Bird-Watching and Ornithology

I love finding brown creepers. I often find them just scanning tree trunks, though there's one singing at one of my birding spots now.

Pennsylvania, USA, March 2022

Any large bird is a threat.

Florida, May 2020

Cliff swallows aren't as ubiquitous in the northeastern US as other swallow species, like barn and tree swallows. However, where there is one, there are probably 100 in the same area!

Pennsylvania, July 2023

Not pictured: 10 other small birds chasing this poor little raptor away from wherever it was trying to exist

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/2196737

Like many of you, birds are very special to me. I connect with them like I don’t any other living creature, save my wife and kids. I photograph them. I’ve covered my body in nothing but bird tattoos.

To see that a THIRD of them have disappeared is like a knife to the heart.

I like birdwatching, but I am not a guru on this topic - only creating this community as a gathering place until the serious folks find it (or start a community elsewhere). I am on the watch for them, and today I found @birds@moresci.sale instead - which looks like a good user-to-follow for anyone here (it is a bot).

male (yellowish beneath) and females (greenish beneath) eating berries of a euphorbia colonizing a dead tree. Photo link from iNaturalist.org

Chlorophonia musica ssp. musica Dominican Republic

American Kestrel

Falco sparverius

Altamira, Dominican Republic

Oct. 2018

birds are the canaries in the coal-mine of life. amirite? My wife takes all our bird pictures and posts them on iNaturalist and eBird, but sometimes I obtain a copy of a nice shot and will post it here. We've been birding since about 1985 - off and on; not that we go to the ends of the Earth just to add a life-lister, but if we're AT the end of the Earth, then we'll look around a little while we're there.