During breeding, the whiskers on the chin of the male Great Bustards gets very long and bushy. Check out the muttonchops on this dude. I wonder if he waxes that. 😂 Meanwhile his buddy is primping up his tail feathers for the disco tonight. 🕺😂 #BirdingHungary #bigbirds #bustards

A White-throated Dipper by the local, very icy stream. One of three, each with their own territory. 🐦🪶🇫🇮 #BirdsSeenIn2026 #NaturePhotography

Takahē were thought to be extinct until 1948. When I first learned about them as a kid visiting New Zealand in 1981, there were only 100 birds and I desperately wanted to see one. Now there are 500 birds. Yesterday I first saw them—seven in one day. Thank you, NZ, for brilliant conversation work.

Mourning Dove, Early Morning #clevelandphotographer #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #birdphotography #mourningdove

The female Powerful Owl, who was distracted from allopreening her mate by the bats a couple of nights ago, displaying her catch this morning. Her mate was roosting close by. #birds #wildoz #brisbane

House Wren - taken in 2020 #tierradelfuego #Argentina #birds #birdphotography

Yesterday morning even the pyrrhuloxia were cooperating for photos This is a female in the big mesquite tree in my backyard

A male Lesser Spotted Woodpecker posing in the setting sun. -15⁰C in Southern Finland. #BirdsSeenIn2026 🇫🇮 #NaturePhotography 🪶

Mr Allen’s hummingbird on a favored perch with a good view of a feeder. I’d say the floof enveloping his feets is keeping him warm except it’s just not cold. I hope ‘everyone likes hummingbird photos’ is true cuz I have a problem and can’t stop 😁 #birds Southern California

Did you ever hear the myth that birds can't smell? Well... here's a fascinating roundup of different ways that birds use their sense of smell! #ornithology

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #StareDown, birds looking right at you, the Alt theme is #Gulls, any Gull will do set by @robcrank68.bsky.social ~ nothing like an Owl to give you a right good #Staredown Spotted Eagle Owl 🪶🦉 #birdingWales #ukbirding #birdphotography #EastCoastKin #naturephotography

Black-crested Titmouse drinking at the bird bath. #birds

It's been a very cold start of the year in Southern Finland. A big challenge for overwintering Robins. This guy has survived temps down to -22⁰C at my garden feeder. 🪶🐦 #BirdsSeenIn2026 #NaturePhotography

A Northern flicker paid us a call at home today. What a sight! #Birds 🪶

Say hello to my little friend. A Carolina Wren showing off its best side for a photograph. #birds #photography #nature #wildlife

The single redshank that seems to have taken a bit of a liking to the pool on the beach at aberthaw. 1/2/26 #birds🪶 #birdingwales #birdsSeenIn2026 #NatureTherapy🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Female Belted Kingfisher on its flimsy perch over the waters of the Kish #birds

A Long-eared Owl keeping an eye on you. #BirdOfTheDay #eyeContact #owls 🦉🪶🇫🇮

One of 5 Bar-tailed Godwits at Hayle estuary between the showers #🪶 #🦅 #cornwallbirding #ukbirding #birdsseenin2026

Gordon the Goldcrest. Photographed yesterday. After years of this little guy being my nemesis, he's now a regular at the log pile. #BirdOfTheDay #birds #birdsofbluesky #birdphotography #eastcoastkin #poise

I watched this kestrel hovering and drifting across the field for a while before it finally took a break on a nearby branch, close enough for a quiet moment. #birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #britishbirds #ukwildlife

A Coal Tit today in my snowy garden. 🪶🐦 #BirdsSeenIn2026 🇫🇮 #BirdPhotography

White-backed Woodpecker in close-up, Finland. 🪶🇫🇮 #NaturePhotography

Three more #kakapo matings last night: Whenua Hou: - Nora 💚 Tutoko - Pura 💚 Gulliver Anchor: - Toitiiti 💚 Deans Great to see genetically important Gulliver mating, and matriarch Nora starting - her first known nest was in 1981! Here she is on her 2019 nest. #conservation #parrots

A loggerhead shrike, aka the "butcher bird," sits for a portrait. They are known for impaling their prey on thorns or barbed wire. Florida USA, 20 Jan 2026. #Birds #BirdsSeenIn2026 #Photography #WildlifePhotography #Nature #BirdsOfBluesky

The Evolution of Cetacean Societies Edited by @darrencroft.bsky.social @ellengarland.bsky.social and.bsky.social @stephanielking.bsky.social and myself Preorder available now press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... Will share more details closer to release date #whale #dolphin #animalbehaviour

Cow Tools! We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years. We breed them and exploit them It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS Here I describe our study (paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social with @auersperga.bsky.social

A Turnstone on Southend Pier in Essex today @rspb.bsky.social where there is a thriving and protected colony of these delightful little waders @britishnatureguide.bsky.social #BirdsSeenIn2026

One of many Sanderlings feeding along the shore in Southend-on-Sea in Essex today @rspb.bsky.social Winter visitors to our coastal regions from Siberia and Greenland @britishnatureguide.bsky.social #BirdsSeenIn2026

This might be the most metal beetle I've ever seen.

