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Sandra Aamodt @sandra-aamodt.bsky.social · 3h

Rufous casiornis in the rain at Fazenda Barranco Alto in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, for #SmallBirdSaturday #birds

Wet cinnamon flycatcher with a pale belly, standing on a diagonal branch, facing away from the camera with its head turned to the left, against a background of blurred leaves and sticks. Its scientific name is Casiornis rufus.

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Sandra Aamodt @sandra-aamodt.bsky.social · 13h

Crimson-crested woodpecker female at Jaguar Eco Lodge in Mato Grosso, Brazil #BirdOfTheDay #Black&Red #birds

Woodpecker on a diagonal tree trunk against blue sky. Her crest is red, her eye stripe and chin are black, and the area in between them is white. Her back is black, and her belly is finely striped in black and tan. Her scientific name is Campephilus melanoleucos.

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Amar @amarhss.bsky.social · 18h

Some have asked me where is a good site to see the Temminck's Sunbird (Aethopyga temminckii) in Peninsular Malaysia. Try the gardens of the Moonriver Lodge at Sigar Highlands. Also the Bamboo Woodpecker & 100s of acres of unexplored forest. See our report: malaysianbird.report/wp-content/u...

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toritori @toritorihkd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#キツツキん曜日今週もコゲラっちょです。混群ではなくコゲラだけの小さな群れで、マユミ（の種）パーティー🎉を開催していました。ヒャッハー❗️食い放題だぜー‼️😎🪶 #nature #photography #animals #wildlife #JapanesePygmyWoodpecker #コゲラ #birds #野鳥 #Japan #BirdsSeenIn2026

A Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker perches on a branch facing right, holding a red Hamilton’s spindletree seed in its bill. Blurred pink fruits are visible in the foreground and background.
右向きに枝にとまったコゲラが、くちばしに赤いマユミの種をくわえている。手前と奥にはピンク色のマユミの実がぼけて写っている。

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Sandra Aamodt @sandra-aamodt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Roseate spoonbill at Fazenda Barranco Alto in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil #BirdOfTheDay #BestBeaks #Flyday #birds

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Dave @albatrossity.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Today's Alt #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Vivid — any bird with bright colours Little Bee-Eater, Tanzania 2018 #Birds #NaturePhotography #Nature #Wildlife #Bee-eater #Tanzania #Africa

two green-backed birds with yellow throats, orange-yellow undersides and blue and black eye-stripes, perched on a dead stick

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Sandra Aamodt @sandra-aamodt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yellow-fronted woodpecker male near Ubatuba, Brazil. These birds are closely related to our acorn woodpeckers and also live in noisy, active groups. #BirdOfTheDay #Vivid #birds

Brightly colored woodpecker standing upright on a horizontal branch with his head turned to the left, against a blurred green background. His crown and neck are red, his chin and eye ring are yellow, and his eye and eye stripe are black. His chest is yellow, his belly is red, his wings are black, and his flanks are striped in yellow and black. His scientific name is Melanerpes flavifrons.

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Malcolm Campbell @malcolmjsc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In July, @puzzlewild.bsky.social and I went to Galloway for Scottish Photography Hides. We rented the Pine Marten/Tawny Owl hide. After a buzzard then a sparrowhawk, we saw pine martens. The hides are great. We’ll definitely go back! #ukwildlife 🦊 #pinemarten #scotland

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Nick Bray @zootherabirding.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Seen plenty of Crimson-rumped Waxbills at Abu Simbel these past couple of days. Grossly lightened this pic to get the detail and what a stunner! Only officially discovered in May 2025 in this far flung corner of the Western Palearctic. #birds #BirdsSeenIn2026 #birding

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Tony Allen-Mills @taminf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'd been saving something nice for #BirdoftheDay and Rob's #BestoftheMonth but yesterday I went down to my favourite hide by the Rhone river ponds. Bingo. #photography #birds

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Sandra Aamodt @sandra-aamodt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Brassy-breasted tanager and reflection at Sitio Macuquinho Lodge in Salesópolis, Brazil #BirdOfTheDay #BestOfTheMonth #birds

Small green bird momentarily airborne as it hops on rocks along the edge of a pond, with its reflection below. It has a turquoise ring around its black eye and a turquoise forehead, small black spots above its beak and on its throat, a burnt orange chest, and orange streaks across its back. Its scientific name is Tangara desmaresti.

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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's Wrensday Wednesday! 😀 Here's a splendid fairywren that was easy to find right at my camping ground at Gluepot on Sunday. These are stunning little birds. #wrensday

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globalbirder.bsky.social @globalbirder.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Grandala. Sichuan, China This bird isn’t blue! The eye-searing sapphire hue is entirely an optical illusion created by structural keratin that reflects short, high-energy wavelengths that humans perceive as blue. There’s no blue pigment. #birds #birding #wildlife #nature #birdphotography #Nikon

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Sandra Aamodt @sandra-aamodt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Scale-throated hermit at Sitio Macuquinho Lodge in Salesópolis, Brazil #BirdOfTheDay #BokehBirds #birds

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Andy Lowe @lowekeyone.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Cooper's Hawk that was kind enough to fly right over me. #BirdOfTheDay #airborne #birds #photography

Cooper's hawk with its wings outstretched in front of a clear sky.

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Sandra Aamodt @sandra-aamodt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Brown booby in flight at Île Fourchue in the French West Indies (another twofer) #BirdOfTheDay #Seabirds #Airborne #SuperSeabirdSunday #birds #photography

Bird in flight with its wings spread diagonally against blue sky. Its face and feet are yellow, and its beak is white, with a small blue patch around its eye. Its head and shoulders are brown. Its belly and the base of its wings are white, and the edges of its wings and its tail are brown. Its scientific name is Sula leucogaster.

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Edwin Godinho @bebedi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Colours - Finally got a nice shot of a #PurpleCrestedTuraco; got it eating a berry. The national bird of #Eswatini. #wildlife #nature #photography #birds 🪶 #birdlife #canon #wildlifephotography #photographersofbluesky #africa #turaco #bird #GallirexPorphyreolophus📍 #KrugerNationalPark #SouthAfrica

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Sandra Aamodt @sandra-aamodt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Black-throated mango male at Folha Seca near Ubatuba in the Atlantic rainforest of Brazil for #SmallBirdSaturday #birds

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Sandra Aamodt @sandra-aamodt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Hyacinth macaws messing around in a palm tree at Jaguar Eco Lodge in Mato Grosso, Brazil, for another #BirdOfTheDay twofer #Pairs #Green #birds

Two large cobalt blue macaws with yellow eyes and a yellow stripe at the base of their beaks, standing in a brown and green palm tree with blue sky in the background. The one on the left is standing horizontally and biting at the beak of the one on the right, which is standing vertically and holding a palm nut in its beak. Their scientific name is Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus.

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LaffingKat @laffingkat.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Here's a female dark-eyed junco (Junco hyemalis) of the Oregon subspecies looking rather plump. #BirdOfTheDay #Borbs #Brown #Birds #Photography #EastCoastKin

A female dark-eyed junco (Junco hyemalis) of the Oregon subspecies perches on a maple tree branch, looking rather plump. She's a small sparrow with a dark brownish-gray hood, brown back, buffy sides, white belly, and white outer tail feathers. She has black eyes and a small, cone-shaped, pale pinkish bill.

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Daniel Hannabuss @dhphotographyinfo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Such a beautiful creature! www.dhphotography.info/arctic

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Sandra Aamodt @sandra-aamodt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Rufous gnateater male at Sitio Macuquinho Lodge in Salesópolis, Brazil, for a #BirdOfTheDay twofer #Borbs #Brown #birds

Small, round, reddish brown bird with a short tail on a horizontal branch against a blurred light brown background. He has a rufous orange face and breast, a gray eye stripe, and a buffy belly. His scientific name is Conopophaga lineata.

