For the birds.

[Owlesque]

For all things avian related.

Lammergeier (Gypaetus barbatus)

Ivory gull (Pagophila eburnea)

Northern shrike (Lanius excubitor)

 

[sprinkles]

Stellula caliope

Awwwww isn't he cute??

Colibri thalassinus

 

[Ism]

Northern Mockingbird. I heard one imitating a car alarm, not too long ago.

Red Cardinal. They have the cutest chirps. 0u0

 

[Vasilisa]

Resplendent Quetzal (Pharomachrus mocinno)​

 

[Owlesque]

A dinosaur-looking bird if there ever was one: the humble hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin). It eats leaves.

 

[Such Irony]

 

[cascadeco]

All photos taken by me!! No stealing of images without my permission.

Mountain Bluebird


Scale-breasted Woodpecker


Green Violetear


Red-footed Booby

 

[sprinkles]

Haha they look like a box of watercolors XD

 

[Ism]

All photos taken by me!! No stealing of images without my permission.
[imuhgez]

Those are all so pretty! I'll just steal more pictures from Google.

Lyre bird! (Menura novaehollandiae)

You guys have probably already seen this, but why not see again?? 2 Kool 4 werdz.

 

[Owlesque]

That Lyrebird video is amazing, although somewhat unsettling.

Grey-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus)

Black-shouldered Kite (Elanus axillaris)

 

[sprinkles]

 

[Trunks]

I like visual arts, I like an eagle arts painting..

 

[Owlesque]

Crab Plover (Dromas ardeola)

 

[Werewolfen]

 

[Werewolfen]

Wild tiercel (male) Peregrine Falcon (Falcon peregrinus anatum) transfers a prey bird from his beak to the waiting talons of his female falcon partner (I have monitored both of these Peregrines for 3 years)

Successful food transfers occur very, very fast. They take 3-5 seconds to complete. To photo ducument this spectacular behavior I spend hours waiting below their cliff side eyrie during brooding season. I have found that knowing your subjects behavior will give you the advantage of being in the right place at the right time to possibly capture shots like this.

I can't tell you how many times I have waited and waited and than because of a brief distraction I took my eyes off the bluffs, only to hear the Peregrines vocalizing to each other during their exchange but I missed the shot. This day I was totally focused and in sync with them. Luck was also on my side as I had good light and was able to swing the camera/lens up just in time to capture a four shot sequence.< ( what the photographer said about the photo )

 

[Owlesque]

Bat Hawk (Macheiramphus alcinus)
It eats exactly what you'd expect.

Brewster's Warbler (Blue-winged Warbler x Golden-winged Warbler hybrid)
Got to band one of these this past spring - stunning bird if a little species confused.

Lava Gull (Leucophaeus fuliginosus)
Because why not? Gulls are awesome.

 

[cascadeco]

A Phainopepla - lives in the SW desert areas of the US, down into Mexico


And a Common Nighthawk.... which you usually only see flying at dusk, making its call, but I lucked out a few years back and came across a drowsy one early morning

 

[Owlesque]

A couple of mine today instead of from Google.

Dunlin


Least Sandpiper


Iceland Gull

 

[Werewolfen]

Saw-whet Owl

 

[KDude]

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