"While your ancestors made the journey endless times, you must make it in a world that is rapidly changing... The journey has become exponentially harder." Read Joe Murphy's beautiful piece in @theinvadingsea.bsky.social www.theinvadingsea.com/2026/05/14/w... #MigratoryBirds #WorldMigratoryBirdDay

Looking for some prime #SpringMigration #BirdWatching for #WorldMigratoryBirdDay Sat, May 9? Consider Utah... @utahdwr.bsky.social lists birding events and great places to see migrating birds in Utah this spring..." wildlife.utah.gov/news/2026/05... #TravelThursday #MigratoryBirds

A Bald Eagle taking flight. #BirdOfTheDay #BestOfTheMonth #Birds #Birding #Wildlife #Nature #Photography #Animals #Photos #Photo #ECK #EastCoastKin

Got up early in hopes of catching this photo before work this morning. There's only a few days each year where it's cool enough in the morning to make this shot possible. Thankfully, today was one of those days! #wildlife #birds

Lifer! Have you ever seen a more gorgeous bird? This is a male blue grosbeak. ❤️ #birds #photography #birdsofbluesky

If you're like us, you never get tired looking at #BaldEagles in their nests. @disdainbrook.bsky.social has a great article in birdsandblooms.bsky.social about these magnificent raptors. Check it out – she links to 3 sites with Eagle cams: www.birdsandblooms.com/birding/attr... #ChirpUpForTheBirds

"Shorter winters, spring warming, and earlier first spring leaves can disrupt the annual cues that birds rely on to begin their migrations. These disruptions may impact the long-term survival of bird populations." Great info at www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt... Credit: @climatecentral.org

Join @nycbirdalliance.org and fellow New Yorkers in making the City safer for migrating birds by taking our Lights Out Pledge. Find out more and take the pledge here: nycbirdalliance.org/our-work/adv... #ChirpUpForTheBirds #LightPollution #LightsOutPledge #SaveTheBirds #MigratingBirds

#Cryptocurrency needs #datacenters and abundant energy. Will forests and wetlands in the Amazon suffer as a result? Today on @therevelator.org therevelator.org/cryptocurren...

"A squirrel's tale he didn't live to tell.. reverse the peril." If you want to watch, go here. The eaglets should be hatching any moment or day now. www.youtube.com/live/IVmL3di... P.s. The squirrel was evidently consumed; the tail is decoration for the nest. #BaldEagles #ChirpUpForTheBirds

Cloudy day eagle, Rock River this week: #birds #eagle #nature

Alan @alan678.bsky.social said today's #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #speckled any bird with speckled markings. So this is an Osprey wearing her speckled necklace after her long trip north to her nest in western PA. #birds #Ospreys #wildlilfe #nature #EastCoastKin #pennsylvania #nikonZ

#BirdoftheDay theme is #speckled. Here's a #northernflicker. #birds

"Endangered whooping cranes (Grus americana) are among North America’s rarest birds, but also one of its most well-known." Read about #whoopingcranes, their habitats, migration patterns, conservation efforts and more in @therevelator.org by Melissa Gaskill: therevelator.org/migrating-wh...

Check out these "recent images of some of our fine feathered friends at work and at play in the warming Northern Hemisphere" by @kokogiak.bsky.social in @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/photography/... #BirdPhotography #BirdPhotographers #ChirpUpForTheBirds

"Noise pollution is affecting bird behavior across the globe, disrupting everything from courtship songs to the ability to find food & avoid predators, a large-scale new analysis showed on Wed." More via @phys.org.web.brid.gy: phys.org/news/2026-02... #NoisePollution #Breeding #BiodiversityLoss

“Wood storks rely on healthy wetlands to find food, but this administration has gutted protections for them under the Clean Water Act,” said Elise Bennett of @biologicaldiversity.org. Read Amy Green @insideclimatenews.org: insideclimatenews.org/news/0902202... #WoodStork #EndangeredSpeciesAct

"@mccawley.bsky.social, one of the birders who photographed the scoter, didn’t set out to make a contribution to science." Read about birds ingesting #microplastics via @pjdubs.bsky.social in @wttw.bsky.social : news.wttw.com/2026/02/18/c... #WhiteWingedScoter #BirdPhotography #BirdPhotographers

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #WingsOverWater. A Brown Pelican sails along the coastline over the Pacific. #birds 🪶 #Nature #wildlife #BirdPhotography #photography #EastCoastKin #nikon #FlyDay

"What are you doing this weekend?" Read about the Great Backyard Bird Count, organized by the @cornellbirds.bsky.social, @audubon.org & @birdscanada.bsky.social, in @sciam.bsky.social by @katewong.bsky.social: www.scientificamerican.com/article/join... #GreatBackyardBirdCount #GBBC #BirdWatching

Will you be participating in the Great Backyard Bird Count this weekend? Share this post to let folks know. It doesn't matter where you bird this weekend, participating in GBBC is a great way to support birds. Spread the word so we can make this the biggest GBBC yet! www.birdcount.org/participate/

Back at Parker River, MA today and finally got my lifer snowy owl!!!!!!! It was a distant scope sighting so no photos, but winter isn’t over yet… Lots of fun glamour shots of other species! Pictured: horned lark, lifer eastern towhee, northern cardinal, and white-throated sparrow 🪶🌿

Spent some time among southern pine and ran into a red-headed woodpecker, brown headed nuthatch and the threatened red-cockaded woodpecker. The latter two are lifers and amazing birds to watch. Vocal and active with limited range. #birding #birdphotography

"What lures bird-watchers to Lake Apopka is the same thing that brings hunters there. But one group shoots pictures, while the other shoots ducks." Read Stephen Hudak @tampabaytimes.bsky.social: www.tampabay.com/news/environ... #BirdWatching #BirdSpotting #DuckHunters #FloridaBirding

Sometimes life throws you a curve ball, some times it hits you in the head with a 100 mph fastball (baseball analogy). Can't tell you how much #birding and #nature help you get through the tough times, slows you down and focuses the mind. #gratitude

Continuing with the American birds theme, one bird I really like to paint is the cardinal. This is the 3rd cardinal painting I've done and my favourite of the three. #watercolours #birdart 🪶

Bald Eagles can have a concerned expression when looking straight on.