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Sandra Aamodt @sandra-aamodt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Green kingfisher, probably an immature male, at Southwild Amazon in Mato Grosso, Brazil #BirdOfTheDay #TheDivers #birds

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Sandra Aamodt @sandra-aamodt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Juvenile harpy eagle at Southwild Amazon in Mato Grosso, Brazil #BirdOfTheDay #Raptors #birds

Large gray bird facing away from the camera with its white head turned to the left and its crest raised, against a background of blurred black and blue, with a few leaves in the foreground

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Michael Babcock @mbabco.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A Common Flameback at Kaeng Krachan, Thailand. (I don't like calling this magnificent woodpecker "common.") He's got the requisite #Redheads, any bird with a Red on its head/beak, for @robcrank68.bsky.social's #BirdOfTheDay theme for today.

A Common Flameback woodpecker with it's bright red top of the head.

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Neil Cameron @neilcam57.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Rob Crank Photography's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Redheads All in my yard over the past few months: * Crimson Rosella * Eastern Rosella * Australian King-Parrot * Gang-gang Cockatoo #ECK #birds #birdphotography #birdsofbluesky #wildlife #nature #Photography #Nikon #PhotographersUnited

Crimson Rosella (Platycercus elegans), Waramanga, ACT

Eastern Rosella (Platycercus eximius).Waramanga, ACT

Australian King-Parrot (Alisterus scapularis), Waramanga, ACT

Gang-gang Cockatoo (Callocephalon fimbriatum), Waramnga, ACT

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Sandra Aamodt @sandra-aamodt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Cream-backed woodpecker males foraging together at Fazenda Barranco Alto in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil #BirdOfTheDay #Redheads #Twosday #birds #photography

Two large woodpeckers with red heads and black bodies pecking on a tree trunk, against blurred branches and blue sky. The one in back is a head higher than the one in front, which shows the cream patch in the middle of the back that gives them their name. They have a tiny black stripe above a tiny white stripe on their cheeks. Their eyes are yellow with a black circle around them, and their beaks are pale. Their scientific name is Campephilus leucopogon.

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Sandra Aamodt @sandra-aamodt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Tufted capuchin at Jaguar Eco Lodge in the northern Pantanal of Brazil #MammalMonday #mammals #photography

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Michael Babcock @mbabco.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Very nice photo. When I was at Fang Hot Springs in Thailand last year, someone asked me "Have you seen the toucan?" Hmm. I think they meant hornbill. Nonetheless I could not resist a bit of photo manipulation.

A Toucan photoshopped onto a rock at Fang Hot Springs, Thailand with mist in the background.

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Sandra Aamodt @sandra-aamodt.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Jaguar males Pantaneiro and Makala playing in the Cuiabá River in Mato Grosso, Brazil for #Stunday #mammals #wildlife #photography

Two jaguars wrestling in brown water against a background of green water plants. The one on the right is upright, out of the water from the middle of his back, facing away from the camera with his head turned to the left. The one on the left is lower, with his head and shoulders out of the water, facing the camera with his head turned to the right and a paw raised to bat at his friend's nose.

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Sandra Aamodt @sandra-aamodt.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Jaguar males Pantaneiro and Makala playing in the Cuiabá River in Mato Grosso, Brazil for #Stunday #mammals #wildlife #photography

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Clinty1 @clinty1.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

@helenbennett.bsky.social Today's #BirdOfTheDay is #CaptionThatBird "Oops, my bad, I thought you were a rock!"

A white Ibis landing on a whistling duck's back. The ibis is white with black wing tips and a long, sharp red beak.

