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Annaâs Hummingbird feeding her 9-10 days old chicks. Such a caring Mother and wonderful to see them growing!
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Leaf litter detectiveđ: Philippine pitta (Erythropitta erythrogaster) probes soil and debris for insects, relying on acoustic cues as well as visual scanningđ. Photo: Shanmugavel Murugesan. #Biodiversity #Wildlife #Birds #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography
Seed dispersal, but make it low-keyđŸ: White-eared brown-dove (Phapitreron leucotis) ingests whole fruits while relying on muted plumage to avoid detection in low-light understory conditionsđł. Photo: Shanmugavel Murugesan. #Biodiversity #Wildlife #Birds #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography
Not all kingfishers fishđ€: Rufous-backed dwarf-kingfisher (Ceyx rufidorsa) is primarily insectivorous - proof that names can be ecologically misleadingđ. Photo: Shanmugavel Murugesan. #Biodiversity #Wildlife #Birds #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography
Male Red-breasted Merganser
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Sometimes, mama eagle knows best.
The post Bald eagle Jackie shoos away Fiona the squirrel appeared first on Popular Science.
These New Zealand kÄkÄpĆ chicks the Dunedin Wildlife Hospital vet team are hand-rearing are growing so fast.
They're in the process of learning how to eat leaves and berries and exploring bigger spaces. It is essential that they learn how to forage and eat leaves and berries so that they thrive once weaned and released back into the wild. Still a long way to go however these two are making great progress đđ #globalmuseum #Kakapo #birds #Parrots #conservation
Good morning. âââ
30 May 2026
I remember when telephones with pushâbuttons started showing up. They looked so modern, so futuristic, like something out of a scienceâfiction movie. If you had one sitting on your desk, you must have been somebody â even though, at first, they didnât really do anything the old rotary phones couldnât do. I still wonder why we started with a dial instead of buttons in the first place. I donât wonder long, though. It had to be whatever the technology of the time could manage.
When I was a small child living with my grandparents â my parents were off at the Great Lakes while my dad went through Navy training â I had to memorize their phone number. To this day, it still doesnât make sense to me. It was âSycamore 5â2453.â Try dialing that into a phone today. There have been a few changes since then.
And isnât it funny that after all these years, after all the technical leaps that led to the cell phones we carry in our back pockets, we still say weâre âdialingâ a number? Iâm sure plenty of young people donât even know what that means. Iâve seen clips online where teenagers are handed an old rotary phone and look as confused as Iâd be if someone handed me a crankâandâjar churn. I wouldnât know its purpose, let alone how to use it.
Makes you wonder what the next fifty years will bring. Iâm certain of one thing: nobody will be running down to the telegraph office. And someday, even cell phones will go the way of buggy whips.
âWe shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.â â Marshall McLuhan
âNostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.â â Doug Larson
âIf you donât like change, youâll like irrelevance even less.â â General Eric Shinseki
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@ascentale @bikenite #bikenite A8 I wiped out on my gravel bike during a training ride Monday and banged up my ribs so have been off the bike this week. On a happier note some pelicans stopped by our local pond for a few days- normally they just fly over. #birds
A female American Goldfinch on a branch with Lichens
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Forest megafauna, avian edition đłđ€: Rhinoceros hornbill (Buceros rhinoceros) disperses large seeds while looking like evolutionary excessđŻđ. Photo: Tan Tc. #Biodiversity #Wildlife #Birds #Birding #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography
Tropical color overload đšđŽ: Blue-winged pitta (Pitta moluccensis) packing structural blues, carotenoid reds, and zero restraintđŠđ„. Photo: Tan Tc. #Biodiversity #Wildlife #Birds #Birding #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography
Camouflage? Hardly đđ: Bornean banded pitta (Hydrornis schwaneri) relies on dense understory, not subtlety, while probing soil for arthropodsđȘ±đż. Photo: Tan Tc. #Biodiversity #Wildlife #Birds #Birding #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography
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I just finished reading an interesting article in #QuantaMagazine about recent research on bird eyes. Unlike our inferior mammal eyes, bird eyes lack the network of blood vessels covering the retina. When an optometrist shines a bright light in our eyes, we see a network of blood vessels that block parts of our vision. Sleight of hand from our brain removes this from our perception, but it permanently limits what we see.
Birds retinas donât do this at all, and it turns out that this is made possible by using a form of glucose-driven metabolism that doesnât require oxygen. Thatâs crazy for such an energy intensive tissue. No other species alive today do this, and it likely evolved in dinosaurs.
