Common starling - Etourneau sansonnet France #BirdsSeenIn2025

Merlin - Faucon émérillon France Three of them were hunting larks in the plains this week! #BirdsSeenIn2025

I spent a lot of time on english bird names lately and I realised that many of these are completly obliterating Africa in their designation... That's just a shame and should be corrected! #BirdNames #Birding #AvesTaxonomy #BirdTaxonomy

Snowy Egret #pantanal #brazil #BirdsSeenIn2025 #birdphotography

Male Bare-faced Curassow #pantanal #brazil #BirdsSeenIn2025 #birdphotography

The tiny Pallas's Warbler at Helvick Head, Co. Waterford today. #rare #birds #BirdsSeenIn2025 @watbirds.bsky.social #IrishBirding

A long way from home. Ever so elusive Hume's Leaf Warbler, in Finnish literally Kashmir oven bird. A sort of influx of them in double digits this autumn. #BirdsSeenIn2025 🇫🇮🪶🐦 #NaturePhotography

The Citrine Wagtail still present at Depuradora Tahiche, Lanzarote earlier today. A fairly mobile and elusive individual, it's the first one I've seen outside India. #CanaryIslands #BirdsSeenIn2025 #Spain

Great #birding at #HankoBirdObservatory! 400 ringed birds inc #HumesLeafWarbler #Firecrest #waxwing etc. Most abundant migrants chaffinch 1200, great tit 895, brambling 638 and bullfinch 568. Caspian Gull also spotted. #rengastus @nathist.bsky.social

Pin-tailed Parrotfinch (Erythrura prasina), male #BirdsSeenIn2025 #Malaysia @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social

#BirdsSeenIn2025, #Ecuador, #Manabi, #Chone Wood Storks, Great Black Hawk, Streaked Flycatcher & Long-billed Starthroat.

Lovely day exploring areas within the CBC circle for #Chone #Ecuador, #Manabi. I think this final image is a Slaty Becard. #BirdsSeenIn2025

The Brown Booby again offshore at Salinas de Janubio, Lanzarote early this morning. Frequently hassled by the local Yellow-legged Gulls. #CanaryIslands #BirdsSeenIn2025 #Spain

Booted eagle - Aigle botté France See credit below macaulaylibrary.org/asset/630865... #BirdsSeenIn2025

Aquatic warbler - Phragmite aquatique France See credit below macaulaylibrary.org/asset/640511... #BirdsSeenIn2025

Spectacled warbler - Fauvette à lunettes France See credit below macaulaylibrary.org/asset/632848... #BirdsSeenIn2025

Red-billed leiothrix - Léiothrix jaune France See credit below macaulaylibrary.org/asset/644152... #BirdsSeenIn2025

Swainson's thrush - Grive à dos olive France See credit below macaulaylibrary.org/asset/643919... #BirdsSeenIn2025

Red-necked grebe - Grèbe jougris France See credit below macaulaylibrary.org/asset/631285... #BirdsSeenIn2025

Dusky warbler - Pouillot brun France See credit below macaulaylibrary.org/asset/644310... #BirdsSeenIn2025

During a hike this summer a friend said wolf! Sure enough and then there was another, and another, and... In the end 6 of them. Distant but exciting. Katmai NPP #Alaska 🦊

Watson est décédé. Cela n'enlèvera pas le fait que lui et Crick ont participé à s'approprier le travail de recherche de Rosalind Franklin.