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Sandra Aamodt @sandra-aamodt.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"Don't move - you'll scare the people, and I think that one's a lifer!" #BirdOfTheDay #CaptionThatBird #birds

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BeeGee494 @beegee494.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Black-collared Barbet - Zuid-Afrika 2014

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Sandra Aamodt @sandra-aamodt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Male jaguar friends swimming together on the Cuiabá River in Mato Grosso, Brazil for #caturday. That's Makala on the left and Pantaneiro on the right. They're both three years old, and they're inseparable. #mammals #photography

Two jaguar heads, facing the camera, poking out of blue water with aquatic plants in the background

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Sandra Aamodt @sandra-aamodt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Red-and-white crake looking #elegant at Pousada Ninho da Cambacica in the Atlantic rainforest of Brazil #BirdOfTheDay #birds

Rufous bird with a red eye, yellow beak, and pink legs, facing the camera with its head turned to the right, standing on sand with leaves and grass in the background. It has a white throat and breast with black-and-white stripes on its flank. Its scientific name is Rufirallus leucopyrrhus.

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Birding Ralph 🐦🦆🦉🦋🐞📸 @birderbro.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Totally lucked out the other day when this beautiful female Kingfisher - or is it Queenfisher...🤔? - landed right in front of me. They're such gorgeous #birds, aren't they? #nature #naturephotography #eck #photography #kingfisher #BirdsSeenIn2026 🇩🇪

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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Splendid Fairywren for @chromaticlamina.bsky.social ! Thank you for your continued #Waymakers support. What a fantastically beautiful Aussie species! #SciArt #BirdArt 🎨🪶 Every donation goes to support immigrant kids in the US. Ends Sept. 30: youngcenter.donordrive.com/campaigns/Bi...

Digital illustration of a male Splendid Fairywren in breeding plumage. He is a perky little guy with tail cocked upward while perched on a bare twisty branch in front of a dreamy yellowish background. He is an array of sapphire and turquoise blues, outlined in deep black around the throat and auriculars.

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Sandra Aamodt @sandra-aamodt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A somewhat distant shot of a campo flicker female from Brazil to tide you over #FlickerFriday #birds

Woodpecker on a branch surrounded by other branches and leaves, against a blurred green background. Her body is striped in black and white, her cap and chin are black, her cheek, collar, and chest are yellow, and there is a white patch around her black eye.

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Sandra Aamodt @sandra-aamodt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Mountain chickadee above Sonora Pass in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California #BirdOfTheDay #Paridae #birds

Small gray bird with black cap, throat, and eye stripe, and white above and below the eye, standing on top of a pine tree surrounded by needles and blue sky

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SaraG @hardlikearmour.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Went through one of my memory cards today and found some cool captures of a Common Yellowthroat from the spring. I'm pretty sure he had a nest in the area. I'm not sure he could fit another insect in his little beak! #ColorADay #YellowThu #Birds #ECK

A male Common Yellowthroat (small bird with a black masked face, white streak above the black mask, bright yellow bib fading to buff midway down the breast, and otherwise tannish coloration) with a beak full of winged insects perched on a narrow branch. Background is blurred green foliage with a few narrow brown branches.

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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

For @sandra-aamodt.bsky.social an American Pygmy Kingfisher! Thank you so much for your #Waymakers donation. Oh, to be a tiny kingfisher in a tropical forest! 🪶🎨 #BirdArt #SciArt Every dollar raised helps immigrant kids in the US! Donate by Sept. 30: youngcenter.donordrive.com/campaigns/Bi...

Illustration of a tiny little American Pygmy Kingfisher perched on a branch in a lush forest. Huge leaves bracket the image for scale. The kingfisher has a long glossy black beak, a dark green head with orange brow, bright orange belly, and shining turquoise back.

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Simon @splphoto.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme chosen by @alan678.bsky.social is: #ODG, any Owl, Duck or Goose. Barn Owl Hunting #wildlifephotography #splphoto #birds 🪶 #ukwildlife #ukbirds #owl

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Sandra Aamodt @sandra-aamodt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Ferruginous pygmy-owl at Jaguar Eco Lodge in Mato Grosso, Brazil #BirdOfTheDay #ODG #birds

Small owl facing the camera on a slightly diagonal branch against blue sky with some blurred branches. Its belly is white with reddish brown streaks, its head is reddish brown with white streaks, its wings are reddish brown with white spots, and its eyes and beak are yellow.

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