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LucyParkerPaul🦉🇦🇺 @lucyparkerpaul.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This Pacific Baza appeared totally oblivious to us as it hunted its breakfast. It's the first time I've seen one with a frog and definitely one of the highlights of today's 55 species early morning walk. #birds #wildoz #brisbane

A Pacific Baza eating a small green tree frog. It took it a while to get the frog down, but as soon as it did it was off hunting again, tracking movements with its bright yellow eyes.

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Mike Funnell @mikefunnell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I went for a walk with my new lens — and saw another spinebill (I like Eastern Spinebills 🥰) (I saw lots of spinebills — but this one was the most cooperative ✔️)

An Eastern Spinebill perched in a Grevillea bush.

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Paul Shakespear 🏏🦥🇦🇺🇬🇱 @shakeycan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"No Mr. Bond. I expect you to die" Tawny Frogmouth giving Bond villian vibes. #photography #birds #ausbirds

Tawny Frogmouth bird looking menacingly straight at the camera.

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Chris Hail @hailtheyounger.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Blue-faced honeyeater 🪶 in the backyard grevilia. Subtropical plants take turns blooming throughout the year. These grevilias are winter bloomers, keeping the honeyeaters fed through the cooler months. #ausbirds #wildoz

Photo of a blue-faced honeyeater perched amongst grevilia flowers. It is a medium-sized bird, larger than most honeyeaters, with a vivid blue patch of skin surrounding its yellow eyes. It is among the stringy green leaves and bright yellow flowers of a cultivated grevilia bush.

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The Powerful Owlet looking like it was thinking about fledging two nights before. It waited one more night. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

Powerful Owlet stretching its wings on the edge of its hollow.

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David C. Simon @davidcsimon.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Superb Fairy-wren. #birds

Photo of a small passerine bird on a branch with green leaves. It is a male Superb Fairy-wren in eclipse (non-breeding colours) save for a few black and light blue feathers scattered around the face and crown, and a patch of black and blue on the back of its neck. It is otherwise light brown and cream with a long, dark blue tail held upright, black beak, and dark eyes. Its beak is open as it is singing.

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Chris Hail @hailtheyounger.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

There is a millet field nearby that attracts a great variety of birds 🪶 just before the grains are mature enough to harvest. The field catches the light late in the evening, which makes for great photos. #ausbirds #wildoz

Photo of a rainbow lorikeet perched on a head o of millet in a field. It is a medium small parrot with bright green feathers on its wings, tail, and back. Its head is violet-blue, it has an orange beak and red eyes. There is a patch of lime green on the back of its head, and its belly has a band of purple. There are fringes of yellow on its chest, which is blaze orange.

Photo of a scaly-breasted lorikeet dangling upside down from a spray of millet. It is a small parrot with green feathers all over, except for streaks of yellow on its breast and a spot of orange where its wing joins its body.

Photo of a cockatiel perched in a field of millet. It is a small parrot, mostly grey in colour, with light yellow on its head. It has a round orange spot on its cheek and a long crest on top of its head.

Photo of two galahs perched on a spray of millet. They are medium sized parrots, with pink feathers on their front, grey wings, and white on the tops of their heads.

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Chris Hail @hailtheyounger.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Wompoo fruit dove 🪶 , so called because of its gulp-and-coo call, picking which fruit to eat next. #ausbirds #wildoz

Photo of a wompoo fruit-dove perched high in a tree, surrounded by small yellow fruits. It is a large pigeon-type bird, with a pale grey head and an orange bill tipped with yellow. Its wings and tail are deep green with yellow at the shoulders, and its chest is dark purple.

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Sharlan @sharlan.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

A pair of rainbow lorikeets in a gum tree. #birds

Two green, blue, red and yellow birds. One is in a hollow of a gum tree, the other is perched just above.

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Chris Hail @hailtheyounger.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Rufous-throated honeyeater 🪶 giving me a quizzical look. Cloncurry, QLD #ausbirds #wildoz

Photo of a rufous-breasted honeyeater perched on a branch, bent around sideways and looking toward the camera. It is a small brown and yellow bird with just a hint of its reddish chest showing.

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Chris Hail @hailtheyounger.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

A pair of emus 🪶 in the grassy plains near Winton, QLD #ausbirds #wildoz

Photo of two emus in dry grass up to their ankles. They are large flightless birds, with long shaggy brown feathers and long necks held upright.

