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What Bird?🦜 @whatbirds.bsky.social · 18h

What bird is this? 🤔 (See alt text for clue) 🌎 #whatbird | #birdsoftheworld | #birds 🦉🐧🦆🦩🦅🪿🦚

A small, vibrant green songbird (11.5–13 cm / 4.5–5.1 in long) perched on a thin tree branch amid broad green leaves. It features a bright yellow crown, black markings around its eye and bill, black-streaked green wings, and subtle bluish-gray feet.

Clue: This jewel-toned songbird from the humid cloud forests of Central and South America gets its common name from a brilliant, precious gemstone.

Fun Fact: Despite its scientific name this bird isn't native to the U.S. state of Florida—florida comes from the Latin word for "flowery" or "blooming," referring to its bright, lush plumage!

Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)

Text source: Gemini (Edited)

📷: Photo by lwolfartist via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

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Louise Blight @louiseblight.bsky.social · 4h

Adélie Penguins at the colony after a blizzard, Cape Royds, Antarctica. For the #BirdOfTheDay theme of #WingsOpenNotFlying, penguins being an obvious candidate. #birds #seabirds #SuperSeabirdSunday #wildlife

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Kdezsfn Zdkfdnviqnd @cgliacouras.bsky.social · 13h

For the #BirdOfTheDay theme of #WingsOpenNotFlying, here's a Great Blue Heron keeping its balance as it takes a step. Spoiler alert: it didn't fall. #Nature #photography #naturephotography #ECK #Wildlife #birds

A Great Blue Heron standing on a branch in shallow water. It's facing away from the camera with its wings spread as it takes a step. The brown marsh waters are in the background.

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Linda Barnia King @lindaking78.bsky.social · 16h

Steller’s Jay has a “Where the heck’s the peanuts?” look…it flew off but was back seconds after I was done refilling all the feeders so obviously was keeping an eye on me… #BirdoftheDay #Blue #Jays #Corvids #BirdPhotography #BirdWatching #BirdsoftheWorld #BirdsofBlueSky #WestCoastPhotography #PNW

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Emyr Wyn Jones @emyr-wyn.bsky.social · 17h

@robcrank68.bsky.social's #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #WingsOpenNotFlying, birds with their wings open when not flying. A Turnstone having a stretch. . . #ECK #birds #Photography #BirdsOfBlueSky #BirdPhotography #Photography @whatbirds.bsky.social @bbappnews.bsky.social @britishbirds.bsky.social

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joelrawlings.bsky.social @joelrawlings.bsky.social · 18h

Posting pictures of birds I have taken to stop my feed here just being depressing politics #birds #birdsofbluesky #ukwildlife #ukbirds Magpie, London, January 2022

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What Bird?🦜 @whatbirds.bsky.social · 18h

👍 Here's the link to the photographer's original Wikimedia Commons upload:

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Piyo_Birder @piyo-bird.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Met a female White-backed Woodpecker in Hokkaido! 🌲✨ Larger than a Great Spotted Woodpecker, with beautiful streaks on her belly. 過去写真からエゾオオアカゲラさん最近は晴れていますが探鳥に行けていません🥲 #birds #birdphotography #BirdOfTheDay ##Black&Red #野鳥 #野鳥観察 #観察

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BirdBrainer News @bbappnews.bsky.social · 22h

Bird of the Day: Grey Wagtail (Motacilla cinerea) #birdoftheday #botd #greywagtail #motacillacinerea #birdsoftheworld #birds #birdbrainerapp #birdbrainer 🔗 birdbrainer.app

A slim, long-tailed songbird standing on wet muddy rocks at the water's edge, facing left, with a soft blue- grey head and back, a thin pale eyebrow stripe, a fine dark pointed bill, a whitish throat and breast blending into a lemon-yellow wash on the belly and undertail, dark grey-brown wings with pale feather edges, a very long dark tail with white outer feathers, and slender pale legs, against a blurred grey-blue water background.

Text on card: Found across Europe, Asia, and parts of North Africa, inhabiting fast-flowing streams, rivers, waterfalls, and millraces, and in winter commonly found at sewage works, reservoirs, and coastal marshes. Despite its name, the grey upperparts are less striking than the vivid yellow underparts and rump that flash in flight.

📷: Photo by Zeynel Cebeci via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Da%C4%9F_kuyruksallayan%C4%B1_-_Grey_Wagtail_-_Motacilla_cinerea_01.jpg

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Tim H @timhopper.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Another lovely evening in town yesterday. The classic orange VW Beetle belongs to a local shop owner and is a familiar sight around town these days. It even got included towards the end of this recent video about our infamous witch trial: youtu.be/qqMItlxrfAs?is=K_Dcsn... #faversham #kent #england

A peaceful evening view of the marketplace of an old town in the southeast of England. High level clouds reflect the setting sun in bright glow to the right. A VW Beetle car in the foreground tries to compete with brightness 🙂

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What Bird?🦜 @whatbirds.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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

A relatively large, charcoal-black bird (55–60 cm / 22–24 in long) perched upside down near the top of a bare wooden branch against a clear blue sky. It features a dramatic spiky crest, a massive hooked beak, and a bright red bare patch on its cheek.

Clue: With my smoky black plumage, striking crest, and crimson cheek patch, I am Australia's largest of my kind—known for my musical talent with sticks!

Fun Fact: This bird is one of the only non-human animals known to use manufactured tools rhythmically—males break off sturdy sticks or seed pods to drum against hollow trees, creating a unique beat to attract a mate.