Western Citril is a small, seedeating finch found in the middle and high elevations of Africa, particularly in countries like Uganda, and Rwanda. markscheflen.com #birdphotography #biodiversity #BirdsSeenIn2025 #birds #bird #birdsofuganda #kisoro Photographed #bwindiimpenetrableforest #Uganda

Saying a special hello to @robcrank68.bsky.social for his early morning thumbs-up on today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #lunchtime 🙏 A normally ultra-shy female Masked Trogan came to feed and gave us quite a show. Such that even local bird experts were clicking away! #Colombia #birds #BirdsSeenin2025

One of Europe's smallest. The teeny-tiny-pop-of-a-bird. The Common Firecrest. 9 cms long 4–7 grams in weight. Unstoppable in speed. Singing and flashing colour & Me swinging around like crazy trying to get some decent photographs! #Austria #Birds #BirdsSeenIn2025

"Lying Down on the Job" - This Green #hermit seems to be lying down in the air while feeding, hovering at a horizontal plane. The ability of #hummingbirds to fly in any direction is amazing. Northern Range, #Trinidad. . . . #wildlife #animals #caribbean #nikon #trinidadandtobago #BirdsSeenIn2025

A short trip this afternoon to the Ogmore estuary for this Red-breasted Merganser found by Paul Roberts. #birds #birdingWales @btocymru.bsky.social @rspbcymru.bsky.social @eastglambto.bsky.social @glamorganbirdclub.bsky.social

How beautiful are the colours on the Common Starling. A winter visitor to Spain. I love the fact that if you zoom right in on the eye you can see me taking the photo😁 #birds #birdphotography #birdsseenin2025 #Alicante #canonphotography

Naturalists recommend you don’t tidy your garden in autumn too much for the sake of the wildlife. Here’s why. Goldfinches feeding on rudbeckia seed heads next to our patio this lunchtime. Beautiful birds. Photo taken through the patio door hence the slight blurriness #Birdsseenin2025

From @theathletic.com: Two British women made history by becoming the first female crew to successfully row non-stop and unsupported across the Pacific Ocean. To grasp the magnitude of their feat, more people have walked in space than successfully rowed across the world’s biggest ocean.

New #BirdsSeenIn2025 recap! Kenya overtook England for the 7th rank, Malaysia consolidated its 3rd place with a +30 species compared to last week! Portugal benefitted from the Azores birders and reached the top 40!

"Common #Beauty" - The more common the bird, the more they get ignored, but I refuse to not give this Yellow #Oriole its due. Tacarigua, Trinidad. . . . #birdwatching #wildlife #animals #birdphotography #caribbean #nikon #natgeoyourshot #trinidadandtobago #BirdsSeenIn2025

Prynhawn da - Afternoon Wrth fynd drwy fy lluniau, wnes i ddod ar draws llun o Ŵydd y Llafur (anser fabalis) yn Allteuryn 02.04.2025 Going through my pictures, I came across a picture of a Bean Goose at Goldcliff 02.04.2025 #BirdsSeenIn2025 Cariad mawr o Gymru! ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

To fill some gaps in #BirdsSeenIn2025, a highlight of an early morning respite from the IUCN World Conservation Congress last month in Abu Dhabi, was a Terek Sandpiper, among more familiar waders, Redshank & Dunlin, & a few Little Terns at Al Hidayriyyat Heritage Trail. #Birding #Birdwatching #️⃣1/5

At Al Hidayriyyat Heritage Trail, as well as Grey Plover and Kentish Plover there were a few Tibetan Plovers and Slender-billed Gulls on a steamy morning last month. #BirdsSeenIn2025 #AbuDhabi #UnitedArabEmirates #birding #birdwatching 2/5

During an early morning #birding trip to Al Hidayriyyat Heritage Trail we had fly-bys of Egyptian Goose, Osprey and House Crow while a Common Kestrel hunted. #BirdsSeenIn2025 #AbuDhabi #UnitedArabEmirates #birdwatching 3/5

At Al Hidayriyyat Heritage Trail we enjoyed the gorgeous Arabian Green Bee-eater as well as the more subtle Asian Desert Warbler plus Pied Wheatears, while the few Barn Swallows were more familiar. #BirdsSeenIn2025 #AbuDhabi #UnitedArabEmirates #birdwatching 4/5