Itâs wild stuff.
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Into the Light
This is a female rubyâthroated hummingbird (Archilochus colubris), and the light she appears to be flying into is actually a white downspout on a red brick garage.
Step into a world where even the smallest momentsâlike the glint in a bird's eyeâtell their own story.
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Dewfield Egret
I looked out the window this morning and spotted an egret across the grassy field, so I grabbed my camera and headed out, moving slowly and snapping as I went, trying to get as close as I could. After my third stop I spooked the bird, and that brief moment gave me this image. The bird is a western cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis), hunting in one of the low spots where water flows after a rain. In those shallow, muddy areas, crayfish often build little towers of mud â and I think the egrets consider that a pretty decent buffet.
Explore a curated collection of heron and egret images in my photo gallery. Take a look!
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Good morning. đïžđïžđïž
24 May 2026
Hmm⊠I still have a hoodie draped over the back of my side chair. I should probably hang it in the closet, because I definitely wonât have the urge to grab it on the way out the door for a few months. It is still spring, though, and there could always be an odd temperature drop. Weâve lived in Louisiana for well over twenty years now, and I donât recall any freezing temperatures in May â but it did get close in 2019, on May 4th, when the temperature dropped to a frigid 34°F. This late in May, though, I think itâs safe to put my hoodie away.
Uhâoh, itâs time to feed Charlie. Iâll be back.
Charlie and I are baching it for a while. My wife is away. Weâd only been home from our trips to Arkansas and Oklahoma for six days when an earlyâmorning call had her packing again. She headed out yesterday morning for Mobile, Alabama. We tried to board Charlie so I could go with her, but being Memorial Day weekend â and on such short notice â that plan fell flat.
It was tragedy that sent my wife rushing off. A young niece lost her husband just after giving birth to their daughter. I wonât share the details, but it was sudden and completely unexpected â the kind of loss that hits with a âthis canât be realâ shock that knocks a personâs world apart. My wife went to be by her side, to help her navigate the aftermath of this terrible, terrible event, and to try to assuage the anguish in our nieceâs heart.
Life is thinner than we like to admit. One moment youâre moving through the small routines of an ordinary day, and the next, everything tilts. It doesnât take much â a phone call, a breath, a heartbeat â for the whole world to change. Thatâs the fragile truth of it, and all we can do is hold on to each other while we have the chance.
âWe live in the shelter of each other.â â Irish proverb
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A Coyote walking along the road
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For #DuelsAndDuets for #JukeboxFridayNight, we've got to include the most accomplished duetters in Aotearoa: the kĆkako.
My wife made this recording of a pair of North Island kĆkako duetting near Lake Rotoehu in the Bay of Plenty.
KĆkako pair for life and sing a haunting, almost whale-like duet, to strengthen their pair bond and announce their territory to neighbouring birds.
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Tuesday, May 19đ
1. Vagabond son & DIL sent me the photo below of a black-footed albatross, seen from their Caribbean cruise. (Closest Iâll ever get to that magical species.)
2. Heard the first trills from our neighborhood mockingbird yesterday. This one sounds has a particularly sophisticated repertoire, with brilliant clarity.
3. Fave dinner last night: halibut & yams; yum!
A Male Rose-breasted Grosbeak on a wire
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Not my picture, sadly ...
I got it from https://www.reallywildbirdfood.co.uk/news/image.axd?picture=/Woodpecker_2.jpg
... but I'm posting it here for #SilentSunday because I just had a rare visit to my birdfeeder from one of these beauties.
It pops in every now and again, but always too quick for me to get a pic. As much as I love watching all the birds that come to feed, I somehow feel especially privileged to see this little fella â€ïž
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Summer is definitely here! 95 degrees and climbing. Our chickens need extra care and cooling. But we got heat tolerant breeds like Barred Rock.
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Robin in the blue - a little handmade watercolor painting for the bird lovers.
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A Lapland Longspur along a road
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Migration focusđ§ : Blue & white flycatcher (Cyanoptila cyanomelana, â) fineâtuned for seasonal travel and fast reflexesđșïžđš. Photo: Jason Bugay Reyes. #Biodiversity #Wildlife #Birds #Birding #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography
Social flock updateâïžđą: Long-tailed parakeets (Psittacula longicauda) demonstrating cooperative movement and collective vigilance at cruising altitudeđđŠ. Photo: Jason Bugay Reyes. #Biodiversity #Wildlife #Birds #Birding #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography