A grey parent owl can carry a hidden genetic trait for the red morph, or vice versa. When two owls mate, they each pass down one set of color genes to every chick.

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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sanderlings and black-bellied plovers—party, often, to the best sunsets in the world. And I could swear that while they're working hard part of the time, they also pause, like us, just to be thrilled with it all. 🪶

It mostly silhouIt mostly silhouetted plover in front of rose colored water with waves streaking antarctic gray blue

A minimalist image of four sanderlings piping in the sand with streaks of white seawater, washing on the shore, and the merest hints of a wave in the background

A broader view of five sanderlings sitting on the rocky shore with waves raging in the back and the hint of dana point and the top right hand side with a yellow gold sky above.

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Mark Simmonds @markbirdingpinoso.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My #birdoftheday #pairs is this pair of Great Crested Grebes displaying at El Hondo earlier this year. Such elegant birds. #birds #birdphotography

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Woodrow Peel 🆗🆒 @woodyluvscoffee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my phone to take.

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ronm123photo @ronm123photo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Any excuse for another #barnowl shot! 🙂 Going with this for Rob’s #BirdOfTheDay Alt theme of #Green, photos with Green in the backgrounds not on the birds. #birds #photography #ECK #ukbirds #wildlife #ukwildlife #owl