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Just cannot believe how Stormzy is now. And I get to see him on Sunday in his new home!!!

Brittlebush giving the desert a pop of color

A casual snap, but look what I caught — a Glaucous Gull and a Black-headed Gull in the same frame! 😳🪶 ウミネコ？カモメ？と思ってたらシロカモメでした。何気にライファーかも。認識してなかっただけかもしれませんが😅 #水曜日は水鳥日 #nature #photography #animals #wildlife #GlaucousGull #シロカモメ #Black-headedGull #ユリカモメ #birds #野鳥

A repost of one of our favorite Steller's jays that visits our garden #Birds #Jays #Corvids #BirdOfTheDay #Borb #Blue #BackyardBirds #Photography #Edmonds #PNW #FeatheredFriends

Mini drama on my doorstep! An American Robin and Cedar Waxwings engage in a territorial dispute over a tiny post-rain puddle in the street near my front door. What made it so desirable? Only the birds know for sure. #birds_matter #birds

“It was a dark and stormy night...” 🤣🤣🤣👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

I think it's a mistake to try to categorize intelligence by abstract thinking alone. Whales were shaped by evolution to be complex /emotional/ thinkers. They have friends, besties. They have their own regional dialects, but can *learn to communicate* with other pods (is there an orca Duolingo?)

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Quantitative genetic analyses of Song Sparrows reveal the dark side of gene flow avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2022/03/09/q... #ornithology

Ravens enjoying the morning sunrise 🪶 📷 #wildlife #nature

I may be biased but I think our little retirement village is one of the most special and peaceful places on earth

Player saves stricken seagull hit by ball during match in Turkey reut.rs/4qUCKD4

Grey wolf

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Resolving the White-eye phylogeny avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2022/03/02/r... #ornithology

Saving one dog will not change the world, but surely for that one dog, the world will change forever. Even through the dark days with Atlas I could never have dreamt this one up ❤️

Jay of the Day #birds

It's that time of the year when male ducks start acting very goofy in an attempt to impress the ladies. Common Goldeneye drakes tip their head right back, and in doing so create an illusion of "water rabbits." #birds #birding #ducks

Good Morning? 🪶

The #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #BirdsInTheirElement (birds in their natural environment) and the Alt theme is #Seabirds. So here's a Great Shearwater very much in its element. #birds #marinelife #photography

ヤマガラって三毛猫みたいな色合いだとかねがね思っていました。 #超ニーニーの日

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #CollectingFood, birds with food in their beaks. I have so many of this type of shot. Here's a few you don't see every day. I may seem a bit awful, but this is what they eat some of the time when the opportunity presents itself. Cranes love protein. #birds

I just love Pied-billed Grebes. So cute. 🪶 📷 #Wildlife #nature

Velvet is our newest arrival. An incredibly brave girl

Long-billed Dowitcher wondering 🎶What’s goin on🎶 🪶 📷 #wildlife #nature

Tonight's sunset shot from Arroyo Quemada Lane off Hwy 101, near Refugio and it was raining where I was standing when I snapped this. #Photography #Sunset

Beak-a-boo 🦜

Good morning! 🪶

A Snowy Egret showing off his feathers. 🪶 📷 #Wildlife #nature

A Great Blue Turaco at the Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle, Washington #Birds #BirdOfTheDay #BranchBirds #Photography #Birdscrolling #LipstickBird #Colorful

A Hooded Merganser preening with his head upside down and then posing nicely with his hood up. #birds #birding #ducks #HoodedMerganser

Hummingbird tongues ❤️❤️❤️

Been a couple years since I’ve seen snow on the mountains. Not much, but I’ll take it

And sometimes the common wildlife surprises you - like when I saw these two turkeys fighting each other. I didn't know turkeys fought like this until I watched them go at it. laurel-gale.pixels.com/featured/wil... #birds #wildlife 🐡 📷

The house finches have been working on the foundation of the nest. The male is not half beak though. Last year it took them a month or so before the first egg was laid. 🪶 📷 #Wildlife #nature

They have waterproof feathers, nasal flaps that block water when submerged. Rather than an insulating layer of fat, they just embrace the cold with a reduced metabolism and low critical temperature. They can also load their blood with oxygen for extended dives/underwater walks.

I have fallen in love 😍 with this preposterous birb, the American dipper or 'water ouzel' (Cinclus mexicanus). It's North America's only AQUATIC SONGBIRD. The bobbing makes it look like it's trying to psyche itself up to jump into the icy-waters, but watch... (📷: Cornell Lab of Ornithology)

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Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Similar migration strategies explain the evolution of flight calls in wood warblers avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2022/02/16/s... #ornithology

A little Ross’s Goose hanging with the Snows. 🪶 📷 #Wildlife #nature

They created these ponds so far away you need the Hubble telescope to get good pics 🙄. 🪶 📷 #Wildlife #nature

Good morning! 🪶

All about loon parenting. More importantly a thread of cute loon pictures.

Haven’t seen a lot of Sandhill Cranes this season. 🪶 📷 #Wildlife #nature

White Ratany maybe

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The alternative #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #Corvids - birds from the Corvidae family. Plush-crested Jay, Brazil 2013 #Birds #NaturePhotography #Nature #Wildlife #BirdPhotography #Jays #Brazil #Pantanal

Cleared for Landing Coming back to his same post after briefly circling around to see if he could stir up anything in the fields. 🪶 #PhotographersofBluesky #PhotographersUnited

Looks like the new ponds at Young road/Salton sea are being worked on. 🪶 📷 #Wildlife #nature

The pic on the right was an hour after the pic on the left. Did he just have his eye closed the whole time, or does he only have one eye? 🪶 📷 #Wildlife #nature

Detox Doodles! These animals are from my 100-day journey to swap scrolling for sketching: www.joyousjoyness.com/pages/detox-... This page is all about Ostriches! #art #bird #ostrich #sketch #DetoxDoodles #sciart #InkArt