Latest posts tagged with #birdidentification on Bluesky
Group of 5 terns with white and gray plumage, black head and wing feathers and pointed orange bills standing on a beach among small gulls
Were they Elegant or Royal terns? Or both?? The one on right is smaller looking... ⁉️ Santa Barbara CA (plus Ring-billed gulls at least?) #birds #birdidentification
Entry-level birding taxonomy : basics; round ones: crappers; swimmers; birds with funny legs; killers.
#ornithology #birding #birds #birdwatching #birdidentification
(From a book by Matt Kracht)
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Time for a new hobby? Terrific vintage book on bird identification! From the 1980s. Field size for easy carrying. etsy.me/3CdOOGa #etsy #vintagebook #birdwatching #birdidentification #ornithology #birds #science #avian #naturewalk
Swimming bird with dark wings and back, slim upturned bill and white throat and underparts
Similar bird with a paler head seen swimming in profile
Red-Throated Loons? Off Stearns Wharf in Santa Barbara CA #birds #birdidentification the bill is super slim and recurved in all of these I saw
2 small waterfowl with thin upturned bills, red eyes, dark head and wings and pale chin/breast/underparts, with very fluffy tail ends
Knowledge tested to the limit… Eared Grebes? In Morro Bay CA #birds #birdidentification
Small hawk with heavily streaked breast and strongly barred wings perching on a large post
Immature Cooper’s Hawk?? Asilomar State Beach #birds #birdidentification
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Medium to dark brown hawk with banded tail and barred underparts perched in a tree
Rear view of hawk perched on a fence post with the broad tail visible
Same individual, Asilomar State Beach near Pacific Grove CA. Red-shouldered or Broad-winged??? #birds #birdidentification
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There are both Red Tailed & Red Shouldered Hawks at Ridgefield NWR...I am thinking Red Shouldered due to woodsy habitat and amount of color on the chest.
What is your ID and Why?
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Waterthrush holding multiple birds in its beak near a creek in the Smokey Mountains.
Waterthrush holding bugs in its beak near a creek in the Smokey Mountains National Park. Not certain of the identification.
A little help identifying this bird? Photo taken in the Smokey Mountains, east Tennessee. Is this a Louisiana waterthrush? It was hunting near a creek.
#birds #canonwildlifephotography #originalphoto #SmokeyMountains #Louisianawaterthrush #mysterybird #birdidentification #orinthology
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Parrot pair
Two nearly identical yellow-crowned parrots sit together.
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Time for a new hobby? Terrific vintage book on bird identification! From the 1980s. Field size for easy carrying. etsy.me/3CdOOGa #etsy #vintagebook #birdwatching #birdidentification #ornithology #birds #science #avian #naturewalk