Other old friends at Al Hidayriyyat included House Sparrows & Collared Dove, as well as Laughing Doves. A visit to a coastal wetland is always good for recharging energy for conservation action, this one featuring Arabian Jointed Glasswort (Suaeda vermiculata) as well as #BirdsSeenIn2025. 5/5

Bore Da - Good Morning Aderyn Drycin y Graig ger Trwyn yr As Fach 'nôl ym mis Ebrill Fulmar near Nash Point back in April Fulmarus Glacialis #BirdsSeenIn2025 Cariad mawr o Gymru! ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Cinnamon Bee-eater is a striking bird feeds mainly on bees, wasps, and other flying insects, caught skillfully in midair. Found in forests, farmlands, and near water. markscheflen.com #birdphotography #biodiversity #BirdsSeenIn2025 #birds #bird Photographed #bwindiimpenetrableforest #uganda

Nos Da Bawb-Good Night All Nôl i fis Mehefin am lluniau o'r Hugan ar b'nawn ofnadwy o wyntog -sylwch ar y tonnau! Roedd hi'n anodd dal y camera yn llonydd! Penrhyn Mawr, Ynys Cybi Gannet (Morus Bassanus) back in June on a very windy afternoon-note the waves! #BirdsSeenIn2025 Cariad mawr o Gymru! ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

"Golden #Sunrise" - This Golden-olive #woodpecker takes a moment from pecking to enjoy the beautiful sunrise. Northern Range, #Trinidad. . . . #birdwatching #wildlife #animals #birdphotography #caribbean #nikon #natgeoyourshot #trinidadandtobago #BirdsSeenIn2025

Black-lored Babbler (Turdoides sharpei) is a social East African bird with brown-gray plumage and dark lores, often seen in noisy groups foraging for insects and seeds. markscheflen.com #birdphotography #biodiversity #birds Photographed #bwindiimpenetrableforest #Uganda #birdsseenin2025 #babblers

A leisurely stroll around Marina Rubicón, Playa Blanca on Lanzarote this evening resulted in finding this Spotted Sandpiper feeding along the stream by the Oasis restaurant. Also a Common Sandpiper and Greenshank present. #CanaryIslands #BirdsSeenIn2025 #Spain

Among the most moving encounters I had with wild things during swims from Atana Khasab Hotel on Oman's Musandam Peninsula, was with this majestic Purple Heron. As I got closer, realised it had a brutally broken leg, foot hanging by a 🧵. Seemed to have adapted to its injury. #BirdsSeenIn2025. 🧵1/6

Besides the many active human fishermen, the most common avian shoreline fishers during my swims from Atana Khasab Hotel last month, were Western Reef Herons, mainly the dark morph but also one white. Also saw a Striated Heron and high above, on the harbour wall, a Grey Heron. #BirdsSeenIn2025. 2/6

I was delighted to see a Socotra Cormorant on the cliffs above, while on the beach were Slender-billed Gulls, young Caspian Gulls and the occasional Lesser Black-backed Gull as well as White-Cheeked and Common Terns. #BirdsSeenIn2025 #Oman 3/6

Rock Doves & Blue Rock Thrushes had nests in the cliffs beneath which I swam, pair of latter frantically feeding young. Hume's & Red-tailed Wheatears also common among rocks of the hinterland, Laughing Doves retreating to shade of Umbrella Thorns, Common Myna soundtrack. #BirdsSeenIn2025 #Oman 4/6

Purple Sunbirds were stars of Atana Khasab Hotel gardens, House Sparrows drinking at the garden hose, with both White-eared and Red-vented Bulbul song filling the air. #BirdsSeenIn2025 #Oman 5/6

Tant de faits consternants. Mais le plus hallucinant, ce sont ces ordres directs et répétés d'officiers & sous-officiers pour que les gendarmes réalisent des tirs tendus. Ce qui est rigoureusement prohibé car possiblement mortel. Preuve d'une volonté de violer la loi ET d'un sentiment d'impunité.