🐦 Thick-billed Seed Finch (Sporophila funerea) 🐦 Sooty-faced Finch (Arremon crassirostris) 🐦 Stripe-breasted Wren (Cantorchilus thoracicus) 🐦 Spot-breasted Wren (Pheugopedius maculipectus) 📍 Costa Rica 🇨🇷 🗓 Feb-Mar 2025 #birds #BirdsSeenIn2025

🐦 White-throated Thrush (Turdus assimilis) 🐦 Wood Thrush (Hylocichla mustelina) 🐦 Melodious Blackbird (Dives dives) 🐦 Giant Cowbird (Molothrus oryzivorus) 📍 Costa Rica 🇨🇷 🗓 Feb-Mar 2025 #birds #BirdsSeenIn2025

Short-tailed Babbler (Mourning Babbler) (Pellorneum malaccense malaccense). Less common view with the crown feathers raised. Many birds can raise the crest. Not sure why this bird did this. No call playback used. #BirdsSeenIn2025 #Perak #Malaysia @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social #birds #nature #wildlife

🏆My Moth Oscars 2025 - Best Immature stage. Shortlist (cont.) = Bucculatrix maritima (Saltern Tuft), Agonopterix assimilella (Speckled Broom Buff), Nothris congressariella (Cornish Snout)… 2/3 #teammoth

From Argentina for #BirdsSeenIn2025

Little auk - Mergule nain France (c) Anonymous observer #BirdsSeenIn2025

#oman - An Arabian Adventure - 8th December 2025 Out into the desert. A very different world of flat, desolate expanses of wind eroded pebbles and sand with occasional pockets of life miraculously finding a home. blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/12/oman... #BirdsSeenIn2025 @bwntours.bsky.social

Morning #bird A handsome Phainopepla surveying the area at the Boyce Thompson Arboretum near Superior AZ. #birdphotography #photography #birding #birds #wildlifephotography #botd #birdoftheday #branchingout

Greater Scaup today at Marbury Country Park in Cheshire, my 201st bird species in UK for the year. Have a great 2026 everyone and don't forget to tag your bird posts next year with #BirdsSeenIn2026

One new species for me in 2025 and two for France in the #BirdsSeenIn2025 from two outings in December! Black-throated diver - Plongeon arctique Brambling - Pinson du Nord

It’s not much of a photo, but this Chestnut Piculet was high on my list of most-wanted #birds on a brief “long weekend” trip to Cartagena in March. #birdsseenin2025 This tiny, stunning cinnamon woodpecker was definitely among my favs of the year.

From Australia for #BirdsSeenIn2025

MEGA - my first Slavonian Grebe in the Alicante area and I think the first ever seen in the region. Amazingly confiding. Massive twitch yesterday - 10 birders present😂😂 I love birding in Spain. Fabulous bird. #birds #birdphotography #birdsseenin2025 #Alicante #canonphotography

For our last #WildflowerHour of the year, nine little beauties. Pineapple Weed, False Mayweed, Ragwort, Red Campion, White Dead-nettle, Ragged Robin, Creeping Buttercup, Red Dead-nettle and Yarrow.

Pin-tailed sandgrouse - Ganga cata France See credit below macaulaylibrary.org/asset/629717... #BirdsSeenIn2025

🐦 Rufous Bristlebird (Dasyornis broadbenti) 🦆 Freckled Duck (Stictonetta naevosa) 🐦 Southern Emu-wren (Stipiturus malachurus) 📍 Victoria, Australia 🇦🇺 🗓 Feb 2025 #birds #BirdsSeenIn2025

🐦 Stilt Sandpiper (Calidris himantopus) 🐦 Pectoral Sandpiper (Calidris melanotos) 🐦 Semipalmated Sandpiper (Calidris pusilla) 🐦 Least Sandpiper (Calidris minutilla) 📍 Peru 🇵🇪 🗓 Mar 2025 #birds #BirdsSeenIn2025

Eurasian penduline tit - Rémiz penduline France See credit below macaulaylibrary.org/asset/646446... #BirdsSeenIn2025

From Cuba for #BirdsSeenIn2025

From Cuba for #BirdsSeenIn2025

From Cuba for #BirdsSeenIn2025

🐦 Great Egret (Ardea alba) 🐦 Black Skimmer (Rynchops niger) 🦆 White-cheeked Pintail (Anas bahamensis) 🕊 Rock Dove (Feral Pigeon) (Columba livia) 📍 Peru 🇵🇪 🗓 Mar 2025 #birds #BirdsSeenIn2025

🎨 Birds Seen In 2025 🐦 White-tufted Grebe 📏 24–36 cm 📍 Reserva Laguna de Villa, Lima, Peru 🇵🇪 🗓 Mar 2025 #birds #grebes #BirdsSeenIn2025

From England for #BirdsSeenIn2025

For #BirdsSeenIn2025

🏆My Moth Oscars 2025 - my Best Micro winner is Bisigna procerella (Beautiful Silver-mark)🥇a lifer for me seen late at night in a Kent wood in early July. Shortlist = Oegoconia caradjai (Straw Yellowneck),…1/2 #teammoth

🕊 Metallic Pigeon (Columba vitiensis) 🕊 Pacific Emerald Dove (Chalcophaps longirostris) 🕊 Spotted Dove (Spilopelia chinensis) 🕊 Rock Dove (Feral Pigeon) (Columba livia) 📍 New Caledonia 🗓 Oct 2025 #birds #BirdsSeenIn2025