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Neil Cameron @neilcam57.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Alan's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #NegativeSpace, 1 of my fave compositions! The alt is #Solitude, so here's a 2fer with this contemplative male Rainbow Bee-eater (Merops ornatus) against a backdrop of the Brown Snake, aka the #Brisbane River. #birds #photography #ECK #Nikon #birdphotography #wildlife

A beautiful fluffed up Rainbow Bee-eater with its black curved beak, green, black, blue cheek bands framing its red eye, its yellow head, back, and chin, its green light blue, gold, black, blue, and white wings, back, and vent, and it's long black tail streamers, perches on the end of thick, broken branch, against a brown background.

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Chris Hail @hailtheyounger.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

One of Australia's prettiest pigeons, the spinifex pigeon, named for the spiky grass in the desert regions where it lives. It has one of the best crests of any bird this size. 🪶 Winton, QLD #ausbirds #wildoz

Photo of a spinifex pigeon on the ground in a rocky desert landscape. It is a small pigeon, with rusty orange and brown feathers and streaks of black and grey along its wings. Its face has a streak of white on its cheek, with a red patch around its eye, which is the same red colour. On top of its head is a narrow pointy crest, orange in colour and about 1/4 of its overall body length.

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Chris Hail @hailtheyounger.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

New Holland honeyeater in a bunya pine tree near Maleny, QLD #birds #ausbirds #wildoz

Photo of a New Holland honeyeater perched on a twig amongst branches of a bunya pine tree. It is a medium sized bird with streaks of white and black feathers on its front and tail. Its face is black, with a white eye. There is a patch of yellow on its wing. The pine tree has long dangling branches with sharp leaves attached to the stems.

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Chris Hail @hailtheyounger.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

New Holland honeyeater in a bunya pine tree near Maleny, QLD #birds #ausbirds #wildoz

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James van der Moezel @vandacorp.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

A sulphur-crested cockatoo out front amongst the the changing autumnal colours showing off its stunning crest. #Australia #Canberra #autumn #birds #photography #BirdPhotography #WildlifePhotography #NatureLovers #nature #naturephotography #Birding #Ornithology #bird #cockatoo #may

Sulphur-crested cockatoo amongst the yellow autumn leaves with its crest up.

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WA Orchids @wa-orchids.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Lovely to see some autumn colour and some of our first orchids of the season flowering in the Perth Hills today 💜💛 #orchids #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist IDs in ALT

Close up of the white flower of the Common Bunny Orchid

Close up of the red and green flower of the Hare orchid

Close up of the purple fringed flower of the Leafless Fringe Lily

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Chris Hail @hailtheyounger.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Australian gannet. Last year at Port Arthur, Tasmania. 🪶 #ausbirds #wildoz

Photo of an Australian gannet in flight in a clear blue sky. It is a large white seabird, with dark panels on the trailing edges of its wings. Its head is light yellow, with blue eyes and a white beak.

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Rachel Hollis @rachelhollisart.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

This drawing is finished! Blue-banded Bees are native to Australia, at night groups of males roost together by hanging onto twigs and the stems of plants! 🌿 rachelhollis.com/product/blue... #drawing #bee #bluebandedbee #insect

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Sarah Durrant @sarah-d.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Taken through the lounge room window, a New Holland Honeyeater enjoying a top spot on the Kangaroo Paw, where it looks as if it’s already selected the next bloom it will feed from. #WildOz #Birds #Birding #Nature #Wildlife #BackyardBirds #SoTas

A red Kangaroo Paw native Australian plant, with a small black, white and yellow bird perched among the flowers, looking at one bloom which it likely intends to get a feed from.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 04/04/2026

Silver gull yoga, Aotearoa 🪶

One white gull stretches out a red foot and wing behind as it balances on the other foot. The second gull sits there like WTF, a feather stuck on its beak.

