A Golden Whistler eyes me suspiciously from a branch before flying off
Bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus) #Asianbirds #Africanbirds #Eurasianbirds #Europeanbirds | #BeardedVulture #Lammergeier #Ossifrage | #Vulture #OldWorldVultures #BirdsOfPrey : Photo by ArminEP #birdsoftheworld #birds
For Wild Animals, the #BirdFlu Disaster Is Already Here
Since a new H5N1 emerged in 2020, scientists have become concerned virus might set off next #pandemic. But for wild #birds, prospect of a deadly, uncontained outbreak is not theoretical. It has decimated avian populations around the globe, with body counts that can sometimes be staggering: an estimated 24,000 Cape #cormorants killed in South Africa, more than 57,000 #pelicans dead in Peru.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/science/bird-flu-h5n1-wildlife.html
https://archive.ph/v9hso
Tree Climber: Woodpecker
I love the way woodpeckers seem to defy gravity when walking up the undersides of trees. This is a male, red-bellied woodpecker and if look closely at his lower abdomen you can see where these woodpeckers get their name. Why are they called red -bellied instead of red-headed, well because red-head is already taken. There is a north American woodpecker species whose entire head is red.
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Osprey On The Hunt #4 by Debra Martz
#Flying over the spillway at the Great Salt Plains Lake in #Oklahoma
https://debra-martz.pixels.com/featured/osprey-on-the-hunt-4-debra-martz.html
[ Reposting with hashtags ] More northern pintail action. Alexandria, Virginia, USA 12DEC2024 #birds #birdphotography #BirdsOfMastodon #naturephotography
Morning all. It’s choughing Friday and nearly the choughing weekend so have a choughing chough or three. xx
Artist: #Peachzz / #_peachzz_ + #JoeGraffi in City: #KuwaitCity /Al Mubarakiya market, Abdulla Al Salem St/ Kuwait 12/2024 - Title: untitled ("The Hoopoe-Mural") - ( by KW-NCCAL, National Council f. Culture, Arts and Letters) - #Art #Streetart #Mural #Artist #Birds #Hoopoe
White-breasted nuthatch at home. This is the closest I have gotten a photo of these birds -- and I didn't realize they had eyeliner markings from the outer eye corner toward the back of the head.
Nikon z6ii, f/5.6, 1/800s, 1SO 640, 300mm, handheld.
#BackyardBirding #birds #BirdPhotography
"This flower is a big job but I've got it under control"-- Rusty Flowerpiercer, probably
Western bluebird (Sialia mexicana) #NorthAmericanBirds | #WesternBluebird | #Bluebirds #ThrushFamily #PerchingBirds : Photo by Hopingmachine #birdsoftheworld #birds
It just came back but the flicker chirped at it till it flew away again. I think the flicker has never seen a pileated woodpecker before either but imagines something that big will eat all the food.
It's so beautiful! I love it! #birds
Hallo meine Lieben, alle meine Kolleg:innen waren sehr zufrieden mit meinen veganen Keksen. Für Euch habe ich nur ein Foto von einem Bronzekolibri (Bronze Inca) im Anflug auf eine Blüte.
"If you're not impressed by now, I'm gonna be big mad"-- displaying Marvelous Spatuletail
Born #OTD, prolific Algerian artist Baya Mahieddine (12 Dec 1931 -9 Nov 1998), whose 1st exhibition in Paris in 1957 (at age 16) caught the eye of the likes of Picasso & Breton. Both #birds & #fish show up often in her art!
Woman with Two #Peacocks and #Aquarium, 1968
Watercolour & gouache on paper, 66 x 92 cm
Barjeel Art Foundation collection
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2564624403567200&id=157138567649141
#WomenArtists #AlgerianArt #BirdsInArt
Tidal Trek
I took this photo last year at Gulfport, Mississippi. It is of a willet (Tringa semipalmata) wading through the shallow surf on the beach.
"Like Killdeer, Willets will pretend to be disabled by a broken wing in order to draw attention to themselves and lure predators away from their eggs or chicks." - allaboutbirds.org
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