Alex Sauerbrunn
@birdsbyalex.bsky.social
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Birder & Photographer | Based in SoCal
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Great Horned Owl family portrait
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#bird
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"LOOK WHAT I CAN DO" "WHOA I WANNA TRY"
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This Anna’s Hummingbird picked a beautiful spot to raise a family!
#BirdOfTheDay
#BestOfTheMonth
#birds
#nature
#wildlife
#photography
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kevinosx
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Monday morning osprey...
#photography
#birdphotography
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A big yawn from a sleepy Great Horned Owlet.
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#owl
#nature
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A Green-winged Teal stands tall amid the onset of spring.
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8 days ago
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Ivory-billed Woodpecker! Can’t wait for their next project 🪶
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Their Birding Documentary Became a Surprise Hit, but the Reiser Brothers Are Just Getting Started
With a new project about their search for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, the irreverent, road-tripping filmmakers behind “Listers” are going for more than laughs.
https://www.audubon.org/magazine/their-birding-documentary-became-surprise-hit-reiser-brothers-are-just-getting-started
9 days ago
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Ivory-billed Woodpecker! Can’t wait for their next project 🪶
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Their Birding Documentary Became a Surprise Hit, but the Reiser Brothers Are Just Getting Started
With a new project about their search for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, the irreverent, road-tripping filmmakers behind “Listers” are going for more than laughs.
https://www.audubon.org/magazine/their-birding-documentary-became-surprise-hit-reiser-brothers-are-just-getting-started
9 days ago
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A striking Northern Flicker showing off those classic spots.
#BirdOfTheDay
#speckled
#birds
#nature
#wildlife
#photography
9 days ago
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A Vermilion Flycatcher looking like straight-up fire!
#birds
#nature
#wildlife
#photography
16 days ago
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli
18 days ago
Counting birds is so hot right now.
add a skeleton here at some point
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PacBirds
22 days ago
A black oystercatcher in a drizzle for the
#GreyDay
theme of
#BirdOfTheDay
picked by
@alan678.bsky.social
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#photography
#nature
#ECK
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Bananaquit doing Bananaquit things
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22 days ago
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Matt Ufford
23 days ago
the first rule of owl club is you don’t talk about owl club🦉🦉🦉🦉🪶
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A precious moment as an Anna’s Hummingbird feeds her little hummers.
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#nature
#wildlife
#hummingbird
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A Brandt’s Cormorant rocking that electric blue!
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#nature
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#photography
about 1 month ago
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Tim Osborne Photography 🍁
about 1 month ago
I'm told today's
#BirdOfTheDay
theme is
#ShoutItOut
so felt like a good time share this one.
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Just look at that gorgeous gorget on this Anna’s Hummingbird. Quite a handsome fellow!
#birds
#hummingbird
#nature
#wildlife
#photography
#BirdOfTheDay
#BestOfTheMonth
about 1 month ago
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A Short-eared Owl glides low over a golden meadow with
#WideOpenWings
, today’s
#BirdOfTheDay
theme.
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#owl
#nature
#wildlife
#photography
about 1 month ago
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Science says: go birding! 🪶
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'Birdbrain' benefits: How being an expert birdwatcher may boost cognition
New research shows that seasoned birders — including older adults — had denser tissue in parts of the brain tied to attention and perception.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/birdwatching-birding-brain-boost-cognition-research-rcna259945
about 1 month ago
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A Lewis’s Woodpecker showing off its rosy belly.
#birds
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#photography
about 1 month ago
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A Peregrine Falcon surveys the world with a gaze as sharp as its talons.
#birds
#nature
#wildlife
#photography
about 2 months ago
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Today’s
#BirdOfTheDay
theme is
#CollectingFood
. Here’s an American Dipper with its catch!
#birds
#nature
#wildlife
#photography
about 2 months ago
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The Garden Jungle
about 2 months ago
Today’s
#BirdOfTheDay
theme is
#Portrait
so here is a side profile portrait of an Atlantic Puffin I photographed in The Farne Islands
#birds
#thegardenjungle
#wildlifephotography
#birdwatching
#shropshire
#UKwildlife
#birdphotography
#canon
#photography
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Floof peekin’ out 🪶
add a skeleton here at some point
about 2 months ago
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Owlet season is here!
#birds
#owl
#nature
#wildlife
#photography
about 2 months ago
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Today’s
#BirdOfTheDay
theme is
#Birds&Bugs
, featuring a Black Phoebe clutching a yummy moth.
#birds
#nature
#wildlife
#photography
about 2 months ago
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Highlights from Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve. If you’re ever in SoCal, check out this top-notch birding spot!
#birds
#WaterBirds
#BirdOfTheDay
about 2 months ago
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology
about 2 months ago
BIRD QUIZ: Here is a bird photographed in Florida in early February 2023. Do you know what species it is? Leave your answer in Comments and we'll post ours at the end of the day. Thanks to Alex Sauerbrunn for sharing this photo with eBird and the Macaulay Library archive.