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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Blue steel 🐦 ✨ This friend was singing away, not bothered by people at all #birds #australianbirds #magpie

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toritori @toritorihkd.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Its pure white look is getting just a little less pristine, but hey—this is the real-life snow fairy 😊🪶 #エナガ曜日今回は枝被りなし #nature #photography #animals #wildlife #Long-tailedTit #シマエナガ #birds #野鳥

A small, fluffy white Long-tailed Tit perched on a thin branch, facing the camera head-on with a slight tilt. Its plumage appears soft and slightly off-white, with dark eyes and a short bill. The background is smooth and out of focus.
細い枝にとまった白くふわふわしたシマエナガが、やや首を傾げて正面を向いている。羽毛は柔らかくやや白がくすんで見え、黒い目と短いくちばしが確認できる。背景は滑らかにぼけている。

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Tranquility Found @divinedropbear.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Eastern Reef Egret looking for breakfast... Airlie Beach, Qld (Egretta sacra) #birds #birdwatching #birding #birdphotography #australianbirds #wadingbird #WildOz

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David C. Simon @davidcsimon.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

The young Eastern Spinebill lets me get a little closer each day while it's in the Corymbia. #birds

Photograph of a small honeyeater perched on the stem of a Corymbia bud with flowers on either side. The flowers are bright red with yellow centres. The bird is shades of brown, orange, and black, with dark eyes and a long curved beak.

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Chris Hail @hailtheyounger.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Red-backed fairywren 🪶 (bright male). Ipswich region, QLD #wildoz #ausbirds

Photo of male red-backed fairywren perched on a twig with green bokeh background. It is a very small bird with the long tail feathers unique to these types of birds. Its tail feathers are held vertically, and are longer than the entire body of the little bird. It is black, with a reddish-orange band around its shoulders and back, and light brown edges on its wings.

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Chris Hail @hailtheyounger.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Wedge-tailed shearwater 🪶 in the north of Moreton Bay, with the Glass House Mountains beyond. #ausbirds #wildoz

Photo of a calm sea with rugged pointy mountain peaks in the distance. A wedge-tailed shearwater is flying low over the water in the foreground. It is a dark-coloured seabird, with long thin wings and a small stubby tail.

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Chris Hail @hailtheyounger.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Wedge-tailed shearwater 🪶 in the north of Moreton Bay, with the Glass House Mountains beyond. #ausbirds #wildoz

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Malt Padaderson @maltpadaderson.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Tawny Frogmouth at the local wetlands reserve. The juveniles are always very curious about what one is up to when walking under their daytime roost spots. #birds #ausbirds #yalikuwillamnaturereserve #wetlands #tawnyfrogmouth #natureinteraction #australia #naturephotography

Young Tawny Fogmouth staring at me from around a tree roost spot.

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Chris Hail @hailtheyounger.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Turtle dove 🪶 in Kyoto, Japan from last November.

Photo of a turtle dove with its feathers ruffled up against a chilly breeze. It is a medium-sized dove, with feathers ranging in colour from light tan to dark brown. It is perched on a branch in front of bright yellow and orange fall foliage.

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Sarntinel @sarntinel.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

The male Superb Fairy Wren's blue colour comes from microscopic structures on the feathers that scatter light. The blue plumage reflects UV light extremely strongly, making it even more spectacular to other fairywrens whose colour vision extends into the UV spectrum. #birds #aussieBirds #nikon

Breeding male superb fairy wren showing off his spectacular blue plumage while holding nesting material in his mouth.

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Sarntinel @sarntinel.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

The Spotted Pardalote's name is actually "spotted" twice. The word "pardalote" comes from ancient Greek pardalōtos, meaning "spotted like a leopard," and its scientific name Pardalotus punctatus also means "spotted". #BirdOfTheDay #speckles&spots #birds #australianBirds #australia #spots #wildBird

Male Spotted Pardalote standing at a bird bath. These tiny birds earned the beautiful nickname "diamond bird" because of their jewellike white spots that sparkle across their black head and wings.

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Ben J. (Proteros) @proteros.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Fun fact: You can tell whether an adult galah (Eolophus roseicapilla) is male or female by looking at their eyes. Males have dark brown eyes, while females (like this one pictured here) have red eyes. #birdphotography #Australianbirds #parrots #galah #photography #nature #naturephotography

A portrait photograph of a female galah (Eolophus roseicapilla) illuminated by the sun on a dark green and blurred background. Her eyes are a vibrant red, surrounded by fleshy grey-pink eye rings as this is the south-eastern subspecies (E. r. albiceps). The galah is an attractive cockatoo with a white crest and crown, bone-white beak, pink belly, neck and chest and light grey feet, back, wings and tail.