🐦 Fan-tailed Gerygone (Gerygone flavolateralis) 🐦 Barred Honeyeater (Gliciphila undulata) 🐦 Green-backed White-eye (Zosterops xanthochroa) 🐦 Grey Fantail (Rhipidura albiscapa) 📍 New Caledonia 🗓 Oct 2025 #birds #BirdsSeenIn2025

#oman - An Arabian Adventure - 7th December 2025. A full day spent working the coastal Khawrs with waders, terns, gulls and wildfowl aplenty and some surprises along the way. blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/12/oman... #BirdSeenIn2025

🐦 Southern Shrikebill (Clytorhynchus pachycephaloides) 🐦 Red-vented Bulbul (Pycnonotus cafer) 🐦 Common Myna (Acridotheres tristis) 🐦 House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) 📍 New Caledonia 🗓 Oct 2025 #birds #BirdsSeenIn2025

🐦 New Caledonian Cuckooshrike (Edolisoma anale) 🐦 New Caledonian Whistler (Pachycephala caledonica) 🐦 Satin Swiftlet (Collocalia uropygialis) 🐦 White-rumped Swiftlet (Aerodramus spodiopygius) 📍 New Caledonia 🗓 Oct 2025 #birds #BirdsSeenIn2025

Dear all #BirdsSeenIn2025 participants, these are the last days before setting all tallies of the challenge back to 0 for 2026! No new countries this week but many new bird species from all around the world! Brazil assured top 1 by reaching 800 species and a +100 since last Sunday :D

From Belize for #BirdsSeenIn2025

#oman - An Arabian Adventure - 6th December 2025. A mesmerising flight of geomorphological wonders, south to Salalah and so more quality evening owling. blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/12/oman... #BirdSeenIn2025

🎨 Birds Seen In 2025 🐦 Hooded Plover (Thinornis cucullatus) 📏 19–23 cm 📍 Anglesea, Victoria, Australia 🇦🇺 🗓 Feb 2025 #birds #waders #shorebirds #BirdsSeenIn2025

Next up in my end of year favorite #birdsseenin2025 in no particular quantity or order is the Chestnut-banded Plover, endemic to Africa and one of the birds I only managed to see once in #southafrica last August. A specialist of salt-pans. #birding

#BirdsSeenIn2025 A rare #Siberische_Tjiftjaf #Siberian_Chiffchaff in de #Netherlands. @tonyrinaud.bsky.social @britishnatureguide.bsky.social #Vogels #Birds #Natuur #Nature

Paperbark Flycatcher 'Myiagra nana', found across the north of Australia This one was seen in Holmes Jungle near Darwin, and takes me close to 100 #BirdsSeenIn2025 www.inaturalist.org/observations...

It’s that time year again so I’m posting an arbitrary number of my most exciting bird sightings in no particular order. First up is South Africa’s national bird, the Blue Crane. #birding #birdsseenin2025 in the Western Cape.

Guten Morgen. (Coquerel-Seidenkuckuck / Coua coquereli @ Kirindy, Madagaskar/November 2025) 🪶 #BirdsSeenIn2025

🎨 Birds Seen In 2025 🐦 Yellow Tyrannulet (Capsiempis flaveola) 📏 10–11.5 cm 📍 Bijagua de Upala, Alajuela Province, Costa Rica 🇨🇷 🗓 Mar 2025 #birds #tyrantflycatchers #BirdsSeenIn2025

Took a disconnected break for Christ-mas morning. Met up with the Rufous-collared Kingfisher (Actenoides concretus), male. Such a beauty. #BirdsSeenIn2025 #Ipoh #Perak #Malaysia @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social #birds #nature #wildlife

🎨 Birds Seen In 2025 🐦 Keel-billed Toucan (Ramphastos sulfuratus) 📏 42–55 cm 📍 Pital & Bijagua de Upala, Alajuela Province, Costa Rica 🇨🇷 🗓 Mar 2025 #birds #toucans #BirdsSeenIn2025

CRIMSON-BACKED TANAGER, RED-CROWNED WOODPECKER, WHITE-TIPPED SICKLEBILL & SNAIL KITE from our recent tour to Panama. #birds #birding #BirdsSeenIn2025 #panama @tonyrinaud.bsky.social @neobirdconserve.bsky.social #nature #wildlifephotography

🐦 Australasian Swamphen (Porphyrio melanotus) 🦆 Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) Phone snaps during a walk! 📍 Christchurch, New Zealand #BirdsSeenIn2025 #birds

🎆The CEBioS team wishes you happy holidays and a sucessful new year! 🦜We're also happy to share our end of the year newsletter: mailchi.mp/834a1dcb1b3f...

Wood Whites flying slow and low look easy to photograph...but can take a long time to finally settle @ukbutterflies.bsky.social From Salcey Forest, Northants in late May this year @britishnatureguide.bsky.social

A very Happy Christmas and a bird-filled 2026 to all our clients, followers and birding friends! 2025 has been another great year with lots of bird and other wildlife highlights on our tours, day trips and barge trips and we are looking forward to 2026 and beyond… #birding #birds #wildlife

I've finally finalised my moth records from 2025 and had a surprising (since I've been trapping here since 2013) 31 species new for the garden. Six were macros: Four-spotted Footman, Mullein, Small Marbled and Bordered Straw, plus Latticed Heath and Purple Bar. #TeamMoth @doublekidney.bsky.social

Some Odonates from my #Sulawesi trip in Oct: the colourful 𝘗𝘴𝘦𝘶𝘥𝘢𝘨𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘮 (endemic to the #island), 𝘕𝘦𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴, & 𝘖𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘮 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘪𝘢 (Green Skimmer) eating 𝘋𝘪𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴 (Chalky Percher)!? #dragonflies #damselfly #naturebeauty #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #insects