#sandhillcrane #milford, #MI #birds #photography #birdphotography #BirdWatching #birdsofbluesky #nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography

For #TravelThursday, we offer up "A TEXAN’S GUIDE TO BIRDING" from @texashighways.bsky.social. Texas is one of the best places in the world for #BirdWatching. Its diverse landscapes house a vast number of species. texashighways.com/travel/a-tex... #BirdSpotting #TexasBirding #BirdingDestinations

Had a good day with the camera yesterday. Osprey on the hunt.

A Bald Eagle couple hanging out at the Great Blue Heron rookery. The Great Blue Herons should be arriving back at the nests in about a month.

Lifer pie! My first snowy owl! 🪶

Up to about 50 years ago, arctic #SnowGeese wintered mainly on salt marshes along the coast as far south as North Carolina. Now, you can see them in New Jersey thru April. Read Karl Anderson of Gloucester County Nature Club in NJ.com: www.nj.com/gloucester-c... #BirdWatching #BirdSpotting

The alt #BirdOfTheDay theme is #openwings birds with wings out - set by @alan678.bsky.social ~ Here's a female Kestrel struggling to hold on to her perch in strong winds along the River Severn, Gloucestershire 🪶🦉 #ukbirding #birdphotography #birdsofbluesky #EastCoastKin #naturetherapy #BirdsOfPrey

With most Hawaiian honeycreeper species lost to habitat destruction, nonnative predators, & disease, the rest face an invasive mosquito-borne disease thanks to climate change. Rita Beamish explores the fight to save them in @parkstraveler.bsky.social: www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2026/01/are-...

Some good news before we head into the weekend: Fish & Wildlife announced today that Wilson’s phalaropes — migratory shorebirds that rely on saline lakes in the American West — will advance to the next stage of review to determine whether they warrant protection under the #ESA. bit.ly/3NB8sHw

A great blue heron walks on the ice as it attempts to fish in St. Vrain Creek in Longmont, Colorado. #BirdOfTheDay #walking #FlyDay #bird #birds #birdphotography #heron #photography #photograph #photographs #photo #photos #nature #creek #creeks #riparian #herons #greatblueheron #greatblueherons

Snow ❄️ is coming to NYC & much of the nation … but so are the plovers! In less than two months, the first Piping Plovers will appear on our NYC beaches. While we love the ❄️, many of us are already busy planning & getting ready for the VIPs’ arrivals!

"If you care about birds, you probably already know that they’re in trouble. The threats they face, just at the federal level, are staggering." Read @abcbirds.bsky.social's "Keeping an Eagle Eye on #BirdConservation Policy": abcbirds.org/news/bird-co... #EndangeredSpeciesAct #ChirpUpForTheBIrds

"Deforestation, largely fueled by illegal cattle ranching, has already wiped out millions of acres..Selva Maya & the Moskitia are the most significant forests...the most threatened, shrinking by 25% in only 15 years." Read rachelreports.bsky.social in @audubon.org: www.audubon.org/magazine/hug...

"If you’re reading this, then you probably want more birds outside your window. @cornellbirds.bsky.social wants this for you too!" Read more about Cornell's Garden for Birds program from @amygrisak.bsky.social in birdsandblooms.bsky.social: www.birdsandblooms.com/birding/attr... #BackyardBirding

Portrait of a young Cooper Hawk #bird #birdoftheday #photography #blueskybirds #birdsofbluesky #canonphotography #birdart #wildlife #nature #birdportrait #birdofprey

Male Northern Cardinal atop a Giant Saguaro 🪶

I love these 2 pics of a local graylag goose hanging with the canadas that is evidently an escapee and not countable. My camera is not the best so when I get a clear, detailed shot I need to celebrate them! #birding #birdphotography

“A plover without habitat cannot exist. A plover doesn’t just go to another beach…” – @allieri.bsky.social, Executive Director, @nycploverproject.bsky.social Read @jillmwebb.bsky.social @therevelator.org: therevelator.org/piping-plove... #HabitatLoss #EndangeredSpeciesAct #PipingPlover #Shorebirds

Good afternoon, BlueSky! One of the benefits of living in the bayou city is that we have numerous places like this that are always filled with birds. This picture was taken about a mile from my house in a residential neighborhood. #Canon R5 EF 100-400 II w 1.4TC #Birds #Photography #EastCoastKin

Osprey hunting in #solitude on this #TalonTuesday #BirdOfTheDay #bird #wildlife #nature #photography #osprey Regimen fascisticum delenda est!

A hard look into the tree for today's #BirdOfTheDay #solitude Song Thrush peering out #birds #photography

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme as set by Alan @alan678.bsky.social is #Solitude #ColorADay #BlueTue #JanuArty2026 #sky #EastCoastkin #WestCoastKin #Oregon #PNW #Nature #Photography

"I’ve learned a few things in my time as a monitor... while pesticides may be an effective tool for humans, insects are a crucial source of protein for baby birds. Fewer insects can mean fewer birds." Read Stacy Shuda on #bluebirds @uspostal.bsky.social: news.usps.com/2026/01/08/b... #BirdWatching