Photo taken in the Greater Sydney Area in September 2023

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Chris Hail @hailtheyounger.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

My favourite photo from last year. A Blakiston's fish-owl with a small fish at a weir just outside of Rausu (羅臼町) in Hokkaido, Japan. These are large eagle-sized owls which fish at night, osprey-style, by jumping into the water and grabbing fish with their claws. #birds #鳥

Photo of a fish-owl standing on a rock, looking directly toward the camera, with a small fish in its beak. It is a large owl, as big as an eagle. It's a very dark scene, with the owl's bright yellow eyes and the shiny silver skin of the fish standing out in the centre of the frame.

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Sarntinel @sarntinel.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Black‑shouldered Kite sitting quietly, calmly scanning the ground below for movement. Taken with #nikon3500 70-300mm #birds #birdPhotography #birdsofBlueSky #aussieBirds #australianBirds #aussieBirds #birdsofPrey #Raptors #nikon #naturePhotography

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Chris Hail @hailtheyounger.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Here's one for @everyheron.bsky.social - Heron, stork, egret, egret. (Gray, Oriental white, little, and great, from left to right) Object on ground is a camera dome at the Hachigoro Toshima Wetland nature preserve. Last month in Kinosaki, Japan #birds #鳥

Photo of a grey heron, an oriental white stork, a little egret, and a great egret all in one frame. The gray heron at left is a tall and slender bird with grey feathers on its body and black along the edges of its wings. The stork at centre of the photo is twice as tall as the heron, and is white in colour with a long black beak and a black tail. At the right and in the background is a little egret, all white with a black beak, and a good deal smaller than the heron, though with a similar body shape. In the foreground is a great egret, also all white, but taller and sporting an orange beak. Its neck is the longest of all of these birds, and is held in a characteristic 's' shape.

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TARA SMITHSON -Wildlife & Nature Photographer 📸 @tarasmithson.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

I was asking Google a question about Buff-banded Rails as I was taking a break, and I looked up and one was before me. 🪄✨ Like magic. #BirdOfTheDay #birds #birdphotography #nature #birding #birdwatchers #wildlife #wildlifephotography #Canon #Australia #R5

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Ada @ada.pix.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 16/12/2025

Ready for launch A Zebra Finch (Taeniopygia guttata) caught on camera just as its about to leap from its branch on to the ground in search of seed #bird #finch #zebra finch #australianBirds

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Chris Hail @hailtheyounger.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Sidelong view of a black kite, Oakey, QLD 🪶 #ausbirds #wildoz

Photo of a black kite flying in a blue sky. It is a medium sized raptor, mostly light brown in colour. The shot is taken from the right side of the bird, so the wings aren't visible except for the upturned feathers on their ends. The kite's eye is visible between two of those feathers.

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Glen Ryan @silverdory.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Slender sun orchid (Thelymitra pauciflora) and pink sun orchid (Thelymitra carnea) flowering close together near the Genoa River, East Gippsland, VIC. These two small sun orchids combine to form some interesting hybrids at this location but I didn't see any out this year on my quick visit #orchids

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Chris Hail @hailtheyounger.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Male paradise riflebird 🪶 Mt Glorious QLD #ausbirds #wildoz

Photo of an adult male paradise riflebird perched on a post. It is a small bird, solid black in colour, with bright metallic blue father's on top of its head and around its neck. It has a hint of bright yellow around the base of its beak, which is used as part of its elaborate mating dance.

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LittleBrownBirdPhotography @tessamurray.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

You have to twist your brain a little to understand this one 😆. An Australasian Gannet twists as it starts its dive to plummet into the water after a fish. #birds #birdphotography

$An Australasian Gannet twisting in mid air to go from horizontal to vertical and from cruising to warp speed in the fraction of a second.$

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Chris Hail @hailtheyounger.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Black-shouldered kite 🪶 departing its perch. Oakey, QLD #ausbirds #wildoz

Photo of a black-shouldered kite flying toward the camera in front of a clear blue sky. It is a medium-sized raptor, white but for the edges of its wings, which are black. It has bright red eyes with dark feathers over the tops like eyebrows.

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Glen Ryan @silverdory.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Spotted sun orchids (Thelymitra ixioides) in open grassland near Genoa,VIC. This species usually flowers a little later at this location than coastal populations closer to Mallacoota - there were only a few early scattered flowers starting to open on this visit at the end of Sept. #orchids

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