Conservation status: Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1)

Text source: Gemini (Edited)

📷: Photo by Karl-Heinz Lambert via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0 DE)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

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What Bird?🦜 @whatbirds.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Answer: Palm Cockatoo, also known as the Goliath Cockatoo or Great Black Cockatoo (Probosciger aterrimus) 🌏

en.wikipedia.org

Palm cockatoo - Wikipedia

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gvbodenhausen.bsky.social @gvbodenhausen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Looks like this palm warbler caught a green lacewing for lunch #Birds

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Bobbitworm (AllanM) @opengtuning.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A bird very much associated with the Falkland Islands, Black-browed Albatross, coloured pencil on drafting film #art #birdart #birdsoftheworld #birds #bird #nature #wildlife #drawing

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 03/10/2026

Somehow I’m on the Sotheby’s mailing list so I thought maybe we should all chip in and buy this carving from the early Roman Empire to keep at my house. You can come see it. www.sothebys.com/en/articles/...

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Tim H @timhopper.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

1 quadrant would be worth how much in today's money?

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Roy&Tanya @royandtanyaorganic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Had an empty #allotment bed after the Garlic 🌱 had finished. Daft as brushes, we popped in some spare Marigolds and Asters just to have something in the ground. Looks kinda' fun now, don't you think.... Hoverflies love it! 😘

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Emyr Wyn Jones @emyr-wyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

@alan678.bsky.social’s #BirdIfTheDay theme today is #BlackAndRed. Can’t get blacker or redder than this Chough! The Cymraeg/Welsh name for Chough is ‘Bran Goesgoch’ - Red-legged Crow. #ECK #birds #Photography #BirdPhotography @whatbirds.bsky.social @bbappnews.bsky.social @britishbirds.bsky.social

An adult Chough - jet black with bright red legs and a down-curved red beak, seen side-on, looking to the right of the frame, walking amongst grass stems growing from cracks in the limestone on Inishmore - Aran Islands, County Galway, Ireland.

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franceflo.bsky.social @franceflo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yes its @alan678.bsky.social turn to host today's #BirdOfTheDay, and his theme is #Black&Red, any bird with Black & Red in its plumage. The Alt is #LongBeak, birds with long beaks. In Brisbane , found this little guy. 😄 #smallbirdsaturday #twofer #lifer #Australia #birdsoftheworld #birdsSeenin2026

Male - backed fairywren , a small bird with a long tail that is held cocked, mostly black with red back and rump.
Perched on a small leaveless branch facing right

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Orknithology @orknithology.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Why? Just Beak-ause" Puffin (Fratercula arctica) on Westray, #Orkney, in July. For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme of #BestBeaks. #OrkneyBirding #BirdingScotland #UKBirding #BirdsOfBluesky #BirdsSeenIn2026 #birdsoftheworld #Puffin #Auk 🪶

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Paul Pharoah @paulpharoah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#BirdsOfTheWorld #birds #nature A pair of African penguins are here to show you that despite everything there is love in the world.

Close up of a pair of African penguins 'cuddling' on their nest.

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Paula Chernoff @paulachernoff11.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A female downy woodpecker arrives and takes over! #birds

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What Bird?🦜 @whatbirds.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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

A large bird of prey (1.9–2.4 m / 6.2–7.9 ft wingspan) standing amidst tall green grass. It features a striking white head and breast, a yellow face and beak with a dark hook, and deep chestnut-brown plumage on its body and wings against a softly blurred natural background.

Clue: Known as the "voice of Africa," this majestic raptor is a master angler whose echoing call is a signature sound of Sub-Saharan waterways.

Fun Fact: Their feet are lined with sharp structures called spiricules to help them grip slippery, wriggling fish straight out of the water!

Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)

Text source: Gemini (Edited)

📷: Photo by Leon Basson via Pixabay
https://pixabay.com/users/leonbasson-8610446/

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What Bird?🦜 @whatbirds.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Answer: African Fish Eagle or African Sea Eagle (Icthyophaga vocifer) 🌍

en.wikipedia.org

African fish eagle - Wikipedia

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H. HOSSAMELDIN @hanyhossameldin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

------ Black Winged Stilt ------ * Camera: SONY A1 * Lens: Sony FE 400-800mm @whatbirds.bsky.social #BlackWingedStilt #BirdPhotography #Wildlife #Birds #Nature #Water #Seabirds

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Emyr Wyn Jones @emyr-wyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

@helenbennett.bsky.social's #BirdOfTheDay is #BestBeaks This Razorbill, closest living relative of the extinct great auk, certainly offers a bold profile and an interesting shaped bill #ECK #birds #Photography #BirdPhotography @whatbirds.bsky.social @bbappnews.bsky.social @britishbirds.bsky.social

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Tim H @timhopper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My neighbour's sunflower was looking more than a little sad 🙂 Time to bunch the seed heads together to hang on the wall for the birds 👍 #sunflowerseeds #sunflowers #birds

A woebegone-looking sunflower growing in a pot in the corner of a small backyard.

The cut seed heads bunched together in preparation for hanging on the wall.

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Tim H @timhopper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yet another lovely sunset this week! This one's from Wednesday evening 😍 #sunset #faversham #kent #england

The sunset over an industrial area of an old town in the southeast of England.

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Nanten @nan1124.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

お初、コガモを確認しました。🪶 鴨にとって、一等地の探鳥地から埋まっていく様子なので🤔？まだ、たまたま降りてみただけかもしれませぬが…🫶🏻 ＃birds ＃Enjoy鳥見＃commonteal ＃コガモ

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Bestioles @bestioles.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

La cotorra de Kramer, un ocell de l'Àfrica i l'Àsia tropicals, viu a la costa de la província de Barcelona des dels 70. Aquest octubre se n'ha observat a Catalunya. És una espècie invasora a Europa. Vídeo: Nesnad (CC BY-SA 4.0) #birds

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