Eurasian Nuthatch busy hiding food. Still quite rare in Finland. 🪶 #BirdsSeenIn2026 🇫🇮 #NaturePhotography

Kingfisher coughing up a pellet (+ repeat in slo-mo). #Birds

Cuteness in long-tailed tit form. #StoverCountryPark #birdoftheday #longtailedtit #bird #birds #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography 🪶 #Devon

How long do waders live? Some keep on going for FORTY years and more! Blog from 16 Jan 2018 🎂 is updated annually. wadertales.wordpress.com/2018/01/16/w... #ornithology

Made a pilgrimage to 2 ghosts of sea level past & future in Florida, from last time global temp was similar to today 120,000 years ago: an outcrop of oolite in Miami from when it was a sandy shoal under the waves, and in Windley Key a fossil coral reef that now ominously sits 20 feet above sea level

Ahhhhh, I forgot how beautiful the Tree Swallows were! #birds

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #LongBeaks, any bird with a Long Beak. Long-billed Curlew, California 2018 #Birds #NaturePhotography #Nature #Wildlife #BirdPhotography #Shorebirds #Waders

That must be yummy! White-backed Woodpecker, Finland 🪶 #WoodpeckerWednesday #NaturePhotography

Three-toed Woodpecker is a northern vagrant not very common to spot in Southern Finland. In Finnish "pohjantikka", literally northern woodpecker. 🪶 #BirdsSeenIn2026 🇫🇮 #NaturePhotography

I reckon this Goldcrest from today at Kidwelly Quay should do nicely for #birdOfTheDay alt theme #borbs. Pleased to have caught it given the shady conditions and their frenetic feeding. #birds #UKWildlife #birdsSeenIn2026 #birdsOfTheWorld #photography #birdPhotography #wildlifePhotography #nature

It's started! The 2026 #kakapo breeding season is under way, with the first nest found on Whenua Hou today. Pearl is on two eggs. #conservation #parrots #birds

Back-lit Bearded Reedling #bird #birdphotography #nature #naturephotography #tranquillity #lovelife #mindfulness #nikon #nikonphotography #eastcoastkin #birdoftheday

And humans, according to their logic, chose to call us "Grey-headed Woodpeckers" 🙄 #Birds 🪶 🇫🇮 #NaturePhotography

Humans have emitted 2750 gigatons of CO2 since the industrial revolution from burning fossil fuels and land use change. To put this in perspective, this is more than the (dry) mass of all living things on earth and everything humans have ever built combined:

A Ural Owl keeping an eye on a Raven flying by. One of the most memorable encounters for me this year in the Finnish nature. Happy New Year 2026! 🪶🦉 #BirdsSeenIn2025 🇫🇮 #NaturePhotography

Red-necked Grebe at "my" local lake 😍 What a pretty bird 🥰 I hope it'll stick around and that we'll get to see it molt into its even more vibrant breeding plumage... 🤞 #birds #BirdsSeenIn2025 #nature #photography #EastCoastKin #naturephotography #waterbirds #wildlife #wildlifephotography #birdphoto

My best-ever shot of my #NemesisBird, a female belted kingfisher, from last week. Still farther away that I'd like, pushing the limits of my camera, but it came out pretty well. #BirdOfTheDay #mostrecent #birds

Four to five Hawfinches visiting my modest feeding station. 🪶🐦🇫🇮 #BirdsSeenIn2025 #NaturePhotography

Female Harrier Flyby #harrier #ilovebirding #birding #birds #FDT #Colorado #bird_photography 🪶

Ahh, now it's Christmas. The marvellous The White Reindeer. A Finnish film from 1952 complete with reindeers, Shamen and a full moon🌕 It's in Finnish but easy to follow. 🎄🦌🇫🇮 #Finland #Suomi #christmas #film @whitereindeer.bsky.social am sure you will know this well 😊 youtube.com/watch?v=_ATy...