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TARA SMITHSON -Wildlife & Nature Photographer 📸 @tarasmithson.bsky.social · 13h

Metallic Starling #LookingDown for #BirdOfTheDay ✨🐦🌟 Their iridescence is created by microscopic feather structures that act like prisms, scattering light into shifting green and purple hues as it moves. 🌈🪶💫 #birds #birdphotography #nature #wildlife

A Metallic Starling with glossy, iridescent green and violet-purple plumage perches downward among lush green leaves. The bird features striking, bright red eyes and a sharp black beak, surrounded by dense foliage and thin vines.

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Sandra Aamodt @sandra-aamodt.bsky.social · 12h

Yellow-chevroned parakeets at Jaguar Eco Lodge in Mato Grosso, Brazil #BirdOfTheDay #LookingDown #TwosDay #birds

Two green parakeets with yellow patches on their lower wings and white rings around their black eyes, standing on vertical bare branches with their heads toward the ground, against blue sky. Their scientific name is Brotogeris chiriri.

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Sandra Aamodt @sandra-aamodt.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Thanks! They're actually kind of ridiculous - awkward and flappy and noisy. But also cool.

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Sandra Aamodt @sandra-aamodt.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Thanks, Kat! They're very unusual birds, the only members of their order and the only bird that ferments plants in its digestive system like a ruminant.

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PacBirds @pacbirds.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

A tree swallow for the #blue theme of #BirdOfTheDay #birds #nature #photography #ECK

Swallow in flight seen from above with spread out wings and tail with bare eucalyptus branches in the background. The head, back and shoulders are iridescent blue and the wings and tail are grey.

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Sandra Aamodt @sandra-aamodt.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Hoatzin on the Juruena River near Southwild Amazon Lodge in Mato Grosso, Brazil for a #BirdOfTheDay twofer #Brown #Blue #birds

Large brown bird with an orange mohawk and throat and a blue skin patch around its red eye, facing away from the camera with its head turned to the right, against a background of green leaves. Its scientific name is Opisthocomus hoazin.

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Sandra Aamodt @sandra-aamodt.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Thanks, Kat! The timing was right on this one.

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Sandra Aamodt @sandra-aamodt.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Thanks, Rob! They’re especially pretty with their wings out.

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Sandra Aamodt @sandra-aamodt.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Thanks, Doug! I wouldn’t have thought of that, but I see what you see.

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Sandra Aamodt @sandra-aamodt.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Black-bellied whistling duck just barely still in flight at Fazenda Barranco Alto in Mato Grosso do Sul #BirdOfTheDay #Ducks&GeeseInFlight #birds

Duck landing with wings spread back and head forward against a background of grass. Its beak and legs are pink, its lower body and the underside of the wings are black, and its upper body and face are chestnut. There is a white stripe across the middle of the top of the wing. Its scientific name is Dendrocygna autumnalis.

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Sandra Aamodt @sandra-aamodt.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Thanks, Rob! That polka-dotted scarf is only attached at the top, so it moves around as the birds fly, which I love.

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Sandra Aamodt @sandra-aamodt.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Thanks, Rob! These guys were a bit spooky for parakeets, but luckily they flew into where I was already standing for this shot.

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

Festive coquette male at Pousada Ninho da Cambacica in the Atlantic rainforest of Brazil for #SmallBirdSaturday #birds

Tiny hummingbird in flight against a blurred green background. His head and upper body are green with a scarf of white polka dots on dark green dangling from his chin and a white patch on his chest. His lower body is brown with a white band around his rump. His scientific name is Lophornis chalybeus.

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

Thanks, George! I also wonder about the eye rings.

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

Peach-fronted parakeet at Jaguar Eco Lodge in Mato Grosso, Brazil #BirdOfTheDay #Green #birds

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Sandra Aamodt @sandra-aamodt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yes, they’re very flashy for waders

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Sandra Aamodt @sandra-aamodt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Thanks, Kat! I’ve wondered about the purpose of those colors. Probably sex…

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Sandra Aamodt @sandra-aamodt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Gray-cowled wood-rail at Fazenda Barranco Alto in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil #BirdOfTheDay #Waders #birds

Large rail with gray head and neck, orange-brown breast, and pink legs, wading along the edge of a river with its open yellow beak in the water. Its scientific name is Aramides cajaneus.

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Sandra Aamodt @sandra-aamodt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Thanks, Rob! This was a tough little guy to catch. I only got a clear view once.

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YHR @yahiro-photograph.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

What a bill! 😄 This White-throated Toucan looks like it’s carrying a colorful, oversized beak with absolute confidence. #birds

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Sandra Aamodt @sandra-aamodt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Thanks, Kat! I got exactly one shot of this little skulker, when he briefly came out of the bush.

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Sandra Aamodt @sandra-aamodt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Scaled antbird male near Ubatuba in the Atlantic rainforest of Brazil #BirdOfTheDay #crooners #birds

Small black and white bird standing on a twig against a blurred green background with his beak open. He has white spots on top and streaks below, with a barred tail and gray edges on his wings. His scientific name is Drymophila squamata.

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Sandra Aamodt @sandra-aamodt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thanks! They were everywhere, and people were just...ignoring them.

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Sandra Aamodt @sandra-aamodt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thanks, Kat! The tanagers of the Atlantic rainforest tend to be extravagantly multicolored.

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Sandra Aamodt @sandra-aamodt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thanks! We got on the river at 6 that morning, so the light was very nice.

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Sandra Aamodt @sandra-aamodt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thanks, Mark! They really are supermodels.

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Sandra Aamodt @sandra-aamodt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Wattled jacana on the Cuiabá River in Mato Grosso, Brazil, #perched on water hyacinth and surrounded by #BlueWater for a #BirdOfTheDay twofer #birds

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Sandra Aamodt @sandra-aamodt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thanks, Rob! I love these little guys, no matter how common they are.

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Sandra Aamodt @sandra-aamodt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

They're gorgeous, but they act like sparrows. One of them showed up on our outdoor breakfast table at the hotel. We were charmed, and it got some food.

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Sandra Aamodt @sandra-aamodt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026