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Matt Ufford
about 2 months ago
excellent Budweiser commercial. would be a real shame if it took FOUR YEARS for a bald eagle to reach adult plumage
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A Mountain Bluebird bringing a splash of color to the desert.
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#nature
#wildlife
#photography
about 2 months ago
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Just some really cool owls
#birds
#owl
#nature
#wildlife
#photography
about 2 months ago
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Mark Coupe Photography
2 months ago
Today's
#BirdOfTheDay
theme is
#Reflections
. I think this greater yellowlegs fits the bill.
#birds
#canada
#nature
#wildlife
#photography
#birding
#nikon
#yellowlegs
#greateryellowlegs
#shorebirds
#mcoupephotography
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Today’s
#BirdOfTheDay
theme is
#OpenBeak
— here’s an Atlantic Puffin with some Monday morning energy.
#birds
#nature
#wildlife
#photography
2 months ago
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Can’t get enough of these colors
#sunset
#LA
#photography
#landscape
2 months ago
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The Loggerhead Shrike, aka “butcherbird,” is famous for impaling its prey on sharp objects to save for later.
#birds
#nature
#wildlife
#photography
2 months ago
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End the Guga Hunt! Petition remains open — link in comments.
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END THE GUGA HUNT!
YouTube video by Protect the Wild
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/I1fA174K2IM
2 months ago
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Glen Dunlap
2 months ago
🦅🪶#Raptors
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‘We thought they would ignore us’: how humans are changing the way raptors behave
Experts call for tighter regulation as GPS tracking reveals how people’s behaviour affects the lives of some of the world’s largest birds
https://share.google/lHE9BXjg0r6iLQsff
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Mark Coupe Photography
2 months ago
Me every time I read the news these days. Northern Pygmy Owl
#birds
#canada
#nature
#wildlife
#photography
#birding
#nikon
#owl
#mcoupephotography
#pygmyowl
#northernpygmyowl
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An Anna’s Hummingbird savors the blooms of a showy penstemon.
#birds
#nature
#wildlife
#photography
3 months ago
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eBird Wrapped just dropped! Apparently I birded like a Clicking Shrike-Babbler. How did you bird this year?
#eBirdRecounted2025
#birds
3 months ago
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An Anna’s Hummingbird savors the blooms of a showy penstemon.
#birds
#nature
#wildlife
#photography
3 months ago
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How cool is that electric-blue throat patch on this Brandt’s Cormorant! Unreal.
#birds
#nature
#wildlife
#photography
3 months ago
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Where will the Yellow-headed Caracara show up next? 🪶
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This Roaming Raptor Has Been Surprising U.S. Birders—and More Could Be on the Way
Limited to Central and South America until a few short years ago, Yellow-headed Caracaras are turning heads from California to Delaware as their range expands northward.
https://www.audubon.org/magazine/roaming-raptor-has-been-surprising-us-birders-and-more-could-be-way?ms=digital-eng-social-ig_bio-x-20251200-nas_eng&utm_source=ig_bio&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_campaign=20251200-nas_eng&fbclid=PAVERFWAPTXeVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA8xMjQwMjQ1NzQyODc0MTQAAacKC047KaPyy8sB9kAbY0CA_tHBj2M3_LP_SLnMFVp1diF3-fh1GYZ8pgYbtA_aem_nE1qKzgUFQiUl5MPWIBlHA
3 months ago
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Birds of the World | The Cornell Lab
3 months ago
Finally - the glossary of ornithological terms you always needed! Brought to you by the science editors at Birds of the World. Pass it around to the students and profs in your world!
birdsoftheworld.org/bow/content/...
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Ken Marsh
3 months ago
I ONLY HAVE GOLDENEYES FOR YOU ... A Barrow's goldeneye pair courts in an Interior Alaska pond in May. In North America, these handsome diving ducks are frequently seen in the northwestern United States, Canada, and Alaska.
#birds
#BirdPhotography
#nature
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Brian JK Miller
3 months ago
NOHA#13.
#northernharrier
(Circus hudsonius), Pymatuning Lake Area, Crawford County, Pennsylvania.
#birds
#birdphotography
#birdsinflight
#birdportrait
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Charlie Ludwig
3 months ago
A Barred Owl's feather texture is my example of
#Feathers&Form
for today's
#BirdOfTheDay
. This Barred Owl showed up this evening for its glamour shot.
#Birds
#Birding
#Wildlife
#Nature
#Photography
#Animals
#PhotographersUnited
#Photo
#EastCoastKin
#Owls
#Raptors
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Alex Nelson
3 months ago
A snowy egret wading through the surf just after sunrise.
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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦
3 months ago
The pine grosbeaks decided to pose for me this morning. They are a welcome flash of colour on a grey day.
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Jeope!
3 months ago
My first
#BirdOfTheDay
entry, for today’s theme of
#ShortBeaks
: this redpoll, sporting a short-but-mighty beak. I never hesitate to dole out props for these tough little birds, who come to Manitoba to spend the winter.
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